"Antigone" by Sophocles is one of the best dramas I have ever read. It is the picture perfect definition of a Drama. Antigone finds herself in a crazy position in life. Her father is really her brother who married her mother and killed his father. Her two brothers had just gotten done killing one another on accident. Her uncle Creon says that one ( Read more... )

 "Hamlet" by William Shakespeare is one of my favorite plays ever written. One thing that I do not understand about this play however, is why Hamlet doubted the ghost of his father at the beginning of the play. The back up and rewind a bit, at the beginning of the play, the ghost of the dead king appears several times to a few guards that watch ( Read more... )

I thought that "A Doll's House" by Henrik Ibsen wasn't all that great of a story. Sure, it is literature. Sure, it is famous. Sure, we have to study it. But is it interesting at all? Not in my opinion, no. The whole point of this story was kind of meaningless to me. A lady was forced into marriage by her father to a man much much older than her. In ( Read more... )

"On the Subway" by Sharon Olds is a short little poem all about stereotyping. One could even classify this poem as a short story. The whole point of this poem shows that the world likes to stereotype. This angers me more than anything. Basically, this woman gets on a train and sits down. A few minutes later, she finds herself staring at the face of ( Read more... )

 In this short little poem, the reader receives a message from the author. William Blake obviously hates London. This whole entire poem, although rather short, has a constant and steady gloomy theme. This poem is not confusing, this poem does not have a hidden message, and this poem certainly does not cause one to think. It is completely ( Read more... )

 Reading this short story, I was a little repulsed at first. This whole story was about drugs, rape, fighting, and murder. I wasn’t exactly sure of why it was included in a textbook for school. However, after thinking about it for a little while after reading it, I realized that maybe students need to read something like this once in their lives. ( Read more... )

This was honestly my favorite poem that we read all semester long. Although at first, it was a little odd, I learned to love it very quickly. This poem is composed completely of titles of different songs and their artists next to them. However, Amanda Holzer, the author, did something incredible. She did not just choose any random and different ( Read more... )

At first, reading this poem seemed like a lot of fun. This poem was all about a man and his horse frolicking through the woods on a snowy evening in the winter. In the middle of venturing through these woods, the man in the poem stops to gaze and take in all the beauty of the forest. His horse nudges him on the shoulder thinking it’s weird for him ( Read more... )

If you want to read the most confusing, mind boggling, and entertaining poem in the whole entire world, then I suggest reading “A Supermarket in California” by Allen Ginsberg. This whole poem is all sorts of craziness. His poem is all about walking in a supermarket. His sentences go from one topic to another in the blink of an eye. At first, this ( Read more... )

 Upon opening the textbook up to the pages which displayed “Ode to a Grecian Urn” by John Keats, I was immensely confused. The whole entire poem was written in a Shakespearian type of language. All the words were words that I know, but the placement makes it very difficult to understand as I was reading the poem. So the first time through, I was ( Read more... )