Read & Question: As discussed in the lecture, a poet prophet seeks to deliver the audience to truths. Coleridge’s “Rime of the Ancient Mariner” has overt religious references and messages. Identify examples that speak to the religious content and explain what the “truth” is that the poem seeks to...

From Byron's Don Juan: While this high post of honour's in abeyance, For one or two days, reader, we request You'll mount with our young hero the conveyance Which wafted him from Petersburgh: the best Barouche, which had the glory to display once The fair czarina's au...

When I was a young boy I viewed one filmed book from Agatha Christie on television with David Suchet. Now I would love to read that book but I forgot its name. I remember only few facts. I remember the end of the film. There was a woman, an Irish woman. She and her followers were somewhere in the...

In the first chapter of Jude the Obscure, we see this line about the old church being taken down and replaced, and the old church being broken up and used for different things: Above all, the original church, hump-backed, wood-turreted, and quaintly hipped, had been taken down, and either cra...

Martin Luther King, Jr. said, "The function of education is to teach one to think intensively and to think critically. Intelligence plus character – that is the goal of true education." Can anyone tell me in siple terms what he means?