Essays on Frailty

Early psychoanalytic critiques of literary works were concentrated on examining works of literature to gain insights into the author’s personal influences on his work. Such critiques therefore remained within the traditional field of psychoanalysis. For instance, Ben Karpman wrote that, “Gulliver's Travels furnish abundant evidence of the neurotic make-up of the author and discloses the presence in him of a number of perverse trends indicative of fixation at the anal-sadistic stage of libidinal development (Karpman 29).” However, critics like Ernest Jones came out of this traditional approach to analyze the text and not the author, such as he ...

Early psychoanalytic critiques of literary works were concentrated on examining works of literature to gain insights into the author’s personal influences on his work and therefore these critiques remained within the traditional field of psychoanalysis. For instance, Ben Karpman wrote that, “Gulliver's Travels furnishes abundant evidence of the neurotic make up of the author and discloses the presence in him of a number of perverse trends indicative of fixation at the anal-sadistic stage of libidinal development (Karpman 29).” However critics like Ernest Jones came out of this traditional approach to analyze the text and not the author, such ...

In the poem “Easter Wings” by George Herbert, form is used effectively to convey the mood and attitude of the poem. It is a religious-themed poem, in which the speaker is praising God for His gifts to man and the world. At the same time, it discusses the frailty and fragility of mankind, as he ages and loses more and more. The grace of God, however, helps man to overcome these obstacles and “feel this day Thy victorie.” (line 18)

Herbert makes use of carmen figuration in order to properly convey the message of the piece; shaped verse like this ...