In my seminar work I want to analyse The Wasteland written by Thomas Stearns Eliot. I have chosen this poem because of its complicadness of images. I admire the way that Eliot found parallels between many different religions. He was able to compare and contrast without satirising (except for the use of the Tarot card reading). He successfully demonstrated the contrast between life and death through various motifs such as birds, music, and water. Though he also used sex as a motif, he did not do ...

The story of "The legend of the Sleepy Hollow" belongs to american fiction in which young constable Ichabod Crane investigates a series of murders that allegedly did a legendary Headless Horseman. Crane´s superordinates did not really like his modern methods of investigation therefore they better sent him to secluded village called Sleepy Hollow where three victims were found decapitated. Local people believe that the heads that had disapeard were taken by a Headless Horseman, a Hessian mercenar...

Jack London´s novels and ruggedly individual life seemed to embody American hopes, frustrations and romantic longings in the turbulent first years of the 20th century, years infused with the wonder and excitement of great technological and historic change. This novel is a gripping tale of a heroic dog, which thrust into the brutal life of the Alaska, a choice between living in man´s world and returning to nature.