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- 31: Mrs Dalloway
- ... drummed his thoughts, strict in step, up Whitehall, without his doing. Boys in uniform, carrying guns, marched with their eyes ahead of them, marched, their arms stiff, and on their faces an expression like the letters of a legend written round the base of a statue praising duty, gratitude, fidelity, love of England. (51) The words ``patter,'' ``rustling,'' and ``thudding'' are onomatopoeic, simultaneously referring to and embodying sound, while ``drummed'' specifically evokes the percussive patterns that pervade the passage. Alliterative pairs of words, like ``rustling regular,'' ``strict in step,'' ``Whitehall without,'' and ``written round,'' and the triplet ``like the letters of a legend'' sound when spoken like strokes on the skin of the drum. Similar structures can be heard throughout the novel, especially in Septimus Smith's hallucinations: The earth thrilled beneath him. Red flowers ... we may feel compelled to disentangle the threads of time in order to reconstruct chronological plot. Dowling reprints diagrams other readers have used to chart chronology in the novel--one builds pyramids labeled with algebraic letters and numbers to signify time frames and characters, another draws zig-zags connecting characters to each other (Dowling 71). But Dowling is forced to conclude, ``despite the patterning in the novel, then, it remains ...
- 32: The Mayor of Caterbridge: Important Characters
- ... he was no better. Because of this, Henchard lost some of his glory in the eyes of the townspeople. The third and final time the furmity woman shows up, she makes it known about the letters that Joshua Jopp had. When Lucetta’s letters were read, it was discovered that Lucetta wrote the letters and that they were letters that spoke of Lucetta’s love for Henchard. With this being known, Henchard and Lucetta were paraded around the town on a “skimmity ride.” The shock and embarrassment of ...
- 33: Emily DIckinson
- ... were very close friends and confidantes, until Susan and Austin’s marriage. It was at this time that Susan stopped responding to the notes and poems that were often exchanged between the two ( ). Emily’s letters to Susan have contained lines that have proved to be controversial when interpreted. "Susie, will you indeed come home next Saturday, and be my own again, and kiss me like you used to?"- Emily Dickinson Some historians describe Emily’s letters to Susan Gilbert as representative of the writing style during the Victorian era. Others, including Dickinson’s biographer Rebecca Patterson, saw the letters as evidence of Emily’s homosexuality (Sullivan, 1). It is not known when Dickinson began to write poetry or what happened to the poems of her early youth. Only five poems can be dated ...
- 34: Tchaikovsky: His Life and Times
- ... psychological terror, Tchaikovsky was a musical genius. This is his story. Peter Llyich Tchaikovsky was born on May 07,1840 in Russia. He had a younger brother, Modest, whom in later years Tchaikovsky wrote many letters to. His letters told us most of what we know about Tchaikovsky. Tchaikovsky was manic depressive. Slanderous critics may have contributed to his psychological dismay. His reviews were hardly ever in his favor. Tchaikovsky was composer of six ... music to The Nutcracker, Romeo and Juliet, and The Sleeping Beauty. He wrote such works as the 1812 Overture and the First Piano Concerto in b flat minor. All during his life Tchaikovsky wrote detailed letters to his brother and close friends, including Madame Von Meck, the patroness he never met in person. His letters give us insight on how he felt about his music and life. This biography includes ...
- 35: Alexander Hamilton
- ... loyalties with the colonists. At a mass meeting held in the fields in New York City on July 6, 1774, he made a sensational speech attacking British policies. In addition, he wrote a series of letters for John Holt's New-York Journal. When an Anglican clergyman, Samuel Seabury, denounced the first Continental Congress in several Westchester Farmer letters, Hamilton replied with two powerful pamphlets. His military aspirations also flowered with a series on early accomplishments. At King's College he joined a patriot volunteer band known as the "Corsicans" and drilled every morning ... eventually had eight children. Here, Elizabeth is pictured to the left, with her father and mother to the right. At twenty-five, Hamilton began his popular political efforts from which his greatest fame arises. In letters dated from 1779 to 1780 he correctly diagnosed the ills of the new Confederation and suggested the necessity of centralization. He was also one of the first to suggest adequate checks on the anarchic ...
