the poem “The Raven” by Edgar Allan Poe, the speaker details one night during a period of sadness and madness in which a raven flies into his room and talks to him. The speaker uses diction, symbolism, and allusion to present the loneliness, hopelessness, and darkness that he experiences throughout the night and how it takes a toll on his mind. The diction in “The Raven” helps to set the mood of the poem, which is gloomy and dark. The poem starts off with, “Once upon a midnight dreary.” This phrase
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Cell-16 James spent hours lying on the bed, trying not to fall asleep. He looked at the alarm clock on the bedside table. It was already 1:47am. Five more hours, James calculated. Five more hours till its morning, and he could finally be safe. He could finally sleep. Everything would be fine in the morning…right? It all started three weeks ago, when James and his friend Gregg went ghost hunting to the Old Melbourne Gaol. They’d heard lots of ghost stories about that place. That was the place where
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Poetry assignment By: Bleon Acquainted with the night By: Robert frost I have been one acquainted with the night. I have walked out in rain -- and back in rain. I have out walked the furthest city light. I have looked down the saddest city lane. I have passed by the watchman on his beat and dropped my eyes, unwilling to explain. I have stood still and stopped the sound of feet When far away an interrupted
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cause for an intense emotional uprising, she had a scream trapped in her throat. The running girl with large eyes that could fill the sky and lips that could give the moon a goodnight kiss with a dark ruby stain on each crater. She was always running, running away from her demons during the day, but the night was different, she was in love with it. The thick light brown curls covering her head might, remind one of a porcupine’s quills. Her skin tone was a special dusting of moon dust and the moonlight
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Gitanjali (Song offerings) by Rabindranath Tagore Formatted for Rocket eBook by: Kirby A. Heintzelman - June, 2000 Rabindranath Tagore(1861--1941), was the first non-White to receive Nobel prize (1913) for Literature. The event of course caused some furor at the time. New York Times in its prodigious generosity consoled its readers by alluding to the fact that after all Tagore was of Aryan Stock. It was first published in 1913 as a collection of prose translations made by the author from the original
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Martin 1 Ms. Virginia Rachel English Comp. 101 09/15/2015 The Hero in the Night What goes bump in the night? A question kids will forever eerily ask themselves as they lay down at night. The dark corner of the room, what's underneath of the bed or who or even what is lurking behind the closet door. There's just something unsettling about what we cant see. The minute the lights dim my
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through the use of two elements: imagery and tone. Frost uses imagery and tone by implementing dark words to create sad and foreboding scenes in the readers mind. An analysis of Robert Frost's poems reveals that he creates a somber mood through his use of imagery and tone. Robert Frost uses imagery to create a somber mood in his poems. When Frost creates a poem, he typically uses words that have dark meanings to describe the scenes of his poem. A good example would come from his poem “Ghost House”:
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a wretch am I, to leave her on such an errand!” (Hawthorne 606). Once in the forest Brown meets the Devil. As Brown and the Devil continue their walk through the woods the Devil tells him stories of his own Father and Grandfather walking this same dark path that Young Goodman Brown has taken. “Good goodman Brown! I have been as well acquainted with your family as with ever a one among the Puritans; that’s no trifle to say” (Hawthorne 607). Goodman Brown enters the woods and has many ghostly and
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outside and happy memoires being made in the car even though the family is squished tight together. The family soon crashes on a dirt road in the middle of nowhere. O’Conner says, “Behind the ditch they were sitting in there were more woods, tall and dark and deep” (O’Connor 249), in
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It was late at night before I was finally put to rest. I was looking forward to a good night rest before morning came again and I was put back on for another long days walk. I was tucked all snug and warm in my humans closet. It was dark and cozy but I knew I would not get to rest for long. I was woken up by the sounds of feet walking by and then a light was turned on. I went through this routine day after day, so I knew what to expect. I was not wrong. There were several other pairs that lay beside
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