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Essays 61 - 90
her, hearing her cough and moan, witnessing her tears at the knowledge that she must soon leave them... the mothers despair and an...
of revelation. Each of these stories begins with opening cryptic epigraphs that lay the ominous thematic groundwork. In "MS Foun...
that never completely healed. It is believed that there is a little of Elizabeth in all of Poes female characterizations. One of...
ill person - a person who might easily be Poe himself. Poes preoccupation with humanitys darker side could very well have perpetu...
been and am; but why WILL you say that I am mad?" (Poe [3]). In this the reader is immediately told that the narrator is mad becau...
indicates, be associated "with the sentimental writers of his time and earlier." When a reader stops to consider how much death is...
the supposed "insult" which Fortunato has offered him; he vacillates between a hatred of the man and a reluctant admiration for hi...
a child and she was a child/In this kingdom by the sea" (lines 7-8). These lines, as do the opening lines of the poem, establish a...
In six pages this paper discusses how Edgar Allan Poe's obsession with young women dying was due to the premature death of his wif...
combination that seemed to be excluded was "gothic romances." According to Alexander (1971), the reasons why Poe should be cons...
Psychosexual Development or Eriksons Stages of Psychosocial Development. Since Erikson is more compressive in terms of early exper...
Psalm of Life" and Edgar Allan Poes "Sonnet-To Science" address the way that each poet perceived life and the reality of their era...
This essay pertains to Edgar Allan Poe's "Annabel Lee" and offers analysis. Three pages in length, one source is cited. ...
This essay discusses short stories Nathaniel Hawthorne's "Young Goodman Brown" and Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat," contrasting...
that it was like an "after-dream of the reveller upon opium...an iciness, a sinking a sickening of the heart" (Fall of the House.....
This, however, always provoked a fresh volley from his wife; so that he was fain to draw off his forces, and take to the outside o...
did not allow her to be an individual. This offers us a subtle vulnerability that all people possess to some extent. And that vuln...
Edgar Allan Poe. According to Dr. Carl Goldberg, "In creating these tortured souls from the crucible of his own difficult life, P...
freedom as expressed in The Awakening is a freedom from rules, expectations and people. Yet, other types of freedom had also been ...
was a child and I was a child, / In this kingdom by the sea, / But we loved with a love that was more than love-- / I and...
the murder has no real basis in reality; the old man had never hurt him, and he has no desire to rob him: "Object there was none. ...
the night of a grand ball, an unexpected and unwelcome guest appears: the "mummer" is wearing the shroud normally put on a corpse,...
later in the story, Montressor relates that his family was once "great and numerous" (Poe 146). The use of the past tense indicate...
33). This quotation indicates the precision with which Poe crafted his stories. Each word and image is chosen with care and, coll...
fact. In "The Black Cat," the narrator tells readers that he was "docile" and "tender of heart" as a youth, and that he retained t...
In five pages this paper examines how fear and madness are depicted in Edgar Allan Poe's 'The Pit and the Pendulum' and in Stephen...
The Romantic literary tradition is exemplified by Washington Irving, Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne. This paper examines ...
In five pages this paper discusses how in her novel debut, Jane Austen parodied the Gothic literary genre with a comparison with o...
In seven pages the literary device of fate is examined within the context of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Edgar Allan...
In three pages this paper examines the symbolic meaning of birds in Walt Whitman's poem 'Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking' and ...