The mood communicated in The Cask of Amontillado‚ by Edgar Allan Poe is eerie and mysterious. Poe establishes this mood by giving the reader distinct details about the events unfolding in the story. An example of the mood Poe creates is when Montresor and Fortunado are making their way down to the catacombs to get the Amontillado. “Let us go‚ nevertheless‚” Fortunato makes his way down to the catacombs‚ continuing to deny his cold and tells Montresor to drop it and continue onto the Amontillado
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approaching the idea of death by using the word “dead.” By starting the poem with the word “No‚” Shakespeare commands the reader not to mourn‚ proving there is no fluctuation in his idea. By addressing death‚ he shows his vulnerability and understands the effect death can have on others. This understanding of others feelings demonstrates his selflessness and thus verifies that his love is not infatuation. The use of shorter words rather than longer keeps the statement concise and to the point. Thus‚ it is
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Answer 11) The poem “the starry night” is inspired by Vincent Van Gogh’s famous painting Starry Night. There is a lot of common group between the artist and the poets work. In both the works by Vincent Van Gogh and Anne Sexton the readers are exposed to a sense of suicidal tendency‚ really dramatic imagery and immortalization of the artist by their work. Sexton in her works portray a desire for death which reflects her suicidal nature and the fact that she eventually committed suicide. The poet has
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When you read the poem “Acquainted with The Night” by Robert Frost‚ you can feel the sad state of the author by repeating the phrase “Acquainted with The Night.” It is in the title‚ the first line and the last line of the poem‚ and it makes people realize the loneliness of the author is increasing over time. The author of this poem is a pretty lonely man. In the poem‚ the author uses the word “night” to portray the man correctly. The character in the poem is suffering pain and learning to accept
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"Doorknobs" Langston Hughes is considered by many readers to be the most significant black poet of the twentieth century. Except for a few examples‚ all his poems are about social injustice in America. The somber tone of his writing often reflected his mood. Race relations were present in almost his whole career‚ following him from his first poem to his last. The poem "Doorknobs" was written in 1961 after his subpoena to appear before Senator McCarthy for subversive activities. Although many other poems
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written in the point of view of a young girl named Claudia. This method of the author’s leaves a profound effect on the reader in contrast to how the reader would have received or responded to the passage if it was an adult’s perspective. This effect emerges due to an individual’s natural tendency to specifically sympathize with children‚ and try to understand their situation and its effect on them. Therefore‚ the extract would be read and analyzed in a more intense manner. For example‚ “Adults do
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convey a grim mood. In Stevenson’s novel‚ he used creepy imagery to convey a grim mood. “...the hair stood upon my head like quills” (92). This shows that when Poole saw the mysterious figure‚ he was spooked. “In the bottle of acids were long ago resolved” (77). The bottle of acids makes a grim mood to this sentence because it makes it look creepier in the reader’s mind. “All lighted up as if for a procession and as empty as a church” (49). Churches are empty‚ conveys a grim mood because it’s
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Effects of the Bottleneck and the Founders effect Cecil Smith GS102 Grantham University Online The bottleneck effect happens when something of a great devastation has happened‚ causing a great amount of people to lose their lives and leave behind very few people at the most. The bottleneck effect happens at random and can kill of a whole population and with it can also wipe out the gene pool by doing so. An example of the bottleneck effect would be something like a tsunami‚ or an earthquake‚ which
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Anxiety‚ Mood/Affective‚ Dissociative/Somatoform Paper University of Phoenix PSY 410 Anxiety‚ Mood/Affective‚ Dissociative/Somatoform Paper When we behave in a way that is accepted by the majority of others around us‚ then this is called normal behavior‚ but when we behave in a way that is not considered the norm this is considered abnormal. When an individual suffers from something in which it disrupts their daily lives this specific problem is called a disorder. Many disorders can
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individual life. Bipolar affects the person mood by making it difficult to regulate between being depressed‚ happy‚ sad‚ and even to regulate normal. This paper will evaluate the three peer-reviewed research studies‚ discuss the intervention or treatment shown to be effective‚ conceptualizing the disorder using biopsychosocial model. Bipolar Disorder According to National Institute of Mental Health (n.d)‚ bipolar disorders classified the mood disorder that affects the individual regarding
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