...The Raven, perhaps Edgar Allen Poe’s most successful and popular piece, tells the story of a lonely man’s interactions with a raven. The man, who is most likely Poe, is missing his wife, Lenore and when an unlikely talking raven appears in his room, he begins to ask it certain questions about his wife. Each answer from the raven drives him closer and closer to insanity. Due to the use of a number of various literary devices, the poem is deeply haunting. Poe used repetition, personification, and juxtaposition to progress the plot and increase the overall effectiveness and depth of the poem. The first, and most prevalent literary device that Poe used, was repetition. Throughout the poem, every stanza is ended with “nothing more” or “nevermore”....
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...Edgar Allen Poe's "The Raven," for example, would state that the speaker of the poem is longing for his lost love and becomes beguiled by a raven that speaks only one word, "nevermore." 2 Write about the poetic language and imagery. Does the poet use precise and vivid vocabulary to create detailed images? What literary devices are used to enhance meanings? Answer these questions by explaining and analyzing specific examples from the poem. Tell how the poet creates those images. A good example of this would be the poetry essay found at Bookstove.com. The poetry essay analyzes Poe's use of simile and metaphor in "The Raven." 3 Write about sound and sense. Does the poet use rhythm and meter to create meaningful sounds in the poem? Which word sounds does the poet use to create pictures? Does the poet use vocabulary that appeals to the five senses? Answer these questions by explaining in your poetry essay how the poet's choice of words creates meaningful sound. For example, a poetry essay on Poe's "Raven" would show how the ABCBBB rhyme scheme helps to create a deeper sense of melancholy. 4 Write about emotion and feeling. Is the poet creating a feeling or mood? Does the poem evoke an emotional response? Answer these questions in your poetry essay by explaining what kind of response the poet is trying to evoke in his audience. A poetry essay on "The Raven" would describe how the use of melancholy word choices and repetition, coupled with the creepy raven and mourning...
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...The Raven—by Edgar Allen Poe—is widely considered to be one of the greatest poems of all time. It features striking imagery, deep symbolism, near perfect rhythm, and rhyming structure and, of course, a soul wrenching story of lost love. It was first published in 1845 in The American Review, under the pseudonym Quarles. Part of what separates The Raven from other poems is the technique of internal rhyming, in which a line can rhyme with itself as well as with the next line. Although the rhyming meter isn’t exactly the same throughout, in general the poem is written in trochaic octameter: eight trochaic feet per line with the emphasis placed on the first syllable, or one stressed syllable followed by one unstressed syllable. For example, the first line of the poem is: “Once upon a midnight dreary, as I pondered weak and weary”. “Once” is stressed, while the first syllable of “upon” is not. The second syllable of “upon” is stressed, while “a” is not and so on and so forth, the sum total of which make eight pairs of stressed and unstressed syllables in that line. The greatest strengths of Poe’s masterpiece are its symbolism and allegorical capacities. In the poem, the raven for which the poem is named sits atop a bust of Pallas Athena, the Greek goddess of wisdom. The raven’s perch symbolizes that it speaks from a position of wisdom, whereas the unnamed narrator argues against it. The raven speaks very little, in fact only saying one word repeated several times throughout the...
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...Jonathon Soto Mon. Wed. 9:10-10:35 English 102 Rough Draft In the poem “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe, there are many possible themes the author summits. He covers love, madness, the supernatural, and man vs. the natural world. Next, most importantly Edgar Allan Poe discusses greatly the theme of grief and how it feels to lose someone. The Dark mysterious side of the mind is often present in many of Poe’s works. Also, through the use of tone and theme we as readers are able to depict the true meaning behind these creative poems. “The Raven” has great examples of poetic devices like rhyme scheme, meter, rhythm, and much more. All these different types of elements ensure a better and creative insight on Poe’s astonishing writings. First of all, throughout the poem “The Raven” there are many different poetic devices he uses to try and amplify the theme he wisely describes. In the very beginning Poe shares “Once upon a midnight dreary, while I pondered, weak and weary” (line 1). He used meter to help describe the setting and tone right from the start. This line sets the mood in the poem and provides evidence that it is night time and he’s all alone in his house. Next, Poe constantly points out how the main character is going through a loss of someone he loved. One of the themes in this poem is grief and how this man deals with it. The narrator states “From my books surcease of sorrow-sorrow for the lost Lenore” (line 10). He loses a person by the name of Lenore...
