Essays on Horseman

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During my first reading of “The Bronze Horseman” I have come to idea that the poem and its narrative character are quite difficult for understanding. The one who is not familiar with the historical context of the poem may not catch the main idea of Pushkin’s work. So I decided to learn more about Russia and its history. I have consulted many sources, read some books and information from the Internet. And I have once again become convinced how helpful it could be for the understanding of literary work. Besides broadening my outlook, it ...

Wole Soyinka’s Death and the Kings Horseman

Prior to the European invasion in Africa, Africans had varied ways of life under their cultural setting. Some communities had formalised types of governments which were being ruled by kings while other communities had no centralised government. They practiced their own religion and had their own economic structures which comprised of skilled artists who could make masks sculptures, statutes of wood, bronze and gold, hunters and gatherers and also farmers. However, during colonisation, the African people’s way of life was subjected to numerous external changes that left traces in how we nowadays think and act. The imposition of ...

Summaries

Ambrose Bierce wrote What I Saw of Shiloh as his memoir of the 1862 Battle of Shiloh, a Civil War conflict in which he served the Union Army that went against Confederate troops. The atrocities of war are clear in the depictions of Bierce, most notably when he recounted the defeat of the Union Army on the first day of the battle. At the same time, Bierce emphasized the follies of most of the soldiers who fought, whose desire to serve for prestige has ultimately alienated them from the people who permitted them to go to war, hence saying, “I ...

Dilemma over embracing or escaping from Yoruba culture

One is likely to encounter cases of death in a society comprised of different groups of people who are not willing to understand each others’ cultural practices and customs. Such is the case in Wole Soyinka’s Death and a King’s Horseman. Soyinka does a brilliant job using different layers of conflict as he tells the story of Elesin, who is prevented from fulfilling his duty of his ritual suicide by the British, who view the custom as illegal and barbaric while the colonized Yoruba view his suicide as not only a tribal obligation, but a world’s obligation to maintain peace between ...

Irving's "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

Introduction

The legend of Sleepy Hollow is a fictitious short story by Washington Irving. This story tells of the disappearance of Ichabod Crane who is the main character in the story. Ichabod Crane was a Connecticut native who came to Sleepy Hollow as a teacher. It is a story about two men, Ichabod Crane and Brom Van Brunt who both desired the same woman named Katrina Van Tassel. They were both competing for Katrina’s affection and hand in marriage. Katrina was the only daughter of a substantial wealthy farmer named Baltus Van Tassel. The movie Sleepy Hollow is a Hollywood movie by Tim Burton ...