The poem Birches written by Robert Frost is about a man reflecting on his life and when he was a child and how he wishes he could have that life back When he was young he could escape life by climbing the birches and be brought right back down by the trees flexibility 1 As he grew up the birches got weighted so much by other conflicts that he cant be brought up to how he used to be and could not escape adulthood and reality When I see birches bend to left and right across the line of straighter
A Tale of Two Abbeys Jane Austens Northanger Abbey epitomizes the idea that the little things in life really do matter Throughout her revolutionary writing which contrasts greatly with the Gothic style of writing popularized by Matthew Lewis The Monk Austen brilliantly incorporates vivid miniscule details which often escape readers unnoticed to bring richness and life to her story Whereas The Monk thrives on extravagance horror and exterior details Northanger Abbey relishes in the simple realit
Essay 1 Dickenson Because I Could Not 565 As I read Because I Could Not by Emily Dickenson I was extremely confused because when I first read the title I said to myself okay a confusing poem about sad love but as I read the first stanza I said to myself this has NOTHING to do with love but yet still confusing I tried breaking down each line looking up unfamiliar words and reading aloud about 10 times and still no clarity came to mind Finally I read it once more to my roommate and BOOM It hit me
At first my world seems alien and different to you My life and my experiences make you wonder what may be what might have been Does my world challenge you Provoke you Is it all that different from yours Could yours end up like this There are possibilities in my world does your world offer as many possibilities Evaluate the extent to which these thoughts express the conventions ideas and values of gothic The gothic is a unique synthesis of horror and romance the many elements of the gothic combi
Anthropomorphism and Personification In Desert Solitaire Edward Abbey is in a pursuit of seeing nature as it is without humanly ascribed qualities 7 Although Abbey does not want to use anthropomorphism or personification he finds that it is impossible to avoid because he sees life in the desert and writes all living things on earth are kindred 25 And if we are all kindred then we share many of the same attributes At first the author defends his position by stating that it is possible for wild a
Examine Dickenss treatment of wealth and its effects on individual characters in Great Expectations Great Expectations is a bildungsroman based on the development and growth of Pip a boy at the beginning of the novel who is a seed of his own planting in a hostile environment In the beginning Pip is a commoner oppressed by the hard and heavy hand of his sister Mrs Joe He helps a convict later found to be named Magwitch in the marshes as he is a genuinely kind and genteel boy However as Pip is in