A common thread that is in three of Hardy's many poems is a passion or mourning for a lost love or friend. ... "The Haunter- by Thomas Hardy is a poem about a friend that the speaker is no longer with. In this poem it is the person who has passed away who is the speaker of this poem, and he follows his friend around to places he couldn't go before (ll. 11-12). His friend, who is still alive and searching, does not know that his dead friend is still there for him and is with him (ll. 1-3). ... - This line is used in the poem in the sense that the speaker follows his friend, but h...

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It is a poem work of Epic genre. ... Climax of the poem is Achilles' return to combat turns the tide against the Trojans once and for all and ensures the fated fall of Troy to which the poet has alluded throughout the poem. ... Motifs of this poem are armor; burial; fire etc. ... It is an Epic poem of Heroic epic; mythological story genre. ... Protagonist of the poem is Aeneas. ...

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Plot Summary "Cathedral" opens with the narrator telling the reader in a conversational tone that a blind friend of his wife's is coming to visit them. ... "This blind man, an old friend of my wife's, he was on his way to spend the night," announces the narrator conversationally in the first line of the story. ... Summary The narrator, or storyteller, of Raymond Carver's short story "Cathedral" opens by saying, "This blind man, an old friend of my wife's, he was on his way to spend the night." ...

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Chapter Summaries Chapter 1 In the first chapter of "The Catcher in the Rye" by J.D. Salinger, the narrator, Holden Caulfield, tells us quite a few things about himself and his family. He has on brother that is in the movie writing business and as far as his parents are concerned we find out...

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The character of Theseus appears in Greek myth (he was a friend of Hercules and a giant-killer), but Shakespeare more likely got the idea for his character from Chaucer's Knight's Tale, which refers to Theseus and Hippolyta in the larger context of the story of Palamon and Arcite, two men in love with the same woman (a plot that resembles aspects of this play). ... Unfortunately, the love-juice Puck mistakenly applies to her boyfriend's eyes (thinking that he is Demetrius) makes him fall in love with her best friend Helena instantaneously. ... Helena Before t...

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