Lenore Romney

Francesco Petrarch’s Sonnet 333 represents his feelings towards a woman and his life. Petrarch explains his feelings by conveying a dark, melancholy tone at the beginning of his sonnet and a more hopeful tone towards the end. He uses irony in the form of a paradox to convey that his love for a woman is alive, although she is dead. He also juxtaposes death and life, and hope and sadness throughout his sonnet. By using metaphors, paradoxes, and diction Petrarch shows his love, grief, and longing…

“The Raven” is a poem expressed in the form of a story that the author, Edgar Allen Poe, uses an amazing combination of symbolism, imagery, and wordplay to display the love and supernatural aspect that correlates to the deaf of the man’s love, Lenore. These elements help support the theme. The theme of “The Raven” is the sadness and grief that is brought along when a love one is lost eternalized and can never be fixed. The symbols are in the form of objects and figures. The imagery in the poem…

sent thee, Respite—respite and nepenthe from thy memories of Lenore; Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe and forget this lost Lenore!”’ (3). There’s a lot to analyze here. Poe uses many complicated, old fashioned words. Defining them makes what Poe is writing much clearer. Respite is to relieve temporarily, especially from anything distressing or trying. The Narrator is asking for relief, specifically of the haunting grief he feels for Lenore. Nepenthe is a fictional drug described in Homer's…

After being torn away from my life by the influenza, I came to relate with this poem by Thomas Moore. As he describes, even though I am sad now, the memories of my past manage to lift me up from the darkness surrounding me. The poet canvasses two periods, past and present, and two kinds of memories, childhood and present. The first stanza begins with memories of childhood, and the last ends with present circumstances, with the theme of death present throughout. Death is first presented here in…

In the book The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald. He uses many color to describe and represent the book character feelings, buildings, references and more within the story. One of the most F. Scott Fitzgerald uses within the book is blue and green to represent the main character Mr. Jay Gatsby Personality, fantasy, what he love and dream. One of the most use color is blue. Blue symbolizes melancholy, loneliness, tranquility and fantasy. In the novel, Gatsby garden describe as blue for…

In “The Raven,” poet Edgar Allen Poe employs a variety of literary devices such as imagery creating vivid scenes, anecdotes giving deeper insight to incidents throughout the piece, and symbols to explore grief and internal pain. Death is the central focus of the poem and all the emotions surrounding it creates an intriguing and provocative poem yet also grim and dreary. The poet begins by stating “While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping, As of some one gently rapping,…

Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Raven” is very well known. The word “nevermore” is used throughout the poem. We first see “Nevermore” when the narrator asked the raven his name, the birds first and only word throughout the poem is “nevermore.” Answering “nevermore” I believe this is an augury of fate. The man continues to ask the Raven questions, it continues the answer only “nevermore.” In the beginning of the poem the narrator seems somewhat amused by this bird and curious why he is there, as the…

An old man sits with his legs crossed, his back resting against a bare cold wall. He is illuminated by an overcast sky shining through a large window at his back. His hair is white and thin with age, and his skin is wrinkled and worn down into a rough texture. He wears no shoes, and his clothes are tattered and torn. His body is skinny and long with hands whose thin flesh reveals the shape of every bone. He hunches his shoulders so that he curls around his only possession, his guitar. He is…

Great question! It is a little daunting to confront all at once like that, though. Time and Death are gigantic themes... and The Flowers of Evil is a rich and very moody work. (His emotions shift a lot, as do his perceptions and impressions). So, perhaps it'd be best to look at a poem ("The Swan"-- a very well-known one) and just think about it... keep in mind that your themes here have strong ties with memory and ideals, change and stasis (the death of ideals with time, for instance; everything…

People are results. They are shaped by their past; some are stronger than their impulses, not letting them dictate what they become, others are far too inexperienced to know better than to let themselves get shaped by tragedy. Raven is one of those people. From a young age, there were expectation thrust upon her and all of her siblings; generation after generation, there was a lot of history attached to the Faulkner name and Raven and her other four siblings were expected to live up to those…