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Essays 241 - 270
Are the descriptions of the narrator reliable or do they represent hallucinations brought on by a deteriorating mental state? In ...
often in possession of the same last word. For example, the fourth stanza ends with "This it is, and nothing more" and then the fi...
little concern for the development, the past, of the relationships that play a very important part in the stories. One could well ...
that country is assuredly America" (de Tocqueville). de Tocqueville discusses universal suffrage, which he says "had been adopted...
that both of these individuals were perhaps depressed, at least a few times in their lives, and thus their work examined the darke...
"In the nineteenth century, Poe influenced Ambrose Bierce and Robert Louis Stevenson, among others. Twentieth-century writers who ...
a disease but madness surely is. And, his insistence that this "disease" has actually increased his skills and his awareness is fu...
himself who willed that he should suffer (lines 5-8). In other words, Hardy pictures preferring a world such as the ancient Gre...
one true God. As this suggests, biblical allusions are plentiful in the Old English epic, particularly in regards to the Old Test...
the first great epic poems of English history is thought to have been written around the time of the first half of the 8th century...
derives from the fact that it seems as if it had a familiar or conventional meaning. One might be tempted to try a nonliteral int...
In five pages this paper analyzes war's futility in a comparative poetic analysis of 'Poor Man' and 'WPA.'...
This 4 page paper gives an overview of the element within the poem The Road not Taken. This paper includes irony, symbolism, repre...
In eleven pages this paper examines the classical influence of Virgil, Ovid, and Homere on 'Don Juan' by Lord Byron and 'The Rape ...
In five pages this paper compares these stories' similarities in terms of how melancholia or depression is featured in each. Five...
significant loss. Examining the examples of The Tell-Tale Heart, The Masque of the Red Death, and The Fall of the House of Usher,...
in the Broadway Journal (Magistrale 81). Steeped in Gothic tradition, the theme involves one mans descent into total madness, whi...
In thirty pages this paper examines the factors that led to Alger Hiss's conviction as Russian spy by considering various pertinen...
This essay offers an analystical discussion of Browning's most famous poem, My Last Duchess. The writer discusses the dramatic si...
In eight pages this paper discusses how Robert Frost developed his persona in his poems 'Stopping By the Woods on a Snowy Evening,...
to aristocratic women, or it may have been included simply as a necessary literary device that aided Marie in recounting the condi...
next lines are an old reference to the celebration of the Annunciation which the Orthodox Catholic Church practiced. For example, ...
some life lesson, Nicholas is trying to get Alison in bed with him, and thus also needs a lesson. There is Alison who is willing t...
conservative minister and professor teaching at the Dallas Seminary. He recalls that he was very complacent in his beliefs. "The G...
been. She is flighty. She moved out of the family home early, as soon as she began college, but Maggie is still living at home. Wh...
that Beowulf meets Grendel, but out of family ties and vows of allegiance to the Queen. Even Grendels mother gets into the act. T...
the last line which states the following: "Ah, what sagacity perished here!" (Dickinson 1-3, 11). This is a poem that is obviou...
and symbolism. As Arnold embraces God along with the seas that the maker has created, he questions things. The church is often the...
in every ban" (line 7). Here again, the footnotes provided by the Norton editors are instructive as inform the reader as to the va...
writes in lines 11 through 14: "In Poets as true Genius is but rare, / True Taste as seldom is the Critics share; / Both must alik...