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    In this Poem Thomas falsehoods night around late night time, listening to the rain falling onto the top of the cottage that he rests inside. The downpour and the artist's isolation brief musings of those troopers who are presented to danger and demise on the world outside. Rain: This poem exists in a custom of Sentimental verse wherein the lone artist, pondering or moved by nature, ends up regarding a more extensive world. Romanticism is a standout among st the most wide and persuasive of all…

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    discussion than fasting during the month of Ramzan. In such an environment, any encounter with religion or the traditional Islamic literature was out of question but he had access to large collection of books written by Sigmund Freud, Jean Paul Sartre, Virginia Woolf, William Faulkner and others which he read…

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    The author has a unique style of writing and the name Edgar Allan Poe brings to mind the various images of madmen, murderers, mysteries, eccentric men and women and mysterious burials. His works were mainly published in the 1800s. He has written a lot of short stories, essays, novels, poetry etc and is considered to be a pioneer in the world of fiction stories and detective stories. He was a prominent American writer who made his living writing horror poetries and various mysterious stories and…

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    Jonathan Swift and his life had a significant influence in one of his writings called Gulliver's Travels(1726). Swift was a child in a poor family, and there was a time in his life where he was left parentless because his father died and his mother left him with her relatives. Gulliver was wandering and exploring new places and finding out new things in these locations just like Swift himself was doing in his real life. Swift was also into politics and had a disdain against the Whigs which is…

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    Murder in the Rue Morgue Edgar Allen Poe was born on January 19, 1809, and lived through October 7, 1849. ( Biography.com 1) During his literary career, he wrote a number of poems, short stories, and novels. One of his writings, the Murders at the Rue Morgue is known as the first modern detective story. This can relate to real-life situations in many ways. Dupin is a man in Paris who solves the murder of two women. Many people who have read this book could compare Dupin to Sherlock Holmes…

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    constant state of grief, Poe never saw true happiness. Specifically, the death of Poe’s wife brought him pain shortly before he wrote the poem “A Dream Within a Dream.” Soon after the same poem was published, mysterious circumstances led Poe to join his wife in death. The poem has a dark theme that brings to question the sanity of the author, and what in his life influenced…

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    VI. LENORE Poe comes back to his successive topics of death and excellence in "Lenore," where, as in a number of his works, the soul of an as of late expired young lady overwhelms the portrayal in spite of her absence of a physical nearness. As in some of his different ballads, for example, "Annabel Lee," the dead cherished is seen through the eyes of her male living mate and thus comes to exemplify the apex of excellence and flawlessness in her demise. The accentuation on her reasonableness and…

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    Romanticism Within a Dream The eclectic storyteller Edgar Allen Poe tells a classic tale of lost love on the surface in the classic poem A Dream Within a Dream. Though, according to poemuesm.com (POEMUSEUM.ORG), he was most notable credited for his science fiction / horror style stories. Further examination of this poem divulges a much bigger picture that reflects heavily on the characteristics of the Romanticism era that is present in much of Poe’s work especially his poetry. A Dream Within a…

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    Paulo Coelho was born in Rio de Janeiro 1947. He had expressed a passion for writing that his parents despised. He later was enrolled in multiple mental institutes and he managed to escape three times. He was finally released at the age of twenty and he got admitted to law school for his parent’s sake. He soon dropped out and engaged in drug abuse and lived like a hippie. He eventually went on a spiritual pilgrimage in Spain which changed his life. He had written the book Pilgrimage afterward…

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    Edgar Allan Poe is known for writing stories with a grim and mysterious tone. He is still considered to be the father of the detective story and he remains one of the most timeless and extraordinary of all American creative artists. Many of his stories contain a first-person narrator, but in his story Hop-Frog, the narrator seems to be different from all the rest. It is not said who the narrator is, but we can assume that it is Hop-Frog himself. Hop-Frog is the narrator of the story because of…

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