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Love and a Quick Question by Robert Frost Student’s Name Institution Affiliation Love and a Quick Question by Robert Frost Love and a quick question by Robert Frost is a poem about a young man who is with his bride in a country house away from people. He, together with his bride have probably gone there so they cannot be disturbed as they seek to enjoy each other’s love, but a stranger appears seeking shelter for the night. Being a secluded place, there was no other shelter in the…

Upton Sinclair, author of The Jungle, was a realist writer born in 1878. He endured many hardships in his life, which led to him becoming a complex person. He based many of his characters off of himself. This caused his works to be filled with complex characters as well as critical views of the capitalist American society. These traits of realism are prominent in Sinclair’s writing and life. Upton Sinclair suffered through an unstable childhood as well as independence at an early age,…

Ashley Quinn February 27,2018 English 3 1st Hour The Raven Have you ever been depressed after a tragic accident? Well in the poem “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe which is a form of gothic literature shows the effects of depression and all the emotions that follow after a tragic accident.The narrator in the poem loses his dear and loving wife, he ends up becoming very depressed and lets his imagination get the best of him when a raven appears whom will only answer “Never more” I feel like the…

Annabel Lee by Edgar Allan Poe: A Review by Gina Rinaldo Works created by Edgar Allan Poe, such as The Tell-Tale Heart, The Raven, The Cask of Amontillado and so on, convey profound, raw and heart wrenching emotions that left me in awe every time I read them. The poem “Annabel Lee” follows Poe’s usual sad and dark style of writing, however there is a bittersweet twist to this particular work. It left me with a feeling that I’ve never felt before while reading any of his other works. There are…

The poem, Eldorado, by Edgar Allan Poe, is a short but gloomy tale of a Knight who spent a great amount of time searching for Eldorado; but never found it. Eldorado is a place that is used as a metaphor to represent an ultimate prize that one might spend their life seeking. It can also represent true love, heaven, happiness, or success. Toward the end of the Knights life, he met a “pilgrim shadow” and asked it where Eldorado might be. As the poem goes on, it describes and suggests directions…

The poem “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe, published in 1845, described a story of a man, who lost his most dear and loving, suffer the pain, in lonely desperation, and frustrated late at night with a raven encounter. Mournful tone of apprehension from irreversible despair, as the raven cries of "Nevermore." and deepened, until desperation to be added to the final. “Nevermore.” were repeated a total of 11 times in the poem, and it is the only discourse of the raven. "Nevermore." not only is the…

Chaucer wrote of The Book Duchess as an eulogy for Blanche of Lancaster, the wife of his friend, patron and employer John of Gaunt. The poem is organized as a dream vision and as such is build in circles that are closed and interlinked with around each other. At the core of the poem is the Man in Black’s lament for his queen and on the most outer circle is the poet, tormented by a personal loss, that remains unexplained within the text. While the Knight is entirely overcome with his grief and…

Thirteen Ways to Kill a Blackbird is a poem by Wallace Stevens which explores and highlights the perceptions of humans to our surroundings and the multitude of ways in which these can be perceived. It does this by having each of the thirteen stanzas in the poem portray and examine a new way in which the blackbird is viewed by the speaker. This poem uses a haiku style, which Stevens was particularly interested in. Haiku poems traditionally have three lines with five, seven and five syllables…

Lewis Carroll is a poet often known as ahead of his time, and his poems and books amazed the people of the 1800s. However, many things happened before Carroll became successful. Strange relationships with young girls and thoughts of “sin and guilt” surrounded Carroll’s reputation and his mind. Even his meeting with Alice Liddell (better known as the star in her book Alice in Wonderland) caused several whispers among critics and other writers. After making several relationships with small…

“Her decease,” he said, with a bitterness which I can never forget,” would leave him (him the hopeless and the frail) the last of the ancient race of the Ushers.” This quote is from “The Fall of the House of Ushers” and it explains that the Usher siblings, Roderick and Madeline are the last ones in their family, and the fate of their family line lies on them. But what is not explained is that the siblings have a strong bond. In the short story “The Fall of the House of Usher,” Edgar Allan Poe…