In the first stanza of this poem, before you know she is married, but romantically involved with someone else, Piatt's words show that there relationship is doomed. ... The flower symbolizing their love which is dying because she is married. ... While Piatt took to a more morbid death and God as an unrelenting, but loving tyrant, Cecilia Thaxter took a more romantic view on death. Not in that death is romantic, but that love is proved through dying. ... She loves this man and she loves that as man he is free, but she had to get married to be provided for and now she is a slave of that. ...

• Word Count: 1554
• Approx Pages: 6
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• Grade Level: High School

Poe is grouped with other writers in the Romantic period. ... He knew that his love would eventually kill her, and it did. They loved without any resistance and eventually dragged each other to death. ... Poe shows, in this instance, their love for one another had ceased, thus, breaking apart this "one being". ... His viewpoint of life was unique compared to the Romantic writers of the century. ...

• Word Count: 1415
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

In scene seven, there is a romantic episode between Laura and Jim. In it Jim ends up kissing Laura but sadly confessing, after he does this, that he is in love with another girl and Laura's heart breaks in disappointment. During this brief romantic moment, Laura's favorite glass piece from her collection, is mentioned several times and this is because, this unicorn, has a very important symbolical meaning. ... Laura feels that she probably will not be remembered by Jim in the future, that she has been just another girl in her life, while for Laura this has been the love of her life...

• Word Count: 1571
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He is most commonly called a twentieth-century Romantic as death and the afterlife intrigued him. ... As far as love and attention go, he seems to have lacked nothing" (Ferris 25). ... This passage means that although every man is going to die, love will never die. Love will continue its purpose of regeneration, and death will not rule life (Magill 68). ... He believes that as terrible as death is, there is still love and it will carry on forever. ...

• Word Count: 1651
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School