W.B. Yeats was an immensely popular poet in his time, and for good reason. His poems resonate with readers for their beauty and themes. In fact, his poem, “When You Are Old,” very simply identifies aging in a creative way. These themes include universal ideas of nature, solitude, and peace. In this post, we examine his poem “The Lake Isle of Innisfree,” which discusses these ideas. While one of his most popular, the poem is eternal in its meaning.
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Strange Tales of Mystery and Imagination, A Formative Read
I have a lot of books that played a role in my literacy voyage. These include Roald Dahl’s Young Adult/Adult novels to R.L. Stine’s Goosebump series and others. But there are a few that really got me rolling on loving horror and the occult. One of which was Strange Tales of Mystery and Imagination by Alex Hamer.
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Turn of the Screw: Chapters 6-10 Summary
Turn of the Screw: Chapters 11-15 Summary
Robin Hood by Howard Pyle: Chapters 6-10 Summary
Robin Hood by Howard Pyle: Chapters 11-15 Summary
Robin Hood by Howard Pyle: Chapters 16-21 Summary
Turn of the Screw: Chapters 1-5 Summary
In this post, we introduce the first part of Henry James’s The Turn of the Screw: Chapters 1-5 (1898). It is a gothic novella that is about a very peculiar haunting at Bly Manor. Meanwhile, the reader is left to question the narrator’s motives and reliability throughout the novella. This is a classic of the ghost story genre, so reading it and understanding it is crucial to writing good ghost stories.
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Robin Hood by Howard Pyle: Chapters 1-5 Summary
In this post regarding Robin Hood by Howard Pyle: Chapters 1-5 , we begin our medieval adventures with The Merry Adventures of Robin Hood by Howard Pyle. Last year, we examined another medieval classic, A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court, and I had so much fun conducting research and analyzing the text that I wanted to relive that experience.
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The Dark Legends of Rogues Hollow, Ohio
I seem to remember watching black and white images of men wearing bandanas over their faces as they raced on horseback toward their hideout after a successful bank/train robbery. A lot of that imagery comes from schools that uses TVs on a carts, I think. Nothing would actually compare to the real deal that was Rogues Hollow, Ohio.
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