In the Mood for Love

in his life, like his mother, and his one true love, but unfortunately they had all passed away. He has written poems of some talking about his life, and even one about his love, Lenore. In Poe’s writing, one of the most common moods in his stories is sorrowful. Including examples like, “Annabel Lee,” “Alone,” and “The Raven.” “Annabel Lee” was a poem that had put a lot of emotion into it. It’s mainly about the narrator talking about his lost love, which he called, Annabel Lee. In the poem, he…

at different times in his life. However, Poe’s “Lenore” perhaps most clearly states his emotions after his love, Virginia Clemm, was sentenced to death by consumption. This poem describes how she was beautiful and angelic, even on her journey to Heaven. In “Lenore”, Poe uses many literary devices including allusion, extensive hyperbole, and clear rhyme to depict a mournful theme of undying love that has broken his heart. First of all, Poe uses allusion many times throughout “Lenore”, Since the…

Khaled Hosseini grew up in Kabul, Afghanistan, because of this he puts a lot of raw emotion and real life experience into the descriptions of what happens in and around Kabul. These things will shape the main characters as they grow up in this area. The mood and conflicts as well as the characters change as the setting does when it changes from Afghanistan to America. In The Kite Runner, Khaled Hosseini uses the setting of Afghanistan to analyze the changes in Amir and Hassan as they grow up.…

honestly speaks to my soul. Within the story lies oodles of plot twists that make your optimism increase rapidly. Never a dull moment is the finest way to describe this novel. “The Call of the Wild” contains heaps of overwhelming events that I absolutely love!…

expert, you will not able to know people’s expression through their face. Lastly, he also forgot about people who have mood disorder. Mood disorder is a psychological disorder characterized by the elevation or lowering of a person's mood. According to the 2005 National Comorbidity Survey-Replication study, about 20.9 million American adults have mood disorders. When people have mood disorder, their emotion will not show in their face clearly. For example, when they look happy, but their actual…

we see Edward is when he’s in the shadows. By darkening Edward’s appearance so we can't see anything but his scissor hands makes it feels as if this were a horror film. Similarly, Burton used bright colors in Corpse Bride (2005) to create a radiant mood, contradicting with the fact that the grave is…

The 2016 Fall CSULB Dance in concert took place at the Martha B. Knoebel Dance Theater on November 17, 2016, at eight o’clock. It was a collection of different dance pieces. The following dance pieces: Suite Female Outcome X-Z, #followme, and Love Letter effects consisted of telling a story. This effect was delivered by using space, compositional tools, movement, and production elements. The opening dance piece Suite Female Outcome X-Z utilized background, costumes, dancer’s movements, music,…

amount of thought into creating the mood and literary components of his librettos (Kamien, Roger Music An Appreciation p.280). Richard Wagner was a German composer born in 1813 to a theatrical family (Kamien, Roger Music An Appreciation p. 289). Both of these composers are famous for their operas and are from the Romanic Period. Their compositions, La Boheme and Die Walkure, share the characteristics of having speechlike and melodic phrases and the common theme of love. Puccini’s opera,…

The mood changes from a normal and mundane to cold and lifeless when the dementors attack. Dementors are soul eaters, when they kiss their victims, the soul of the victim is taken away. Without their soul, a victim of dementors will most likely have no love, no expression. They can’t ever get their soul back again. So, when the dementors attack in the alleyway, “The star-strewn indigo sky was suddenly pitch-black and lightless ---- the stars, the moon, the misty streetlamps on either end of the…

In Shakespeare's Twelfth Night, music is inserted at numerous places to set different moods. Music also helps building vivid characters. This function of music in the play especially applies for Feste, the Feste, whom has an obligation is to sing for the nobilities. Majority of the singing in the play are done by Feste. Although most of the songs are “called for”, upon someone else’s request, they still reflect Feste's personalities in a unique way by contrasting with the personality he…