Sarah Elmira Royster

“The Raven” is a poem expressed in the form of a story that the author, Edgar Allen Poe, uses an amazing combination of symbolism, imagery, and wordplay to display the love and supernatural aspect that correlates to the deaf of the man’s love, Lenore. These elements help support the theme. The theme of “The Raven” is the sadness and grief that is brought along when a love one is lost eternalized and can never be fixed. The symbols are in the form of objects and figures. The imagery in the poem sculpts the scene and the emotion that is being portrayed. The wordplay holds a deeper meaning to behind it which helps proves the theme of grieving. Symbolism is greatly used throughout the poem. It’s a key element in the poem, it helps give a deeper meaning to the poem then just a melancholy rhyme scheme. Poe uses things like Lenore, a name that belongs the lost love of the man in the poem. Lenore is the number one focus of the speaker’s compulsive thoughts. Constantly regurgitating her presence no matter how far he may stray or try to occupy his thoughts with something else, his mind always finds its way back to the thought of Lenore. The raven is also a symbol used in the poem. The raven refers to the title, but the raven has always been that represent or symbolizes death, the death of Lenore and sorrow which relates to the mood of the poem. There’s a great impact the raven has on the poem, the way Poe introduces the raven as he enters the room lines 38-40, “In there stepped a…

“No Second Troy” is a poem by W.B. Yeats about his love relationship with a beautiful Irish woman called Maud Gonne. The poem is one of the greatest literary love stories of the twentieth century. It indicates how beauty can cause a tragic distraction with the reference to Helen of Troy. “Leda and the Swan” is another poem written by W.B. Yeats, it retells the fantasy from the Greek mythology of how Zeus - the most powerful god of all - raped Leda, the daughter of the king of Sparta, taking the…

“I was never kinder to the old man than the week before I killed him” (Poe, 2). Edgar Allan Poe was born in 1809, and lost both his parents when he was very young. He was adopted by John and Frances Allan. Eventually when he got older he grew apart from his foster parents due to his gambling addiction, and their relationship deteriorated. When Poe was grown he moved in with his grandmother and fell in love with his 14 year old cousin, Virginia. He married his cousin, who was his everything and…

Dream in Peony Pavilion is a beautiful flower in the Chinese national artistic treasure. It tells a legendary love story of Du Liniang and Liu Mengmei. Their love was against by Du’s parents and the feudal ideas, Du even died in great sorrow. Fortunately, she was brought back to life at the end. One of most obviously characteristics is its language and sentence forms. Also, there are many professional words and expressions of drama. When people are translating this work, these items should be…

“Annabel Lee” was Edgar Allen Poe's final finished poem, penned in 1849. In a scant 41 lines Poe manages to incorporate his principal themes of Beauty and sadness as the foundation of the poem, as it's about the death of a beautiful woman and the grief his narrator feels for her passing. This grief drives the narrator to near madness, as he refuses to leave her side even after she's entombed. The journey Poe takes readers on in Annabel Lee is to realize his two primary objectives in writing…

The classic, honored, and gothic genre author, Edgar Allan Poe is known for his famous works like The Raven, A Tell-Tale Heart, The Fall of the House of Usher, Annabel Lee, and The Cask Amontillado. Some of these stories and poems style could have been influenced by Poe’s past. Before Poe even turned three both of his parents, two professional actors, died. From there he was taken in by Frances and John Allan in Richmond, Virginia. Thenceforth, he was sent to the best boarding schools and later…

Deadflix and Chill The Poe stories always have a deeper meaning than meets the eye. These underlying themes and ideas must be picked apart and analyzed to find the true meaning of such a riveting story. The story of Annabel Lee has a much deeper meaning to poe than to anyone of the many readers. This story is theorized to be about the loss of Poe's wife. The similarities between the two occurrences are just too vast to be proven otherwise. It is evident that the correlation between…

The poem’s comprehensive theme is love, however, mortality also plays a substantial role, as the narrator mourns his wife’s death throughout “Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe. First, the theme of love becomes evident as the narrator describes that the two “loved with a love that was more than love” (Poe 9). Love is existing because the narrator expresses his strong affection for his late wife Annabel Lee from the start of their relationship when they were only innocent children. He also explains…

1. Q: Where did you go to school? A: The Fashion Institute of Technology 2. Q: What was your major? A: FMM, double major in Buying and Product Development with a minor in psychology 3. Q: What year did you graduate? A: 2014 4. Q: Did you have anyone who veered you away from FIT? A: she actually did not want to come to FIT at all. Her mother made her come, she wanted to go to a party school and she didn’t want to live in NYC. She hated school hen she first got here, however, she joined…

delivers a prophecy and blessing to the child that Hagar was carrying (Gen. 16:10-12). Upon hearing the words of the angel, Hagar has a change of character; and instead of submitting to standard social norms she takes initiative of her own and “names” the LORD, the sacred power who spoke to her, El-Roi (Gen. 16:13). Genesis 21 is a continuation of the previous narrative, which adds to the already dramatic tale of Hagar and her son Ishmael. The chasm in the relationship between Sarah and Hagar…