Category: Essay Exhibits

September 8, 2021 / / Essay Exhibits

Close Reading by John Keats

John Keats’ “Ode to a Nightingale” describes a speaker who is pondering while listening to a nightingale sing nearby. Keats isn’t the only writer to use the viewpoint of a pondering, solitary speaker. “Ode to …

September 8, 2021 / / Essay Exhibits

According to various Chaucer scholars, it seems that there aren’t two distinct schools or thought regarding the Knight described in the general prose, but two poles, with a substantial number of scholars residing in the grey area. Chaucer knew that …

September 6, 2021 / / Essay Exhibits

John Irving’s A Prayer for Owen Meany shows how death can have a lasting impact on anyone. These influences are often associated with negative meanings, but death in this book has a more positive effect on the narrator. John is …