Folk Songと聞くと、私はなんだかソフトで緩やかなものを想像してしまう。しかし実際に曲を聴いてみたところ、サウンドとしてはそれほど攻撃性を感じないものの、歌詞には強いメッセージが込められているのが感じられた。以前にテレビでPete Seegerの反戦歌Where Have all the flo...
The poem “Theme for English B,” written by Langston Hughes, expresses the speaker’s feeling of separation from others just because he was an African American. The speaker is considered to be the author himself. He attends college, and he is the only African...
So far, we examined Ishiguro’s short stories and first three novels. The first and the second novels were set in Japan that Ishiguro had not seen for almost 30 years and mainly deal with Japanese. Then, why did Ishiguro try to write the third novel, The Remai...
The play “The Tragedy of Hamlet, Prince of Denmark,” written by William Shakespeare, contains various kinds of themes. The theme of duty and honor is one of them, and this theme can be seen frequently throughout the play. The interesting thing is that this t...