One thing I found really interesting when reading, “Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird” by Wallace Stevens, was his use of choice throughout the poem. Steven’s’ leaves choice up…

The character of Ethan Frome is fascinating, because the interpretation of his identity remains subjective to not only the reader, but also to the characters within the story itself. Who…

Going to UCSB’s rendition of A Streetcar Named Desire was quite a surprise.  Director Irwin Appel was innovative in turning an empty black box theatre into a two story apartment with a little…

The narration in a literary piece plays a significant role in how the reader interprets what he or she is reading.  Because it is the narrator that is telling the…

While I was reading Ethan Frome, I found Frome a very interesting character. What I found so compelling about him was the drastic change that he goes through in his life.…

In Shakespearean sonnets, the volta is the point in a poem where the dramatic change takes place between the twelfth and thirteenth lines. Despite this almost formulaic definition, the volta…

The first part of Ethan Frome, in what seems like an introduction by the narrator, the story surrounding Ethan Frome and his accident  seems to be told as a mystery…

The 1917 modernism poem, Thirteen Ways of Looking at a Blackbird by Wallace Stevens, mutates such simple language into remarkably powerful ideas. The reason this poem was so interesting and stuck out…

After Patrick Mooney’s lecture about the poetic form of odes and sonnets, I was particularly interested in the amusing juxtaposition of Petrarchan romantic sonnets and Shakespearian, more pragmatic romantic sonnets.…

The ode is a lyric poem that pays homage “to,” “on,” or “upon” a person or thing. It’s meant to describe and honor something sacred. In “Ode on a Grecian…