Edgar Allan Poe's The Cask Of Amontillado

1. In Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado” the setting helps clarify the theme of revenge possibly leading to guilt and regret later in life. Poe uses a lot of irony in his stories with almost every element possible, the setting is no different. At the beginning the story takes place during at a carnival in Italy. At the carnival everyone is having fun and celebrating, including Fortunato, the unfortunate victim of Montresor’s revenge plan. Later on the setting later changes drastically as Montresor leads Fortunato away from the Carnival down to catacombs below his home. The catacombs are an eerie and spooky place, quite opposite to the carnival above ground. As they descend deeper down they “passed through walls of piled bones, with
In Robert Herrick’s poem “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time”, the use of symbolism helps illustrate the theme, the theme being to go out and enjoy your life while you are still young. Right at the start in the title the word “Virgins” is aimed at women, virgin women, to go and marry at a young age rather than waiting till they are older. Then in stanza one the speaker says “Gather ye rosebuds while ye may, / Old time is still a-flying”, which relates back to the theme of enjoying life while being young (1-2). These “rosebuds” are the opportunities you have in life; however these “rosebuds” don’t last forever as time goes by quickly without a glance. Later as the rosebud turns into a flower, “And this same flower that smiles today/ Tomorrow will be dying” (3-4). A flower at full maturity doesn’t mean it will necessarily die the next day, but the possibility of death coming the next day is always there as life is full of unavoidable, sometimes deadly situations. For the second stanza when the speaker
In Emily Dickinson’s poem “Because I could not stop for Death”, the use of imagery helps clarify the theme that death is not an end but a passage way into eternity. In the first stanza imagery is used to show the reader that a carriage has stopped with death being the driver at her house, “Because I could not stop for Death-/ He kindly stopped for me” (1-2). Later as the speaker is in the carriage, she looks around outside of the carriage and