Matthew Arnold

Dover beach

     “The sea is calm to-night.” This is the first line of the first stanza of Matthew Arnold’s poem “Dover beach”, which is one of the main poems of the nineteen century. This poem which carries the strong sense of sadness and melancholia has a lot of information to tell the audiences; like its meaning, theme and figures of speech.

     Before telling about the meaning, some data about some details is important. Matthew Arnold has created it as a dramatic monolog which he himself is speaker, his wife is the listener and the readers are audiences. It is made of four stanzas with different amount of lines. The fist stanza has fourteen lines, the second contains six lines, the third carries eight and the last has nine lines

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Literary devices 1

Literary devices 1

 

Literary devices refer to any specific aspect of literature, or a particular work, which we can recognize, identify, interpret and/or analyze. Both literary elements and literary techniques can rightly be called literary devices.

 

Literary elements refer to aspects or characteristics of a whole text. They are not “used,” per se, by authors; we derive what they are from reading the text. Most literary elements can be derived from any and all texts; for example, every story has a theme, every story has a setting, every story has a conflict, every story is written from a particular point-of-view, etc. In order to be discussed legitimately, literary elements must be specifically identified for that text.

Literary techniques refer to any specific, deliberate constructions of language which an author uses to convey meaning. An author’s use of a literary technique usually occurs with a single word or phrase, or a particular group of words or phrases, at one single point in a text. Unlike literary elements, literary techniques are not necessarily present in every text.

Literary terms refers to the words themselves with which we identify and describe literary elements and techniques. They are not found in literature and they are not “used” by authors.

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Things Fall Apart (Chinua Achebe)0

British colonial administrators, missionaries and Africans

     Appearing white men in Igbo society in “things fall apart” made a lot of changes in natives’ different aspects of life. As we read through this book, British colonial administrators and missionaries completely changed Africans culture. The influence of these new arrivals was clear in people’s religion, relationships (between family members) and their ceremonies. In some aspects, these changes were positive because it could stand against superstitions. But in other side, it was negative because it changed fabric of their culture, ruined their religion and brought disunity among them.

    

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Nervous conditions ( Tsitsi Dangarembga)o

Tambutzu and Nyasha

     “Do you see what they've done? They've taken us away. They've deprived you of you, him of him, ourselves of each other. We're groveling…They've trapped us. They've trapped us. But 1won't be trapped. I'm not a good girl. I won't be trapped.” These are some sentences of last chapter of “nervous conditions” written by Tsitsi Dangarembga; the story of a girl who changes by English education. She has a cousin whose changes are more serious. Comparing Tambu’s reaction to British education to Nyasha’s response to is due to concerning some points such as appearance, behavior and thoughts changing

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Winterbourne’s character

    

The story “Daisy Miller” written by Henry James has some male characters that interact with main female character “Daisy Miller”. Among them, Fredric winterbourne is the main feature who the story is been told by his view point. The narrator is first person one but it is just from winterbourne’s point of view. He does not narrate it. Writing about winterbourne’s character needs some consideration such as the meaning of his last name and his behavior toward Daisy Miller

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