The character Montresor in “The Cask of Amontillado” by Edgar Allen Poe is a character for a close psychoanalytic approach and study. This short story is teeming with the need to be analyzed from a psychoanalytic viewpoint. The very first line when Montresor states‚ “The thousand injuries of Fortunato I had borne as I best could; but when he ventured upon insult‚ I vowed revenge.” (Poe 160)‚ clearly indicates that the protagonist of the story will not be a stable character. When the character says
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“The Cask of Amontillado” is a story of revenge‚ but the author never told exactly what Fortunato did. Montresor presents us with only a vague understanding of his motivations‚ and his pretense of good will and careful manipulation of Fortunato indicates the care with which he has planned Fortunato’s death. Both of the men want the same thing. Edgar Poe has a strong way of reproducing great literary elements in the story; the theme of revenge is explained with the use of irony. One irony used in
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Montresor’s Revenge Throughout history man has struggled with revenge and pride. In Edgar Allen Poe’s “The Cask of Amontillado”. Montresor has been insulted my Fortunato. Montresor tricks Fortunato into following him into the catacombs. Once they are down there montresor chains Fortunato to a wall of granite and buries him alive. Montresor accomplishes murder because he is a good planner‚ heartless‚ and a good talker. Due to the fact that Montresor is a good planner he is able to make all the
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Edgar Allan Poe‚ was born on January 19‚ 1809‚ in Boston. He was a very talented writer‚ but wrote about sad and gruesome things‚ usually connecting to his personal life in many ways. Some things that connected with his personal life‚ and his writings‚ was the fact that there was so many women who died in his life‚ he was very poor‚ and didn’t have a job for most of his life‚ and he had a case with alcoholism. He died on Sunday‚ October 7‚ 1849. The first thing that Poe’s life affected his writing
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tells a story‚ a particular event‚ or happening‚ it often relates to a long story. Lyric poetry is any fairly short poem in which the speaker expresses intense personal emotion or state of mind. Narrative and lyric poetry may seem like they are similar‚ but there is a big difference between the two. An example for narrative poetry is the poem Confession by Bruce Lansky. In the poem he confesses about what he has done wrong. An example for lyric poetry is the song Thousand Miles by Vanessa Carlton
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Response to Literature Poem Analysis Writing Guidelines Subject: Poem Form: Analysis Purpose: To explore meaning Audience: Instructor Sample Poem Read the poem below and think about its content‚ theme‚ organization‚ and use of poetic techniques. Then read student writer Stefano Giagregorio’s analysis. I AM THE PEOPLE‚ THE MOB By Carl Sandburg I AM the people--the mob--the crowd--the mass. Do you know that all the great work of the world is done through me? I am the workingman‚
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author of the poem. He is black and grew up in Little Rock‚ Arkansas. He is a poet and has published 24 books. The poem is about white people coming to Africa to invade the African tribes with modern technology. When you read the poem you get the feeling that the white people are the bad guys. The writer only describes the negative things about the white people‚ and therefore the poem seems very dark. 3)The language in the poem is not very hard to understand‚ but the meaning in the poem is difficult
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Poems: Piano‚ Poem at thirty-nine & Once Upon a time Paragraph 1 - Introduction Nostalgia is the desire of things from the past‚ feeling homesick or remembering a person. This is the central Idea of the three poems; D.H.Lawrence’s ‘Piano’‚ Alice Walker’s ‘Poem at Thirty-Nine’ & Gabriel Okara’s ‘Once Upon a Time’ convey that they miss their earlier life or wish for a better past. Paragraph 2 - Write the theme of the first poem. D.H. Lawrences ‘Piano’ is a representation of longing of his past
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It’s A Woman’s World “It’s A Woman’s World” written by Eavan Boland is a poem about how woman should embrace their strengths. It’s a Woman’s World” focuses on issues of female identity and how the contributions of women have been overlooked. The speaker of Eavan Boland’s poem‚ seems to intend irony with the title of this poem‚ she is not saying this is a woman’s world‚ but rather speaks of the world from the woman’s point of view. Boland shows her views that women‚ who are placed in less harsh
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Waking” by Theodore Roethke are two poems that relate directly to the speaker. Although both poems share this similarity‚ the way in which both works or literature are constructed are vastly different. Plath uses visual imagery and poetical tercets to show the pain and suffering of the speaker in her poem‚ while Roethke uses the musical Villanelle and synesthesia to create his picture of the speaker’s inner thoughts and a sense of awakening. When reading the poem “Lady Lazarus” for the first time
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