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    Jane Doe’s Poetry Reflecting Life in Her Time Jane Doe was an American writer known for her poetry. She wrote about many subjects including religion, nature, and family. …………………………………………………………She had a creative way of thinking about life. Many of her poems were letters to people, even though she was not exactly a social person. Jane Doe’s literature intrigues people to this day because she had such a unique way of looking at the ordinary aspects of life. First, Jane Doe’s intriguing background…

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    Growing up, he was read narratives and nursery rhymes by his aunt. This cultivated his early interest in literature. He continued on to major in both History and English Literature at University Level. Professor Thumboo obtained his doctorate in African Poetry from NUS (National University Singapore). Still a prolific writer, his most recent works were released in “Hey Black Devil Thumboo! ” yelled a youth. As a child of mixed heritage and growing up in early Singapore, Thumboo was…

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    “Argos” is a good example of contemporary poetry, because aside from the poem providing a fresh and modern perspective on an old tale, it also extends itself to the reader through instruction or through teaching. In the poem, we can assume that the persona is a teacher and the “you” that he refers…

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    girl, she and her family left Knoxville, Tennessee, and moved to Lincoln Heights, Ohio, one of the predominantly black communities during this time period. However, her relationship she shared with her grandmother remained unblemished. Giovanni’s poetry…

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    When it comes to an artist’s best work there always seem to be heavy debates. This seems fair enough, seeing as everyone is entitled to an opinion -whether or not he or she has founded it by logical reason. Fans either: like their new stuff, their old stuff, or they only seem to enjoy the rare gems that they like to believe no one else knows about. As history tends to repeat itself, anyone who has ever been apart of a “scene” or “club” or “clique” knows this to be true, and has most likely…

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    Poe’s Narrators/ Unreliable Narrators In Edgar Allan Poe’s stories there sometimes tends to be an unreliable narrator in the story. We can see that in his 3 stories “The Tell-Tale Heart”, “That Black Cat”, and “The Cask of Amontillado”. Those stories show characteristics of an unreliable narrator. We can mostly see it in “The Tell-Tale Heart”. Everyone of Poe’s stories has a gruesome and traumatic ending which add on to that insane and unreliable sense. In “The Tell-Tale Heart”, the narrator is…

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    “The Tell-Tale Heart” is a short story written by Edgar Allan Poe, which a story that revolves around the vivid memory of the narrator’s calculated moves, from inception to the murder itself. The narrator bares his soul, and his strong sense of paranoia to justify his sanity, but in the end, confirms his ‘madness’ by the vile act of murder he commits. The narrator reveals the profound truth, of how untruthful and deceiving the human heart could be, and at the same time, how it can be…

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    In the short story The Cask of Amontillado, the audience learned that you should treat everyone like you want to be treated or you might end up dead like the main protagonist Fortunato. Montresor was a rich man who vowed revenge on Fortunato who he had finally insulted Montresor for the last time. Montresor is willing to do whatever it takes to get revenge. In the story, the author, Edgar Allan Poe, used irony, setting, and characterization, to create a creepy mood. In the story Poe used irony…

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    Montresor's Downfall

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    The Cask of Amontillado is a story, written by Edgar Allan Poe, about Montresor, the narrator, who wants to get revenge on Fortunato for insulting him. Throughout the story, Montresor leads a drunk Fortunato through an underground catacomb after he encounters him during the carnival season. Then, Montresor is able to fulfill his revenge plan in such a way that Fortunato never finds out he was mad until Montresor locks him up in a small crypt. Afterward, he walls up the entrance to the crypt and…

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    The right decision i choose was that Edgar Allen Poe died of Rabies because he had identical symptoms to rabies and he was around animals a lot. In an article published by www.CrimeFeed.com it had said that he was an animal lover and he might have got that from the animals. Indeed this statement talk about my claim because it talk how loved animal and how one of those animals might have. Giving him rabies. I chose to talk about his symptoms because that can give use an idea of…

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