Sean Harrison Kelly Daubek English 201 9 February 2014 Literary Analysis Symbolism, Imagery, and Metaphor in ‘The Masque of the Red Death’ by Edger A. Poe Edgar A. Poe is one of the most widely read and acclaimed writers of fiction. He is regarded by many as one of the greatest literary artists of his time. His works have been evaluated, interpreted and dissected with the scrutiny of an insatiably curious mortician, one who, above all, seeks to fathom the inner workings of the deceased…
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memories of the passing of one of his allies. He had succumbed to the excruciating pain of sulfur gas right before Owen’s eyes, leaving him traumatized. “Dulce Et Decorum Est” is an allegory for bound, ill-fated camaraderie. Through the use of oxymora, imagery, and allusion, Owen is able demonstrate core-shaking loss. Using final words of the poem, “Dulce et decorum est pro patria mori,” Owen makes an allusion to Roman poet Horace’s Odes. The Latin phrase translates to: it is sweet and fitting to die for…
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Existentialism as Exemplified in ‘The Seventh Seal’ The Seventh Seal is a 1957 Swedish film written and directed by Ingmar Bergman. The film offers interwoven storyline. It starts with a game of chess between a medieval knight, Antonius Block, and Death – in which if Block won, Death will prolong the knight’s life. This game goes on in intermittent times. The knight is accompanied by his squire, Jöns, as they go back to the knight’s castle to be reunited with his wife. Throughout their journey…
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Heart,” describes the old man, the narrator targets to murder, locking himself in his own home trying to keep out evil. He attempted to shut out the evil from the outside,“... His room was as black as pitch with the thick darkness (for the shutters were close fastened, through fear of robbers)...”(75). But, the old man kept the evil inside, the narrator. No matter how much the victim tried to keep the corruption outside from attacking him, it still got to him. The old man locked up his house, closed…
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however, this passage is not very strict about the problem resolution structure. In the seventh line, the speaker state that he will “leave off” implying that the speaker will once again leave his hunt. The speaker stops pursuing the deer because the deer for which he is hunting is impossible to catch, stated in lines seven to eight, “since in a net I seek to hold the wind.” This is what the passage shows, vivid imagery that allows the readers to clearly see the speakers emotional state. In the lines…
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who, through a variety of writing techniques, lends some insight into his own personal struggles as a human being. Some notable examples of such techniques include his use of arrogance, paranoia, ambivalence, contempt, as well as the use of color imagery. Steigerwald 2 Poe speaks to his apparent arrogance in at least two of his short stories. In “The Cask of Amontillado”, the narrator immediately establishes himself as superior to the other character: “The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne…
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second poem is “To Daffodils” written by Robert Herrick in 1675. Both poems are about the comparison between man and nature, in this case, it’s the daffodils, but the poems are written in a different way. The poems are very different in terms of the way daffodils affect the writer’s state of mind. The poems have contrasting content and theme. Wordsworth’s poem tells a story about a lonely man walking, when he saw a field full of daffodils and he became happy and overjoyed. Robert Herrick’s poem takes…
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Vivian Simons Profit Professor Walters English 202 25 January 2015 Winter Dreams by F. Scott Fitzgerald is an encompassing tale of a man by the name of Dexter Green, who is looking to fast track his way to fame and fortune. Though from a middle class background, the main character is having a “tough of war” relationship with himself and society because he is attempting to be successful, gain social clout, be wealth, attract the eye of Ms. Judy Jones, and also be happy with himself. Fitzgerald uses…
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However, the US’s presence did not stop the clans from stealing up to 80 percent of the food that was sent to Somalia. President Bush increased US presence by sending the 10th Mountain Division along with Marines from the 15th Expeditionary Unit, the Seventh, Eleventh, and Ninth Marines (Runkle, 2013). However, by midsummer 1993, Mohammed Aideed increased attacks on UN convoys, killing 24 Pakistani troops and wounding 57. Newly inaugurated President Clinton and staff decided that Aideed needed to be…
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On June 11, 1963, at the oval office in Washington D.C, John F. Kennedy delivered news about the discriminatory events that occurred at the University of Alabama. This was broadcasted all across the nation, on every television, radio, and eventually making it’s way to the major national papers the next day. On that day, several protesters, some violent, had gathered at the University of Alabama due to a series of protests, which were caused by the fact that two African American students had just…
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