YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Science According to the Poems of Walt Whitman and Edgar Allan Poe
Essays 91 - 120
before that night had I felt the extent of my own powers, of my sagacity. I could scarcely contain my feelings of triumph" (Poe). ...
that he despises genius, "the greater the genius the greater the ass" (Poe). At this point, Proffit sounds like a particularly pom...
a "filmy" eye, and in the narrators mind, it became an "evil" eye (Poe). The narrator, who is obviously mentally ill, decided he ...
death. Not simply because death equates with grief, but there is also the element of terror, the fear of a small child at the loss...
"These sketches will . . . will include every person of literary note in America; and will investigate carefully, and with rigorou...
ironically named Faith) participating in what appears to be satanic rituals, Brown is so psychologically damaged by all he sees he...
any particular theme, any symbolic reference, other than the story itself. It is a poem that clearly reflects the work of ...
of his life concerns his apparent alcoholism. There is, however, a great deal of speculation that he was not an alcoholic but rath...
WILL you say that I am mad? The disease had sharpened my senses, not destroyed, not dulled them" (Poe). He describes himself as "v...
his murder: he piles the bones against the wall and leaves the chamber, leaving the now-quiet Fortunato to die (Poe). He says "For...
"loved the old man" and had "no desire" for his gold (Poe "Tell-Tale Heart"). Why then, did he become obsessed with the idea of mu...
as having "fungi" overspreading "the whole exterior," hanging "in a fine tangled web-work from the eaves" (Poe "Fall"). As this su...
early years were relatively chaotic, as one would expect. He went to the University of Virginia but was kicked out because of the ...
In six pages this paper discusses how supernatural, dualism, and death motifs are emphasized through Gothic imagery in this famous...
In three pages this paper considers the deceptively ordinary domestic settings of the Gothic stories of Edgar Allan Poe and how th...
the "ebon blackness of the floors, and the phantasmagoric armorial trophies" (Poe 24). This seems to indicate a dark illusion tha...
won, beating out a number of well-known short story writers. Poe needed money badly, and decided to embark on a side career as a s...
In 5 pages this paper examines how the horror short story genre was developed in 'Rappaccini's Daughter' by Nathaniel Hawthorne an...
In five pages this paper discusses how the crime fiction literary genre developed throughout the late 19th and early 20th centurie...
In five pages this paper examines how the death theme predominates in the poetry of Edgar Allan Poe, Emily Dickinson, Lydia Huntle...
In five pages this paper discusses the Gothic aspects of the writings by Flannery O'Connor and Edgar Allan Poe. Five sources are ...
structure" leaving "means neither of ingress or egress" (799). David R. Dudley states: "The Masque of the Red Death is a vanita...
In five pages this paper examines the gender relationships featured in 'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner, 'Ligeia' by Edgar A...
In five pages this research paper examines American literature from the late 18th century through the 20th century with such autho...
close to his sister, one has to contemplate the possibility of incest which adds to the seductiveness that many authors attribute ...
In five pages four questions pertaining to Frederick Douglass, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Emily Dickinson, and Edgar Allan Poe are consi...
In three pages a synopsis of this famous short story by Edgar Allan Poe is presented. There are no other sources cited....
In five pages this report considers The Mirror of Consciousness by Henry James and the author's contention that situation reaction...
In three pages a consideration of the short stories 'The Fall of the House of Usher,' 'The Imp of the Perverse,' and 'Ligeia' reve...
In five pages this paper examines the detective story as it relates to the life of its author Edgar Allan Poe. Nine sources are c...