by Alexis Jennings | Jan 21, 2024 | Literature
When thinking about dreams, usually somewhere uplifting and happy comes to mind. Not some dark and lonely place with skies of fire and spine-chilling creatures everywhere. This vision can be seen more as a nightmare, if anything. For some reason, this particular...
by Alexis Jennings | Jan 21, 2024 | Literature
In section 24 of Walt Whitman’s poem ‘Song of Myself’, Whitman announces himself as the speaker of the poem. This is the first time that he announces himself as the author and speaker in the poem and it is 24 sections in. Whitman calls himself a ‘kosmos’, meaning that...
by Alexis Jennings | Jan 20, 2024 | Literature
Today’s society is so egocentric in a way where people’s own selfish wants can blur their vision of what is right and wrong. In Golding’s allegorical novel ‘Lord of the Flies’, a group of boys from ages six through twelve found themselves stranded on a deserted...
by Alexis Jennings | Jan 20, 2024 | Literature
“I give you joy of your free and brave thought. I have great joy in it. I find incomparable things said incomparably well, as they must be. I find the courage of treatment which so delights us, and which large perception only can inspire. I greet you at the beginning...
by Alexis Jennings | Jan 20, 2024 | Literature
In the story ‘How to Date a Brown Girl (Black Girl, White Girl or a Halfie)’, Diaz’s statement about perceived identity is hiding one’s true self from society. The narrator suggests hiding his activities’ true self from his family and his date in the...
