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Apr 11, 2018Open AccessArticle
“A Psalm of Life”, often subtitled “What the Heart of the Young Man Said to the Psalmist”, is a lyric written by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, an American romantic poet [1]. In order to have an aesthetic appreciation, the author consults some literature and analyzes the poem in terms of its gist, theme, poetical features and practical significance. The conclusion is that full of aesthetics, this poem reveals an optimisti ...
Dec 19, 2017Open AccessArticle
This paper examines the structure of Cameroon Pidgin English proverbs. The data are drawn from a sample of proverbs which seem to have originated from the context of use of the language itself and are therefore not translations from foreign languages and cultures. The analysis, which is done following Quirk et al.’s model of syntactic study [1] [2], reveals that simple sentences occur more frequently than compound and complex sent ...
Nov 30, 2017Open AccessArticle
This article contends that every generation has its challenges
and that the first sets of people that wrestle with the challenges are the
youths. In each
generation, African writers make the challenges of the youths their major
concerns. Like
other generations, the youths of the contemporary generation are facing new societal challenges. For
instance, in this generation, many youths graduate f ...
Nov 21, 2016Open AccessArticle
The present manuscript aims to
explore the attitude and emotion/motivation of the author/agent, David Ray,
necessary for the creation of Sam’s Book,
the creation of his symbolic Metaphor for Loss through a close look at the
speaker/agent as defined by Burke within the technical form of the poems. The
paper is divided into four sections that give the methods of t ...
Nov 14, 2016Open AccessArticle
Metonymy is a more deeply
embedded and ingrained capability of the human mind than classical approaches
may tell. The cognitive turn in linguistics changed the point of view to the
interaction between language and mind, thus, new approaches to understand what
metonymy is might come into life. The takeover of ideas of metonymy into
applied branches of linguistics like translation studies (as a complement to ...
Aug 08, 2016Open AccessArticle
In the 18th and 19th century of English literature,
there were two generations of English Romantic poetry in Britain, who have
produced great influences on the literature world. Those romantic poets were inspired
more or less by the French Revolution, and advocated to the people to pursue
beauty and inner freedom in nature or art. The ...
Jul 13, 2016Open AccessArticle
The question of representations of the forest world, trees and plants in
the Caribbean literature is important in the understanding of the relationship
between man and nature. This work deals with the study of literary texts which
highlight this human-nature interaction serving as the writer’s base to
establish the legitimacy of the literary discourse. It anchors this dialogue in
reality and knowledge of the world which translates ...
Feb 22, 2016Open AccessArticle
Since Aristotle’s response to Plato’s attack on poetic imitation as being
twice removed from reality, the concept of mimesis has pervaded the drama.
Aristotle’s all arts, epic, tragic, comic and dithyrambic, regardless of their
different media, subject matter, and manner of imitation, involve mimesis.
Aristotle argued that mimesis provided fictional distance from the things being
presented on stage, and allowed the audience to get emotionally involved
leading them to catharsis, the purgation of ...
Nov 20, 2015Open AccessArticle
The classic Chinese novel Hong Lou
Meng has been introduced into many different cultures through an important
medium: translation. Over one dozen of English versions have been published so
far, and have been studied by so many researchers. In those translated works, a
variety of translation strategies are adopted for translating characters’
names. Name translation is a small field of studies on translating Hong Lou Meng, However this topic is not
only interesting but also important...
Jul 29, 2015Open AccessArticle
The liberation struggle is such an historic event in Zimbabwean history
to an extent that even today, constant reference is made to it in a bid to
remind and challenge the whole nation to safeguard its cause. Efforts have also
been made to enlighten the new generation on the rationale, experiences and
gains of this struggle, with intent to make them appreciate the sacrifices made
by the gallant fighters who made such possible. As such, many history books,
novels, poems and drama texts have been ...
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