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Virginia Woolf's A Room of One's Own is a quintessential piece of feminist literature. She takes a stand for women's rights and...

Another poem of Yeats that addresses the divine or mythology is Leda and the Swan . The sonnet is a retelling of the Greek myth about the ra...

William Butler Yeats in his poetry depicts the role of fate and the divine in history. One such poem that illustrates the oncoming storm tha...

While reading On The Western Circuit, I could not help but be reminded of Cyrano de Bergerac. Young Ann falls for Raye, but being unable to ...

Thomas Hardy had a tendency for the melancholy in more than just his philosophical issues. He also writes semi-sad love stories like On The ...

Thomas Hardy's philosophy involved a vengeful God, but he also bordered on atheism. Some of his poetry reflects his bleak view of the un...

Gerard Manley Hopkins' poetry mainly addressed  the glory of God in nature. His poetry mirrors the Romantics in that aspect. Hopkins use...