Rossetti tells the story of two women and their betrayal that arrives in a vast number of levels each with varying effects. ... She creates a fairy-tale atmosphere, suggested by the inclusion of the goblin men and the adolescent independence of Laura and Lizzie who reside in this dream-like world, would suggest that this is a children's poem. ... This is implied when Lizzie, after eating of the goblins" fruit, staggers home, not knowing if it was night or day, to be met by Laura who, "full of wise upbraidings," introduces the story of Jeanie into the tale. ...

• 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. ... In "The Raven,"" the persona begins his tale in his home on a dark and gloomy December night in this paraphrase: Once, during a dreary midnight, while I pondered, weak and weary, over many amusing and peculiar forgotten folk tales, I fell sleepy, nearly napping (1-3). ... Let me see, then, what it is, let my heart calm down, and explore this mystery. ... Tell me, tell me, I beg you!... Take your beak out from my heart, and take yourself away from my door!...

• Word Count: 2508
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: High School

Distraught, she prays to  Juno  to send her a dream that would tell her of the fate of Seys. ... He also tells her not to remain in sorrow too long. ... Nevertheless, in a common literary reversal, the narrator endeavors to tell the reader anyway. ... When the knight has finished his song, he suffers a kind of emotional heart attack and becomes deathly pale. ... The king's hunting party goes off toward a long castle, and a bell tolls twelve hours, the time allotted to the knight to tell his tale. ...

• Word Count: 5753
• Approx Pages: 23
• Grade Level: High School