With "To lytel while oure blysse lasteth" [too little while our bliss lasts] (line 211), he leaves her, echoing a theme of this and other poems in Chaucer's love-poetry oeuvre. ... He would give this gift to obtain the swift and deep sleep that Alcyone did when Juno answered her prayer. ... Analysis Burying the body of a relative with proper rites was a recurring theme in classical literature (such as in Sophocles' play  Antigone), so it was not surprising that Ovid would make it part of the story of Seys and Alcyone. ... Alcyone asks Juno to give her news of her lost husband, and ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Rossetti tells the story of two women and their betrayal that arrives in a vast number of levels each with varying effects. ... Amongst the "indelicate" themes interpreted within Goblin Market are homosexuality, incest, drug addiction and the pain of rejected sexual desire. ... Eat me, drink me, love me; Laura, make much of me Lizzie offers herself as satisfaction for Laura's "passionate yearning" and "baulked desire"; an action that can be interpreted as more erotic than sacramental. ... Jeanie, who had giving in to the temptation of the fruit, died at the first snow fall. ... These ...

• Word Count: 3193
• Approx Pages: 13
• Has Bibliography

He is credited with creating the detective story genre and with transforming the Gothic mystery tale of the Romantic Period. Poe developed a theory that he applied to both his short stories and his poems. ... The theme or plot of the piece is always subordinate to the author's calculated construction of a single, intense mood in the reader's or listener's mind. ... Tell me, tell me, I beg you!... Leave me alone! ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Each poem is unique to one another due to these differences; the time they were written, their themes, the representations of man and nature used, the rhythm and rhythmic pattern of each, the imagery used and lastly the similes and metaphors. ... In this poem, nature is trying to get back to man, as "The deer had come for me". ... Nature and man's representations in each of the poems are all quite different, but all have a part in the basic story of this on-going interaction between man and nature. "La Belle Dame Sans Merci", being the earliest of the three poems, has the "knight-at-arms"...

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It was largely a poetry of urban themes; the Romantic dependence on nature had already declined. ... His poems are largely traditional in theme, form, and structure, and show a continuity with the Wordsworthian art of recording the impact of ordinary daily events on an individual and sensitive mind. ...

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