Tag: literature
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Cementing Final Legacies: Malcolm X’s Death in Autobiography and Biopic Form (2021)
The biography and biopic both have an important role in cementing a legacy, with the author and director’s intentions shaping how the world will see a figure in cinema and literature. For a powerful historical persona like Malcolm X, his autobiography, collaborated with Alex Haley and published in 1965, and…
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The Dying Wish and Poetic Inspiration in John Keats’ “Ode to a Nightingale” (2021)
John Keats’ collection of odes can be read as the speaker’s development through using poetry to contemplate the outside world and his internal musings, with “Ode on Indolence” refusing to give in to the lure of love, ambition, and poetry, while “Ode on Melancholy” openly rejects lying in sadness and…
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