It is interesting to read of a character that is already awaiting their doom. Ole Anderson in the short story “The Killers” used to be a fighter, and I think that is part of the poetic nature of this story. He USED to fight, USED to be in the ring; Now he is most definitely […]

The last three words of the latter reading, “Hills like White Elephants,” to me show some amount of dissonance between this man and woman. There is this unknown operation that is going to or scheduled to occur on the woman, and the man seems to have a much higher vested interest in it. While undeclared, […]

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As I read The World’s Wife I got the sense that Duffy was trying to paint a picture of woman’s relationship with essentially the rest of society. There’s comparisons set up by taking a famous or renowned male figure and putting words together to formulate what this figure’s female counterpart might say and think. Drawing […]

Poetry is used to capture and display human emotion. Charged like a lightning bolt the words of a poem explode onto our psyche, pushing us towards, or away from, certain feelings. This poem, Human Interest, highlights the roller coaster of emotion that goes through the man of someone he supposedly loved. “I stabbed. I felt […]

“Do cycles and genres explain everything, in the history of the novel? Of course not. But…” (Moretti). Pointing out these cycles of literature that is Political in nature and how its lifespan in much shorter to most of its non-political counterparts was an eye opener for me. It would make sense that as literature becomes […]

As someone who has been close to others who have taken their lives due to depression and/or other mental disorders, the passage in this novel leading up to Septimus’s decision to end his life feels rather personal. I cannot claim to know, for no one can fully know, what is going through the mind of […]