Introduction to The Color Purple The Color Purple is a letter or epistolary style message. It was published in the United States in 1982. The book met with a lot of controversies due to its thematic strands. Alice Walker, the…
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The Big Wave
Introduction to The Big Wave Pearl S. Buck, one of the best American authors, wrote The Big Wave. It was released in 1948 and instantly captured a huge readership of children including adults. The novel became a popular children’s story…
Woman to Child
Woman to Child By Judith Wright You who were darkness warmed my flesh where out of darkness rose the seed. Then all a world I made in me; all the world you hear and see hung upon my dreaming blood.…
The United Fruit Company
The United Fruit Company By Pablo Neruda When the trumpet sounded, it was all prepared on the earth, the Jehovah parcelled out the earth to Coca Cola, Inc., Anaconda, Ford Motors, and other entities: The Fruit Company, Inc. reserved for…
The Thickness of Ice
The Thickness of Ice By Liz Loxley At first we’ll meet as friends (Though secretly I’ll be hoping we’ll become much more and hoping that you’re hoping that too) At first we’ll be like skaters testing the thickness of ice…
Be Glad Your Nose is on Your Face
Be Glad Your Nose is on Your Face By Jack Prelutsky Be glad your nose is on your face, not pasted on some other place, for if it were where it is not, you might dislike your nose a lot.…
You Will Never See Me Fall
You Will Never See Me Fall By Joyce Alcantara You may see me struggle but you won’t see me fall. Regardless if I’m weak or not I’m going to stand tall. Everyone says life is easy but truly living it…
Meeting Point
Meeting Point By Louis Macneice Time was away and somewhere else, There were two glasses and two chairs And two people with the one pulse (Somebody stopped the moving stairs): Time was away and somewhere else. And they were neither…
Wind and Window Flower
Wind and Window Flower By Robert Frost Lovers, forget your love, And list to the love of these, She a window flower, And he a winter breeze. When the frosty window veil Was melted down at noon, And the cagèd…
Visitors to the Black Belt
Visitors to the Black Belt By Langston Hughes You can talk about Across the railroad tracks— To me it’s here On this side of the tracks. You can talk about Up in Harlem— To me it’s here In Harlem. You…
Velvet Shoes
Velvet Shoes By Elinor Wylie Let us walk in the white snow In a soundless space With footsteps quiet and slow, At a tranquil pace, Under veils of white lace. I shall go shod in silk, And you in wool,…
Winter Morning
Winter Morning By Ogden Nash Winter is the king of showmen, Turning tree stumps into snow men And houses into birthday cakes And spreading sugar over lakes. Smooth and clean and frosty white, The world looks good enough to bite.…
During Wind and Rain
During Wind and Rain By Thomas Hardy They sing their dearest songs— He, she, all of them—yea, Treble and tenor and bass, And one to play; With the candles mooning each face. . . Ah, no; the years O! How…
The Laboratory
The Laboratory By Robert Browning Now that I, tying thy glass mask tightly, May gaze thro’ these faint smokes curling whitely, As thou pliest thy trade in this devil’s-smithy— Which is the poison to poison her, prithee? He is with…
A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
Introduction to A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man First published back in 1916, the novel, A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, was written by James Joyce, an Irish artist, author, and icon of a…
Dracula
Introduction to Dracula This Gothic masterpiece of horror by Bram Stoker, Dracula, first appeared on the shelves in 1897 and instantly won recognition for the author, vying for long. Bram Stoker became a household name in Ireland and the world…
Exposition
Definition of Exposition Exposition is a literary device that is designed to convey important information, within a short story or novel, to the reader. Writers utilize exposition to provide essential backstory for characters, plot, and other narrative elements. This background…
The Glass Menagerie
Introduction to The Glass Menagerie The Glass Menagerie is a memory play, written by a popular American writer, Tennessee Williams. The play was first staged in 1944 and became an instant hit, bringing fortune and popularity, both for the playwright…
The Last Leaf
The Last Leaf By Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr. I saw him once before, As he passed by the door, And again The pavement stones resound, As he totters o’er the ground With his cane. They say that in his prime,…
The Heaven of Animals
The Heaven of Animals By James L. Dickey Here they are. The soft eyes open. If they have lived in a wood It is a wood. If they have lived on plains It is grass rolling Under their feet forever.…