— Nicole Woerner Qualities of a Great Work When a text is referred to as a Great Work, it is important to note that in order to be considered a great work of literature the text has to have an impact on the reader either in the time period of when it was written, long […]
Victorian and the 19th Century (1840–1914CE)
Human Nature in “To the Reader”
—Anonymous The first time I read this poem, I was attracted by that. Instead of talking about beauty, it talks about ugliness. I read this poem before my desk at home which place can make me calm and really think of something. Therefore, when I saw the unfamiliar vocabulary, I didn’t feel anxious and I […]
Love? Or Death? …
— Anonymous Love? Or Death? When I read the poem “Because I could not stop for Death” by Emily Dickinson for the first time, I could not understand the text at all. The way she wrote the poem and describe the character are all different from other poems that I have read so far. She […]
Love is Love …
— Anonymous Love is Love After reading many different types of literature, I found most connected to “A Carcass” by Charles Baudelaire. Even though the poem talked about a rotted dead body throughout the whole text, but somehow, I found out the poem itself might be talking about love. At the beginning of the poem, […]
While I was reading the great work of Tolstoy …
— Ali Zandani While I was reading the great work of Tolstoy “The Death of Ivan Ilyich”, a lot of thoughts and questions came to my mind, what if this great story of Ivan Ilyich was meant to relate to everyone that reads it? because I believe that this story of Ivan Ilyich relates to […]
