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of his contemporaries, [Poe] refused to soften or idealize mortality and kept its essential horror in view But what is the "essen...

In five pages 'reader response theory' is applied to this famous short story by Edgar Allan Poe. Four sources are cited in the bi...

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 1839 tale is revealed to represent many of the experiences and attitudes of the author. Five sources are cited...

the "ebon blackness of the floors, and the phantasmagoric armorial trophies" (Poe 24). This seems to indicate a dark illusion tha...

In two pages this essay examines how the structural collapse of the house in Poe's short story represents the collapse of the fami...

a nation of disillusionment, and we often find some sort of sympathetic resonance in tales of the dark and unholy. And the first p...

In seven pages the literary device of fate is examined within the context of Nathaniel Hawthorne's The Scarlet Letter, Edgar Allan...

shows his endeavor in following a specific element of style that was all his own. Mood: for example in "The Fall of...

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

manages to resurrect herself momentarily from her entombment before falling dead upon her brother, causing his death also. The hou...

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

In seven pages Poe's works are analyzed within the context of his short stories 'The Tell Tale Heart' and 'The Fall of the House o...

good education, he was dismissed after just one year at the university because of his drinking and gambling (Edgar...Shadow). Back...

all his days. This appears to be true as Montressor is compulsively confessing his evil fifty years later. Other critics agree t...

can one accept that time runs out and that everyone will die someday? After all, time is of the essence. How does one love, be hap...

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

of his life concerns his apparent alcoholism. There is, however, a great deal of speculation that he was not an alcoholic but rath...

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...

her, hearing her cough and moan, witnessing her tears at the knowledge that she must soon leave them... the mothers despair and an...

but was kicked out due to his gambling debts (Liukkonen). As a result, John Allan would disown him (Liukkonen). It was in 1826 tha...

later in the story, Montressor relates that his family was once "great and numerous" (Poe 146). The use of the past tense indicate...

a child and she was a child/In this kingdom by the sea" (lines 7-8). These lines, as do the opening lines of the poem, establish a...

The morbid tale of revenge of "The Cask of Amontillado" is carefully depicted with crypt like wine vaults which eventually entomb ...

In eight pages the importance of setting historical setting in order to take readers back to an earlier period is considered in an...

Psychosexual Development or Eriksons Stages of Psychosocial Development. Since Erikson is more compressive in terms of early exper...

In five pages this paper contrasts and compares how Poe develops these themes in his short stories 'Fall of the House of Usher' an...

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

In ten pages the ways in which Poe contributed to the gothic literary genre establishment is considered in an analysis of 'The Cas...

In seven pages this poetic explication reveals how Poe was able to achieve his morbid atmosphere through the literary elements of ...