Çağla Sağır

Personal Summary

I enjoy writing, translating, and exploring various literary fields, with a special focus on world literature, and a particular interest in English and American literature, children's books, and art history.

Beowulf: Paganism, Christianity, and Heroism

 The story of Beowulf, its themes, characters, and heroic journey.
Çağla Sağır 19 Feb, 2025·4 min read

Aristotle's Tragedy Principles

 Aristotle's key principles of tragedy, its essential elements, the role of the tragic hero, and the emotional impact it aims to create.
Çağla Sağır 19 Feb, 2025·4 min read

Peer Bullying: Why Education Matters

 The impact of peer bullying on children and how education can help prevent it.
Çağla Sağır 19 Feb, 2025·3 min read

Modernity and Postmodernism in Literature

 The key themes and techniques of modernism and postmodernism in literature.
Çağla Sağır 12 Feb, 2025·3 min read

Naturalism in Literature

 Naturalism in literature and its key themes.
Çağla Sağır 12 Feb, 2025·2 min read

Renaissance and Humanism

 Renaissance and Humanism marked a revival of art, literature, and human-centered thought.
Çağla Sağır 12 Feb, 2025·2 min read

Realism

Realism in Literature: Characteristics, Themes, and Weaknesses.
Çağla Sağır 6 Feb, 2025·5 min read

Classicism

Classicism in Literature: An Exploration of its Core Features.
Çağla Sağır 9 Feb, 2025·4 min read

Elements of Short Story

 12 characteristics of a short story.
Çağla Sağır 9 Feb, 2025·2 min read

Sonnet 1

 Sonnet 1 by William Shakespeare.
Çağla Sağır 29 Jan, 2025·2 min read

Freneau and Bryant

Two romantic poets: Philip Freneau and William Cullen Bryant.
Çağla Sağır 29 Jan, 2025·3 min read

England After the Norman Conquest

List of some historical facts in the Middle Ages.
Çağla Sağır 31 Jan, 2025·2 min read

At the Translation Conference by Margaret Atwood 

 Personal Response to "At the Translation Conference" by Margaret Atwood.
Çağla Sağır 23 Jan, 2025·4 min read

This is a Photograph of Me by Margaret Atwood 

 Personal Response to “This is a Photograph of Me” by Margaret Atwood.
Çağla Sağır 25 Jan, 2025·4 min read

Islands by Miles Greenwood

What does Miles Greenwood try to convey by using the pronoun ‘You’ in the short story ‘Islands’?
Çağla Sağır 23 Jan, 2025·5 min read

The French Revolution

The French Revolution as a World-Historical Event.
Çağla Sağır 16 Jan, 2025·7 min read

Transatlantic Trade Slave

Transatlantic Trade Slave and its impact on the economy.
Çağla Sağır 16 Jan, 2025·6 min read

America's Forced Patriotism in Pale Horse Pale Rider

Katherine Anne Porter's point of view on patriotism during WWI.
Çağla Sağır 16 Jan, 2025·3 min read

Sonnet 130 by Shakespeare

 Sonnet 130 by William Shakespeare.
Çağla Sağır 9 Jan, 2025·2 min read

Key Concepts of American Identity

 Exploring the ideas that define America's identity and its role in the world.
Çağla Sağır 9 Jan, 2025·2 min read

Literature of the Colonial Period

A brief introduction to the American Literature of the Colonial Period.
Çağla Sağır 9 Jan, 2025·4 min read

London by William Wordsworth

 A Sonnet: London by William Wordsworth.
Çağla Sağır 2 Jan, 2025·2 min read

Infant Joy and Infant Sorrow

Infant Joy and Infant Sorrow by William Blake.
Çağla Sağır 2 Jan, 2025·3 min read

Iris Murdoch 

 Iris Murdoch and a few things about her.
Çağla Sağır 2 Jan, 2025·2 min read

The Lamb by William Blake

A short analysis of the poem "The Lamb" by William Blake.
Çağla Sağır 25 Dec, 2024·5 min read

The Tyger by William Blake

A short analysis of the poem "The Tyger" by William Blake.
Çağla Sağır 25 Dec, 2024·5 min read

Romeo and Juliet

A short analysis of Romeo and Juliet.
Çağla Sağır 25 Dec, 2024·3 min read

Neoclassicism x Romanticism

 Differences between neoclassicism and romanticism.
Çağla Sağır 19 Dec, 2024·5 min read

Pale Horse Pale Rider

 "Now there is time, time for everything" - and there was.
Çağla Sağır 19 Dec, 2024·4 min read

Not Without Laughter: Schultz’s Analysis

 A Summary of the Essay “Natural and Unnatural Circumstances in Langston Hughes’ ‘Not Without Laughter’” by Elizabeth Schultz.
Çağla Sağır 19 Dec, 2024·6 min read

Women's Ignored Words

A Brief Feminist Perspective on "The Forbidden Words of Margaret A." by L. Timmel Duchamp.
Çağla Sağır 11 Dec, 2024·4 min read

African-American History in the Words of Aunt Hager

Not Without Laughter by Langston Hughes
Çağla Sağır 11 Dec, 2024·3 min read

Madness and Isolation in 'Wide Sargasso Sea' and 'The Great Gatsby'

 A Comparative Study of Madness and Isolation in 'Wide Sargasso Sea' and 'The Great Gatsby'
Çağla Sağır 11 Dec, 2024·13 min read

Frau Brechenmacher Attends a Wedding 

 "You have never been curious about me; you never wanted to explore my soul."
Çağla Sağır 8 Dec, 2024·4 min read

The Traces of the American Frontiers

"As a matter of truth, Jack Potter was beginning to find the shadow of a deed weigh upon him like a leaden slab."
Çağla Sağır 4 Dec, 2024·3 min read

Cupid’s Arrows in Much Ado About Nothing

 “Some Cupid kills with arrows, some with traps.”
Çağla Sağır 30 Nov, 2024·5 min read

The Story of Estraven and Genly Ai in The Left Hand of Darkness

"Light is the left hand of darkness and darkness the right hand of light."
Çağla Sağır 26 Nov, 2024·5 min read

Feminist Futures: Women in Science Fiction Education

"The importance of science fiction written by women writers and some suggestions."
Çağla Sağır 26 Nov, 2024·4 min read

Personal Response to Pronoun Usage in Mavis Gallant’s “Mlle. Dias De Corta” and Jennifer Swift’s “Stories We Tell Now” 

 Gallant once said "Stories are not chapters of novels... Read one. Shut the book. Read something else. Come back later. Stories can wait."
Çağla Sağır 24 Nov, 2024·9 min read

Twists of Fate and Hidden Truths in Chopin’s 'The Story of an Hour' and Wharton’s 'Roman Fever'

 Sometimes some stories last for one hour, while others last like an eternity. Chopin and Wharton are the two masters of this contract.
Çağla Sağır 24 Nov, 2024·6 min read