He starts by introducing us to the River Alph. He tells us about a river that runs across the land and then flows through some underground caves and into the sea. He also tells us about the fertile land that surrounds the palace. he talks about "caverns measureless to man" we get a sense that this landscape is both huge and unknowable. The palace‚ Xanadu‚ is situated between the forest surrounded by the hills proves the prestigious nature of the place and this fact put Xanadu on the place of Colonized
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shaking pre-established values. Darwin and Huxley’s revolutionism was crushing the religious myths. The civil war was extending throughout the whole America. Hawthorne’s vision was darkening more and more until he could no longer decipher the gloomy caverns of the human soul. His detachment from reality made the critics talk about him under the most paradoxical emblems. “He was defined as both a Puritan and a rebel against Puritanism‚ both a Romantic writer and an anti-Romantic one‚ Transcendentalist
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nostrils will stop at the wayside sweet-shop and pick up a chocolate for his tender offspring waiting at home for Daddy’s return ... Praise bounteous providence if you will that grants even an ogre a tiny glow-worm tenderness encapsulated in icy caverns of a cruel heart or else despair for in every germ of that kindred love is lodged the perpetuity of evil. Glossary charnel-house (line 26) – a vault where dead bodies or bones are piled up Belsen Camp (line 30) – Bergen Belsen was one of the
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The Beast in the Cave is a short story written by H.P. Lovecraft circa 1905 and published over a decade later in 1918. Like many other works by the author‚ thematically‚ it is a horror story. Antiquarian writing‚ a sense of helplessness‚ and a quiet tension bubbling beneath the surface all contribute to the overall feel of the plot. Born Howard Phillips Lovecraft in Providence‚ Rhode Island‚ H.P. Lovecraft was a relatively unknown writer in his time. It was only after his death in 1937 that he found
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Ubu Roi is an Avant-Garde theatre play containing elements of dadaism and surrealism written by Alfred Jarry. Avant-Garde theatre is difficult to define‚ but it is similar to experimental theater and introduces new and unusual ideas. The performance opened and closed on the same day in 1896. Plot: The play begins with Papa Ubu‚ his wife Mama Ubu‚ and Bordure discussing a murder plot to kill King Wenceslas of Poland because Papa and Mama Ubu desire to have reign over Poland. In the second Act‚ Ubu
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How is The Dark Walk described? The Dark Walk was described as a laurel walk‚ very old‚ almost gone wild‚ a lofty midnight tunnel of smooth‚ sinewy branches. 3. What does Julia find in the water of the little cavern? Julia finds a panting trout in the water of the little cavern. 4. Explain what Julia does with the trout she captures in the ewer. She raced with the ewer out to the other end of the tunnel and down the steep paths to the rivers edge and poured out the trout into the river
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ideals of romantic paganism with often ingratious Christianity. The vision of paganism is the first idea introduced in the poem. The super-natural reference to ’Alph‚’ or Alpheus as it is historically known‚ ’the sacred river‚ [which] ran/ Through caverns measureless to man/ Down to a sunless sea‚’ begins this pagan theme by referring to an underground river that passed through dimensions that could not be understood by any man‚ and then emptying into an underground sea. This also introduces an idea
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commentary about “ Warming Her Pearls” comparing it to two other poems Another poem of Carol Ann Duffy which drags you into a state of mind you didn’t know existed. Another character that talks about their uncommon feelings towards others . This time it’s about a woman working for another one‚ forced or unforced‚ with rather different feelings towards her boss than others would have‚ feelings we could call ‘obsession’. It isn’t hard to realize this poem is set in the past. There are references
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the inclusion of every single grass blade and leaf‚ hints at a more mature approach. This work is painted with small delicate brush strokes‚ so it looks perfect and like paradise in a storm. The Lascaux cave paintings cover the wall of several caverns known by names like the Great Hall of the Bulls and the Painted Gallery. The images are of bison‚ horses‚ deer‚ and big cats‚ all animals from Paleolithic times.
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The Tomb of Tausert and Setnakht The tomb of Tausert and Setnakht is one of the most unique tombs in the Valley of the Kings‚ as well as being one of the largest tombs in the valley. Unlike any of the other tombs in the valley‚ it encompasses two complete burial chambers. It was originally built for Tausert‚ a queen and wife of Seti II. Tausert was one of the few queens who ruled Egypt as pharaoh. She was the second wife of Seti II. It was Seti II that ordered her tomb to be built. This was
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