On the album, they wanted to embark on a darker version of Chris Isaak's "Wicked Games." ... With their heavy guitar riffs and Ville's melodic, dark, high-pitched voice, the album became an instant success in the Finnish music world. ... The song tells the story of Ville falling out of love with a girl, and in return welcoming all evil into his heart because of this loveless void. ... The way they create this effect is by Salminen creating dark odd sounds from his keyboard while there is a drum beat in the background and Linde creating feedback from his guitar. ... The heart represen...

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"Christina Rosetti seems towards the dark side of life." ... By looking at her use of language, imagery, themes and her addressee I shall explore to what extent I agree with the statement that the work of Rosetti leans towards the "Dark Side." ... The themes exposed in each poem reveal to a great extent Rosetti's beliefs and moral ideals as well as her views of life and any inclination she may have towards "the dark side". ... The threatening image in line 5 of the "broadening darkness" is almost one of omnipotence, as it is described as "loftier still". ... This suggests that the claim...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

"Did my heart love till now?" ... In contrast, though, there is also the recurring theme of dark imagery. ... "More light and light, more dark and dark our woes." Here, the significance of light is as their enemy, and darkness their friend. ... "But woo her gentle Paris, get her heart, /My will to her consent is but a part. ...

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"Even more suggestive evidence of Coverdale's possible liaison at some point with a less than innocent Priscilla is intimated in the highly connotative scene where she visits his sick chamber at Blithedale- (268) The Lefcowitz's offer much evidence, very little of it convincing, that Priscilla has a dark sexual background. ... I would like to take a much more pedestrian look at Priscilla's character, not trying to find well-hidden, dark sexual secrets, but instead looking at her as a well-developed character, who the narrator sees as the most important character in the book. ...

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He invites Paris to the feast, hoping that Paris will begin to win Juliet's heart. ... Romeo hurries to see his friend and confessor Friar Lawrence, who, though shocked at the sudden turn of Romeo's heart, agrees to marry the young lovers in secret since he sees in their love the possibility of ending the age-old feud between Capulet and Montague. ...

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To which Romeo responds, "More light and light- more dark and dark our woes." ... She holds fast to her heart's desire despite the foreshadowing threats of her father, "Hang, beg, starve, die in the streets, For, by my soul, I'll ne'er acknowledge thee."" ... Shocked Juliet says, "Speakest thou from you heart?" ...

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Morel feared that Miriam would exclude her and tried to break up their relationship, while Paul, himself sickened at heart by Miriam's romantic love and fear of physical warmth, turned away and became involved with Clara Dawes, a married woman, separated from her husband Baxter, and a supporter of Women's Right. ... Paul resisted the urge to follow her into the darkness and, with a great effort, turned towards life. ... In her deep heart, she has intense love but cannot find reasonable mode to release so as to shower her total affection and hope on her sons, especially William an...

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Romeo and Juliet! Why was fate to blame? Romeo and Juliet is a well-known Shakespeare in which fate plays an important part. Tragedy is defined as something with a serious theme that usually ends in death or defeat. Fate is a power, which is thought to make things happen and is out of anyone's control. ...

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From the beginning of recorded history music in some form or other has told the story of life and its beauty, wonder, struggles, and causes. From the love between a man and a woman to the oppression of people, music and song have been supplying the soundtrack to life. Music has a tendency to questio...

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Wordsworth's affection for mankind now begins to transform into a repulsive melancholy spreading throughout his imagination: What then I learn"d, or think I learn"d, of truth, And the errors into which I was betray"d By present objects, and by reasonings false From the beginning, inasmuch as drawn Out of a heart which had been turn"d aside From nature by external accidents, And which was thus confounded more and more, Misguiding and misguided (Wordsworth 201). ...

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• Grade Level: High School