“This cannot be, by no assay of reason. ‘Tis a pageant to keep us in false gaze.” could be translated to “This is not true, just a trick to deceive us,” This passage is important because it happens during act I scene iii where the senators are discussing Othello, and this scene is what starts…

The people of Venice are wealthy and powerful. Venice itself is a political powerhouse as well. But even though Othello has done many good, heroic deeds for the people of Venice, they don’t fully trust him due to their prejudice. The fact that Othello is marrying Brabanzio’s daughter Desdemona only serves to make tensions rise….

The poem I have read and examined is titled An Irish Airman foresees his Death, written by William Butler Yeats. This poem’s public concern is war, and it calls a few different things into question. First of all, the narrator doesn’t fight to guard those he loves “those I guard I do not love” and…

Shakespeare is a well-known playwright and poet from the Elizabethan Era, and one of his many poems is called That time of year thou mayst in me behold. On its surface, this poem is about the changing of the seasons from summer to fall, with a lot of references to death and decay. When you…

ally young people, to not truly understand the gravity of death. This narrator, however, fully understands that he will die. This already tips the reader off that the narrator may have little to no regard for his own life, as many people would not be so calm about dying in a war. This could be…

The narrator of The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is an older man that is afraid of his imminent demise, but while most of the poem focuses on his anxiety about death, he also displays anxiety about being attractive to women. None of the women described in the poem have any description of their…

The first literary illusion that I noticed in this poem was a repeated mention of the famous artist Michelangelo. The way the narrator describes his anxiety sound a lot like narration from Dante’s Inferno. It is thought by many that the peach mentioned in the poem is a reference to the biblical forbidden fruit. The…

I was unable to go to the ODU Lit Fest last week because ODU is a few hours away from where I live, and I didn’t have the time to drive all the way there. Since I did not go to the festival, I will be following the instructions for Module 8 Discussion 8. The…

The two poems I read for this assignment were Spring Training by Phillip Raisor and A Locked House by W.D Snodgrass. Spring Training is about a baseball game, as the narrator reminisces about his family. A surface level reading of A Locked House is that it’s about a broken-down old home, but it becomes more…

“Tell that its sculptor well those passions read, which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things, the hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed” is a quote from Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poem Ozymandias. This quote is talking about a sculptor who created a statue that has long since fell to ruin. It is…