Date

May 6, 2022

Uncle Ernest Introduction Sillitoe effectively criticises the legal system in “Uncle Ernest.” Uncle Ernest is a working-class lonely man who lives an isolated, [...]

The Rocking-Horse Winner Introduction “The Rocking-Horse Winner” (1926) is one of D. H. Lawrence’s most popular short stories, an Oedipal drama seasoned with [...]

The Open Window “My aunt will be down presently, Mr. Nuttel,” said a very self-possessed young lady of fifteen; “in the meantime you [...]

An Irish Airman Foresees His Death I know that I shall meet my fateSomewhere among the clouds above;Those that I fight I do [...]

The Lotos Eaters “Courage!” he said, and pointed toward the land,“This mounting wave will roll us shoreward soon.”In the afternoon they came unto [...]

The Rainbow My Heart Leaps Up My heart leaps up when I beholdA rainbow in the sky:So was it when my life began;So [...]

Portrait of Zimri Some of their chiefs were princes of the land:In the first rank of these did Zimri stand:A man so various, [...]

To His Coy Mistress Had we but world enough, and time,This coyness, Lady, were no crime.We would sit down and think which wayTo [...]

Death, be not Proud Death, be not proud, though some have called theeMighty and dreadful, for thou art not so;For those whom thou [...]

Rose-cheek’d Laura, come,Sing thou smoothly with thy beauty’sSilent music, either otherSweetly gracing. Lovely forms do flowFrom concent divinely framed;Heav’n is music, and thy [...]