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- 1151: Edgar Allan Poe's "The Black Cat"
- ... within each of us, no matter how docile and humane our dispositions might appear. - By Martha Womack Martha Womack, better known to Internet users as Precisely Poe, has a BA degree in English from Longwood College in Virginia, and teaches English and Theatre Arts at Fuqua School in Farmville, Virginia. When Martha first began teaching American literature, she found so much conflicting information about Edgar Allan Poe that she became confused ...
- 1152: A Couple of Frosted Poems
- ... to Lawrence, Massachusetts, where his grandparents lived. In 1892, he graduated from Lawrence High School and shared valedictorian with honors with Elinor White, whom he married just three years later. After graduation, Frost attended Dartmouth College, taught in a grade school, worked in a mill, and served as a newspaper report. He published a book of poetry at his own expense. In 1897 Frost entered Harvard University as a special student ...
- 1153: "A Dream Within A Dream"
- ... He and his baby sister Rosalie were left orphaned. Mrs. Francis Allan took him in but not his sister. Her husband never would adopt him. He was sent to many different schools and while in college, began to drink heavily. This habit cost him many jobs as well as his relationship with his foster father. He married his cousin Virginia. She was his sanity and his life. When she died of ...
- 1154: Emily Dickinson: Individuality
- ... From all the jails the boys and girls Ecstatically leap, Beloved, only afternoon That prison doesnt keep. (Kirby 71) In this poem Emily shows her feelings towards formalized schooling. Being a product of reputable college one would think that she would be in favor of this. But as her beliefs in transcendentalism grew so did her belief in individuality. She grew to adopt the Emersonian concepts and lead a daily ...
- 1155: Exploring The Theme Of Premature Death In Three Poems
- ... a statement belaying his intense grief when he resolves to never like something so much that it will tear him apart, like the death of his son did. In Mid-term Break, the speaker, a college student sits waiting for his classes to close (1-2). He then returns home to his grief-stricken family and friends, who try to console him, (4-14). Next he watches as the ambulance arrives ...
- 1156: Dulce et Decorum est: Analysis of Military Life
- ... est: Analysis of Military Life The brochure for the U.S. Army, Count Your Benefits in the Army Reserve, lists attractive advantages for those considering a career in the military field: reserve pay, money for college, vocational training, income tax breaks, and retirement benefits, among countless others. None of the benefits mentioned, however, are meant to outweigh what the Army reserve simply defines as the "intangible" perks of enlisting: feeling as ...
- 1157: Elizabeth Bishop and Her Poem "Filling Station"
- ... station, one who drives by the station or one who gives to the station? Bibliography Bishop, Elizabeth. "Filling Station." An Introduction to Poetry. Eds. Dana Gioia and X.J. Kennedy. Eighth Edition. New York: HarperCollins College Publishers, 1994.
- 1158: T. S. Eliot's "The Hollow Men"
- ... in 1906, completed his courses in three years and earned a master's degree the next year. After a year at the Sorbonne in Paris, he returned to Harvard. Further study led him to Merton College, Oxford, and he decided to stay in England. He worked first as a teacher and then in Lloyd's Bank until 1925. Then he joined the London publishing firm of Faber and Gwyer, becoming director ...
- 1159: The Personification and Criticism of Death in John Donne's "Death Be Not Proud."
- ... he says that some people have called death "Mighty and dreadful"(l 2). The quality of being powerful and the ability to cause great fear, basic definitions taken from Random House's 1962 The American College Dictionary, are undeniably human traits and Donne uses these traits to portray death as a formidable foe. "With an impudence that is characteristically Donne's, he deflates Death in the opening salvo. He discounts the ...
- 1160: Analysis of Robinson's "Mr. Flood's Party"
- ... friends and growing ancient. The setting of this poem even adds to the over all elderly view. In line 3 of Robinson's work, And the forsaken upland hermitage. Hermitage according to Webster's New College Dictionary means, a place where person can live away from other people; secluded retreat.(p. 632) Mr. Flood is secluded, his friends have all passed on. They have grown old and left Eben to fin ...
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