Demon lover

In Elizabeth Bowen’s “The Demon Lover,” Kathleen Drover has returned to London from her house in the country to pick up some things from the house that she abandoned because of the bombing of London by the Germans from September 1940 to May 1941. She returns to her old home to find a mysterious letter that was somehow placed on the table, even though the caretaker did not know that she was returning, and all of her mail was supposed to be sent to her current address. There is a very mysterious mood

“Mrs. Drover’s mouth hung open for some seconds before she could issue her first scream” (Bowen, 1162). Set in London during World War II, “The Demon Lover” is a suspenseful story about a woman whose former fiancé, whom she previously assumed was dead, has come back for her twenty-five years later. In “The Demon Lover,” the author, Elizabeth Bowen uses various literary techniques that include imagery and mood, character development, and mood/tone to convey the suspenseful and mysterious mood and

most pure souls. The obsessive nature controlling ones mind can cause people to act in demonic ways. In Demon Lover written by Elizabeth Bowen, the author portrays the short story in a setting surrounded by distress and chaos. The gloomy background followed the protagonist Kathleen Drover throughout the entire story, portraying her twisted fate. Like this story, the Scottish ballad of Demon Lover, whose author is unknown, had the protagonist in a similar predicament. The stories relate in the same

follows her still to find her with her lover is ironic. The imagery depicts a poor citizen’s shack with minimal furniture and luxury, yet the wife treats the black man as if he was a king. The king saw the hut that was “built with palm leaves, leading to a domed structure built with sun-dried bricks” (57). The king does not express how large the structure is, so the reader must interpret that his/her own way. The king also notices that the new-found lover sits on “reed shavings and dressed in

resist the efforts of the lover to control him and dominate him. In sonnet 58, line 9, the narrator says that the control over him by the lover is very strong, however he doesn’t seem to make any effort to resist these temptations and exertions of power, but rather resigns to them and accepts them as part of his life. The use of the word "tame" to describe himself in sonnet 58, line seven, suggests that the narrator doesn’t want to actively resist the domination by the lover but instead is resigning

the poet of the intense grief that would result at the tragic severing of an exceptionally close teacher-student bond. Roethke finally expresses his loss--and perhaps an imagined loss--in terms of a unique human relationship: "neither father nor lover." As a

She is only a mirror, after all. The speaker tells us that her lover is blind - whether willingly or not is not identified - to the truth of their relationship when she says that, during their intimate moments, "your own eyes you find you / are up against closed closed," (lines 16-17). She speaks with a bitter tone

overcome the choices of causing agony to herself by letting her lover live and marry another woman, or going as far as to letting her lover die by letting him get mauled by the tiger. The princess was conflicted with mainly two emotions throughout the story, only one of which overcame her at the end. For one reason, the princess really hated the lady that was behind the door. Her act of jealousy had made her assume that her lover and the lady had a secret affair, as they had made eye contact with

except death”. Although death is certain, the cause of death is not. In the short story “Death of the Baroness”, a disobedient Baroness leaves her castle to visit her lover despite her husband’s strict instructions to stay at home. Unfortunately, upon her return home she was murdered by a madman blocking her path. The Baroness’ lover is guiltiest for her death because he held an affair with the married woman, didn’t provide any assistance when the Baroness faced the madman, and restricted their relationship

In the story of, “The Lady or the Tiger,” many people may think that the lady came out of the door. Well, I think that the tiger did. Simply because the princess didn’t like the lady and was jealous of her. “The Lady or the tiger” story makes you think was it the lady or the tiger? Many people just assumed that it was probably the lady. But, I think that it was the tiger. The many reasons why is because the author states that the princes was very jealous of the lady and didn’t want the man