Edgar Allan Poe House and Museum

the two people in the background is a gothic style house with white siding, and a light brown roof. The 2nd story window looks as if it is a church window with black 19th century drapes hanging in the window itself. Above the second story window you will find what looks to be the base of a lightning rod sitting on the crest of the roof. To the left of the woman is an overhang for the porch. The porch itself seems to wrap around the entire house. On the porch to the left of the woman you can see…

The passage above demonstrates the wealth of Menelaus by describing the precious metals and expensive material used in the palace. The imagery also creates an extravagant mood. The use of “[…] the echoing mansion” (Homer 126) illustrates the enormous size of the palace, and provides spatial context that depicts an expansive palace adorned with metals and valuable additions, which demonstrates Menelaus’ wealth and power. Furthermore, the comparison of the palace to “[…] Zeus’s court on Olympus”…

real world produces sounds used to greatly increase the feelings of darkness and violence. War – associated sounds within the real world are exaggerated to communicate the brutality of the fascist world to the audience. The ominous creaking of the house, the crackling of the fire, and Ofelia’s harsh breathing are heightened to create a threatening atmosphere. These sound effects are strongly juxtaposed with those found within the fantasy world. The fantasy creatures and related sound effects…

In Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s poem, The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls, he goes into depth about how life is mysterious and that all the events that happen to us will become some kind of lesson to be learned. Longfellow had experienced the deaths of both his wives, Mary Storer Longfellow and Frances Elizabeth Longfellow, who both had tragic endings. The feeling of distraught and depression for losing the two women whom he had grown to love and cherish was something that he felt so strongly, which…

Albert Camus is an Algerian-born French author and philosopher. Camus is widely known to be the father of Absurdism, the rejection of a purpose in a meaningless world. One of his very first works, The Stanger, is centered on absurdity. The Stanger is a story about an Algerian clerk who commits murder, but, strangely enough, he is convicted because of his apathy towards his mother’s death. Using his beliefs and experience in poverty/life, Camus demonstrates that the world of The Stranger is…

Poetry is an unusual way of telling a story. It can be used to express feeling or some type of moral or lesson. “Hazel tells Laverne”, by Katharyn Machan tells a unique story filled with nonfiction and fun. To combat this story Edwin Arlington Robinson wrote a more serious story based off of a man living in his town. This poem, “Richard Cory” sheds light on how the views of others towards a person can be so far from the truth. Both of these poems are very different but strangely correlate in a…

Roald Dahl’s short story “The Landlady” is effective for the reader by cause of the well used foreshadowing and context clues. “The Landlady” is mainly rising action, and comes to a close before a climax is able to happen. Dahl's use of foreshadowing made for an engaging read. Without deliberately saying what is going to happen Dahl is able give the reader enough context clues to figure out what is happening. For example, before Mr. Weaver rings the doorbell Dahl uses foreshadowing to hint…

In a writing piece, close reading of the text is crucial for understanding what it is the author is trying to imply. In the short story “Videotape,” by Don DeLillo, a little girl is in the back of a car filming a man in the car behind her. As she is filming, the man is shot out of nowhere and the girl caught the whole thing on tape. The video is being watched by a man in his living room who is pleading for his wife to come watch the film with him. DeLillo uses literary techniques such as…

Compare and contrast the way in which the narrators of The Tell-Tale Heart and The Black are presented as psychotic In the shorts stories ‘The Tell-Tale Heart’ and ‘The Black Cat’ by Edgar Allan Poe, both of the narrators are presented as psychotic. Psychosis is a mental disorder characterised by symptoms, such as delusions or hallucinations. In The-Tale Heart the unnamed narrator decides to kill the old man- not for money, but rather a fear of the man’s pale blue eye. Similarly, the narrator in…

Southern ladies believe. It almost seems that she thinks of herself as above others and the law, she refuses to pay her taxes, she insists the pharmacist give her the arsenic. When Homer attempts to leave her, she murders him and keeps his body in the house with her. Many years later when she dies, it is discovered that she has been sleeping with Homer’s corpse. This is the most shocking, unexpected and gruesome part of the…