Summary The novel The Dante Club‚ written by Matthew Pearl‚ begins with John Kurtz‚ Chief of the Boston police‚ investigating a murder that occurred in 1865. The man murdered was Artemus Prescott Healey‚ who was the highest official of the Massachusetts courts. Healey’s body was found naked and covered with insects and maggots on a sandy beach next to his property. His chambermaid insisted that he was still alive when she found him days later‚ and that he cried out before dying. Then Pearl introduces
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In the poem‚ “A Birthday”‚ Christina Rossetti uses extensive and positive imagery‚ mostly pertaining to natural descriptions. The whole poem is composed of imagery‚ used for the purpose of relaying the sense of pure joy the speaker is feeling. There is also a contrast between the two stanzas. The imagery used in the first stanza draws on familiar natural objects but can also be read with many biblical implications. In the second verse‚ the poet speaks quite materialistically about exotic and royal
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Before breaking down Gabriel Marquez’s Chronicle of a Death Foretold and analyzing its themes‚ one must consider the novels cultural and historical context. The story takes place in a small Colombian Coastal town in the early 1950s. This was during the same period that “La Violencia” took place‚ a ten-year period of civil war in Columbia between the Liberal and Conservative Parties. The reigning chaos and the lack of security in rural areas during the years of La Violencia caused an estimated millions
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Gabriel Vara Mr. Fulton English 1302 February 6th‚ 2013 Summary: “Stop Blaming Kids and TV” Mike Males‚ in “Stop Blaming Kids and TV‚” inscribes government officials have blamed today’s media on the acts of kids and young adults‚ how the impact of violence‚ drug‚ and alcohol abuse can ruin children’s lives. Parents need to notice that their own behavior has a major influence on their children’s lives and futures. He makes strong statements that the media does not influence adolescent violence
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Christina Rossetti in her poem “Remember”‚ I had to leave my friends behind in Ohio in hopes that they would remember me. In “Remember”‚ Christina Rossetti uses specific elements such as diction‚ metaphor‚ and structure to explore the prospective/wishful desire people experience in hoping their loved one will remember them after they depart. To begin with‚ Rossetti utilizes diction to strengthen her point by relating to the readers and forming a connection. By way of example‚ Rossetti writes‚ “for
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Dante and his Mentor‚ Virgil Dante’s Inferno is the story of a middle-aged man’s journey through the varying circles of Hell where he encounters numerous people including previous popes‚ famous philosophers‚ and former acquaintances receiving the appropriate punishment for their respective crimes. In literature‚ it is common for a hero to undergo a journey‚ whether it is emotional‚ physical‚ or spiritual‚ where his or her battlement of substantial obstacles results in a significant change in persona
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Comparison of Robert Burns ’ "A Red‚ Red Rose" and Christina Rosetti ’s "A Birthday" Though the subject of both Robert Burns ’ "A Red‚ Red Rose" and Christina Rosetti ’s "A Birthday" is love‚ the tone‚ diction‚ and form of each underline the different themes. The theme of the Burns poem is the beautiful ardency of the lover saying farewell to his love‚ while the Rosetti poem focuses on the joyous feelings of lovers being reunited. Both poems convey love as an emotion that transcends the immediate
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Though some speculated it involved fire‚ Dante chose to surround the Mountain by water. In contrast‚ there already existed the idea of a dark and gloomy hell‚ and a beautiful and light heaven. The poet selected to envisage purgatory as a mountain located on an island in the southern hemisphere. Purgatory is most similar to Earth‚ while hell and paradise are the customary spaces imagined. Dante divides the mountain to ante-purgatory and the seven terraces. The terraces
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Christina Rosetti was born in London in 1830. She was one of four children‚ her parents were Italian. Her father‚ Gabriele Rosetti was a poet. One of her brothers‚ Dante Gabriele Rosetti was a poet and a painter. She is best represented in poetry by her ballads and mythical religious lyrics. (www.poets.com) In the 1880s‚ She contracted Grave’s disease‚ a thyroid disorder and in 1891‚ Rosetti developed cancer‚ from which she died in London on December 29th‚ 1894. (www.poets.com) The poem‚
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The Rossetti poetry exclusively portrays women as victims. The themes of women destroyed by love‚ by tragic lovers or by other means are also typical of this Rossetti poetry. Most of the times‚ women are represented as victims of a tragic love‚ as a sexual frustration or they represented a punishment of the female. Other subject is the representation of the fallen woman (women who had given in to seduction‚ living a life in sin). For example‚ in Cousin Kate‚ the narrator has been left by the Lord
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