Virginia Eliza Clemm Poe

the fish. After a few attempts, he decodes the meaning with a flashback of a memory. Doty says the poem about the mackerel “was written some six months after my partner of a dozen years had died of AIDS, and of course everything I wrote--everything I saw--was informed by that loss, by the overpowering emotional force of it.” The sad memory of his passing partner influenced his poem and that experience he had then became the encounter he displayed in the poem. Berger suggests that the encounter…

One of the best poets in the Victorian era was Robert Browning. Browning wrote many poems including Porphyria’s Lover, and My Last Duchess. These two texts were very controversial and still are. In a way these are still controversial texts and make people question Browning as a person and his sanity. In My Last Duchess this man is showing his “lovers” agent his house and his 900 year old name, really showing off. He shows the agent a portrait of a beautiful woman and starts talking about her.…

The Sirens are known for their deadly song. As seen in both poems, the sirens are portrayed differently in each. Both poems show different tone and diction. The second poem illustrates a less eerie song of the sirens, while the first one is luring and eerie. Sirens are creatures who lure sailors to their death with their song. Even though both poems talk about the sirens, one would be more specific and the other would be negative. The way that the poems were written affect the tone of each. The…

Raven essay Edgar Allen Poe was born on January 19, 1809 and died October 7, 1849. Orphaned at the age of three, he went to live the Allans, a family in Virginia. They brought him to England and gave him a strong education, however resisted his literary aspirations. After losing most of his money to gambling and losing touch with the Allans, Poe left Virginia College and enlisted into the United States Army. In the Army he processed quickly, Becoming a Sergeant Major. It was then that he…

Edgar Allan Poe faced many hardships in his life, all of which heavily contributed to his writing style. Adversity plagued Poe around every corner, ranging from his wife dying from Tuberculosis to his father abandoning him when he was just a child. Poe’s misfortune inspired him to write seventy poems and sixty-six short stories throughout his writing career. Although there are many texts written by him, Poe’s works all revolve around a comparable mood, theme, topic, and setting. “The Fall of the…

What happened in Nathaniel Hawthorne’s past that made him write his novels the way he did? Nathaniel Hawthorne did not seem proud of his past or ancestors, so to separate himself from his family he added a “w” to his last name. The deep dark secrets of Nathaniel Hawthorne’s past affected his writing in many ways. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s past had a great deal to do with how he had written his novels. Nathaniel Hawthorne’s relative were wealthy and influential people. His first American ancestor,…

Sir Philip Sydney uses imagery to make the reader feel the pain that one experiences while awake and the urge to sleep. Sydney describes a scenario of metaphorical “fierce darts” being thrown at Astrophel by Despair (6). This invokes a sense of pain in the reader, as well as visual, and kinetic imagery. Sydney appeals to multiple senses in this instance to make the feeling of darts exaggerated, and provides a tone of pain and sorrow. This tone is set for the reader because the reader experiences…

Edgar Allan Poe in “The Raven” uses figurative language, imagery, and tone to develop the theme of this terrible creature that torments him. By adding this language he allows for the poem to be very descriptive and it allows one to see the poem come to life. Poe rhymes all throughout the poem, like when he says, “While I nodded, nearly napping, suddenly there came a tapping.” (3) This rhyming contributes to the flow of the poem. By including rhyme the reader will be more inclined to read the…

“Bereft” by Robert Frost is a poem which describes the feeling of lonely person. It is about the narrator (Frost himself) has lost someone that he truly had loved. The poem communicates the tremendous emptiness almost dangerous world of loneliness. He feels he stands alone, not only in his house but also in the world. He describes his surroundings as the world around him turns dark without the presence of his lost love. Everything even the nature seems hostile towards him. But at the end of the…

Thomas Jonathan Jackson, also known as "Stonewall" Jackson, was born on January 21, 1824 in Clacksburg, Virginia. There is some dispute about the actual location of his birth. A historical marker on the floodwall in Parkersburg, West Virginia, claims that he was born in a cabin near the spot where his mother was visiting her parents. Thomas Jackson was the third child of Julia Beck Jackson and Jonathan Jackson. Julia was born in 1798 and died in 1831. Jonathan was born in 1790 and died in…