In 1812 Mary Shelley the nineteen year old and her friends made a literary competition in Geneva Switzerland to see who could make the best ghost story. ... The eighteen year old writer sat amazed by the conversations between her friends and the passionate poet she adored, Percy Bysshe Shelley regarding the latest scientific experiments upon cadavers and what they might mean philosophically in terms of the limitations of science. ... "In the morning as soon as it was light, I wen upon deck and found all the sailors on one side of the vessel, apparently talking to some in the sea.... As H...

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His last focus in his work was humanity in which he believed that as man moves further and further away from humanity he seems to be losing more and more of his soul, he was often forced to think about the people trapped in the cities, unable or unwilling to commute with nature. ... Both Samuel Taylor and William Wordsworth conceived a new style of poetry in which nature and diction of the common man outplayed formal, stylized writing. ... In the second quarter of the poem William Wordsworth tells the reader that everything in nature, such as the wind and the sea is met up in a powerful spirit...

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Edna Pontellier, a married woman, finds herself infatuated with another man. ... Pontellier is the epitome of a good man, but Edna thinks otherwise. ... As Chopin describes, "the voice of the sea speaks to the soul- (659). ... Edna notes that it felt good to wake up in a bed that had a "sweet country odor of laurel."" ... Now Edna was alone, and she would have to return to her old life with her new vision, and face it all on her own. ...

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• Grade Level: High School