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A Red, Red Rose A Red, Red Rose was written by Robert Burns a Folk Hero, Poet who is regarded as one of the very famous characters in Cultural history in Scotland. He also has three nicknames which are Ploughman Poet, Scotland’s favorite son and Rabbie Burns. He was born January 25, 1759 in Alloway, Ayrshire, in southwestern Scotland and died at the age of 37, in July 21, 1796 at Dumfries, Scotland. For his lyrical poetry and his re-writing of Scottish folk songs, he has been best known as a…

kill the narrator. The pendulum retracted into the ceiling and the narrator thought he was going to live, but the walls of the dungeon started to heat up and close in on the narrator pushing him into the pit. In “The Pit and the Pendulum,” Edgar Allan Poe develops the theme of the passage of time and the uncertainty of life and…

Edgar Allan Poe was an American writer and editor who wrote short stories and poems full of mystery, horrifying, sad, and disturbing content. A lot of his stories also involved death, mainly on beautiful women. He wrote some poems based on his life full of sadness and about people he knew who died throughout his life. His two main stories based on sadness and grief over a death are “Annabel Lee” and “The Raven”. Poe uses lost love in “Annabel Lee” and “The Raven” to prove that death is difficult…

The famed psychologist Sigmund Freud believed that human beings have an innate lean toward and interest in death, known as the Thanatos drive (Kli). At some point in the life of every individual, the reality of ever-approaching death drives them to scrutinize their decaying bodies. In his poem, In Media Res, Michael McFee relies upon thoughtful imagery, biblical and literary allusion, and unexpected connotative language to examine the eerie experiences of a middle-aged man as he struggles to…

short story was published during 1843 by the eccentric author Edgar Allan Poe. In this short story, the frantic narrator diligently tries to convince the reader that he is a sane man, while providing contradicting details for his quest to murder an innocent old man. His reasons behind it? Simply because he is agitated by the old man’s eye and finds it distasteful. In this short story “The Tell Tale Heart,” Edgar Allan Poe depicts the frightening twisted mind of the reader using irony, imagery,…

The Fictional World of R K Narayan: A Study Metaphysical Novels The World of Nagaraj A. Phaniraja Kumar The World of Nagaraj, which is traces exceptionally incongruent period in Narayan’s literary career that starts together with…

During the civil war in American history known as the, few poets started to stray from the traditional routines for composing poetry. Among these poets were Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson. A percentage of the writers discussed the common war in their glory. By so doing, they figured out how to advise their audience on the different parts of the war. Emily Dickson and Walt Whitman are a percentage of the poets who discussed the war and other noteworthy part of American History. These two…

Momento Mori is a short story written by, Jonathan Nolan in 2001. It published in the Esquire magazine and was largely accepted by the audience as well as accredited by the critics. The story revolves around a man named ‘Earl’ who is suffering from a disease known from the acronym CRS. This disease creates a situation of a short term memory loss (which causes Earl to lose his memories within ten to fifteen minutes), described in the story as “backwards amnesia”. Another element which complicates…

THE AUTHOR: GUY DE MAUPASSANT Henri René Albert Guy de Maupassant (5 August, 1850 – 6 July, 1893) is a French writer who has written many poems, novels and short stories in his lifetime. But he is most well-known for his short stories, in fact considered as one of the fathers of modern short stories. He served as role model for O. Henry and Somerset in respect to his clever plotting of story. His stories paint a fascinating picture of French Society of 19th century. He generally wrote about…

From an early age, Hawthorne was regarded as a loner and a writer. This was originally his draw for the Brooks Farm community where he was first introduced to transcendentalism. Here he began to be influenced by the thoughts of others, and eventually even his own wife who was a transcendentalist herself. But what is transcendentalism, is it simply a belief, a practice, a religion, or a passage way to freedom? In truth, it is all of these combined. Transcendentalism is a escaped from the world…