Essays
For the curious minded, the scholar
Students in the IB, undergrads, for research pleasure and interest.
The Special Theory of relativity and mental illness in virginia woolf’s mrs. dalloway
This one’s a trip.
How Sylvia Plath and Clare Allan make the principal characters in The Bell Jar and Poppy Shakespeare recognize their own marginalization THROUGH THE MOTIF OF THE MIRROR AND CHARACTER PARALLELISm
Both novels are amazing and should be your next read.
Knowledge as the Ledge: Frederick Douglass
“Once you learn to read, you will be forever free.” - Frederick Douglass
SCANSION: CYNTHIA ZARIN'S SONG (1993)
Experiencing isolated aspects of life is the overall intention of poetry- but Song is composed by these brief, albeit efficacious, Tetris-pieces. The reader peruses the open and self-contained terms signposting the persona’s existence...
The Meaning of the Father that Just Won’t Die In Synge’s The Playboy of the Western World
Fiction and the reading public
- philip larkin
Facts: Phil Larkin was the ultimate no-bullshit reality-check sass king there ever was.
The way he says 'dude' is amazing.
The Mysticism of the Nameless Girl in Joyce’s Araby as Critique of Religion upon the Irish Experience of Life
James Joyce was not a fan.
by artist Tim Ulrichs
GERTRUDE STEIN X Allegory
a rose is a rose is a rose is a rose is a rose is a rose… ad infinitum
Lemonade
A comparison of language, expression and psychology of love in Catullus’ polymetrics (eg. 2, 3, 5, 7, 8, 11, 43, 51) to those in the elegiac poems (eg 72, 75, 83, 85, 87, 107, 109). It's arc of the experience of love: suspicion, jealousy, betrayal, heartbreak, rage, I-don't-give-a-fuck-ness, reflection, forgiveness, and rebuilding, is similar to that of Beyoncé's Lemonade.
LUCRETIUS: THE REAL SLIM SHADY
Why Lucretious attacks love in De Rerum Natura, Book 4.1030-1287
He was spitting rhymes before Jesus Christ was even born.