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...heartache may be channeled and applied for creativity as emotional inspiration. A well known example is Edgar Allan Poe, who suffered from poverty, was orphaned before age three, and fought alcoholism during most of his life. After meeting and falling in love with his cousin, Virginia, Poe was not aware he’d have to endure the pain of losing her like so many of his loved ones before. He once stated, "The death of a beautiful woman is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world." (citation?) If it had not been for the tragic illness and death of Virginia, Poes' work may not have been as good or memorable, and we may not have gained some of...
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...“The role of women in the gothic genre is as victims, always subject to male authority.” Compare and contrast the extent to which this interpretation is relevant to your three chosen texts. “The wolf consumes red riding hood – what else can you expect if you talk to strange men, comments Perrault briskly. Let’s not bother our heads with the mysteries of sadomasochistic attraction” Angela Carter; Foreword to Perrault’s Short Stories. In much of today’s feminist writings, the Gothic era is frequently defined as a period in which the oppression of females was at its most intense. In response to fin de siècle anxieties of a social revolution in which gender stereotypes could be overhauled, gothic writers, it is claimed, sought to reassert cultural and gender norms – a reassertion which inevitably resulted in the oppression of women. In view of such contemporary analysis, it is thus all too tempting to offer a sweeping judgement of gothic literature as victimising, oppressive and misogynistic; Dracula’s “victims” are all “unambiguously women[1]”, Poe victimises through an “idealised and dehumanising image of women[2]”, while Carter is a “pseudo feminist” who merely “reinforces patriarchal views” with her “pornographic” writing[3]. Yet such views are largely artificial, and are primarily based on potted summaries of the above works, rather than a closer textual analysis. If one takes the definition of a victim as a being who is subject to the successful predatory actions of...
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...WRITTEN REPORT Course: Literary Criticism Topic: Perspectives and Techniques in Literary Criticism Reporter: Ms. Zairan A. Tutin INTRODUCTION: Literary criticism is not an abstract, intellectual exercise; it is a natural human response to literature. If a friend informs you she is reading a book you have just finished, it would be odd indeed if you did not begin swapping opinions. It is inevitable that people will ponder, discuss, and analyze the works of art that interest them. The informal criticism of friends talking about literature tends to be casual, unorganized, and subjective. Since Aristotle, Plato and other prominent literary critics, philosophers, scholars, and writers have tried to create more precise and disciplined ways of discussing literature. This day, literary criticism provides some general guidelines to help us analyze, deconstruct, interpret and evaluate different literary works. Literary critics have borrowed concepts from other disciplines, like linguistics, psychology, and anthropology, to analyze imaginative literature more perceptively. Mass media critics, such as newspaper reviewers, usually spend their time evaluating works—telling us which books are worth reading, which movies not to bother seeing. We usually see literary criticism in a book review or critical essay; however, nowadays the Internet has made all forms of criticism readily available in everything from personal blogs to social media. In this discussion, we will take a look at...
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...PREFACE This major project examines the indispensable desiderata of Transcendentalism in comparison to the Dark Romantics background and how these technicalities prepare this work of art as an influential synthesis of human imagination incorporated with mystic facts. Transcendentalism and Dark Romanticism were two literary movements that occurred in America during roughly the same time period (1840—1860). Although the two had surface similarities, such as their reverence for Nature, their founding beliefs were quite different, enough to make one seem almost the antithesis of each other. Moreover one’s genesis is ventured out from other; i.e. Dark Romanticism from the roots of Transcendentalism or precisely the lacunae are best determined for raising up the term called Dark Romanticism. Contents S. No. Page no. Chapter 1.........................................................................................................4-14 Chapter 2.........................................................................................................15-23. Chapter 3..........................................................................................................24-27 Resolution.........................................................................................................28-29 Work Cited................................................................
