Tag: Literary Analysis

• August 3, 2018

  On Reading ‘A Strong Urge To Fly’ by Alan Baxter

  I read ‘A Strong Urge To Fly’ from Alan Baxter’s collection Crow Shine last night on the train home from Sydney. I’d started in late in the commute and finished just before getting to my stop. A good thing too, because I was so engrossed I would have had to sit on the platform in…
• August 22, 2017

  What does writing add to the world?

  When I was considering a thesis topic as part of my Masters degree I had the following conversation with my then boss: “What would you do it on?” she asked. “Female relationships in fairy tales,” said I. “What do you hope to get out of that…” I paused to think… She clarified, “As a practical…
• February 5, 2017

  The Sadder Sex: The Gendering of Grief in Hamlet

  The experience of pain, sadness and depression in Shakespeare’s Hamlet is complicated and multifaceted. As the goal of this essay is not to diagnose the characters of Hamlet, pain, sadness and depression along with other terms, such as grief and mourning, will be used interchangeably to refer to the various states from which the characters…
• March 20, 2016

  My Hair, My Self

  I had imagined, on many occasions, cutting my own hair. I would take the lot of it in my left fist as if to make a side pony-tail, a pair of large strong scissors would glint in my right hand and I’d slice through. I would do it in one slow movement, watching each strand…