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The Novel and Poetry Literature Essay
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Nowadays poetry is said to have been relegated to the backstage with the novel taking the limelight. One can frequently see, especially in an academic and learned community, people glued to their paperbacks of the most recent sequel to a bestseller.  Poems today can mostly be heard in poetry readings; so few are its enthusiasts in bookstores.
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The Use of Symbols in American Literature Literature Book Report/Review
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The stories underline the need for compassion which seems to be lacking among mankind. In order to illustrate this both th stories make use of symbols. In Bartleby, the character of Bartleby acts as the narrator’s double and reveals the modern man’s inability to help humanity. Goodman delves into his unconscious to come to terms with the evil in the society which makes him loathe mankind.
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Nutting by William Wordsworth Literature Book Report/Review
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Thus, a reflective analysis of the language and the form of the poem, including rhyme, rhythm, metaphor, imagery, tone, word order, alliteration, and point of view etc, illustrates the characteristic features of romantic poetry and introduces the readers to the spirit of the period.
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Bernard Shaws Pygmalion Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that the bet is that he can turn a Cockney flower girl into a refined society lady, and he says that he can do so. The bet comes off as rather preposterous to Colonel Pickering and so he basically accepts, and one of the most key parts to the plot of this play is in regards to how Higgins and Doolittle grow close.
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Henry David Thoreau and Walden Literature Essay
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By using nature as an entity to explain certain truths of human existence, he stresses the essential role that nature plays in society and the importance of man's relationship to nature. People have spent centuries pondering the relationship between citizens and their government.
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Ramona by Helen Hunt Jackson Literature Book Report/Review
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The author states that Ramona, the orphan, is adopted by Senora Francis Ortega, sister of Senora Moreno. Senora Ortega, just before her death, hands over four-year-old Ramona to Senora Moreno. Though Senora Moreno despises the fact that Ramona is half Indian, she agrees to take care of Ramona only due to her sister’s persuasion.
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Gothic Tradition in Literature; Do Poe and Hawthorne Measure up Literature Essay
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Both Edgar Allen Poe and Nathaniel Hawthorne use fear as a tool in their writing, yet they are not both writing in gothic tradition. While Poe uses symbolism, darkness, and death imagery to terrify the reader, Hawthorne chooses to use parable to educate the reader, with fear being merely an afterthought. In Poe’s “Ligeia”, death and darkness are used as the setting to create a scene of terror, after creating a scene of love for the lost “Ligeia”.
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The Use of Power in A Dolls House by Henrik Ibsen Literature Book Report/Review
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Politics, decision making and work was left for men and they had authority over women because women were dependent upon their men for there support in household affairs. In this setup freedom, liberty and equality of women were regarded as a bad thing which the society frowned upon
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A comparative study of the pursuit of love of the protagonist Emma Bovary and Siddhartha Literature Essay
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Similarly in the novel Siddhartha the sense of love is different than that portrayed in Madame Bovary. Siddhartha is the major character in the story whose aim is to achieve spiritual love and happiness.
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Rules of the Road by Joan Baur Literature Book Report/Review
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Jenna Boiler is tall, and she does not like her weight or red hair.  Regardless of her feelings about her appearance, she is very good at selling shoes.  Her customers like her, and she takes much pride in getting the right shoe and right fit for her customers.  Her hard work and ability get her noticed by Mrs. Madeline Gladstone, the CEO, and president of the company. 
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The Art of the Odyssey by Homer Literature Book Report/Review
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The Odyssey interprets the human experiences through the presentation of the life of Odysseus and his adventures and journeys. The actual truths were hidden underneath the figurative language and abstract relations. Odysseus’ life has the impression of the complexity of circumstances surrounding him and the entanglement of social connections made his journey increasingly appealing to the audience.
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Use of metaphor in poetry Literature Book Report/Review
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The writer has employed metaphor in a number of lines in the poem. The use of the words "Good night" is a metaphor as well as "Dying of the light". They are used symbolically to mean "the coming of death" (Grimes). In the poem, Beat!
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Dostoyevskys novel Crime and Punishment Literature Essay
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Dostoyevsky rejects the laws of sovereignty and industrialized society, both. He advocates instead the principles of natural law as the means of identifying crime, exacting punishment, and ultimately providing redemption. Dostoyevsky explores the principles of jurisprudence through the struggle of his protagonist, Raskolnikov.
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A Reflection on Lovely Like Jerusalem, by Aidan Nichols Literature Book Report/Review
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In his book, Lovely Like Jerusalem, Aidan Nichols attempts to outline the Old Testament, in the narrative, critical, and theological terms. He argues that a lack of knowledge of the Old Testament is a significant detriment to understanding the New (9).
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Gods and generals -book vs film vs reality Literature Essay
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The point of this piece of writing is not to do a review of this momentous film, but to understand how and where the film departs from the book on which it is based. The methods they used varied and therefore so did the results.
