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    Stockton’s short story “The Lady‚ or the Tiger‚” the readers are introduced to the daughter of a semi-barbaric king and her lowly lover‚ who was sentenced to go into the King’s arena and choose between two doors: behind one door is a beautiful maiden‚ and behind the other is a savage‚ relentless tiger. In a surprise ending‚ Stockton does not specify which door the lover chose. Instead‚ he poses the question and warns the readers‚ “Think of it‚ fair readers‚ not as if the decision of the question

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    Semi Barbaric Princess

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    hair‚ when she saw his start of rapturous delight as he opened the door of the lady!" The princess did not want him to find happiness with anyone else. She had a barbaric nature‚ and she knew that the beautiful young woman had cast glances upon her lover‚ and she had perceived those

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    Poem Analysis

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    from ‘Best words’ and show how they reflect earlier attitudes towards women and relationships. Robert Browining‚ a great Victorian poet‚ wrote two pre-1940 poems‚ ‘My last Duchess’ and ‘Prophyrias lover’‚ they are both examples of domineering me or individuals who end up killing their former lovers. The main theme which the poems are centred around is madness. ‘The Ballad’ on the other hand has an unknown poet‚ this could be as a result of it being passed down from one generation to another.

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    In the beginning‚ Andrea simply brings the bowl along to each home she visits in order to enhance its appearance and thus heighten her chances for making a sale; similar to the fact that "when she thought that some prospective buyers might be dog-lovers‚ she would drop off her dog…" But throughout the story‚ her use and placement of the bowl become an obsession for Andrea. She places it on a lone table‚ removing all other items so that the bowl becomes the main focal point. When a client calls

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    Change is inevitable‚ yet it can be denied depending on who and when they experience this change and also on the passing of time. Time can bring forth wanted and unwanted change. In ’Sky High’ by Hannah Robert‚ Les Murray’s ’Spring Hail’ and ’The Widower in the Country’ and ’Here Without You’ by 3 Doors Down all demonstrate various aspects of how change is due to the passing of time‚ which is inevitable. In the text‚ ’Sky High’ by Hannah Robert‚ change is seen as something which is as a result of

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    War Is Kind

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    The phrase is repeated five times throughout the poem. The title shows the ironic tone of the poem‚ because it is very hard to imagine kindness in war. The beginning stanza confirms the tone while it addresses the lover of a soldier who has died in battle. The author tells the lover not to leave her soldier at death. Followed by an overdramatic image of death‚ with the dying soldier throwing his " wild hands towards the sky dictand the affrighted running on alone." Also‚ Crane uses imagery‚ “to

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    The Lady or the Tiger

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    The Lady Or The Tiger? In the very olden time there lived a semi-barbaric king‚ whose ideas‚ though somewhat polished and sharpened by the progressiveness of distant Latin neighbors‚ were still large‚ florid‚ and untrammeled‚ as became the half of him which was barbaric. He was a man of exuberant fancy‚ and‚ withal‚ of an authority so irresistible that‚ at his will‚ he turned his varied fancies into facts. He was greatly given to self-communing‚ and‚ when he and himself agreed upon anything‚

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    4350 September 26‚ 2011 The Pain of Love Scorned in Andrew Marvell ’s “Damon the Mower” Marvell ’s “Damon the Mower” illustrates the pain of love through its rhetorical structure and voice. It ’s set up in the way of a tragic romance; there is the lover ’s lamenting framed by a narrative voice. The narrative voice gives the poem a tone of an epic‚ an old tale to be told‚ explaining that love scorned is all-encompassing and is only escaped through death. The first-person voice gives a personal depth

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    Still Fallin Analysis

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    downs between the relationship of two lovers in the male point of view. Humans always make mistakes; what’s important is that one learns from those mistakes one does. The imagery in Hunter Hayes’ “Still Fallin” reveals the persona’s thoughts of a man about his relationship to the addressee or the persona’s lover. The first verse of the song describes the expectations of his lover as shown in the first line “Who would think for all the days I’ve known you.” His lover expects him to know her very well

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    The Baron

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    despite her husband’s warning decided to visit her lover who lived in the countryside nearby. The castle was located on an island in a wide‚ fast-flowing river‚ with a drawbridge linking the island to land at the narrowest point in the river. “Surely my husband will not return before dawn‚” she thought and ordered her servants to lower the drawbridge and leave it down until she returned. After spending several pleasant hours with her lover‚ the Baroness returned to the drawbridge‚ only to find

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