Essays on Literature

Countless Asian Americans from generations past and present have faced an excruciating amount of racial predjudice and discrimination, trying to practice the cultural beliefs and virtues in which they were raised. Due to the overwhelming scrutiny and racial injustice they endured, many Asian Americans decided…

In the poems ‘Mid-term Break’ by Seamus Heaney and ‘Because I could not stop for Death’ by Emily Dickinson, the persona’s experience with death is an important factor that contributes to the overall theme and tone of the poems. In ‘Mid-term Break’, Seamus Heaney portrays…

When first reading this poem the first line alone seemed to mean to work hard or maybe the author is too busy to stop for anything. But upon further reading, it takes another meaning. Is death meaning the personified meaning as in like a grim…

Death is a theme often explored by writers for its dueling mystery and commonality. Its mystery being that no one living can experice death, and its commonality being that everyone living will experience death in the end. It is an untouched inevitability that all of…

Poetry as an art expresses the pedestal realities and emotions in the lives of human beings. Because of the emotional complexity it evokes in humans and being an undeniable truth in life, the conception of death resides in many poetical works and many poets treated…

Emily Dickinson view on death was one that showed that people do not need to fear death, because death is something that all people should accept if they want to live a full life.How is death seen as an old friend to those who accepted…

In W.E.B. DuBois’s Of Our Spiritual Strivings and Walter Johnson’s No Rights Which the White Man Is Bound to Respect, the theme of “being a problem” or “being a burden” is recurring it is very hard to shake. Your sense of identity really takes a…

Farewell to Manzar is a first-person account of what it was like to live in a Japanese internment camp, Manzanar, during World War II written from the point of view of a young girl named Jeanne Wakatsuki. She describes in detail what she and the…

The memoir Farewell to Manzanar by Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston and the poem “Farewell” by Emma Rodrigues both give insight about the lives of the internees in the Japanese internment camps that took place in America from 1942 to 1945. Farewell to Manzanar is a narrative…

Fear is an unpleasant emotion caused by the belief that someone or something is dangerous, likely to cause pain, or a threat (Merriam-Webster’s collegiate dictionary (10th ed.). (1999). Springfield, MA: Merriam-Webster Incorporated). Fear can be such an overwhelming emotion that it often comes hand in…