Americká literatura
Poe, Edgar Allen. "The Purloined Letter".
Summary
Motto: "Nothing is more odious to wisdom than too much acumen." Seneca
The first person narrator enjoys an autumn evening in Paris in the company of his friend C. Auguste Duphin. They sit in Duphin's...
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Poe, Edgar Allen. "To Helen".
Summary
The speaker addresses Helen. He celebrates Helen's beauty and compares it to the barks which carried the weary wanderer home over a perfumed sea. Helen's hyacinth hair and her classic face wander on...
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Poe, Edgar Allen."The Masque of the Red Death".
Summary
The "Red Death", meaning the plague, strikes the country. Prince Prospero gathers a thousand of his friends from the court and they isolate themselves in an abbey supplied by food. The Prince...
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Poe, Edgar Allen."The Raven".
Summary
December midnight. The first person speaker, a student, muses above his textbooks. He is half-sleeping when he hears a gentle tapping on his door. He mutters that it is some visitor and "nothing more"....
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Poe, Edgar Allen."To— — —. Ulalume: A Ballad".
Summary
In is an October night by the dim lake Auber in the ghoul-haunted woodland of Weir (suggests weird). The speaker wanders with his soul, their speech is serious and sober, but their thoughts are sere....
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Pound, Ezra. "A Pact".
Summary and Analysis
In the poem Pound comes to terms with Walt Whitman and accepts him as a poet. After all Pound's Cantos can also be seen as a formally open series of poems which draw from the motifs of...
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Pound, Ezra. "In a Station of the Metro".
Summary and Analysis
(from Ruland & Bradbury)
- a brief poem of two lines: "The apparition of these faces in the crowd; / Petals on a wet, black bough."
- the juxtaposition of seemingly very different...
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Pound, Ezra. "The Rest".
Summary
The speaker express his sorrow and sympathy for the enslaved artists of his country. His portrayal of the conditions of his fellow countrymen points out that they are being restrained and controlled,...
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Pound, Ezra. "The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter".
Summary
A woman describes the development of her relationship to her husband.
The two met already as little children. They married when she was fourteen. At first she was bashful, never laughed, and never...
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Rabe, David. The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel.
Introduction
Legend: The play is introduced by a short Vietnamese verse legend called "The Song of Trang Tu". It tells about the feelings of a husband whose wife died and who is reproached by his neighbours...
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Ragni, Gerome, and James Rado. Hair.
Summary
Setting
The present. New York City, mostly East Village. The bare stage is totally exposed, all the theatrical machinery can see by the audience. There is an American Indian totem pole and a...
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Roth, Philip. "Defender of the Faith".
Summary
The story is set in late spring 1945, after the end of military operations in Europe. The first-person narrator, Sergeant Nathan Marx, is rotated from Germany to a training company at Camp Crowder,...
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Salinger, Jerome David. The Catcher in the Rye.
Summary
Background: The first person narrator is the seventeen-year-old Holden Caulfield, currently on a prolonged stay in a hospital or sanatorium recovering from an unspecified illness. He addresses...
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Sandburg, Carl. "Chicago".
Summary
The speaker seems to find perverse joy in the turbulent cruelty of the city of Chicago. The terrors of the city are neither disguised, nor rendered as beautiful, they are freely presented. The...
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Sandburg, Carl. "Dust".
Summary
The poem opens with an image of dust which was once a rose in a woman's hair. The image is further developed in that the dust was once a woman with a rose in her hair. The conclusion broadens to...
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