In ‘How do I love Thee,’ Elizabeth Barret Browning shows how her love can get through anything, even dying. In the beginning, line one leads off and hooks the reader’s attention. She inquires the audience, ‘How do I love Thee,’ a hard-hitting question. Repetition of…
Essays on Literary Genres
How we experience love changes as we construct connections and affection throughout time. Love changes as we figure out how to confide in someone, as we realize the need of our desire, we tend to persuade ourselves to achieve such magical feeling. “How do I…
Poetry is a literary work that also acts as an art form. People use poetry to express ideas, thoughts, and feelings. There are many branches of poetry and sonnets are one of them. Sonnets are comprised of 14 line poems with 10 syllables in each…
Willa Sibert Cather was an American writer, best known for writing about the vast scenery of the American heartland and the pioneers who settled there during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Cather drew inspiration from life in Nebraska after her family relocated there…
I read the story “Paul’s Case” by Willa Cather. As I started reading the story, I understand the setting, and the time period. The story holds the reader from the beginning and lets her reader to analyze the reader. The story talks about the boy…
In both Paul’s Case and A Wagner Matinee by Willa Cather main characters find escape in music. Paul is a troubled young soul who is having a hard time finding purpose in this world. Paul soon finds happiness at Carnegie Hall Theatre he falls in…
Paul’s Case was written by Willa Cather in 1905. This is a short story about Paul, the main character, is obsessed with money and living in the upper class. He would do anything to obtain his goal. He would go on in life to steal…
Money is supposed to be used to make life easier and better, but this does not mean that our society should be only revolving around money. In the story of “Paul’s Case” by Willa Cather, Paul steals money and runs away from his town to…
Small lies can lead to immense consequences, as does Paul’s distance from friends and family ultimately lead to his destructive behavior. In the short story, “Paul’s Case” by Willa Cather Paul shows how lying is a useful way to avoid conflict but in the end,…
Paul takes his obsession of exhibiting to his companions how outstanding he is by demonstrating them ‘autographed pictures of all the members of the stock company…telling them of his familiarity with these people’ (Cather 135). Nonetheless, truth be told, his contact and likenesses with the…
