With emphasis on nature, the idea of the noble savage, and the darkness of the corrupt human mind, Shelly masterfully ties this timeless book together. ... This shows that the creature is not evil in his heart, but was influenced to become evil because of society. ... One of the more powerful characteristics of Romanticism and Gothicism is the emphasis on the darkness of the corrupt mind. ... The creature explains that his heart "did not endure the violence of the change" (164) from good to forced hatred "without torture such as you cannot even imagine" (164). ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Come out of the darkness and let Nature teach you. ... "She has a world of ready wealth, our minds and hearts to bless" (Lines 17-18). Nature is ready to "bless" our hearts and minds with wisdom and knowledge. ... Come to Nature with an open heart and mind ready to learn. ...

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The gothic genre focused on darkness, death, isolation and caution either in the behavior of one person toward another or within an individual's own selfhood (poemuseum.org). ... This being said, his depressing life helped with his inspirations for his dark stories. ... Another way that Edgar Allan Poe showed his qualities as a writer was by a popular short story called "The Tell-Tale Heart". ... "The Tell-Tale Heart" was an attempt to create an extremely brief piece, also known as a short story. ... "The Tell-Tale Heart" is different and makes us want to cry...

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The speaker can be interpreted as Wordsworth based on the use of 'I' and true emotion being at the heart of the Romanticism. ... The link made between the human and nature being one adds to the belief that man is the darkness within the natural world highlighting the romantic interest in nature. In addition you can see the spontaneous overflow of emotion with: '...grieved my heart to think/ What man has made of man' (line 7-8). The use of the word 'heart' creates the contrast of the heart and the mind and captures the essence of the contrast of romanticism and tra...

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He is a product not of collaborative scientific effort but of dark, supernatural workings.cobb bbr sebbbbw orbb bbk inbb fobb bb: The monster is only the most literal of a number of monstrous entities in the novel, including the knowledge that Victor used to create the monster (see "Dangerous Knowledge"). ... He states, now that I have finished, the beauty of the dream vanished, and breathless horror and disgust filled my heart. ... In contrast to this, Victor advances in his studies of science for two years, where he states: I paid no visit to Geneva, but was engaged, heart and soul, in th...

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Suddenly the moon that was in-line with the cottage illuminating the destination for the rider, drops down below the cottage given the image of sudden darkness. This can be associated with dark feelings giving a depressing uncheerful atmosphere. ... He is writing this from the heart and is meant for others experiencing the same situation. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Reverend Dimesdale's image radiates the dark, gloomy truth of his impurities as well as the severe internal conflict within that is threatening to tear his soul. ... Forth peeped at her, out of the pool, with dark glistening curls around her head and an elf-smile in her eyes, the image of a little maid, whom Pearl, having no other playmate, invited to take her hand and run a race with her." ... The very limited light that shines onto the looking glass is used to burn deep into the minister's soul, prodding at the shameful secret he hides within his heart, and shine the consequences b...

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This poem was most likely used to teach the young children about the darker side of the world at that time. ... Blake poured his heart and soul into his works and that is what makes this period so magnificent. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

In the third part Wordsworth finds redeems that vanity with the love of his sister who is pure of heart with nature. ... For someone who lived a short life understood that the nature's purpose in our Universe was not to depress or inconvenience us with darkness but it was essential to the cycle and to life. ...

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Shelley's Frankenstein is host to a range of significant gothic elements, evident through Victor's creation of the gigantic creature, the dark setting of the novel, set in places of gloom and horror, and the disempowered portrayal of females, in which women are threatened by the tyranny of males and are often in distress. ... In her 1831 introduction, Shelley declares her desire to think of a story which would speak to the "mysterious fears of our nature and awaken thrilling horror " one to "curdle the blood, and quicken the beatings of the heart". ... In Frankenstein, the multitud...

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Blake uses dark and frantic images signifying paucity, violence, illness and decease because he wishes to convince the reader of melancholy and morbid. ... He articulates that the "sordid boon" we have "given our hearts" is the avaricious development of humans. ... In "Tintern Abbey" he writes about a "green pastorical landscape" and claims that "nature never did betray /the heart that loved her." ...

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The epithets throughout the poem are contradictory, but the majority of them can be linked with darkness- symbolizing the dark side of man. ... On one hand, the creation can be interpreted as industrial process (Moore), but on the other hand it can be looked at as another sign for the might of God- God, who forges not only the body, but also the heart of the fearful beast. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

The stanzas are made up of interlinking three-line units with the rhyme scheme ababcbcdc, continuing this to the end of the stanza: O wild West Wind, thou breath of Autumn's being, (a) Thou, from whose unseen presence the leaves dead (b) Are driven, like ghosts from an enchanter fleeing, (a) Yellow, and black, and pale, and hectic red, (b) Pestilence-stricken multitudes: O thou, (c) Who chariotest to their dark wintry bed (b) The winged seeds, where they lie cold and low, (c) Each like a corpse within its grave, until (d) Thine azure sister of the Spring shall blow (c) H...

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William Wordsworth complains that "the world" is too overwhelming for us to appreciate it: "Getting and spending, we lay waste our power: Little we see in nature that is our: we have given our hearts away, a sordid boon. ... When Wordsworth first lays eyes on this beautiful woman he describes her eyes being as beautiful as the stars in the evening and her hair as dark as the night. ...

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A central religious theme in the late Eighteenth Century was that God was to be found both in the world of nature (the starry heavens) and in the law with in the prompting of the human heart (Barth, Symbolic, 132). ... The first thirteen lines of the poem serve to set the place and dark attitude. ... Christabel is a savior in the story constantly making the right choices and having love in her heart. ...

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John Ruskin presents a more emotional view I have already noticed the example of very pure and high typical beauty which is to be found in the lines and gradations of unsullied snow: if, passing to the edge of a sheet of it, upon the Lower Alps, early in May, we find, as we are nearly sure to find, two or three little round openings pierced in it, and through these emergent, a slender, pensive, fragile flower, whose small, dark purple, fringed bell hangs down and shudders over the icy cleft that it has cloven, as if partly wondering at its own recent grave, and partly dying of very fatigue aft...

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This effect is reflected so clearly in the scientist's body that Giovanni notices from the first sight that he is devoid of any "warmth of heart". ... One notices here the sharp contrast between the darkness associated with the room and "the bright sunshine" of the garden. ... Yet, the romantic writer's rejection of this idea appears when he relates the room (culture) to darkness and unhappiness. ...

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• Grade Level: High School

Following his father's death in 1826, Schumann decided to choose music rather than poetry as his future; however, Schumann's mother had her heart set on his becoming a lawyer and she rejected his musical and literary interests as the "indiscretion of youth."" ...

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Following his father's death in 1826, Schumann decided to choose music rather than poetry as his future; however, Schumann's mother had her heart set on his becoming a lawyer and she rejected his musical and literary interests as the "indiscretion of youth."" ...

• Word Count: 4114
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate