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Dream in Peony Pavilion is a beautiful flower in the Chinese national artistic treasure. It tells a legendary love story of Du Liniang and Liu Mengmei. Their love was against by Du’s parents and the feudal ideas, Du even died in great sorrow. Fortunately, she was brought back to life at the end. One of most obviously characteristics is its language and sentence forms. Also, there are many professional words and expressions of drama. When people are translating this work, these items should be…

“Annabel Lee” was Edgar Allen Poe's final finished poem, penned in 1849. In a scant 41 lines Poe manages to incorporate his principal themes of Beauty and sadness as the foundation of the poem, as it's about the death of a beautiful woman and the grief his narrator feels for her passing. This grief drives the narrator to near madness, as he refuses to leave her side even after she's entombed. The journey Poe takes readers on in Annabel Lee is to realize his two primary objectives in writing…

“No Second Troy” is a poem by W.B. Yeats about his love relationship with a beautiful Irish woman called Maud Gonne. The poem is one of the greatest literary love stories of the twentieth century. It indicates how beauty can cause a tragic distraction with the reference to Helen of Troy. “Leda and the Swan” is another poem written by W.B. Yeats, it retells the fantasy from the Greek mythology of how Zeus - the most powerful god of all - raped Leda, the daughter of the king of Sparta, taking the…

The classic, honored, and gothic genre author, Edgar Allan Poe is known for his famous works like The Raven, A Tell-Tale Heart, The Fall of the House of Usher, Annabel Lee, and The Cask Amontillado. Some of these stories and poems style could have been influenced by Poe’s past. Before Poe even turned three both of his parents, two professional actors, died. From there he was taken in by Frances and John Allan in Richmond, Virginia. Thenceforth, he was sent to the best boarding schools and later…

Deadflix and Chill The Poe stories always have a deeper meaning than meets the eye. These underlying themes and ideas must be picked apart and analyzed to find the true meaning of such a riveting story. The story of Annabel Lee has a much deeper meaning to poe than to anyone of the many readers. This story is theorized to be about the loss of Poe's wife. The similarities between the two occurrences are just too vast to be proven otherwise. It is evident that the correlation between…

The poem’s comprehensive theme is love, however, mortality also plays a substantial role, as the narrator mourns his wife’s death throughout “Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe. First, the theme of love becomes evident as the narrator describes that the two “loved with a love that was more than love” (Poe 9). Love is existing because the narrator expresses his strong affection for his late wife Annabel Lee from the start of their relationship when they were only innocent children. He also explains…

In 1869, New York passed an act to build a reformatory in Elmira for young offenders under indeterminate sentences. The goal was to reform the inmates. Elmira Reformatory only accepted first offenders between the ages of 16 and 30. The first Elmira Reformatory in the United States was opened in 1876. It used the principles of the Irish system, indeterminate sentences, and parole. When Elmira reformatory opened in 1876, Zebulon Brockway was given its superintendent. He thought rehabilitative…

places on earth. Of what prisoners have told us, Union prison camps are even worse. Andersonville may not be perfect, but Camp Elmira in New York -nicknamed hellmira- is so much worse. Elmira was built by the Union in 1863. It is 30 acres of horrific scenes, torture covering every square inch. Elmira can hold roughly 12,000 abused Confederate soldiers. The food at Elmira is horrid. The prisoners only get one spoonful of mush on average, once every two…

ELMIRA (WENY) - A project that's been in the works for more than six years is finally coming to fruition. Friday, Meals on Wheels of Chemung County will officially open their new facility in Elmira. After being in the same build for nearly 20 years, Meals on Wheels of Chemung county is moving a couple blocks down and upgrading to a new facility. Friday, Darlene Ike, the Executive Director of Meals of Wheels in Chemung County will welcome their volunteers to the newly renovated building at 409…

MY REASONS FOR CHOOSING ELMIRA COLLEGE’S GRADUATE MANAGEMENT PROGRAM ARE AS FOLLOWS: (i) Reputation – Elmira College’s graduate management program is well respected in both the medical field which I belong to as well as the business communities for having quality graduates. (ii) Program Choices – The school…