- 36: Alexander Hamilton
- ... loyalties with the colonists. At a mass meeting held in the fields in New York City on July 6, 1774, he made a sensational speech attacking British policies. In addition, he wrote a series of letters for John Holt's New-York Journal. When an Anglican clergyman, Samuel Seabury, denounced the first Continental Congress in several Westchester Farmer letters, Hamilton replied with two powerful pamphlets. His military aspirations also flowered with a series on early accomplishments. At King's College he joined a patriot volunteer band known as the "Corsicans" and drilled every morning ... eventually had eight children. Here, Elizabeth is pictured to the left, with her father and mother to the right. At twenty-five, Hamilton began his popular political efforts from which his greatest fame arises. In letters dated from 1779 to 1780 he correctly diagnosed the ills of the new Confederation and suggested the necessity of centralization. He was also one of the first to suggest adequate checks on the anarchic ...
- 37: Emily Dickinson 4
- ... on February 28, 1833. She was raised in Amherst, Massachusetts, which was a small and tradition-bound town in the nineteenth century. Emily s father, Edward Dickinson, was a grand figure in Amherst. In his letters, he comes across as a remarkably ambitious man a typical success-oriented, work-oriented citizen of expansionist America, in Richard Sewall s characterization. Educated at Amherst College and Yale, he soon became the leading lawyer ... the remainder of her life there. She took occasional trips but always returned home to her sanctuary and eventually stopped travelling and even leaving her house completely. She corresponded with her confidantes and friends through letters, rarely seeing them. The men she corresponded with during her life include Benjamin Newton, a law student; Reverend Charles Wadsworth, a Philadelphia minister; Thomas Higginson, a literary critic and Civil War hero, and Otis Lord ... when Susan became engaged to Austin and remained that way for two years. Susan and Austin then moved in next door to Dickinson and their relationship was rekindled given that Dickinson would send Susan (love) letters and poems. Feminist scholars who have examined these letters and poems tend to believe that the two shared more than just friendship, that in fact they shared a blatant, passionate relationship. No one knows ...
- 38: Francesco Petrarch
- ... once again gaining influence. Besides influence, these canonries were a means of income for him and influence. At the Age of 49, Francesco was unsure of where he wanted to live. He sent out several letters asking if he could move to different cites in Italy, Petrarch moved to Milan. There here lived under the Archbishop. He did this only on the stipulation that he would have freedom and solitude. The ... that he was still going to settle. After some time had past, Italians started fighting against each other, specifically the Genoese and the Venetians. This cause a great amount of distress for Petrarch. He wrote letters to both sides, the Doge of Venice and the Counsel of Genoa, urging them for peace. They were ignored and the war continued. Even though the Archbishop was unaware of how he felt towards him ... he was sent to King John\\'s reentry into France. The King tried to convince Petrarch that he should stay in France with him. He refused. But once Petrarch had returned to Milan he received letters from King John asking Francesco to come back to France. Petrarch wrote letters back, once again, refusing the King. All situations that show that with great connections to the church, lead to Petrarch\\'s ...
- 39: The Stalking of Celebrities
- ... member of his or her family. The law decreed that this threat could come via spoken words or actions.14 The most extensive study on the stalking phenomenon was done by Dietz. Using 5,000 letters supplied by de Becker, he spent six years on the problem. He found that fans who write letters filled with threats are least likely to attempt physical contact. It is fans who write of romance and intimacy who are most likely to do so. “Many celebrities wait until there's been an over threat. They don't realize that, for them, love letters from adult strangers are the greatest risk.”15 Dietz, who theorizes that 95% of the letters were written by the mentally ill, says fans turn violent not because they hate the star but because ...
- 40: Biography of Edgar Allen Poe
- ... correct" (Moldavia). Poe also loved debating. The student life at the University of Virginia in 1826 was very chaotic. In one student riot the students threw bottles and bricks at the professors. In Poe's letters to John Allen he often talked of violence on campus. He once wrote of how a student was struck on the head with a stone and then pulled out a gun and killed his attacker ... house. In a letter to John Poe wrote, "I have heard you say when you little thought I was listening and therefor must have said it in ear that you had no affection for me" (letters 203). Poe then resorted to gambling again and became even more into debt. Poe then moved to Boston under the alias of Henri Le Renett (Moldavia). Poe then managed to published his first book Tamerline ... did try to quit drinking many times but he was never successful. In a letter on July 22,1848 Poe wrote, "It has bean a long while since any artificial stimulus has passed my lips" (Letters 239). Poe also to go mad. Poe's madness was mainly credited to brain lesions or scars in the brain. A good example of Poe breaking down is when he arrived at John Sartains ...
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