It is probable that she was influenced by William Wordsworth who was one of the "Romantic Poets" who wrote at the beginning of the nineteenth century. ... Throughout the book she is associated with light, gold, innocence, nature, angels, beauty and purity. ... Eppie turning up in Silas's cottage just when his gold has been stolen is significant because he thinks at first that she is his gold, because he cannot see her properly and then he believes that she has been sent to replace his gold. ... He refers to Eppie as "it" as if she were a bag of gold. However, as the novel progresses she d...

• Word Count: 1413
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: High School

Her love for her husband was like Barret Browning's "How Do I Love Thee" Ann Bradstreet's "To My Dear and Loving Husband" and William Shakespeare's "Shall I compare Thee to a Summer's Day?... She writes, I prize thy love more than whole Mines of gold, Or all the riches that the East doth hold. ... (Wadsworth G5) She writes, "I prize thy love more than the whole mine of gold....

• Word Count: 1336
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School

In William's Shakespeare immortal tale, Romeo and Juliet, love and hate are juxtaposed to portray the antithesis between the two themes. William Shakespeare purposely contrasted these two themes to convey an idea that one cannot exist without the other, a balance in all things in nature, for instance, the correlative use of a light/dark polarity. ... "She will not stay the siege of loving terms, / Nor bide th" encounter of assailing eyes, / Nor ope her lap to saint-seducing gold." ...

• Word Count: 1908
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: High School