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I understand I am at fault. Sorry for making such a comedy. I should have understood my limitations in the first place.

You talk about Melville offering novelty, strangeness, imagination and a play with big ideas. Aren't these very vague notions? I mean, I know that great literature is also defined by the content of...

Regardless of it being very hard for me to grasp difficult texts, I try with all my effort to plough through these, with the hope that someday I will become a far better reader with an improved...

I think you're bringing up the issue of context, right?

If the writer is not in full control of his art, then how can he pursue his goals of aesthetic creation? Does he always go for what he...

I see! So, you're essentially saying that the greater the variety, the nuances and the play of sensual pleasure that a piece of literature invokes, the greater is its value. Should every creative...

Actually, I am myself not a native speaker. I first learnt the English alphabet when I was perhaps three years old. Regardless, I have always been fluent in colloquial English. Literary English and...

Thanks for all the responses!

Are there any set criteria that determine the extent of linguistic beauty of a piece of literature?

I see!

So, if you could communicate complicated information and emotions in simple terms, I guess there would be no need for abstruse language then?

I've been churning this question around in my mind for quite some time now.

The question is: Why bother with difficult reading texts?

I mean, the sole purpose of writing is to convey...

1) In the context of the passage, does the word ‘fat’ mean an excess of either vegetation or beauty or other elements that make up the landscape? If so, what could those other elements be?

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I am having a lot of difficulty comprehending this passage from 'Out of Arfica' by Isak Dinesen. Any help would be nice.

'The geographical position, and the height of the land combined to create a...

Thank you so much for all the support.

I just have a few more questions.

1. ''it was not even summer's opposite''


How exactly can they complement each other? Summer's hot, winter's cold....

I have been reading 'Cider with Rosie' lately and I got in this passage. It goes

''Winter was no more typical of our valley than summer, it was not even summer's opposite; it was merely that...

Hmm... I'm just not sure if this is too tough a cookie for anyone to break!

So, just to clarify, you're saying that if we judge the quality of his advice based on what happens afterwards, we come to the conclusion that it was poor. However, in and of itself, the advice was...

I am pondering the use of diction in Shakespeare, particularly Hamlet. I am analysing Polonius' advice to Opehlia in Act I scene 3. My teacher told me to explain 'how the diction' in their encounter...

I'm wondering if you wanna write about the quality of poloniu's advice, would you likely assess the consequences that follow, i.e. whether the advice does good to Ophelia or not?

I had to write an essay on the relationship between Polonius and Ophelia based on Act I scene 3. Here it is. Please make any comments you want and give it a mark out of 20 if you like. (please think...

"Oh, that this too too sullied flesh would melt ...
But break my heart, for I must hold my tongue."

I need to submit two essays on the soliloquy.

1. How does the imagery of this passage serve...

"IN THE PREDAWN DARKNESS OF AUGUST 26, 1929, IN THE back bedroom of a small house in Torrance, California, a twelve-year-old boy sat up in bed, listening. There was a sound coming from outside,...

"According to doctors, therapists, and his ex-wife, Landsman drinks to medicate himself, tuning the tubes and crystals of his moods with a crude hammer of hundred-proof plum brandy. But the truth is...