Jordan's Literature

Poetic devices help shape a poet's work and give the reader a better understanding of what is being said. In Hughes' "Mother to...

The varying diction of "Sex without Love," "We Real Cool" and "Back When All was Continuous Chuckles" creates ...

"My Papa's Waltz" is a poem filled with literary elements depicting the broken abusive family of a small boy. The waltz descri...

“Dinner Guest: Me” by Langston Hughes is rebellious and speaks volumes of how blacks were viewed by Americans after their release from sl...

The forms of poetry, whether they be closed or open, often give meaning to what poet is trying to convey. In Shakespeare's "Shall I...

In the short stories "A Sorrowful Woman" and "The Hand" the authors challenge the convention of the fairy tale ending th...

The best applied strategy to my short story paper is the formalist strategy. "Mines" contains many formal elements and most of its...