Literature 2012

Rebecca Harding Davis and Edgar Allen Poe both have stories full of darkness. They both use imagery that is depressing but beautiful. The be...

  Bartleby the Scrivener, a story by Herman Melville, is my favorite story we've read in class. I think it really speaks volumes to t...

Emily Dickinson's poem, 754, is one that could be interpreted many different ways. We will never know exactly which way she intended for...

Frederick Douglass is, without a doubt, one of the most influential and most well-known slave writers. This makes sense, as his way with wor...

Harriet Jacobs Olaudah Equiano and Harriet Jacobs were both very influential African American writers who told harrowing stories of the...

Edgar Allan Poe is still considered to be one of today’s greatest writers. Poe, born in 1809, is known as a dark, depressing, and mysterious...

  Olaudah Equiano, also known as Gustavus Vassa, was very involved in the British movement for abolition of the slave trade. Enslaved...