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the person who is coming home from work: Chin then directly enters into the conversation as an outside voice addressing the "Bab...

beginning of this stanza creates an image that says to the reader that the nature is hard; it "mows" you down. Society tries to im...

the fleetingness of time, but his imagery and argument are more nuanced and complex. He, first of all, advises his mistress that i...

and taken blood from both. He tries to convince her that to give in to him, to give him herself, has been ultimately blessed by th...

people of Kiltaran, there is not likely end to the war that will affect them deeply one way or the other. Furthermore, it was not ...

had children to raise on my own and my financial situation was not dire, but I had to earn a living and I turned to writing. Alc...

monstrous creature Grendel, Grendels mother, and the dragon - it considers the impact of social obligations (loyalty to God and co...

is, its probably Elizabeth, a young mother of six who, more than most, seems to have one foot in the strict Kirshner sect and the ...

movement, and the technical developments of the 1980s" (Neuromancer, William Gibson). The word "neuromancer" is a compound: "neuro...

Herodotus (Vidal). Herodotus was an actual historical figure, known as both the "father of history" and the "father of lies." Here...

but throughout the novel in its structure and in the references Eco brings in. The reader thus becomes aware that the novel is wor...

was assassinated, probably by Stalin himself (Vartavarian). Stalin used the death as a pretext to begin purging those he thought w...

school. The narrator also takes the reader through settings that involve past schools, and then the narrators path from school to...

in seconds. He continues this catalog of things she is not by comparing the color of her lips to coral (coral is redder); compari...

adopted Korean daughter of mixed racial heritage. Hata also was originally Korean, but was adopted by a Japanese family. Through f...

was staying in Venice. It was published by Moore in 1830, after Byrons death, in a text he edited, Letters and Journals of Lord By...

(Johnson). The narrator relates with obvious pride he learned the "names of the notes in both clefs," as a young child and could ...

and celebrities alike. Tygiel takes great pains not to overwhelm readers with too many facts and figures. He is well aware that ...

scanned text files, featured a scanned version Frank St. Vincents important exposition of the poem that was first published in Exp...

break all the rules and express his artistic vision in his own highly original way. This leads him to fame, fortune and freedom, w...

the deceased woman no longer has voluntary motion or sensory perception, but she is part of nature, which has sweeping grandeur in...

narrative voice relates how his mother died when he was quite young and his father sold him before he could cry "weep." In the Nor...

readers. However, if my own ignorance in sea affairs shall have led me to commit some mistakes, I alone am answerable for them" (S...

the point of their clothing which was powerfully restrictive. In this poem the narrator states, "Aunt Jennifers tigers prance ac...

there. He has grown up in a society that talks about the World State and so he is curious. He is a reader of Shakespeare and a man...

and Barnes are the same person. What is clear is that Hemingways experiences make Barnes seem very real. So does Hemingways famou...

faun, so that he participates in the creation of the work (Betz, 1996). The faun cannot decide if he has been dreaming or not, but...

has received a considerable amount of attention. Eighteenth century critics argued in favor of viewing the poem as fundamentally p...

youth, that skill, that sport, could life hold meaning. At one point in the book the character states, "youre famous at eighteen, ...

on the beauty of the scene. The Romantics tended to be introspective, while also placing emphasis on beauty of everyday life, rath...