Amira Lind, M.A.

One of the most notable women mentioned in Book One of The Faerie Queen is the queen herself, referred to as Gloriana. While she never actually appears in the epic, she is who all the characters...

The fairies in A Midsummer Night's Dream serve many functions. One role is to develop a theme of the play: we (humankind) actually have very little control in this world. One interpretation of this...

Marianne Moore's poem "Poetry" is a commentary on the power of all words. The speaker urges her readers not "to discriminate against 'business documents and school-books'; all these phenomena are...

Structurally, we could infer that a short story titled "Boy" would look completely different. If you recall, the actual short story, "Girl," is written as one dense paragraph of directives given by...

The syntactical structure of the short story "Girl" is one of its most striking features. It's a challenging story to read because it is one large paragraph. Typically, we would discourage writing...