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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.

Old age is the last stage of life. Alongside gender, class, and race, age also supposes a source of discrimination against many. Socially and culturally, age might determine many factors of someone’s life, and how it affects and limits the natural course of time in the human body. As with all -isms, ageism “is broadly defined as prejudice or discrimination against or in favor of any age group” (Ayalon & Tesch-Römer, 2018, p. 3). However, discrimination or favoritism on the ba

By inspiring an important part of modern French poetry, such as symbolism, Baudelaire's work is considered as a cornerstone in the history of French literature. Many of his poems are still studied all around the world, and many academics still endeavor to grasp the deep meaning behind the verses of Les Fleurs du Mal (The Flowers of Evil) and the Spleen. The present article proposes a brief analysis of one of the most famous poems of The Flowers of Evil, namely L'Invitation au

The first part of the article covers Italian literary movements, key authors and their contributions in the early 20th century.

This article will focus on the symbolism of the bridge from the novel The Bridge on the Drina, and its significance.

This fourth article in Modern North American Literature covers the movements and literary trends that most influenced its literature.

This article looks at he first short story in Tim O'Brien's "The Things They Carried" and the displacement felt by the American soldiers.

This essay will provide insights into the historical, cultural, and social issues that shaped Italian literature in the 19th century.

Comparing how Brlić-Mažuranić's works use mythology and fantasy to explore themes, highlighting similarities with Andersen and Tolkien.

Nowadays, it has become less and less uncommon to come upon a bookstore section labelled “trending on #BookTok”. Platforms such as TikTok accumulate a certain readership, usually young and new adults, who recommend, critique, and comment on literature, generally novels. That is the reason for the merging of the noun ‘book’ and the platform’s partial title; other variations are Bookstagram, Booktwt, and BookTube. The latter is where this literary behaviour appeared. Common rea