Pallas

1) On one gloomy night, while he’s tired, looking over many of his legends. When he almost falls asleep, he hears someone tapping at his door, almost like a gentle rapping, tapping on the door, “It’s a visitor,” he says to himself, tapping on my door. That is all it is and nothing more. 2) I remember it was cold in December; a shadow from the dying fire was a cast upon the floor. Tomorrow would come –with no result I would try to find. In these books of mine, an escape from this sadness of…

Pallas Athena was a Greek goddess who was born fully grown with full armor from the head of Zeus. She was Zeus’ favorite child and he trusted her with an aegis that held the head of Medusa and his devastating weapon: the thunderbolt. Athena has a temple dedicated to her in Athens called the Parthenon. She was described as “gray-eyed” and because of her chasteness, Athena was called “Maiden Parthenos”. Athena was known to be the protector of civilized life, goddess of the city, handicrafts and…

just the narrator alone with the darkness. He continues looking for quite some time, but eventually closes the door. The tapping begins again so he opens the shutter to look outside. Suddenly, a raven flies in and perches himself on the bust of Pallas, who is the god of wisdom. The narrator…

Poe used symbolism in most of his poetry and short stories in order to force the reader to see his views on life, religion, love, and death. His what many might call tragic life, was able to be shown through his work. In his work he satirize and criticize the society in which he lived. The influences of social mores and political and intellectual ideas can be seen in many of his short stories. Although Poe was a product of his times in terms of his moral beliefs, social ideas and prejudices, he…

In the first four books of the epic poem, The Odyssey, Homer introduces a troubled young boy named Telemachus. In the beginning of Book One Telemachus is portrayed as a spoiled and immature boy who mentally, never grew up. He does not participate in combat, rather he is cooped up in his household with the servants taking care of him, for he never had any parental figures to look up to. Athena, goddess of wisdom and daughter of Zeus, comes down to aid Telemachus. She is there to teach him what is…

Athena, also known as Pallas Athena, is the daughter of Zeus and the defender of all Achaens. She is eminent for her beauty and wisdom throughout the story, though what she’s most-known for in The Odyssey, is the relationship she has with Odysseus and his family. She plays the…

Both Edgar Allan Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne are regarded as some of the most influential American authors of the past, with Poe’s works inspiring those in the United States and abroad (687) and Hawthorne being viewed as “the most valuable example of American genius” (603) of his time. Their stories explore the tendencies of humans to sin and the descent of individuals into grief, sorrow, and madness. Although Poe and Hawthorne primarily explore the darker ideals such as outlining the thought…

One of the major writers during Romanticism that significantly employs the element of the terrible in his writing is Edgar Allan Poe. Behind the impact that it has on readers’ minds Poe is utterly mindful about the phenomena present in the human mind. Accordingly, he concentrates on this fact rather that in the traditions of the Gothic practices of Romanticism’s times which allowed him a vast work on the genuine foundation of terror (Lovecraft, 1927). In this sense, Poe’s objective in doing so…

of her love – Lenore. In the 4th to 6th stanzas, the speaker opens the door but what he found was “darkness and nothing more” (4) In the stanzas 7 to 9, the speaker opens the window and the raven flies in and sits on top of the speaker`s “bust of Pallas” (7) As the author was so tired he could have been confused when the raven visited him. Moreover, he can be disoriented because he was in depression for his lost love, Lenore. The speaker is still in the grieving process, and he is weak…

The reading list composed of many pieces of literature that I was able to read over the course of this semester. The ones that I liked reading the most were by Edgar Allan Poe. He wrote these pieces of literature that was very mysterious; therefore, his works did not fully make sense when first reading them. He wrote them like this because of how his life was, and this is how he kept his readers on their toes. When the readers read his pieces, some would love what he wrote and others would not…