YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Femininity in My Visitation by Rose Terry Cooke and Ligeia by Edgar Allan Poe
Essays 31 - 60
the libido directs its energies toward an object or thing, including ones love-object which may be a person. However, with the nar...
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.....
In six pages this paper discusses the symbolism of the cask that appears throughout Edgar Allan Poe's compelling short story. Eig...
In seven pages this paper examines knowledge, time, and truth in this thematic analysis of Edgar Allan Poe's stories 'The Balloon ...
In five pages this paper discusses Edgar Allan Poe's writing style in this analysis of his 'The Tell Tale Heart' short story. The...
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...
his attire was a bit gaudy for a man of his social position. I have long suspected that Montresor and Fortunato were jealous of ...
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...
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 night of a grand ball, an unexpected and unwelcome guest appears: the "mummer" is wearing the shroud normally put on a corpse,...
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. ...
freedom as expressed in The Awakening is a freedom from rules, expectations and people. Yet, other types of freedom had also been ...
Edgar Allan Poe. According to Dr. Carl Goldberg, "In creating these tortured souls from the crucible of his own difficult life, P...
a nation of disillusionment, and we often find some sort of sympathetic resonance in tales of the dark and unholy. And the first p...
ironically named Faith) participating in what appears to be satanic rituals, Brown is so psychologically damaged by all he sees he...
decline, from onset to death, takes but "half an hour" (Poe). In the face of this overwhelming specter of death, Prince Prospero i...
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...
the supposed "insult" which Fortunato has offered him; he vacillates between a hatred of the man and a reluctant admiration for hi...
all together. The characters are not three-dimensional in that they are more caricatures of types of people. Whereas Faulkner give...
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...
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...
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...
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....