My Work
As a 3rd year English Major at the University of Georgia, I have written many pieces of literary criticism. This site is a compilation of my work in the form of an academic portfolio.
I love writing comparative and argumentative essays
My inspiration
I am deeply interested in exploring the ways in which texts by different authors are in conversation with one another. I like to find common themes between literary and visual works of art and consider why they are similar based on when they were written, who they were written by, and what they were written about.
Knighthood and Chivalry
This essay focuses on contrasting ideas of Chivalry detailed in two different Medieval texts.
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Literature and Art in Conversation
This essay explores similar themes in modernist visual art and modernist literature.
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Childhood Innocence in Poetry
This essay explores themes of childhood inoocence in Romantic Poetry.
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Conflicting ideas regarding conflict
This essay explores two different perspectives on rising conflicts of WWI.
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Idealized Female Characters in Poetry
Lord Alfred Tennyson’s “Lady of Shalott” and Robert Browning’s “Porphyria’s Lover,” both portray idyllic female subjects described by a third-person speaker. Each poem incorporates themes of temptation, lust, a woman’s position in society, and male domination. A striking yet perplexing similarity between these two works is that both of the female subjects die by the end of the poem, each for a different reason. I would argue that through the lenses of these two poems, the authors equate sexual desire and temptation to a death sentence for the women depicted. Each of the women appears to have little to no agency and therefore no control over their lives or, in turn, their deaths…
Music, Wartime, and Memory
“O What Is That Sound” by W.H. Auden and “Between the Wars” by Billy Bragg each display a perspective on the post and the pre-war era of the 1930s. These texts present a worthwhile pairing because they each work to share the viewpoint of an individual living through a period of anxiety and uncertainty—plagued by the memory of a previous war, and fearful of a new one. Additionally, they work to create an understanding of the feelings, concerns, and fears that consume us during such unpredictable times…
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