Romanticism, Poe, And "The Raven"
.... continuity of one unvaried emotion.” Edgar Allen
Poe, author of “The Raven,” played on the reader's emotions. The man in “
The Raven” was attempting to find comfort from the remembrance of his lost
love. By turning his mind to Lenore and recalling how her frame will never
again bless the chair in which he now reposes, he is suddenly overcome with
grief, whereby the reader immediately feels sorry for the lonely man. The
reader pities the man's state of mind.
In addition to an emotional characteristic, Poe also portrays the
exotic. Exotic means “unnatural”. Exotic means a raven that speaks only
one word. Exotic means a b .....
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Samuel Coleridge's "Frost At Midnight"
.... to change there still is a calm and somber feeling.
In paragraph three, Colridge is holding his son, while appreciating
nature and what it will give to his child, "it thrills my heart with tender
gladness, thus to look at thee, and think that thou shalt learn for other
lore…" He also shows his appreciation of God and what he has given us.
This is the first paragraph where I felt he showed consistent happiness and
a faster-paced mood.
Coleridge concludes his poem by showing his appreciation for all
aspects of nature, not just the winter, "Therefore all seasons shall be
sweet to thee." He makes a reference to every season of .....
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Analysis Of Samuel Taylor Coleridge's Poetry
.... as the expression of feelings which were occasioned by quite
definite events. Between the lines, when we know their meaning, we catch
glimpses of those delightful people who formed the golden inner circle of
his friends in the days of his young manhood. They may all be termed, as
Coleridge himself names one or two of them, Conversation Poems, for even
when they are soliloquies the sociable man who wrote them could not even
think without supposing a listener. They require and reward considerable
knowledge of his life and especially the life of his heart.
This is not so certainly the case with his three famous Mystery
Poems, in .....
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Secret Lion: Analysis
.... from under stuff on the table but the gasp from the audience makes it
not matter. The passage was comparing going to junior high school to a
tablecloth the magicians pull because junior high school was a big change
to the boys. The gasp! from the audience meant the change did not matter
because in the long run everything will be O.K.
The fifth and last passage is a personification. It is a
personification because the passage is saying that the arroyo taught them
to look the other way.
It stated, "That was the first time we stopped going to the arroyo.
It taught us to look the other way."
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"Life Is A Series Of Tests And Challenges": A Critical Analysis Of Sir Gawain And The Green Knight
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When people accept challenges, most do not want to accept the consequences
as a result of being unsuccessful. Gawain was not like this. When the year
passed he gallantly mounted his horse and set off for the Green Chapel.
This showed that Gawain was brave. This was preceded by the warning "Beware,
Gawain, that you not end a betrayer of your bargain through fear."
Along this journey Gawain faces peril and self-reluctance in the
form of the elements and the never-ending search for the chapel
respectively. These feeling can be characterized as the inner turmoil
suffered as a result of dealing with one's conscience. The journey .....
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Sir Gawain And The Green Knight
.... in order to remain a whole, the narrative could be considered as a
What accompanies an appreciation for the seemingly sudden shift
from the typical romance at the end of the piece is the raised awareness
that the change does only seem to be sudden. Careful exlporation of the
plot, setting, and character descriptions illuminates several deviations
from the established convention of the ideal society existing within the
text. The effect is then a type of balancing act-- blah blah blah
The opening of the piece sets a fairly typical stage for an
Anthurian romance, giving relevant historical and geographical information.
King .....
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Stoutenburg's Reel One: An Analysis
.... real life.
Stoutenburg or the person he is writing about does not seem to want to live
outside of this fantastic dreamscape.
Although Stoutenburg is with his girl friend throughout the whole
poem, he does not make mention of her until the second body paragraph, "I
held my girl's hand," (line 9). He is so caught up in the movie that he
fails to acknowledges her existence. In lines sixteen through eighteen you
can feel Stoutenburg's obsession for the movies. Although it is beautiful
writing, the image is portrayed that long after he is out of the movie
theater he can still hear the sound track, and that only now does it s .....
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"The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock": Surrealism And T.S. Eliot
.... to reveal deeper levels of meaning and of unconscious
associations. Although scholars might not classify Eliot as a Surrealist,
the surreal landscape, defined as "an attempt to express the workings of
the subconscious mind by images without order, as in a dream " is
exemplified in "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock."
"Prufrock presents a symbolic landscape where the meaning emerges
from the mutual interaction of the images, and that meaning is enlarged by
echoes, often heroic," of other writers.
The juxtapositions mentioned earlier are evident even at the
poem's opening, which begins on a rather sombre note, with a .....
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Analysis Of Bryant's "Thanatopsis"
.... wishes to suggest
his faith in an afterlife. While examining the differences and
similarities of death and sleep the reader is left with some very thought
provoking questions. The answers to these questions reassure some readers
while confusing others. Sleep is a time of rest. It allows preparation
for the next day or event, and by relating this definition to death Bryant
gives new insight on one's fate after earthly existence. When identifying
sleep with death Bryant gives death many characteristics of slumber.
People generally wake from sleep, and Bryant expands this occurrence to
death. Death could simply be a time of res .....
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Thanatopsis: An Analysis
.... The best example of this is when Bryants writes: ..."approach thy
grave like one who wraps the drapery of his coach about him and lies down
to pleasant dreams"(79-80)
This poem has taught the reader that death is not a bad thing. It
is just a ticket to a pleasant life after death. So have fun in your life
and live life to its fullest. When you are sad and need a friend look to
nature and he will always be there. Even after you are dead.
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Edgar Allan Poe's "The Bells": Analysis
.... stanza there are bells that are rung for the diseased.
He says that the noises they make are mainly moans, and groans, from their
rusty iron throats. This gives the feeling of sadness and sorrow. He
also makes it seem like the bells are alive, and they want to be rung
making more people dead. Which means that they are glad when death comes
around.
I think that Poe repeated everything so that people get a sense of
what really is happening. But I think, when he says things over, and
over like the word Bells, it starts to get boring and annoying to me. Poe
probably wrote about these different bells for all the moods he has h .....
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Analysis Of Jarrell's "The Death Of The Ball Turret Gunner"
.... and death (line 3). When he
awakens to "black flak" and "nighmare fighters" he seems to imply that all
that lies between birth and death is war (line 4).
The theme to this poem emerges in the last line with almost a plea
that he not be forgotten. When he says "they washed me out of the turret
with a hose" he implies that there is nothing left including the memory of
him and the war goes on.
Works Cited
Jarrell, Randall. "The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner." The Harper
American Literature. Ed. Donald McQuade. New York: Harper Collins ,
1996. 2594.
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