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The Bull Calf -        Irving Layton The Bull Calf poem begins very much like Frost poem, with a picture of the bull calf and the story of its fate. “ The things could barely stand. Yet taken from his mother and… . “ The poem keeps suspense until the end with the conflict of the death of a helpless animal and the conscience of the speaker. Many literary devices are used to dramatize the poem such as organization, personification and theme. The narrator is the poet himself. He uses figurative languages like onomatopoeia to get a sympathetic audience and give more emotion in the poem. The theme of Bull Calf is about a recently born bull calf that gets killed because the owner has no use for it. The drama lies on the bull calf getting beaten to death. The speaker is in conflict with himself. Perhaps he is young and not used to seeing innocent, helpless animal getting murdered or may be he felt sorry for the animal that had so much po...

Seagull E. J. Pratt E. J Pratt is the first Anglo-Canadian poet to use a distinctively Canadian subject matter, create Canadian genres, employ a Canadian idiom and thus set up a poetic tradition embodying national experience. By resurrecting and commemorating a heroic past as an alternative to the European past he has succeeded in creating a Canadian myth. Pratt was born in Newfoundland where the struggle for survival was particularly harsh and death at sea was frequent. In his works Newfoundland Verse (1923), The Great Feud and Cacholot, where he created myths of struggle for supremacy between land animals and sea animals. Pratt had not yet created a specifically Canadian myth located in Canadian history, but his tales of elemental forces locked in conflict are suggestive of Canadian explorer and pioneer experience. Pratt in this poem Seagulls narrates about the bird and it also tells about the Canadian people. The poem in the outward sense about the bird says th...

  Second Sex                                                 -Simon de Beauvoir Simon de Beauvoir’s Second Sex was published in the year 1949. She was a French critic and had a relation with Jean Paul Sartre. In Second Sex Beauvoir gives the definition for woman. She is defined as a womb, “Tota Mulier in Utero”. Man, the supreme being treats women as an inferior being. “Feminity is in danger”. We are urged to be women, stay women and become women. Beauvoir claims the fact of becoming women affects our life. So, every human being is not woman. “One is not born a woman” Social science no longer believes in immutably determined entities that define given characteristics like those of the woman, the Jew or the Black. Every human being is born fre...

History of Canadian Literature Canada is situated at the Northern parts of America. It is the second largest country in the world. The natives of Canada were called the aborigines. It is a land with mountains, lakes, vast landscape, natural resources, plenty of snow. The land often faces winter season (cold plenty of snow). Survival, Identity crisis, alienation, depression of colonisation are some of the major themes found in Canadian literature. This literature originated in Canada. This country was once colonised by the British. Before invasion there was oral, folk, songs to pray God. People lived intimate with nature. Canadian literature focused on religious and nationalistic themes. This literature is written in English and French languages. The common theme explored in Canadian literature is the “Garrison Mentality”. This term was first used by a critic named Northrop Frye. Margaret Atwood enriched the Canadian Literature with her work “Survival”. In this wor...

  Satan Tempting Eve in Book IX Satan enters the body of a serpent and comes close to Eve. The Serpent head is held high and his eyes are glimmering. It crawls smoothly and cautiously on the grass in a Zig-Zag way. The Serpent tries to draw Eve’s attention. But Eve does not pay any attention to the Serpent. The Serpent stands amazed to see the beauty of Eve.it moves its sleeky and gold-colored neck sideways, licking the ground. Eve notices the Serpents playful movements. Satan begins to tempt Eve. He addresses Eve as a sovereign mistress. Serpent claims Eve not to express emotions like hatred and annoyance. Eve has an awful and majestic look. She resembles God and has a divine air. All the creatures of God gaze at her admiringly. She is universally admired by the creatures around her. They are God’s gift to her. In Eden garden even the animals admire her. They look at her but cannot orally express their appreciation pf her beauty. But Eve is left all alone in the garden to ha...

Paradise Lost Book IX Satan Entering Eden Garden In Book IX of Paradise Lost Milton deals with the wicked, hatred behaviour of Adam and Eve. This books brings the God's pronouncement of Judgement against human being. Paradise a place of happiness turns dark. Man's sin has brought destruction for paradise. Milton feels sad to describe the fall of man. Yet he considers this theme sublime. In Book IV Gabriel, the God's messenger drives Satan from Eden. Satan being fradulent and wicked decides to destroy Adam and Eve, the God's creation. Satan decides the re-enter the Eden garden. He enters the garden during the night time and find a safe place in the paradise. Satan examines each creatures in the Eden Garden. He plans to conceal himself in the body of a snake. Snakes has got evil nature and no one will suspect the serpent. Satan envies the earth created by God. He calls the earth free from imperfections of his earlier creations. Satan grew jealous by ...