Reflections on ENG 264

Virginia Woolf’s philosophy was that literature does not reflect reality.  She explores this idea in, “The Lady in the Looking-Glass: A refl...

“The Lake Isle of Innisfree” by William Yeats describes the speaker’s desire to leave the city and live a simple, peaceful life in the count...

Rupert Brooke was among the first to enlist in 1914.  However, he died of blood poisoning before seeing combat.  Wilfred Owen also enlisted ...

In Bernard Shaw’s, “Pygmalion”, Henry Higgins takes on bet that he can pass off Eliza Doolitle, a lower class girl selling flowers on the st...

“On the Departure Platform” by Thomas Hardy describes the parting of the speaker and his lover through imagery and impressions.  There is no...

“Spring and Fall: To A Young Child” by Gerard Manley Hopkins describes a scene in which the speaker approaches a young girl named Margaret. ...

In his brilliant masterpiece, “The Importance of Being Earnest”, Oscar Wilde offers a hilarious satirical critique of the society around him...