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the characters talk and interact creates a very different setting for the story. It also limits how we envision the story that unf...

implication is that anything signed by the hand of the king carries the weight of law. Sir Spence has to obey. The letter arrives ...

that Beowulf meets Grendel, but out of family ties and vows of allegiance to the Queen. Even Grendels mother gets into the act. T...

"Mending Wall" we have a very powerful look at what self reliance can do to an individual. It presents us with a picture of what s...

is left out: herself. "Shine on me, sunshine Rain on me, rain...

alliterative verse in the fourteenth century (Middle English Lyrics). However, beyond technical aspects of English poetry during...

this as the focus changes from nature and subtly brings in the narrator: "I am too absent-spirited to count;/ The loneliness inclu...

was such time as it was appropriate to say goodbye and release them to adult life as defined by that society. In this poem, Sapp...

seemed inseparable. A true friend, in other words, wishes for another person the highest possible good. This sort of friendship i...

about war. It is about this soldiers experience when he began to shoot at an enemy soldier--who was of course shooting back--and ...

A relevant phrase in literature that relates to the overall concept of good versus evil in Blakes work is that of the human...

to have a relationship. The narrator tells us that he loves his father, and indicates that he cant handle his alcohol either (hint...

song of the ocean and the song of the woman. A comparison is offered of the songs, that both make a...

yourself with your atom bomb" (line 5). Even though it is easy to agree with Ginsbergs anti-war sentiment -- the consensus even...

says she is experiencing anything but sorrow and despair. During the times that this story takes place, a woman was not expected...

In five pages this paper discusses how crises are surmounted by the imaginations of these popular children's literature heroines. ...

holding a moth that it has caught. The spider holds it up. The flower, the spider, and the moth together represent life and death....

her to take. It is interesting to note that the onlookers do not realize that they might have driven Emily to insanity. Wallace ...

Old South. Her father represents the ideals and traditions of the Old South: "Historically, the Grierson name was one of the most ...

"The rats are underneath the piles," (Eliot 22) in combination with things such as "Money in furs. The boatman smiles" (Eliot 24) ...

taught, by her father, those attitudes that provide them the social status they were born into, a class common to the traditional ...

In other words, to be a woman outside the accepted societal role for women is not to be a woman. As this indicates, any woman wh...

of the heart, an unredeemed dreariness"( Seelye, 101). The reader is told that Roderick Usher is the last in a long line of an Ar...

blackboard." The town, then, is basically little more than a school, but a school with grown-ups rather than kid students. ...

involuntarily. I started: my bodily eye was cheated into a momentary belief that the child lifted its face and stared straight int...

observing children at their studies. However, the second stanza offers a sharp contrast to this opening, as Yeats states that he d...

obviously take the most tragic of subjects and place the words in a way that would make us, the reader, want more, and yet cause u...

more likely that they will remember and personally value the days of their youth. Byron takes a strong stand in representing thi...

this indicates, in this poem, Larkin perfectly catches the nature of a society that has no idea what awaits it. Previous battles w...

calling him to "say good-bye" (line 10 Acquainted with the Night). The overall effect of the poem is one of stark loneliness and a...