The midnight blue color throughout suggests that the heart of love is as profound, deep and moving as the ocean itself. The gem drives the plot, then, and serves as the central symbol carrying the message. ... She asks a question about a gem named "Le Coeur de la Mer," the French title for "The Heart of the Ocean." ... Rose Dawson Calvert then observes that "A woman's heart is a deep ocean of secrets." ... It is set on the largest moving vessel of its time navigating the vastness of the ocean that is the Atlantic. ...

• Word Count: 1239
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

The Speaker-Message-Receiver in Sonnet LXXX is much more specific than many of the other sonnets. ... The poet uses an extended metaphor of ships and the ocean. Through this metaphor, the poet shows that he is the underdog of the two ships trying to win the worth of his love which is represented as the ocean. ... But since your worth (wide as the ocean is) 2. ... I value your virginity like the ocean 2. ...

• Word Count: 312
• Approx Pages: 1
• Grade Level: High School

Dorigen becomes distressed by some rocks along the shoreline of the ocean near the port, and is scared that when her husband comes back home his ship will crash on the rocks and sink. ... The ocean is near, and Dorigen and her friends sometimes take walks and gaze over the cliffs at the ocean. ... "The Franklin's Tale" is a tale worth reading, and the underlying messages are those that should still be heard today....

• Word Count: 766
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

I know this is not easy for them, but I also know that they would move mountains and cross the oceans to see the smile on my face. ... To conclude with another message from the movie Moulin Rouge: "The greatest thing you will ever learn, is just to love and be loved in return....

• Word Count: 541
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

This house was built on a cliff overlooking the tempestuous Pacific Ocean (p 20). ... In the line "the moon glows like phosphorous" Neruda uses a metaphor for his burning love for a woman and the "vagrant waters" embodies Neruda's lonely drifting manner, like waves in an ocean. ... He sent his message of love to her but does not receive a reply. ...

• Word Count: 1395
• Approx Pages: 6
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

The spirits that held the world together as a whole, the force that relayed messages and prayers between the gods and man, is what love is. ... We began with the physical beauty and moved on to the beauty in the soul, she now speaks about the love of all things, or an "ocean of beauty." From this ocean of beauty, we are now able to pursue beauty in all aspects of our lives. ...

• Word Count: 1661
• Approx Pages: 7
• Grade Level: High School

Days passed and the contact never ended, the cute text messages or mere snap chats I got from him were enough to keep the butterflies flowing in endlessly. ... He was my missing puzzle piece and as we spent the day walking down Venice Beach Boulevard or even splashing each other in the ocean, there was no place I would have rather been. ... After mass I received a text message from my mom that I had a dentist appointment and we needed to leave. ...

• Word Count: 2531
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

The Awakening, by Kate Chopin, is a complex work of literature. It combines involved characters with deep symbolism to tell the story of a troubled woman and what drives her to suicide. Because of its complexity, it is difficult to classify The Awakening into a literary category. On the surface, it could be considered a good example of Realism. Edna Pontellier, a married woman, finds herself infatuated with another man. ...

• Word Count: 4173
• Approx Pages: 17
• Grade Level: High School