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Homer’s Odyssey and Margaret Atwood’s, poem, “Siren Song” depict the siren in different views, such as Homer’s view as being mystical creatures and Atwood’s view as remorse beings, and contrasting point of views, like Odysseus's view as a victim and the siren view as the predator. In Homer's Odyssey the siren are interpreted through Odysseus point of view. Here Odysseus tells, “When the sirens sensed at once a ship was racing past and burst into their high, thrilling song… they sent ravishing…

Edgar Allen Poe’s Death Theory Did you know Edgar Allen Poe married his first cousin? Poe lied to the court about his wife’s age. She was thirteen and Poe was twenty-six. Later in life, she died of tuberculosis, like most women in Poe’s family. Back to Poe is passing. My thoughts on Poe’s death is that he died of rabies. Doctors even said he was not drunk when he was found. Poe’s symptoms were similar to signs of rabies. “Poe was found outside of a tavern, but wasn’t drunk.” (pg. 187 by Dr. R.…

Black Plague essay by chance leathers I am a simple man from London during the late 1300s. I was walking the streets of London at around midnight, during mid winter. Not many people were out in the streets, many stayed in their homes sleeping and keeping warm, but tonight I was restless, the night seemed different. Somewhere deep inside I felt something, but I continued walking down the street. Then I saw a shadow of what looked like a man, I couldn't help but cautiously stare at him as I…

Edgar Allen Poe is a famous poet found in the eighteenth century who loved to write deep, dark, meaningful poems expressing his very inner emotions. Much to believe that “Spirits of the Dead” was written for Poe’s need to accept the fate of death and the struggle to connect with those that have deceased. Firstly, Poe’s mood travels differently as the stanzas progress. The first two expressed tribulations towards death, and slowly moved to enmity, and then lastly Poe accepted the effect death…

Poetry has a long standing reputation for being boring, but poems from the Romantic era are anything but. Romantic poetry, despite the name, aren’t just about love. These poems are about tragedy and sorrow, and the inevitability of death and its effects on our lives. Lord Byron does a fantastic job of combining literary devices in poetry to create some of the most heart-wrenching and emotional poems ever written. And Thou art Dead, as Young and Fair by Lord Byron exhibits nature imagery,…

In Act two, scene one of Marlowe’s The Jew of Malta, audience can see contrasting use of the elements of lightness and darkness. It is obviously apparent in words, as well as rooted in the deeper meanings of metaphors and connotations. The use of these contrasting elements help the audience better understand Barabas’ relationship with his daughter in the sense that she is often represented with descriptions of light. As the passage continues however, it becomes more and more obvious that the…

In the story “the death of the moth” by Virginia Woolf, it introduces Woolf comparing a moth to a butterflies and how it’s not gay like the butterflies. only describing the moth appearances like his wings as “hay-colored wings”, yet “seemed to be content with life”. In the essay Wool if seemed to be reading a book instead daydream off into the world. Soon after Virginia Woolf noticed the moth flying around from side to side at the window pane, Woolf tone in the essay suddenly changes. In…

Once upon a dreary midnight I pondered as I sat alone on my chair, when suddenly I heard a gently knocking at my door, “who would come here this late at night” I thought, then again came the same gently tapping on my door filling my with terrors I know not before. I walked towards the door as my feet felt of ice from the floor and my heart began racing in my chest. Yet when I open the door nothing is there, only darkness. A distance voice called at in a soft tone “Allan” called the voice by my…

Poe Paper In “The Spirits of the dead” Written by Edgar Allen Poe. The spirits of the dead is about a man who is stuck in the ground ,and how the people in the graveyard with him are your closest friends. Know one is active at the time,and the spirit is thinking to himself how is family and friends are heartbroken because he is deceased. The spirit trap inside the ground wishing his soul could move on to heaven,because he won’t to see his family and friends again. This Poem is being written…

Annabel Lee” was written by Edgar Allan Poe and was published in 1849. The poem has internal rhyme and has a normal poem structure. The poem has figurative language including: imagery, assonance, repetition, and consonance. The poem also has mood and a speaker. The poem talks about a man losing the love of his life and how their love will go on forever. This poem has a speaker, mood, and figurative language helping tell the tragic love story of “Annabel Lee.” The speaker in “Annabel Lee” is a…