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In three pages this paper examines the symbolic meaning of birds in Walt Whitman's poem 'Out of the Cradle Endlessly Rocking' and ...

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

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

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

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...

Edgar Allan Poe. According to Dr. Carl Goldberg, "In creating these tortured souls from the crucible of his own difficult life, P...

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

his attire was a bit gaudy for a man of his social position. I have long suspected that Montresor and Fortunato were jealous of ...

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...

33). This quotation indicates the precision with which Poe crafted his stories. Each word and image is chosen with care and, coll...

the night of a grand ball, an unexpected and unwelcome guest appears: the "mummer" is wearing the shroud normally put on a corpse,...

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 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. ...

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...

tales. While "The Oval Portrait" and "The Fall of the House of Usher" are distinctive in setting they share certain simil...

significant loss. Examining the examples of The Tell-Tale Heart, The Masque of the Red Death, and The Fall of the House of Usher,...

In five pages this paper compares these stories' similarities in terms of how melancholia or depression is featured in each. Five...

of the protagonist that Poe sets up the terror inherent in the story. The sheer madness of his thought processes are chilling, bu...

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

Davis also indicates that many scholars find Mary Shelleys Frankenstein to be incredibly fascinating and a far darker story than h...

to start a disturbance in the street when he visits the thief the second time. When the man goes to the window, Dupin grabs the le...

before that night had I felt the extent of my own powers, of my sagacity. I could scarcely contain my feelings of triumph" (Poe). ...

the supposed "insult" which Fortunato has offered him; he vacillates between a hatred of the man and a reluctant admiration for hi...

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...

that he despises genius, "the greater the genius the greater the ass" (Poe). At this point, Proffit sounds like a particularly pom...

says, knows he is telling the truth about the murder, but because he is trying to justify it so strongly, and madly, we know he is...

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...