— 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, […]
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In the book, The Love Suicides at Amijima …
— Anonymous In the book, The Love Suicides at Amijima written by Chikamatsu Monzaemon, we see Koharu, a prostitute and her romance encounter with Jihei, a father of two. In act 1, I was not convinced that Koharu’s feelings for Jihei were genuine. Personally, I think Koharu does not know what love is. Koharu is […]
While transitioning from our previous narrative (The Incidents in the Life…
—Mazidul Ahmed While transitioning from our previous narrative (The Incidents in the Life of a Slave Girl) to The Love Suicides at Amijima, I assumed this might be a more distinguishable read because of the disparities between the cultures. However, this play doesn’t fall too far from the themes we’ve been accustomed to from The […]
If I’m being honest Remembering Babylon was a difficult book…
—Anonymous If I’m being honest Remembering Babylon was a difficult book to read just because it was hard to concentrate and follow through with the reading. I found myself constantly rereading a sentence or paragraph and still not focusing because my mind was elsewhere. I couldn’t read the book, but I did read online summaries […]
Passion of life
—Wenyi Luo The literary text that I did not understand when I first read it on my own is The Lady with the Dog written by Anton Chekhov. It is a story about extramarital affair. There are two people, Anna and Gurov, lovers who are married to different people, and are tortured by their individual […]
