How Do I Love Thee? When Love Looks More Like Patience (and Sometimes Frustration)
Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s How Do I Love Thee? is all about grand declarations of love—the kind that reaches across eternity, […]
The Yellow Wallpaper: When Rest Cures, Creepy Decor, and Misogyny Collide in a Gothic Nightmare
Charlotte Perkins Gilman’s The Yellow Wallpaper—now there’s a story that crawls right under your skin and settles in for a
The Death of the Moth: Finding Grace in Life’s Struggles, Even in the Final Moments
Virginia Woolf’s The Death of the Moth is one of those deceptively simple stories that packs an emotional punch. On
The Raven: Poe’s Haunting Words and the Legacy of “Nevermore”
Edgar Allan Poe’s The Raven is one of those poems that has burrowed its way deep into the fabric of
A Good Man is Hard to Find: When Southern Gothic Meets Modern Crime Headlines
Flannery O’Connor’s A Good Man is Hard to Find is one of those stories that makes you laugh at the
A Modest Proposal: When “Helpful” Ideas Go Off the Rails—Just Ask Swift
Jonathan Swift’s A Modest Proposal—the ultimate in biting satire. If you’ve never read it, buckle up because this essay is
Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night: Dylan Thomas and the Art of Raging Against the Inevitable
Dylan Thomas’s Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night is the poem that grabs you by the shoulders, looks
Hills Like White Elephants: Hemingway’s Masterclass in Saying Everything Without Saying Anything
Ernest Hemingway’s Hills Like White Elephants—the story that could be called “Let’s Talk Around the Elephant in the Room (But,
Shooting an Elephant: Orwell’s Take on Peer Pressure, Power, and the Ridiculous Things We Do to Keep Up Appearances
George Orwell’s Shooting an Elephant is one of those essays that starts off sounding like a straightforward story—an elephant on
Ode to a Nightingale: Keats and the Art of Escaping Life’s Chaos (At Least for a Minute)
John Keats’ Ode to a Nightingale is a poem that has transported readers for over two centuries into the dreamy,
The Tell-Tale Heart: Poe’s Classic Tale of Guilt, Paranoia, and That Time You Ate the Last Cookie and Pretended You Didn’t
Let’s talk about Edgar Allan Poe’s The Tell-Tale Heart, the short story that’s been sending shivers down people’s spines since
Civil Disobedience: What Would Thoreau Think of Today’s Political Circus?
Henry David Thoreau’s Civil Disobedience is the granddaddy of all protest essays. You’ve probably heard of it, even if you