Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature
1174 Woolf, Virginia wooLF, virGiNia To the Lighthouse (1927) Considered one of the most important modern- ist novels, To the Li ...
To the Lighthouse 1175 narrated in the first section). Gradually, memories of that day come back, like flashes in her mind, and ...
1176 Woolf, Virginia against male prejudices about women’s artistic tal- ent that works for Lily as a powerful motivation. In th ...
“Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey” 1177 In the last pages of the novel, while Lily is accomplishing her artwork, M ...
1178 Wordsworth, William (1897), which details her life with William in the English Lake District and their encounters with othe ...
“Lines Composed a Few Miles above Tintern Abbey” 1179 “ ’mid the din / of towns and cities” (25). Nature’s power to provide “tra ...
1180 Wright, Richard being” (ll. 109–111). For a romantic poet like Wordsworth, the benefits of industrialization can never outw ...
Black Boy 1181 Wright’s racial awareness develops. Aboard a train for Arkansas, he notices that there are separate car- riages f ...
1182 Wright, Richard spite of the family’s acute poverty, Granny also bans Wright from working on Saturdays for reasons of stric ...
Native Son 1183 formative years are experienced in flits of both won- der and fear. They also hint at Wright’s fondness of haiku ...
1184 Wright, Richard donations to “Negro” causes. But in a desperate turn of events, Bigger accidentally kills their daughter, M ...
Native Son 1185 of racial alienation, he even tears a cross from his throat, comparing it to one of the Ku Klux Klan. This momen ...
1186 Wright, Richard Survival is represented in more general terms in the novel’s closing sequence when Bigger stands trial for ...
poems 1187 go to the core of his personality, but they also show that he cannot be understood in the simple terms expressed by B ...
1188 Yeats, William Butler is a prime example in which the speaker is figured as “A sixty-year-old smiling public man” (l. 8) as ...
poems 1189 a fire” (l. 7). Based on Yeats’s biography, the female figure in his poems is often seen as Maud Gonne, a woman to wh ...
1190 Yeats, William Butler ments grey” (l. 11) and thinking back to his home in Ireland. Yeats relates that he was in London whe ...
1191 ` Note: boldface page numbers indicate major treatment of a topic. a abandonment I:1–3 Antigone III:1001 Bean Trees II:656– ...
1192 Encyclopedia of Themes in Literature Afrikaners II:494, 495 afterlife I:313, 314 age II:729; III:969 Age of Innocence, The ...
Index 1193 Aristotle death I:23, 24 ethics I:28–29 individual and society I:58 Oedipus Rex III:1006, 1007 pride I:83 Arnold, Mat ...
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