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A summary of Chapters 1–3 in Robert Louis Stevenson's Treasure Island. Learn exactly what happened in this chapter, scene, or section of Treasure Island and what it means. Perfect for acing essays, tests, and quizzes, as well as for writing lesson plans.
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Robert Louis Stevenson was a Scottish novelist, poet, essayist, and travel writer; but he is probably best known for the classics Treasure Island, A Child’s Garden of Verses, Kidnapped, and Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde. Works Alphabetically. Publication Timeline.
The book title, A World Apart is an allusion to the Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel, Notes from the House of the Dead. An epigraph to Grudziński's book quotes Dostoyevsky: "Here there is a world apart, unlike everything else, with laws of its own, its own manners and customs, and here in the house of the living dead — life as nowhere else and a people apart".
- Gustaw Herling-Grudziński
- 1980
Robert Louis (Balfour) Stevenson (November 13, 1850 – December 3, 1894) was a Scottish novelist, poet, and travel writer, and a leading representative of Neo-romanticism in English literature.
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‘The Vagabond’ by Robert Louis Stevenson is a thoughtful poem about living a simple, free life. The poem starts with the speaker asking someone, likely God, to allow him to live a life that he loves. He wants to be free and walk on the solid road, with the sky above him. He’s uninterested in the things that inspire most men and women, such as wealt...
‘The Vagabond’ by Robert Louis Stevenson is a four-stanza poem that is divided into eight-line stanzas. The poem uses a loose rhyme scheme of ABABCDCD alternating end sounds from stanza to stanza. There are a few examples of the pattern breaking though. For example, the first stanza rhymesABABBCBC. Throughout the piece, Robert Louis Stevenson also ...
Throughout this poem, the poet makes use of several literary devices. These include but are not limited to: 1. Enjambment: occurs when the poet cuts off a line before its natural stopping point. For example, the transitionbetween lines three and four of the first stanza and lines three and four of the second stanza. 2. Juxtaposition: can be seen wh...
Stanza One
In the poem’s first stanza, the speaker begins by asking that they be given the “life” they love. They are seeking out a life filled with joy, their particular joy. He asks that the “lave” or stream goes by him and that he be given the ability to traverse the world as he pleases. His description of a bed furthers this in the bush and “stars to see.” He wants to live as a vagabond, as the title suggests. He’ll be attached to nowhere and always on the move. He notes that this is the “life for a...
Stanza Two
In the next lines, the speaker adds that he doesn’t mind whether the “blow,” or death, falls sooner or later. Besides what he’s already asked for, he doesn’t care what is going to happen to him. He’s not looking for wealth or anything specific. He’s seeing not “hope” or “love.” These are the common experiences that most people are looking for in their everyday life and as the goal of their actions. He also dismisses the idea that he’d like a friend to know him. He’s happy to travel the world...
Stanza Three
In the third stanza, the speaker presents the intended listener of the poem, likely God, with another option. Similar to what he asked before, he hopes that autumn is going to fall on him when he is “afield.” He speaks these lines with confidence. Even when he alludes to winter through the line “Biting the blue finger.” He knows that winter is a cause for concern for someone living outside or constantly traveling, but he also says that he’s not going to yield to it. He’s willing to face it if...
Readers who enjoyed this poem should also consider reading some other Robert Louis Stevenson poems. For example: 1. ‘Winter-Time’ – depicts the winter season from a child’s perspective. His imagination comes through clearly in his depictions of what all there is to see and experience, negative and positive. 2. ‘The Land of Story-Books’ – describes ...
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Oct 16, 2012 · 1. Choice of Words.—The art of literature stands apart from among its sisters, because the material in which the literary artist works is the dialect of life; hence, on the one hand, a strange freshness and immediacy of address to the public mind, which is ready prepared to understand it; but hence, on the other, a singular limitation.
A World Apart is based on the true story of a white South African journalist and anti-apartheid crusader. The film won the Grand Prize of the Jury at the 1988 Cannes Film Festival.
