Raven

He the "speaker" describes that while he is sitting there listening to a lecture of astronomer. He sees the evidence and accurate information on the columns before his eyes, as the diagrams and charts that he has to have analyzed mathematically. At the end of the astronomer lecture, everyone in the room applauded the astronomer. While he the speaker goes to the lecture room because he started, feeling exhausted and worn out. His mind wandered away, he the speaker looks up into the night sky…

The Tale of the Raven There was once a time in the world when the earth was filled with chaos after a divine war occurred amongst the elemental spirits. A great fire spread throughout the land and all the living creatures lived in fear for their lives. Omas, the Grand Creator, worried for the beautiful earth and all the living beings that he had created. “We must smother these flames before the earth is obliterated,” he said. “The only way to put out the fire is to retrieve water from the…

The next gothic element I see to be carried around in the book is the high, overwrought emotion. “Oh, the terrible struggle that I have had against sleep so often of late; the pain of the sleeplessness, or the pain of the fear of sleep, and with such unknown horror as it has for me! How blessed are some people, whose lives have no fears, no dreads; to whom sleep is a blessing that comes nightly, and brings nothing but sweet dreams.” This part of the story is one that sticks out to me when it…

The article “The Seduction of Authenticity: the Story of Yingying” reviews the authenticity of the Tang Dynasty and its significance from the perspective of “The Story of Yingying”(Yingying zhuan莺莺传)[ Zhen, Yuan, The Story of Cui Yingying, Tang Chuan Qi]. “The Story of Yingying” is a legendary novel of the Tang dynasty, compiled by Yuan Zhen (元稹)[ Yuan Zhen (779 - 831), born in Henan Luoyang, famous poet, writer in the Tang Dynasty]. This is a tragic story of the poor scholar, Zhang (张生), who…

The necklace is a story written with the intent of the combination of greed, vanity, forbidden desire and wealth. It was written by a famous writer named Guy De Maupassant. The talented writer was born in 1850 and died in 1893. Because of his unique style, he was considered one of the best and most famous writers in the 19th century. Mr. Maupassant succeeded in writing 30 volumes, 300 stories, traveling books, articles and poems. Today, I felt fortunate to have read one of the many short stories…

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,…

Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte and Frankenstein by Mary Shelley are two novels in which the themes of equality and inequality are explored extensively. The texts are both written by women in 1847 and 1818 respectively and both deal with gender inequality. Jane Eyre is also a social commentary on the injustices and inequalities of the classist Victorian hierarchy whereas Shelley’s novel focuses on the human rejection of unconventionality and the inequalities faced by societies ‘outcasts. The…

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…

Teen suicide is a topic that has not been discussed heavily in popular media or entertainment shows. Until recently with the launch of the Netflix series 13 Reasons Why, much of the early research has focused more on the media’s portrayal of suicide, imitation of fictional media, the impact of media coverage on suicide, etc. For example, Pirkis and Blood (2001) and Gould (2001) highlight that in 1774, Goethe published Sorrows of Young Werther, in which the hero of the novel shoots himself…

Come walk with me Hollow again as night now creeps Upon this soul who never sleeps Languishing in this loneliness Whose chill winds even now doth press. And evermore will scorch a heart Eternally forced to live apart Crying out in tortured plea Won’t you please come walk with me? CJ Mulcaster I Will Remember You When my eyes possess no more The sparkle of their youth, And shadows amass around my thoughts. If one memory alone I am allowed to keep… I will remember you. When…