"Acquainted with the Night" by Robert Frost is a poem about a person who is well acquainted with the night. In this poem‚ the author or the speaker explains why he/she is well acquainted with the night. It seems as the poem progresses that the speaker enjoys walks through the night of a city‚ and that he also enjoys walks in rainy nights. The speaker goes down a sad area of the city were he encounters a watchman were he/she ignores. When the speakers stop because he/she listens to a cry‚ which
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Jane Austen’s Northanger Abbey: Heroine and Hero depicted by Literature? Jane Austen depicts all her heroines as passionate readers of literature yet also has a tendency to highlight the lessons that can be learnt both right and wrong and how it effects her heroines lives‚ in this case Catherine’s life. Reading has the imperative purposes in Austen’s world of writing to offer her heroines an escape‚ entertainment‚ and information to guide through self-improvement and growth. Whereas the hero in
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Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil is about the narrator‚ John as he visits Savannah and how he interacts with the other characters in the book. While in Savannah‚ the narrator tells the readers of his travels as the story progress with the information he uses for his writing. However‚ the same time he is there‚ his visit coincidentally occurs the same time a murder of one of the characters‚ a gay man‚ who was supposedly murdered by his partner. Before reading the story‚ the title of this book
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The Road Not Taken‚ By Robert Frost The poem “the road not taken” by Robert Forts is a traditional poem; its central theme is storytelling about life experience. The last statement “And that has made all the difference” gives to the poem an open ending because we don’t know what difference it did make‚ if this phrase means that he had made the correct choice and so the difference it was for better or if he had made the wrong choice and so he is regretting because that decision that he made was
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The poems “An Advancement of Learning” and “An August Midnight” are connected in some way‚ these poems focus on encounters with certain creatures or animals. Heaney’s with a rat on a river embankment in Belfast and Hardy’s with nocturnal insects that fly through his window. In the poems In contrast they are laid out in different structures. In “An Advancement of Learning” it has eight stanzas of four short lines. In contrast “An August Midnight” is made up of two stanzas with six long lines‚ giving
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Throughout the book‚ Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil‚ the story is conveyed from a first person’s point of view‚ mainly from the perspective of the narrator. The story is about the narrator’s journey when he observes and learns a great deal of things about residents in Savannah and their ways of life. The movie‚ on the other hand‚ is somewhat inaccurate. Though it is long‚ approximately about three hours‚ it leaves many important details about the town‚ main characters and the narrative.
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“bent in the undergrowth” (5)‚ could be a metaphor alluding to the speaker’s future which is cluttered by the varying consequences of this specific path choice. As the traveler describes the condition of the path‚ whether it has much wear or not‚ Frost causes the reader to consider how the choices of others influence our own decisions. Johnson argues that one must recognize the decision concerning these two roads is representative of any choice in life between alternatives that appear equally attractive
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must first answer the question of whose morality matters. In this essay‚ I explore theories of moral status in order to understand and describe what factors influence the lower-moral status of Drake‚ a character within the television show Downton Abbey. In doing so‚ I will identify enduing themes between the show and a JAMA article‚ “The association
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The most obvious and blatant image in the poem is‚ of course‚ nature. The poem contains the wood pile itself‚ a swamp‚ winter scenery (snow)‚ and birds as well as the narrator’s fascination with communicating with such creatures. The narrator in this poem appears to be exploring nature‚ people‚ etc.‚ and doesn’t seem to have a clear background‚ identity‚ and is certainly not limited in points of view. This poem appears to be able to take on several different meaning‚ like a poetic chameleon. This
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Themes of Northanger Abbey In Spacks essay‚ she discusses the fact that Northanger Abbey parodies the romantic Gothic novels of that time. She also argues about the generational conflict‚ and the characters use of imagination to promote their growth and maturity. She states that the growth takes place through "involvement and imagination"(303). I agree with Spacks by saying that there is plenty of imagination involved in this novel but in Catherine’s case‚ I believe that her growth has more
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