Lenore Romney

“The Raven” is a poem about a man, who after losing several loved ones, finds himself having a conversation late at night with a raven. This poem was written in 1845 by Edgar Allan Poe to show his feelings towards the loss of someone he loved dearly and was influenced by his traumatizing childhood where he suffered many tragedies growing up. Poe uses pathos in this poem to show fear, paranoia, and hopelessness, while using ethos when he uses his feelings to connect to his audience, making the…

The man is grieving because of the loss of his lover, Lenore. In distraction of his grief, the speaker reads. As he reads, he falls half asleep. Suddenly he hears a knock at his chamber door. He grows afraid, but he then ceases his hesitation. The speaker heads to the door, and he apologizes to the expected visitor, “or madam, truly I implore your forgiveness.” At his arrival, he confronts darkness. After he sees nothing he calls, “Lenore.” The darkness returns his echo, and he then proceeds…

What is your spirit animal? Is it the wise owl or the leader lion? It has been found that animals have archetypes; created personalities by humans based on attributed characteristics. This cannot ring any truer for Ted Hughes' poem "Hawk Roosting" and Mark Doty's poem "Golden Retrievals." Hughes explains the maturity and and sharpness of the hawk and Doty describes the immaturity and elementary intelligence of the dog through sentence structure and word choice. To begin, while the two pieces of…

Ticking. Tapping. Clicking. Typing. Buzzing. Copying. Gossiping. The senses splendor around in various forms creating numerous opportunities of ticks and obsessions. The current deadly addiction that swarms everyone consists of the convenient and accessible device called the cell phone. This device accesses information in a nanosecond, allowing the public to gain or even lose knowledge through the social media. People have recently created obsessions toward the device due to the attractive…

the audience to vote for the nominee. There is a stark contrast as to how these campaign leaders have gone about in reflecting their core principles as well as how they stigmatize their competitors. In the 2012 Presidential election, between Mitt Romney and Barack Obama, the advertisements reflected the candidate’s goals and their prior experience in relation to these goals. However, back in the 1960s when television first became a public device, the onset of political ads lead to these ads…

Edgar Allan Poe often demonstrates a type of madness in his short stories. Many times it comes from the first-person narrator. While the narrators are similar in the fact that they are both insane, they also have a lot of differences in the way that they are insane. A great way to compare the way the insanity differs in the narrators, is to compare two of Poe’s stories. Stories such as “The Black Cat” and “The Tell-Tale Heart” do a good job showing the similarities and differences between the…

“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…

Can you imagine writing your personal experiences to teach readers a theme or the main idea behind the story? In the book “War Dances” written by Sherman Alexie, which published in 2009, is a collection of short stories and personal poems that describe tragedies that can occur in someone’s life and how the challenges can affect their daily purpose. Many of the personal topics that Alexie mentions in his book are the Native American stereotypes, his family’s medical history, and loss of Native…

The poem "Annabel Lee", by Edgar Allan Poe, shows the speaker's way of coping with the death of his beloved, which is displayed as obsession towards her and his judgment of the holy as guilty. The speaker justifies his obsessed love to Annabel Lee as stronger than any extraordinary force, and presents the holy as disgraced and malice for trying to separate them. First, the repetition of words, phrases and sounds emphasizes the speaker's obsession towards Annabel Lee. Her name is mentioned seven…

Have you ever fallen in love with someone? Poetry is an understandable language that expresses feelings and reading poetries make people feel better. Love is the person’s heart who get warmth and it’s the deepest feelings that mostly everyone fell in love with. I decided to use the topic of “Love” because it’s romantic and understanding poems. “ I Love You Except Because I Do Not Love You” by Pablo Neruda was explaining the feelings of anyone could possibly feels. “ Remember Me” by Macia A.…