The two following tales - "The Cast of Amontillado" and " The Tell Tale Heart " - are stories where the narrator is completely different but the author is the same. ... On the other hand, " The Tell Tale Heart ", is without a doubt a different poetic prose. ... " The Cast of Amontillado ", is a powerful tale of revenge. ... In contrast, " The Tell Tale Heart " consists in human nature that is a delicate balance of light and dark; good and evil. ... The tale tells you that the fear of the narrator is provoked by the old man's eye. ...

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This is a narrative poem which means that it tells a story. ... Unlike in traditional fairy tales, there is no happy ending. ... Unlike in traditional fairy tales, there is no happy ending to this tale. ... It could be humorous, light-hearted, comic or a feminist poem making serious points about male and female expectations of each other. ... This adds to the light hearted feel to the poem. ...

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He is credited with creating the detective story genre and with transforming the Gothic mystery tale of the Romantic Period. ... In "The Raven,"" the persona begins his tale in his home on a dark and gloomy December night in this paraphrase: Once, during a dreary midnight, while I pondered, weak and weary, over many amusing and peculiar forgotten folk tales, I fell sleepy, nearly napping (1-3). ... Let me see, then, what it is, let my heart calm down, and explore this mystery. ... Tell me, tell me, I beg you!... Take your beak out from my heart, and take yourself away from my door!...

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Into this dreary setting, the poet's heart can be heard. ... Seeking approval, Poe began to construct tales and stories, which succeeded in gaining the public's eye and favor (Poe 7). ... However, the echoing darkness of those dreams must find specificity in the dark heart of the reader, and the poet will not fulfill that unholy task. ... -/On this home by Horror haunted-tell me truly, I implore-/Is there-is there balm in Gilead?-tell me-tell me, I implore!'...

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Keats genuinely appreciates the story the urn is imparting and though it is silent, he believes its images can tell the tale more effectively than his poem is able to: "who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme:" The events occur in a "leaf-fring'd" setting of "deities or men" in "mad pursuit" of reluctant "maidens", a passionate, heated courtship scene, paradoxically portrayed on a cold, motionless urn. ... For ever warm and still to be enjoy'd" The passion will never grow cold, the reality will never fail to live up to anticipation as when "human passio...

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Distraught, she prays to  Juno  to send her a dream that would tell her of the fate of Seys. ... He also tells her not to remain in sorrow too long. ... Nevertheless, in a common literary reversal, the narrator endeavors to tell the reader anyway. ... When the knight has finished his song, he suffers a kind of emotional heart attack and becomes deathly pale. ... The king's hunting party goes off toward a long castle, and a bell tolls twelve hours, the time allotted to the knight to tell his tale. ...

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The speaker's imagination presents to us, I believe, his picture of the very heart of nature, there is a sense of fertility in the language when he speaks of "flowers" at his feet, a "fruit-tree wild" and the "coming musk-rose, full of dewy wine". It is here that the speaker tells us that he is extremely fond of the idea of dying here and jong nature: "Now more than ever seems it rich to die". ... In the seventh stanza we are presented with the powerful image of the Biblical tale of the Israelite Ruth caught in Egypt longing for her home. ... I believe the speaker asks this question due t...

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The first stanza ("STRANGE fits of passion have I known: And I will dare to tell, But in the Lover's ear alone, What once to me befell.") says how the narrator will recite his tale, but only to a lover such as himself. ... He is writing this from the heart and is meant for others experiencing the same situation. ...

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What pictures do they paint, or story do they tell you? Does the same picture - eg. the face of someone the poet loves - tell you something different in each case about the poet's feelings? ... The poet was a young woman writing about the fairy tale Rapunzel. ... Wordsworth "Her heart is always doing lovely things, Filling my wintry mind with simple flowers..." ...

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Within these two poems he is able to bring people closer to the heart of primitive human nature in his race than anyone ever before (Laryea 109). ... I think Dunbar wrote this poem to tell others and to be an example to others of a slave being trapped into doing work just because of his race. The most famous line "I know what the caged bird feels", tells us what the poem is basically about, that Dunbar knows how it feels to be imprisoned and not be able to so as you please. ... The image of Dunbar was defaced because they censured him for tarnishing the symbol and meaning of the plantation ...

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Ode to a Grecian Urn THOU still unravish'd bride of quietness, Thou foster-child of Silence and slow Time, Sylvan historian, who canst thus express A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme: What leaf-fringed legend haunts about thy shape Of deities or mortals, or of both, In Tempe or the dales of Arcady? ... For ever warm and still to be enjoy'd, For ever panting, and for ever young; All breathing human passion far above, That leaves a heart high-sorrowful and cloy'd, A burning forehead, and a parching tongue. ... And, little town, thy streets for evermore Will silent be; and...

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"After having returned from exotic travels, he became a figure of force and he followed his success with a series of "Eastern" tales that added to his aura: one of them, The Corsair 1814, written in ten days, sold ten thousand copies on the day of publication"(The Penguin Group, 2). ... She Walks In Beauty 1 She walks in beauty , like the night Of cloudless climes and starry skies; And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes: Thus mellowed to that tender light 5 Which heaven to gaudy day denies. 2 One shade the more, one ray the less, Had half impaired the namel...

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• Grade Level: High School