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A very common thread I’ve seen run through many of the poems we’ve studied this semester is British Nationalism and Social Darwinism, this is seen a lot in Victorian Era poetry; a good example of this is in The Charge of the Light Brigade. The poem discusses a battle in which 600 men charged intoContinue reading “The Charge of the Light Brigade”

For most of the stories we read for this era I felt that all of them (besides the rector) rejected the realism movement, a good example of Sherlock Holmes has long been known as not only the world’s greatest detective, but also been able to find answers in very extreme ways but that can beContinue reading “The Speckled Band”

I think the most challenging thing for 21st-century readers with this text is not only the language but the context, as we’ve discussed in class there are alot of things a reader would need to know before fully going into the novel. Such as the class structure, most people think that Catherine and Henry wouldContinue reading “Northanger Abbey”

In the poem Lucy Gray we can see Wordsworth’s ideas of what poetry should be in full view. The first is that of nature and life, as we discussed in class, sadly it seemed that it was common for villages to have missing children stories where children leave and never return, and this poem showsContinue reading “Lucy Gray”