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The Construction of Female Subjectivity in Caterina Alberts Solitude Literature Essay
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The Catalan women of fairly privileged means are bound together in the generalities of identity – by gender, nationality and class and there is such a consciousness link bending together readers, writers and others may be extended to the writers themselves. Like so many other women in the novel, their double oppression constitutes, in turn, another link.
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Describing Victorian Writing Literature Essay
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The novel further notes down that love with an innocent mind can be pure but when loves happens with a purpose, there’s an evil mind working behind it. Additionally, the theme of the novel also demonstrates how outer beauty becomes more significant for some people that they forget to nurture and preserve the beauty of their souls.
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Close Reading Response to Poems that Describe Robert Herricks Devotion to Ben Jonson Literature Essay
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Herrick and Jonson were born during the Renaissance or that momentous part of history marked by the ‘rebirth of classical learning’ through which the arts, literature, philosophy, and science flourished to heights as though to celebrate the oblivion of the dark medieval past.
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A Money Hungry Theme in a Dolls House and the Glass Menagerie Literature Essay
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Amanda wanted her past as she was rich, had social status and happiness. Amanda is also not happy with her daughter as she is not trying to impress gentlemen in order to marry them. Amanda even forces Tom to find a man for her daughter. All these things happen because of lack of money as Amanda is feeling anxious and insecure.
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Trifles by Susan Glaspell Literature Essay
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The author has used various literary elements like strong plot, setting, character, gender conflict, symbolism etc. to focus the plight of women and to question the validity of a judicial system where the evidence of crime as confirmed by men is enough to charge the prime suspect of the crime.
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The Story of an Hour and the Secret Life of Walter Mitty: A Comparative Analysis Literature Assignment
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The humans have to learn the art of viewing the bright side of the situation for example people lose their jobs and commit suicide in response while, others consider and treat it as an opportunity to relax and find a new workplace to engage and learn new things.
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History and Fantasy in Black Witch of Salem Literature Essay
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Different writers infuse Tituba with varying political, artistic, and historical significance (Jalalzai 419). As such, Conde’s Tituba adds to the many representations that people conjure about Parris’ slave woman. Conde has succeeded variously in demonstrating that appealing to history is still helpful in the creation of self-referential fiction.
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Cuban Revolution and Dirty Havana Trilogy Literature Essay
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The revolution in the 1990s resulted in the collapse of the USSR and most importantly it makes a big hole in the Cuban Economy which affects society in a big way. As Wondolowski (2001), in his review clearly mentioned the words of Pedro Juan which according to him sum it up all “Nothing is made up. . . . Not a single lie. I only change the names.
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Reality and Illusion as the Two Extremes of a Human Life Literature Essay
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Cervantes presented lowly goatherds, ordinary people like inn-keepers, and a mad man like Quixote as noble beings ready to fight for their honor and aristocrats like the Duke and Duchess as slaves of socially constructed norms having no respect for the actual spirit of honor. Women have not been given the respect the way, they should get.
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The Place Of Magic And The Supernatural In Human Affairs Literature Essay
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The wise saying goes-- no one can decipher the goings on in the inner world of a woman at a given time. It is impossible to judge her intentions or take her for granted. She may say one thing and its meaning may be exactly the opposite version. Several magical saplings sprout simultaneously in her heart and mind, some harmful and some deadly.
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Purgatorin - Key Instructions Received by Dante Literature Essay
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These are some of the instructions received by Dante: It is not possible to apply reasoning to "learn... the boundless orbit of Three Persons in One Substance" (Canto III: 34-36). Reason gives rise to spiritual hunger, as it has limitations. Man can employ reason to control sins: ".
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Euripedes, Medea- Desert Flower- Woman At point Zero Literature Essay
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This paper finds a common theme of the suffering of women, particularly in the hands of men, in these readings in order to achieve their life goals. The paper will thoroughly compare and contrast this topic with regards to the three readings.
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Exploring Eros through Speeches in Platos Symposium Literature Essay
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The lines “all of us are pregnant.. both in body and in soul… as we come to a certain age we naturally desire to give birth” explains this point very clearly (Lawall and Mack894). He believes that Love is not the extreme of something but lies in between two extremes, that is, “it is between being wise and ignorant” (Lawall and Mack892).
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Perversity in Edgar Allen Poes The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym Literature Essay
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Chapter 13 provides evidence of a further level of “perversity”. Ultimately, due to the fact that the mutiny upon the ship and the subsequent struggles that it had taken place had deprived these individuals of necessary resources, including food, water, and bedsheets (to be used to catch rainwater).
