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sanctuary, I throw myself down among the tall grass by the trickling stream" (Goethe). Even if we didnt know that Werther was an a...

The truths of our lives are such that we often see only a part for a time and perhaps even forever. Even those truths...

Heart disease is known to have a significant relationship with depression, which can greatly complicate the processes inherent in ...

for him, lift his spirits, and perhaps bring him a bit of distraction and joy as he descends. This narrator is very powerful and...

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...

or they commit murder and allow us to watch, as is the case in "The Tell-Tale Heart." Its always tempting, in a first-person nar...

that never completely healed. It is believed that there is a little of Elizabeth in all of Poes female characterizations. One of...

1). Using this metaphor, he goes on to say that Science "alterest all things with thy peering eyes," which preys upon his poets h...

increasing his sense of dysfunction. He would often turned to it in times of stress and depression and Poe would likely feel his i...

This 4 page paper discusses four of E.A. Poe's short stories, and critical reaction to his work. Bibliography lists 6 sources....

You, who so well know the nature of my soul, will not suppose, however, that I gave utterance to a threat. AT LENGTH I would be av...

freedom as expressed in The Awakening is a freedom from rules, expectations and people. Yet, other types of freedom had also been ...

nothing of pleasantry or peace. The windows seem as though they are "vacant," and "eye-like" and the narrator continues in this ...

did not allow her to be an individual. This offers us a subtle vulnerability that all people possess to some extent. And that vuln...

the beginning. He states, "From my infancy I was noted for the docility and humanity of my disposition. My tenderness of heart was...

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...

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.....

of the situation inside the house. He relates that "Minute fungi overspread the whole exterior, hanging in a fine tangled web-wor...

good education, he was dismissed after just one year at the university because of his drinking and gambling (Edgar...Shadow). Back...

walls, the ebon blackness of the floors, and the phantasmagoric armorial trophies which rattled as I strode, were but matters to w...

all his days. This appears to be true as Montressor is compulsively confessing his evil fifty years later. Other critics agree t...

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...

of food, loud noises upset him, strong scents, such as from flowers disturbed him. In every sense of the word, he was neurotic. Us...

Other Poems, and the poem Dreams, which was referenced above, is contained in this book (Misery is Manifold). His second book of ...

The morbid tale of revenge of "The Cask of Amontillado" is carefully depicted with crypt like wine vaults which eventually entomb ...

In five pages 'The Raven' is subjected to a poetic explication and a thesis that Poe's life is reflected in this haunting poem. T...

creation of Mark Twains The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn. For some time now, as the student researching this topic may be aware...

In six pages this paper discusses the symbolism of the cask that appears throughout Edgar Allan Poe's compelling short story. Eig...

In five pages this essay discusses the supernatural and psychological narratives that are featured in Poe's short story 'The Black...

the libido directs its energies toward an object or thing, including ones love-object which may be a person. However, with the nar...