Poe's Literary Vengence
.... Womack quotes from Kenneth Silverman's book Edgar A. Poe: A Never-Ending Remembrance. "Allan much resembled Fortunato being a rich man, respected, admired, beloved, interested in the wines, and a member of the Masons." Womack goes on to quote from Silverman's book "Even the Allan name can be seen as an anagram in Amontillado." In the second paragraph of the story I feel this is where Poe expresses how he dealt with his father's estrangement. Montressor says "It must be understood that neither by word or deed had I given Fortuanato cause doubt my good will. I continued, as my wont, to smile in his face, and he did not .....
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"Not Waving But Drowning" And "Aunt Jennifer's Tigers"
.... him his heart gave way," refers to the loneliness in this man's life. Perhaps he pushed people away from him and lived his life in isolation. Maybe he never opened himself up enough to engage in personal relationships and to love and feel love for another. Or, perhaps he was active in society and took part in social gatherings and hosted parties. And by doing this, he was seen as being happy. But he may have done this just to further disguise who he really was or how he really felt inside. No one really knew him. The irony of the poem is that the very stereotype placed on this man throughout his life ends up being the .....
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Harlem By Langston Hughs: Analysis
.... and jobs black could never get just because they are colored. In the first and second stanza the tone is one of anger and frustration, but in the last stanza however, it seems to be a threat or a warning to white society. The last several lines state, “ And wonder what we’re gonna do in the face of what we remember.
Finally, the poem, in some aspects reflects every day life in Negro America. Not all, but a good number of African-Americans live in urban areas and central cities. Harlem is one of those areas. In these communities life is very hard and it is quite difficult to survive. The poem states “ Here on .....
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Catullus
.... known not only for being a violent politician, but was also rumored to have had incestuous relations with one or more of his three sisters. All three sisters, including Clodia, were known to not have strong moral characters and acted out of the class they were born into. Although there is no real proof of Lesbia being a pseudonym for Clodia, critics have agreed that this is the most likely of whom the woman Catullus had his affair with.
Even the name Lesbia has an interesting background. The name derives for the Latin word Lesbian, describing the people from the island of Lesbos. Lesbos was the place where poets lived and d .....
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Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat"
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Summary of the story
"For the most wild yet most homely narrative which .....
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The Differences In Fathers
.... us as readers to understand the authors intent and main idea of each poem.
The first obvious difference in each poem is the gender of the speaker. This difference may be reflected in the opinions and body of each poem. Sons have different experiences with a father than daughters do with their fathers. Sons and fathers most commonly share a much closer bond than fathers and daughters. This relationship may have had some bearing on the opinions and feeling of each speaker. Cofers removed relationship with her father may have been due to that lack of this gender bond. In turn Roethke may have had a more positive remembrance of h .....
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Madness And Insanity In The Fall Of The House Of Usher And The Cask Of Amontillado
.... an inconsistency...habitual trepidancy, and excessive nervous agitation...His action was alternately vivacious and sullen. His voice varied rapidly from a tremulous indecision...to that...of the lost drunkard, or the irreclaimable eater of opium" (667). These are "the features of the mental disorder of [the narrator's] friend" (672). Roderick's state worsens throughout the story. He becomes increasingly restless and unstable, especially after the burial of his sister. He is not able to sleep and claims that he hears noises. All in all, he is an unbalanced man trying to maintain equilibrium in his life.
As perhaps Poe’s most tig .....
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The Test Of Honor In Sir Gawain And The Green Knight
.... simply left Camelot never to return. He instead chose the option of keeping his word and searching for the Green Knight, even
though he knew he had to take what was coming to him. "Now, liege lord of my life, my leave I take; / The terms of this task too well you know / to count the cost over concerns me nothing. But I am bound forth betimes to bear a stroke / From the grim man in green, as God may direct." (Gawain, lines 545-549). During his travels he had every opportunity to turn around. Gawain, however, showed honor and courage and continued on his way.
The Green Knight at the end of the poem once again tested Gawain .....
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A Critical Analysis Of The Poem Entitled "Tract" By William Carlos Williams
.... knows what! You realize
how we are about these things
my townspeople-
something will be found-anything
even flowers if he had come to that.
So much for the hearse.
For heaven's sake though see to the driver!
Take off the silk hat! In fact
that's no place at all for him-
up there unceremoniously
dragging our friend out to his own dignity!
Bring him down-bring him down!
Low and inconspicuous! Id not have him ride
on the wagon at all-damn him-
the undertaker's understrapper!
Let him hold the reins
and walk at the side
and inconspicuously too!
Then briefly as to yourselves:
Walk behind-as they do .....
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Lord Byron's Euthanasia
.... poet at the time, and became fairly obsessed with him. In 1824, after Byron had send over 4000 pounds to the Greek fleet, he sailed to join Prince Alexandros Mavrokordatos, to join his forces and fight with him. Byron contracted a fever and died on April 19th, 1824 in Missolonghi, Greece.
Lord Byron's poem "Euthanasia" was published in 1812. It reflects how Lord Byron felt about his life. It is it tells you an almost direct summary of his life when you read it.
In lines 5-8 Byron wrote:
"No band of friends or heirs be there,
To weep or wish the coming blow,
No maiden with dishevell'd hair,
To feel, or feign, decor .....
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E. E. Cummings
.... understood when approached on his own terms. In trying to understand meaning in his work it is necessary to avoid simple linguistic interpretation and focus on what the deeper meaning is.
In “Once Like a Spark”, he uses the charcters and calls them strangers. While using this name he is in fact stating certain things. Firstly, he is addressing the theme. This theme is corralated in Cummings trancendental view that only through experience are people aware of things around them. In lines 2-5 it reads, “ If strangers meet - life begins - not poor not rich - (only aware)”. The stangers are the only people who are aware .....
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Home Burial: Analysis
.... to keep hands off, Anything special you’re a-mind to name. Though I don’t like such things ‘’twixt those that love. Two that don’t love can’t live together without them. But two can not live together with them.”
Right here he is saying that he should have just stopped having children with her. That people can not live with nor without sex. He’s eluding to the fact that in order for the children to be made in the first place they had to have sex. Also saying that he could make “arrangements which he’d bind himself to keep hands off,” simply meaning that he will find other ways to release his need to have sex and not to both .....
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