This document is a summary of the contents of the book "The Wanderings of Oisin" by William Butler Yeats. It contains 3 chapters:
Book I introduces Oisin and St. Patrick, with Oisin recalling his time with the goddess Niamh and the Tuatha De Danann people. Book II and Book III continue Oisin's recollections and wanderings with Niamh in the lands of eternal youth. The summary provides context and sets up the story that will be told across the 3 chapters of the book.
This document is a summary of the contents of the book "The Wanderings of Oisin" by William Butler Yeats. It contains 3 chapters:
Book I introduces Oisin and St. Patrick, with Oisin recalling his time with the goddess Niamh and the Tuatha De Danann people. Book II and Book III continue Oisin's recollections and wanderings with Niamh in the lands of eternal youth. The summary provides context and sets up the story that will be told across the 3 chapters of the book.
The document is a story told in first person perspective. It describes a young girl who follows a bird into the mountains where she is found by an old man and woman. They offer to train her in martial arts for 15 years, which she accepts. She learns fighting skills and exercises. In her 7th year of training, she must survive alone in the mountains for 10 days with only what she can carry, to prove herself as a warrior.
The poem describes the discovery of a remarkably preserved bog body from the Grauballe Man. His body is described in vivid detail, having been preserved in peat for centuries. Though his appearance is disturbing, he is "perfected in my memory" in a way that balances both beauty and atrocity. The poem reflects on the mystery of this ancient corpse and the questions it raises about life, death, and the passage of time.
This poem describes the speaker's childhood memories of watching his father and grandfather dig potatoes and cut turf. He recalls following his father as he plowed fields with horses, trying to learn the skills of farming. While he wanted to be a farmer like the men in his family, he was always just "following in their shadow." The speaker finds himself now in the role of the father figure as his own father struggles to keep up with him.
Maxine Hong Kingston's Woman Warrior explores themes of cultural identity and women's storytelling through five interconnecting narratives. The work examines the stories passed down from the author's mother about female roles and identities in their Chinese culture. Through engaging in a dialog with her mother's words, Kingston struggles to develop her own voice and sense of self while questioning the frameworks of gender presented in the stories she was told.
This poem depicts Ocean's love for Ireland through metaphor. It describes how Ocean has scattered Ireland's dreams of fleets and failed to protect her from foreign invasion. Though Ocean speaks with a Devonshire accent as a symbol of England's dominance, his crest still inclines to Ireland represented by Cynthia, and his name and power will rise from both the waters of London and the dark spots of Irish soil soaked with the blood of massacred Irish people.
This chapter introduces Esu-Elegbara, a trickster figure from Yoruba mythology that recurs throughout African and African diasporic oral traditions. Esu is a divine messenger and interpreter who connects the human and divine realms. He presides over crossroads and mediates communication between gods and humans. Despite the trauma of the Middle Passage, aspects of West African cultures survived and were adapted in the New World, including this trickster topos of Esu-Elegbara, showing the underlying unity between dispersed African diasporic cultures.
This document provides bibliographic and copyright information for the book "Folk Roots and Mythic Wings in Sarah Orne Jewett and Toni Morrison: The Cultural Function of Narrative" by Marilyn Sanders Mobley. It lists the designer, typesetter, printer, and copyright details. It also includes a library of congress catalog entry that provides subject headings for the book related to American fiction, women authors, Jewett, Morrison, literature and anthropology, women and literature, folklore in literature, and myth in literature.
The document provides historical and cultural context for James Joyce's novel Ulysses, noting that Joyce began writing it from 1914 to 1921 during World War I while living in Trieste, Zurich, and Paris. This time period coincided with key events in Irish history, including the 1916 Easter Rising, the Anglo-Irish War of 1919-1921, and the establishment of the Irish Free State in January 1922. The document suggests Joyce's work was influenced by and engaged with the political situation in Ireland during this transformative era.
This document provides a detailed 3-paragraph summary and analysis of T.S. Eliot's poem "The Waste Land". The summary analyzes various sections of the poem, including "A Game of Chess" and characters like the woman at the dressing table. It discusses themes of denial of nature, the stifling of sensibility, and the mixing of high and low culture. The summary analyzes Eliot's techniques of juxtaposing different levels of sensibility and using devices from his earlier work. It provides insightful commentary and interpretation of Eliot's masterful modernist poem in under 3 sentences.
