Life_And_Poverty

Life And Poverty Questioning the Rules of Life and Poverty The English author and early feminist Virginia Woolf said, “Every secret of a writer’s soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written large in his works.” Writer’s Nikos Kazantzakis and Frank McCourt employ this in their texts, “The Isle of Aphrodite” and “Limerick Homecoming.” These writings draw from each author’s own experiences and offer a comprehensive look into their minds, revealing their world views, as realistic as they may or may not be. It is difficult to critique these writer’s views, being everyone adjusts the ways in which they deal with life to fit their own experiences, but when looked at on a broad scale it can be said that both realistic and important views can be drawn from each author’s respective essay. In his essay, “The Isle of Aphrodite,” Kazantzakis writes of questioning rules and figuring out things for oneself. Kazantzakis begins by drawing readers into his world and thoughts as his essay unfolds with descriptive images of Cyprus, the native land of Aphrodite. The author often floats back and forth between images and ideas and in the second paragraph of his text reveals his first idea, “Thought kazantzakis, life, mccourt, family, rules, think, people, ye, bed, way, said, room, readers, out, one, nature, joy, back, aphrodite, able, thoughts, things, say, religion, poverty, own, live, find, everything, against, young, time, realistic, questioning, much, mind