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...Murdeh Bod (The baboon whose buffoon was dead). The collected stories Puppet Show and The baboon whose buffoon was dead have exerted profound influence on modern Persian literature. Then there was a gap of some fifteen years before Ruze Avvale Qabr (The First Night in the Grave) and (The Last Alms) were published in 1965 and 1966, respectively. After the publication of The Last Alms and The First Night of the Grave, Chubak wrote his novel The Patient Stone, which is a great modern novel in the Persian literature. Chubak also translated Shakespear’s Othello, Roland’s La Fin du Voyage, and Balzac’s Le P Gorio Goriot, Pinokio (the wooden dummy) the work of Carlo, ‘‘Carlo Kuludy’’, Lewis Carroll’s book ‘‘Alice in Wonderland’’, the poetry of raven and (work of Edgar Allen poet), and Maah pareh; a Hindis love story into Persian. In his works, Chubak studies the lives of downtrodden people of the society who were victimized by iniquities and natural deterministic forces. Sympathetic to the sorrows and miseries of such people, he dispenses one single solution, combating corruption and injustice. Chubak’s retirement coincided with the onset of the Islamic Revolution in Iran. An atheist since his early childhood, he found living in the Islamic Republic difficult. In 1974, ergo, he moved to London, England, first and then to the United States where he picked up residency in California to write his memoirs. Chubak passed away on July 12, 1988 at the age of 82 in Berkeley, California, U.S...
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...NORTH AMERICAN FICTION BRIEF INTRODUCTION: Before starting our study of American Fiction we must understand what American Literature is in itself and which pieces of writing we can include within this label. It is believed that when a piece is written in North America, more precisely in the USA, it would automatically be given this epithet. But it should be taken into account that this idea is quite broad and doesn’t reflect the real essence of the term. However, there is also another definition that gathers this essence: American Literature is the one that represents the Americanism, the singularity of the USA philosophy and culture. This way, instead of focusing on who the author is, it is focused on the content of the writing. In that which concerns Fiction, the following documents are the ones considered as narrative: Speeches Letters Short Stories Essays Political Documents Sermons Novels Diaries 1 FIRST LITERARY EXPRESSIONS The first documents in which the idea of Americanism is very present are the Sermons. They respond to the strict Protestantism settled in the New Continent after the arrival of the Pilgrim Fathers and Puritans in the Mayflower (1620) and the Arabella (1630). They established a theocratic community whose main and only point of reference was the Bible. That is why the idea of the ‘city upon a hill’ is still very present in American mentality. As we all know...
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...church socials, beauty shops and barbershops. If two guys were standing on a corner, I would cross the street to hand them campaign literature. And everywhere I went, I’d get some version of the same two questions. “Where’d you get that funny name?” And then: “You seem like a nice enough guy. Why do you want to go into something dirty and nasty like politics?” I was familiar with the question, a variant on the questions asked of me years earlier, when I’d first arrived in Chicago to work in low-income neighborhoods. It signaled a cynicism not simply with politics but with the very notion of a public life, a cynicism that—at least in the South Side neighborhoods I sought to represent—had been nourished by a generation of broken promises. In response, I would usually smile and nod and say that I understood the skepticism, but that there was—and always had been—another tradition to politics, a tradition that stretched from...
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...cover next page > title author publisher isbn10 | asin print isbn13 ebook isbn13 language subject publication date lcc ddc subject : : : : : : : : : : : cover next page > < previous page page_i next page > Page i 1100 Words You Need to Know Fourth Edition Murray Bromberg Principal Emeritus Andrew Jackson High School, Queens, New York Melvin Gordon Reading Specialist New York City Schools . . . Invest fifteen minutes a day for forty-six weeks in order to master 920 new words and almost 200 useful idioms < previous page page_i next page > < previous page page_ii next page > Page ii © Copyright 2000 by Barron's Educational Series, Inc. Prior edition © Copyright 1993, 1987, 1971 by Barron's Educational Series, Inc. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced in any form, by photostat, microfilm, xerography, or any other means, or incorporated into any information retrieval system, electronic or mechanical, without the written permission of the copyright owner. All inquiries should be addressed to: Barron's Educational Series, Inc. 250 Wireless Boulevard Hauppauge, NY 11788 http://www.barronseduc.com Library of Congress Catalog Card No. 00-030344 International Standard Book Number 0-7641-1365-8 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Bromberg, Murray. 1100 words you need to know / Murray Bromberg, Melvin Gordon. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 0-7641-1365-8 1. Vocabulary. I. Title: Eleven hundred words you need...
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