In this chapter we will look at how the English writer JG Ballard wrote about Shanghai in his autobiography novel-Empire of the Sun. Ballard was born and grew up to sixteen in Shanghai during the Second War. This is an account of JG Ballard's childhood in Shan...
“The Eve of St. Agnes” can be said as a boundary work when focusing on the colour purple. This essay will discuss about Keats’s usage of colour purple as the symbolization of mortality, and discover the reason why it started from “The Eve of St. Agnes”. I...
In this term’s lecture I learned new way of thinking from three people, they are Emerson, Thoreau and Whitman. Emerson was a philosopher, Thoreau a writer and Whitman a poet. I think they have same kind of idea but their way of expressing it was different. Th...
On discussing Balin’s weapons, I would like to introduce Balin’s tale at first. Balin is a member of the Knights of the Round Table. After the first Lady of the Lake gave Excalibur to Arthur, another lady came with a beautiful sword. She says only “a passin...