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talk that he had "hastened his wifes death to write the poem" (Allen 3). There can be little doubt that the poem itself is obvi...

types of decaying vegetation. The vegetation even permeates the external nooks and crannies of the house itself in the form of a ...

any particular theme, any symbolic reference, other than the story itself. It is a poem that clearly reflects the work of ...

decline, from onset to death, takes but "half an hour" (Poe). In the face of this overwhelming specter of death, Prince Prospero i...

the details of case - even to the point of coming off as offensive and brash - was construed out of a need for a more meaty type o...

physician and very well respected. He was also a man who had been born "to a large fortune" and thus was in want of nothing to do ...

few lines further on: "he...ventured on foot, attired in his misfitting clothes, an object marked out for observation, into the m...

of her tormentor, Sir Hugo Baskerville. According to legend, a trio of men noticed that, "Standing over Hugo, and plucking at his...

mind. This is precisely what Sherlock Holmes does when he and Watson meet the mysterious owner of a cane which came into their po...

In this paper consisting of eight pages the characteristics between the author and his most famous literary creation are considere...

This five page comparative analysis discusses 'The Valley of Fear' and 'A Study in Scarlet.' There are 5 sources listed in the bi...

In an essay consisting of five pages the development of Sherlock Holmes's sidekick is traced. There are six bibliographic sources...

In this paper containing three pages the employment of the scientific method by the famed sleuth is considered with each investiga...

In eight pages the ways in which Poe's death obsession manifests itself in ten of his short stories are examined. There are 4 bi...

In 5 pages this paper contrasts and compares how evil is thematically depicted in these short stories. There are 2 sources cited ...

These two stories are contrasted and compared in seven pages in terms of how the protagonists' emotionally appeal to the reader al...

In five pages this paper analyzes Poe's use of symbols in this short story. Three sources are cited in the bibliography....

from school describing in the most graphic terms fights and accidents he had witnessed: "I saw the arm afterwards -- it was really...

In 7 pages this paper examines how the 'double' or Doppelganger theme is featured in the Edgar Allan Poe stories William Wilson, '...

turn out for the good. A student working on this project can see that the following sentences present something of the tone Poes n...

In eleven pages Poe's writings are interpreted in terms of its representation of conflict as well as pastoral with such works as '...

In six pages this paper analyzes the classic elements of the poems 'Letter to F...,' 'Lenore,' and 'The Raven' by Edgar Allan Poe....

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

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...

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

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

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...

themselves, perhaps unnecessarily, on their knowledge of wines. This offers us a very powerful and self righteous look at these tw...