Mad Girl’s Love Song Mad Girl’s Love Song is written in 1951, by Sylvia Plath. Sylvia Plath was an American poet, novelist and short story writer. She was born on October 27, 1932 in Boston, Massachusetts and she died on February 11, 1963 in London, England. Mad Girl’s Love Song is a poem, Sylvia Plath wrote while she was a student at Smith College. The poem has a theme of suicide as an escape. There are many places where the theme of suicide appears in the poem. The poem is about a girl who
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Gothic Elements Gothic can be defined as literature written to conduct “frightening, feral scenarios in which mysterious secrets, extreme isolation, grotesque images, and characters’ duress combine to create a dark and horrid image for its bold readers” (Renaldo 2). Generally presenting the same themes and tropes, Gothic literature discusses madness, isolation, disease, nightmares, and death. Although in some stories, it also explores unmentionable topics such as murder, suicide, and incest. William
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Literary Element: Plot Title: A Rose for Emily (William Faulkner) Plot and A Rose for Emily I thought that A Rose for Emily was a very strange story that had an interesting plot. The story was told from an outside perspective that was somewhat apathetic. This allowed the plot to develop around the strange old woman, Emily. Emily was sort of an outcast of the town and put herself into isolation inside of her house. The story was interesting in how it used the in media res style of writing
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and tracking like predators hunting their prey in the bush. Joyce Carol Oates is one of their lucky catches. “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been?” was an enjoyable, well written story because the themes were strong, the mood and tone of the story grabs the reader and doesn’t let go, and is very realistic. One of the first things someone may notice directly after reading is the story’s strong themes, and the implanted ideas that Oates puts into the heads of her readers, that stay with them long
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Gabriel Roncal Dr. Reginald Abbott ENGL 1102-265 28 February 2013 The Southern Book of no changes: An Analysis of William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” “Life is a series of natural and spontaneous changes. Don’t resist them – that only creates sorrow. Let reality be reality. Let things flow naturally forward in whatever way they like.” From Lao Tzu One of the five classics of Taoism, the I Ching or Book of Changes, states that the world and life are always changing, and that only
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Reflection on Readings The first reading to be discussed here is William Faulkner’s A Rose for Emily. I actually enjoyed reading the short story. I had not read this story ever before. I thought the story will be about a romantic love affair as the title suggests, but as I went further into the reading, it was totally on another track. I am never negatively disposed to Faulkner’s writings as he is a Nobel Prize-winning American author with a number of accomplished novels and short stories. While
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Johnathan Corlew Literary Analysis A Rose for Emily: William Faulkner William Faulkner first published “A Rose for Emily” in 1930; however, this short story resides in a small southern town during the post-Civil War period. During this age in time, the Unites States was going through major political changes. But Ms. Emily was not ready for change. Faulkner uses repugnant imagery and a unique narration style to explore a woman’s inability to cope with death and change throughout the community
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Joyce Carol Oates’ short story “In hiding” is about a woman who is working as a poet, translator and part-time college teacher. Furthermore, she is a single Mother of a fifteen-year-old son. Suddenly she finds herself in an unusual relationship whit an inmate at Kansas State Penitentiary for Men in Fulham, Kansas who is sentenced to life. They have never met in real life and suddenly she just receives a letter from a man who goes from being number AT339I4 to Woody. He sends her poems and diary excerpts
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her friends in the short story, “Where are You Going, Where Have You Been,” by Joyce Carol Oates. “And Connie paid close attention herself, bathed in a glow of slow-pulsed joy that seemed to rise mysteriously out of the music itself and lay languidly about the airless little room, breathed in and breathed out with each gentle rise and fall of her chest.” In “Where Are You Going, Where Have You Been” by Joyce Carol Oates, we find Connie and her friends are/seem shallow. We know this because they worship
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Joyce Carol Oates’ “Where Is Here?” as a contemporary Gothic ghost story According to the editors of the Prentice-Hall Literature text entitled The American Experience, author Joyce Carol Oates’ discovery of the stories of Ann Radcliff and Edgar Allen Poe “sparked her interest in Gothic fiction” (324). These Gothic elements typically include “bleak or remote settings, macabre or violent incidents, characters in psychological and/or physical torment, supernatural or otherworldly elements, and
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