poetry - What is the meaning of "Both wry with the laboured ease …
Aug 21, 2020 · To be honest, the meaning of wry is confusing to me. And what does the word "Both" refer to? What is the meaning of 'easing into a pensive'? What do the words "Of this …
Explanation of a pargraph from "Five Children and It"
Apr 13, 2021 · My reading of it is that it is a wry jab at the 'sort of people who make laws about lighting bicycle lamps'. The narrator judges them to be bossy sort of people who like their word …
poetry - Why Pallas in "The Raven"? - Literature Stack Exchange
Jul 10, 2023 · In Poe's famous poem "The Raven", the eponymous bird, after tapping on the narrator's window, steps smartly inside and perches upon a bust of Pallas. Why Pallas? …
What exactly is canon? - Literature Stack Exchange
Nov 25, 2017 · I'm pretty sure I know what the word means, but I went looking for a definition on Stack Exchange and couldn't find one. Given that the word is used occasionally on this site as …
history of literature - What qualifies something as "Lovecraftian ...
Oct 17, 2018 · For example, if a horror story had to do with a monster with strange tentacles, this would commonly be referred to as Lovecraftian, but is that just because of the tentacles …
Meaning of "Ephete" in Seamus Heaney's "The Stations of the West"
Mar 23, 2024 · So far, the only definition I've managed to get is "a member of an ancient Athenian court that tried certain murder cases" (Merriam-Webster), but since the poem is about …
How did the word "trope" come to change its meaning?
Mar 8, 2025 · Semantic change has expanded the definition of the literary term trope to also describe a writer's usage of commonly recurring or overused literary techniques and rhetorical …
Highest scored 'nnedi-okorafor' questions - Literature Stack …
Mar 29, 2018 · How does "How Nnedi Got Her Curved Spine" meet the definition of creative nonfiction? The short story "How Nnedi Got Her Curved Spine" by Nnedi Okorafor details a …
Why does Macbeth say ‘throw physic to the dogs’?
The doctor's response is wry. The question is, is Macbeth merely showing a stiff upper lip, good cheer in the face of imminent mortal danger, or is he losing his mind? (i.e. is he seriously …
Where did Stephen King get the word "Shawshank" from?
I always thought "Shawshank" was an Anglicization spelling of the ancient Egyptian Pharaoh's name usually spelled in English as "Shoshenq" - pronounced very much the same. Shoshenq I …