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Dominant themes in Emerson's poetry are transcendentalism, experience, detachment, social construct, enlightened self-interest, agency, Nature, ratiocination and change. In the poem, 'I Become a Transparent Eyeball' from his essay, 'Nature', Emerson attempts to encourage detachment. He tells us to always be in the process of 'becoming', for there is no greater glory and pride than in striving. Emerson asks that we live in the 'immediate'. Emerson's ideology with regard to Nature and society was different from the contemporary perspectives - the British in general had a consumerist attitude toward nature in that its bounties and beauties were for mankind's enjoyment, supposedly. Thoreau, Emerson's counterpart believed that man was nothing in the face of Nature, that man will always be humbled by the majesty and simple brute force of Nature. Thoreau was a riot figure - he said that you must give up your claims on society if you dare a...

1.        For as a child sleeps when being nursed, so life slept in the Darkness of the Female Being. - Black Cloud represented Female Being- Female Being was understood as darkness, slumber, dormant nutrition. 2.        Male Being was the Dawn, the Light which Awakens. He was represented by the White Cloud. 3.        The Black World was just the beginning. Life forms of Beings or Substances hadn’t expanded yet. Hence the Black World was small. Furthermore it had no established foundations- its origin itself was uncertain. The idea of the entire Earth as one World was not known to the Navajo storytellers. Hence the basis, structure, forms and source of the first world was uncertain.  It was isolated and disconnected, floating in or shrouded in mist/water. 4.        The pine tree that grew on the floating island that was the First World is suggestive of ...

Walt Whitman’s famous question- what exactly is a thousand acres- began this lecture. Reckoning a thousand acres was likened to exploring American Literature or any literature. What do we do with literature, for instance; contextually, what is America? What is its issue with identity? America is a land or rediscovery and of lies simultaneously. It is imposing and with a multiplicity of terrain (multiplicity means varied and multi-faced; it was diverse and tricky) and at any point in its history the POV of the pilgrims and the motives must be considered. For the Pilgrims, America was a strange and dangerous virgin land. They were migrating, not on holiday. The early settlers had no intention of political or military invasion. There are tales told of the attacks on their covered wagons, by the ‘Indians’ whose superior horses could take them into their paths in the mountains- at a vantage point. The Native Americans were wary of the settlers. They thought the white man dangero...

Context: Struggles of women w.r.t. exploitation From birth, we are never considered our own independent entity, but instead as something to be taken care of, protected, sheltered, and then passed on. In the domestic sphere, women are treated as household articles, and the dependent-provider relationship is ingrained in the female psyche. In rural India, women have internalized the idea that they are less powerful or even inferior so they don't even fight it. In the workplace, sexist stereotypes are very visible - there is a skewed idea of the female species as weak, fragile, aesthetic, servile -  etc. Arraignment of Men - the text Simpler translation- David Fyre Arraignment- court trail Sor Juana- illegitimate child of rich captain; abandoned; taken care of by the Church; saw plight of women who must yield. has rhyme scheme but not rhythmic perverse - immoral schooled to condemn- taught to look down on women. witless laws- laws made by man. stupid because bia...