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O lamentable shadows, Obscurity of strife! I choose a pleasant life Among indolent meadows; Wisdom must live a bitter life. ―Yeats, ‘At the Hawk’s Well’ (1917) Year by year, human beings get older and older. Some of them interpret it as being mature, wise and experienced. On the other hand, some might think they are losing their youngness and public authority. Old/young, dream/reality and fate/free will –they could be the two sides of a coin. This article discusses Yeats’s vi

This article looks at Charlotte Mew's poem "The Farmer's Bride" and the notion that female lyric voices cannot be viewed as representative.

This article discusses Judith Butler's theory of gender to explore the argument that gender is a cultural construct and not a natural fact.

This article explores the significance of time travel in romance fiction through an analysis of Nifenegger's novel The Time Traveller's Wife

This article explores the significance of spoken word poetry, through a political lens, as a vehicle of identity and cultural reclamation.

This article explores examples of modern poetry to discover its attention to simplicity and ordinary objects as signifiers of grand emotion.

Elizabeth Gaskell presents two perspectives of capitalism in Victorian England to define a new paradigm of women in finance.

In Claudia Rankine’s prosaic novel, Citizen, she describes the importance of visibility and identity politics involving black minorities.

This article examines the poetry of the Harlem Renaissance to discover how poets sought to reclaim stolen identity and voice.

This article explores the political rhetoric of the Vietnam War, and the ways soldiers sought to reconstitute the reality of the conflict.

This article looks at the state of theatre in Britain in the post-war years.

Ian McEwan’s Atonement explores the portrayal of children’s contact with sin and trial.

This article explores the modernist disillusionment with post-war society and the bleak turn of poetry in a war traumatised society.