Americká literatura
Whittier, John Greenleaf. "Hymn".
Author's Note
Written for the meeting of the Anti-Slavery Society, at Chatham Street Chapel, New York, held on the fourth of the seventh month, 1834.
Summary and Analysis
An anti-slavery poem and at the same...
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Whittier, John Greenleaf. "Ichabod!".
Summary and Analysis
The poem is an attack on the statesman who championed the bill providing that northern states must return runaway slaves caught within their borders. The title of the poem is derived from...
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Whittier, John Greenleaf. "The Hunters of Men".
Author's Note
These lines were written when the orators of the American Colonization Society were demanding that the free blacks should be sent to Africa, and opposing Emancipation unless expatriation...
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Whittier, John Greenleaf. "The Ship-Builders".
Summary
The speaker describes an evening of ruddy sky, grey earth, and rising stars. He watches the ship-builders working in the river-mist for us all day until evening. The speaker observes that their toil is...
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Whittier, John Greenleaf. "The Yankee Girl".
Summary and Analysis
An anti-slavery narrative poem. It may serve as a stimulus to the black slaves' self-confidence and racial pride.
The poor, but lovely Yankee girl Ellen sings in front of her cottage. A...
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Wilder, Thornton. The Skin of Our Teeth.
Author's Preface
Wilder is discontent with the contemporary theatre. His aim is to make the audience "believe" a work of the imagination. This is what Plato calls "recollection": on encountering a work of art,...
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Williams, Tennessee. A Streetcar Named Desire.
Introduction
The play is introduced by a quotation from the poem ‘The Broken Tower’ by Hart Crane musing on the elusive nature of love and the difficulty of finding it:
‘And so it was I entered the broken...
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Wilson, August. Fences.
Summary & Analysis
Setting
Set in a small yard of an old house in an industrial city neighbourhood. May be identified as Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. The yard is partially fenced. There is a large porch in...
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Wilson, Lanford. Fifth of July.
Summary
Characters
Kenneth Talley (32): Had both legs shot off seven years ago in the Vietnam war, uses crutches. Strong, good-looking; a touch cynical, but not deeply. Former teacher. Does not appreciate his...
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Wolff, Tobias. "Hunters in the Snow".
Summary
The story is set in the state of Washington, probably in the author’s present. It follows the hunting trip of three friends, married adult men with families, whose mutual relationships are re-examined...
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Wright, Richard. Black Boy.
Introduction
(by Jerry W. Ward, Jr.)
The first edition of the novel (1945) is a classic autobiography of a young man's coming of age and his journey from innocence to experience in the Jim Crow South. The...
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Wright, Richard. Native Son.
Book I: Fear
Summary
Morning in a Black Slum: The book opens in a one-room tenement in Chicago, Illinois, early in the morning. The black family of the Thomases is getting up. The mother and the daughter Vera...
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