Annotation Essay

Dreams are not always a picture that you make up in your mind, but it is a way to symbolize hopes for the future. Edgar Allan Poe’s “A Dream Within a Dream” discovers the difference between the real and the imaginary. During his lifetime, Poe was rife with horrors and tragedies that informed him to write stories until he passed away at the age 40. Therefore, for Edgar Allen Poe’s “A Dream Within a Dream”, the discussion within this essay will revolve around what the story is about, what figures of

In "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" Johnathan Edwards is trying to use scare tactics to scare people back into faith. At the time, most people went away with faith; during this sermon he's letting people know what will/is going to happen when they drift farther from God. He preaches to them in an urgent, persuasive tone by using strong language, metaphors, and powerful diction. By using language like "if some that are now present should not be in Hell in a very short time, before this year

William Blake was an 18th century poet, who lived in London during the industrial revolution. His views on human nature was profoundly influenced by his environment, on the macroscale the industrial revolution provided great leaps of progress for mankind. However on the microscale, people suffered harsh working conditions for low wages, and the cities were polluted where the streets were covered with a black layer of pollutants. Blake’s poetry was separated into two books, the “Songs of Innocence”

1. The first stanza was opened using a strong statement. The phrase “what joy” proposes the intensity of gladness. The statement “For there is someone to share/ In all his suffering and pain” is the one referred to such gladness. 2. In the second stanza, the term stars is the metaphor for fate. The statement “My fate is so dim, my stars dip low” is saying that the persona’s fate is slowly breaking down or losing. The statement “Nothing compares” makes his feelings extreme. Now, the statement “For

What Pride displays as Elizabeth’s impertinence results from her wit and intelligence, which are products of her education. If Elizabeth is perceived as more attractive because of her intellect, why doesn’t Austen make Mr. Darcy fall in love with Mary, who is extremely focused on learning and interested in developing her attributes? Even though Austen emphasizes the importance of female instruction, in comparing Elizabeth and Mary it is possible to understand why the first is considered attractive

In William Yeats poem, “The Second Coming,” Yeats makes some observations about what has happened before and attempts to parallel the past with the future in order to justify his prediction of the “Second Coming” of Christ. Though interesting and appealing, these predictions and observations doesn’t make Yeats a Nostradamus-like figure who predicts specific, unlikely and unusual events leading up to the fulfillment of an ultimate prophecy, but rather makes similar to a conspiracy theorist spouting

Longbourn “Had more to say than he could well manage before the carriage stopped at Longbourn House. 58” “Mr. Bingley would be soon down again and soon dining at Longbourn.” Women being summoned “The two young ladies were summoned 59” “Elizabeth was summoned to the library 77” Walking “the girls walked to meryton” “Mr. Denny and Mr. Wickham walked with the young ladies.” Elizabeth Reflecting “Elizabeth was sitting with her mother and sisters, reflecting on what she had heard.” “Elizabeth was then

Melancholy Me “I am getting angry enough to do something desperate. To jump out of the window would be admirable exercise, but the bars are too strong even to try. Besides I wouldn’t do it. Of course not. I know well enough that a step like that is improper and might be misconstrued. I don’t like to look out of the windows even—there are so many of those creeping women, and they creep so fast. I wonder if they all come out of that wallpaper as I did! But I am securely fastened now by my well-hidden

2.3 Form The meter of “To Autumn” is quite irregular. While iambic pentameter generally rules the poem, it is at times debatable, or even open for interpretation. There are eight to ten lines in the poem which could be forced into the meter, but which would then sound awkward and unnatural (e.g. l. 2, by making “close” an unstressed syllable; l. 8, by stressing the “a”, and not the “sweet” …) Additionally, several spondaic feet (e.g. “moss’d cottage”, l. 5; “sweet kernel”, l. 8 …) can be found

After the repetition of the dream passage beginning in bar sixty, another interlude starts in bar sixty-eight that both transitions from the previous mood and prepares for the next. Continuity from the previous section is seen with the arpeggiation and statements of a motive from the opening vocal line. The interlude also helps to prepare for a more somber mood with the appearance of A@ minor, the parallel minor. The vocal line, in which the speaker outrightly admits doubt regarding the ideal, is