Edgar Allen Poe was known for writing mysterious horror literature works, but his biggest mystery seems to be how he died. We believe the theory of him dying from cholera and mercury poisoning is the most believable for many reasons. To start off, we believe Poe died from cholera and mercury poisoning because Edgar Allan Poe himself claimed, in numerous letters he wrote in 1849, to have cholera, which is a deadly bacterial disease, typically contracted from contaminated water. In his letter Poe stated
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Something I will always remember about Kelly Kirwan is the sheer amount of wisdom she held. For example, the iconic statement, “Lit is life!” is, I believe, comparable to anything famous teachers like Mr. Miyagi or Aristotle could conjure up. Mrs. Kirwan taught me AP English Literature my senior year of high school, and thanks to her, it was one of the best classes I have ever had the pleasure to be a part of. She had this way of making everyone in the class feel brilliant, like we all had incredibly
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Determination. The sense of will to go on and purpose when an obstacle comes in the way. The poems “Speech to the Young Speech to the Progress Toward” and “Mother to Son” both have the similar thematic topic of determination in which the authors develop using certain methods. The poem “Speech to the Young Speech to the Progress Toward” by Gwendolyn Brooks is about someone trying to explain that there are going to be some downs in life. The author uses a type of repetition to create a
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There is Eritrean saying that says “the candle burn to give a light while the name indicates”; as the name “The Giving Tree” tells everything also. Silberstein explains in her poet “ The Given Tree” how a generous, selfless, love and caring mother help for her bay no matter what age. First, Silberstein starts her poet saying “…every day the boy would come to play/ swinging from the branches, sleeping in the shade” (lines 1-2). This part poem explains the relationship between the early stages of childhood
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Suicide is man's way of telling God, 'You can't fire me - I quit.' (Bill Maher) Death can come suddenly in the blink of an eye or brought upon slowly and thought through. Death is very straightforward, it is when someone or something stops living. Although what inflicts the death upon someone or something can have a whole other meaning to it, maybe symbolizing something much deeper. My symbol ice-nine relates to my book because it brings death upon many people throughout the book. Although ice-nine
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The comparison of the tone between two poems "To His Coy Mistress" by Andew Marvell and "Maarvell Noir" by Ann Lauinger. Tone of both poems is romantic because both speakers are talks about thier love and lust towards thier mistress,though, the difference is that in " To His Koy Mistress" the persona truely loves his Mrsstress and it is very romantic. However, in "Maverll Noir" the persona is kind of sarcastic, because at first he shows little romance and care for his wife, but later there is no
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When looking at poems about war a lot of thoughts might be conjured up for some people. When reading poems about war there are many themes and feelings that get stirred up. Many start to gain feelings of nostalgia, pain and strength. Reading poems about war become moments that help paint a picture for the reader that may or may not understand them. One of the major themes and ideas of poems about war that comes up a lot is the idea of honor. In most poems about war readers read a lot about how honorable
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accessed by this sloth. For lines 37-40, he describes the evenings as plunged into “honied indolence,” that is, he compares indolence to a food sweet and succulent like honey in order to demonstrate the beauty it has to him, a common trope in Keats’s poetry. Furthermore, not only is the speaker-poet shielded from both pleasure and pain, again reiterated with “shelter’d from annoy,” in which “annoy” means “discomfort,” but also from daily duties and from others, perhaps the reason that guides this world
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Upon first reading of Reading Signs it evokes strange imagery of a peculiar man licking stones for some unfathomable reason. But it soon becomes clear the “he” is a gull. Specifically a juvenile gull. Herring gulls will pick up stones, carry them into the air, then drop them and swoop to catch them before they hit the water. Gulls also regularly pick up shells and drop them from a height in order to break them open to look for food. If a gull is doing this with stones it most likely means it is
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Emily Dickinson’s “Because I could not stop for Death” surprisingly made me feel relaxed. It was a shocking poem that changed my perception on death. For my whole life I have always known death as a scary thing. I knew death as the thing that takes my loved ones away too early. But, Emily Dickinson describes death as a nice and calming occurrence. Emily Dickinson describes death as the person who takes others on their last journey before they cross over. The journey is filled with happy memories
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