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. ... His tone is ecstatic in the third stanza, seeming almost to envy these images for their immortality: "More happy love! ... Keats' thoughts have becom...

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• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

A Last Wish On a warm spring day on Sept. 23 1978 in the little town of Beaufort, Carolina, when the wind smells of pine and the flowers bloom, Matthew remembers his senior year at Regan High and Jennifer, the girl who changed his life. ... Franks Hospital for kids or at gas station that her dad had own it was down town. ... That night me and couple of my friends were going to a party and on our way back this couple of school boys started to bang us from the back so I told them I wanted to race to prove that I drove faster and better at the wheel, so we began to race. ... I had no ch...

• Word Count: 2839
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

He returns a shattered man, unable to accept the complexities of the world; he lives on the outskirts of town, attempting to create order in his life. ... The town is at first wary of him and his ritual, then, over time, unthinkingly accepts him. ... "She had practiced not just the words but the tone, the pitch of her voice. ... Instantly, her views become aligned with those of the town and she "belonged to the town and all of its ways" (Morrison, 120). ... Nel's outrage at Sula's actions is reflective of the town's anger at Sula and we see the personal hurt that Sula's in...

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• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

One day while visiting a near-by town, Nick saw her strolling down the street. ... He looked her dead in the eyes and said in a deep and romantic tone, "Are you ready to marry me yet?... Every time you had a day off though it was our time together. ... You both will always remain in our lives. You have given us so much knowledge that we will use to raise our children. ...

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• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

People in the town were black and white, and they hadn't aspired for their lives to be anything unique. ... Also cited is General Sherman, who was known for his Civil War attack on Atlanta, where he shouted "War is all hell," while he plowed through a southern civilian town during his raid. 1 These names create a forewarning of destruction and chaos to the main character, whom Cummings simply mentions as "him". ... This mystery soldier is the one who ignores the forewarnings prompted by the most respected philosophers of our time, and although he knows that war leads to carnage, continue...

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• Approx Pages: 19
• Grade Level: High School

But isn't that exactly how our lives are today? ... This book is much like our lives, like I said before, many would find it boring because its just reading their life, however I found it intriguing because we find ourselves everyday asking why does this happen to me, when actually it happens to everyone. ... This young woman is the love interest of every man in the town. ... His tone is much like a character in the book, he places himself in every scene and acts as though he is part of it. ... "Hey where did we go, Days when the rains came Down in the hollow, Playin' a new game, L...

• Word Count: 2037
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School

Fitzgerald sticks to prose narrative and dialogue for the most part, and he keeps a consistent tone and point of view throughout the novel. ... Anthony begins as the trim and dapper man-about-town, wearing his attitudes in the same way that he wears his clean, clean clothes. ...

• Word Count: 2828
• Approx Pages: 11
• Grade Level: High School

"Cuddle up and be my Little Clinging Vine:- Priscilla as Parasite or Victim Critics have mostly neglected Priscilla's character in the Blithedale Romance, and when they have paid any attention to her, they generally come up with some wild and seemingly unfounded ideas. Carol Weshoven looks at Priscilla's character as her prime example of child brides in American literature in her article, "America's Child Brides: The Price of a Bad Bargain."" Weshoven describes Priscilla thus: "From her initial intrusion into the Happy Valley, the ice maiden brings discord to the warm and vi...

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