On September 12th, 2008, David Foster Wallace committed suicide. Before his death, he gave a remarkable speech to the Kenyans graduating class of 2005. It was called “This Is Water” and in it, Wallace informs the graduates about his perspectives on life. Throughout the speech, Wallace presents didactics to the audience in hopes of elaborating...
William Butler Yeats’ “When You Are Old” illustrates the theme that people will regret all of the opportunities for true love they have missed. Yeats writes, “How many loved your moments of glad grace, / And loved your beauty with love false or true, / But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you” (L....
Throughout the novel The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver, readers are given an in-depth glimpse into the thoughts and actions of the women of the Price family during their time in the Congo. Within this time, the audience learns many things about the characters and primarily the daughters, such as how twins Leah and Adah...
Carol Ann Duffy is one of the most significant names in the world of contemporary poetry, her work is viewed as “accessible” regularly featuring within many secondary schools and universities across Britain. Her writing can be described as conversational, using very simple language which can make her poems seem exceedingly straightforward at first glance, but...