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The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells Literature Essay
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Name Tutor Course Date The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells Briefly, the Invisible Man is a story about an invisible scientist who devotes himself in discovering the concept of invisibility and this alienates him from other members of the society. The novel starts with a stranger arriving at a town called Iping and he does not get along with the villagers or members of this town, and so, he spends most of his time engaging something scientific in his room.
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Modernism in literature Literature Essay
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It should be noted that literature from Europe in the 18th century has greater reference in understanding the history of literature. Main characteristic to modernism was the embrace of self-consciously distinction between traditional forms of literature especially in verses as well as in poems (Davis, 2006, p. 1-15; ‘Jalic Inc’. 2000 – 2013, para 1).
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Explication Analysis of Steinbeck's Novel Of Mice and Men Literature Book Report/Review
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John Steinbeck has very skilfully written the novel “Of Mice and Men” which illustrates intricate human emotions and feelings. He has dealt with the characters who are treated as ‘outsiders’ and are not accepted in the mainstream of society. Steinbeck has exposed several themes in a very stimulating and exciting manner
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Misogyny in medieval romance literature Literature Essay
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The medieval culture was always characterized by Misogyny, however in the late middle epoch; the issue became viral and more powerful. According to scholars, this was a result of the various factors that distinguished the fourteenth century including war, plague, revolt and class division.
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Different Interpretations of the Relationship between Antonio and Bassanio Literature Essay
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Bassanio expresses how he is able to set everything that he has for the sake of Antonio’s life. He says, “But life itself, my wife, and all the world are not with me esteemed above thy life; I would lose all, ay, sacrifice them all Here to this devil, to deliver you”. His emotion towards a person of the same sex is expressed through these statements.
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John Milton's Paradise Lost Literature Book Report/Review
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John Milton’s “Paradise Lost” has often been viewed as the story of the fall of Lucifer, creation, and the manner through which sin first entered the human world, as rather abbreviated story, related within only a few brief chapters of Genesis, into a full-length epic poem that goes into a wide degree of detail on related and tangential topics.
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Critical paper about Shakespeare's The merchant of venice & Marlowe's The Jew of Malta Literature Essay
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“Rumors that Jews poisoned wells and slaughtered Christian babies to use their blood for matzot fed into the conception of Judaism as a venomous, anti-Christian religion, and depictions of Jews such as Shylock on the London stage were not uncommon” (Botwick 2).
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Landscape with the Fall of Icarus Literature Essay
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The same narration on his view of the political situation of not bothering moves on to the description of the woeful pair of legs fast disappearing into the sea in the second stanza. The tragedy of Icarus heightens through the fact that his unfortunate escapade does illicit any help that in some way might have altered the fatal outcome
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Review Of The Education Of The Little Tree By Forrest Carterthe Literature Book Report/Review
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This is revealed by the way his grandparents teach him how to farm, make whiskey, life on the mountain, about, love, spirit and the society (24). It is encouraging to learn that all these items can be acquired in an encouraging way and with gentle guidance towards an independent experience as the “Little tree’s” grandparents are shown to have done.
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Lamb to the Slaughter by Roald Dahl Literature Literature review
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The modern use of food as a weapon may no longer be as a batting tool to strike its victim just like Mary did to her husband Patrick. For one, it is impractical to freeze a lamb leg just for it to be used as a weapon. Second, assuming that it has been frozen, it cannot stay hard for a long time to remain as a weapon.
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One of the Most Critical Definitions of Romanticism Literature Essay
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Romantic literary canon refers to a concept where early poetry and literature authors and works are considered the foundation of certain literary genres such s romanticism. Certain questions arise from this literary canon concept. The first question arises from the concept that early works provided the basis of today’s literature and poetry development.
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Assessing and Recommending Quantitative Research Designs Literature Research Paper
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Single-subject experimental studies always have high internal validity because subjects serve as their own controls. However, they are extremely low in relation to external validity. Isaac and Michael (2009) note that single-subject studies acquire external validity via the process of replication and extension such as repeating the study in different settings and with a different subject.
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Schenck versus United States Literature Essay
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Critiques have pointed out Dos Passos leanings towards socialism and his sympathy towards the “common man” as opposed to the privileged in society. This aspect of the author is crucial because it is evident that he sees freedom of speech as one whose tenets largely derive from the ideologies of the affluent in society and mainly for their benefit.
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Victor Hugos Les Misrables Literature Term Paper
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The author, through his artistic creativity, condemns the misplaced and controversial social class of people in nineteenth-century France ruthlessly turning innocent people into criminals and beggars. He advocates for the eradication of both poverty and crimes by providing education o the whole society.
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The progression of art (museum curator) Literature Essay
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In other words, they used real life as their subjects when developing their artistic works. Their works were then put in museums for others to see. One of the most reckoned eras is abstract expressionism, where art work took a different shape as artists advocated for expression of their ideas through their work (Lindauer, 2003).
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Character Analysis: Comparing the life, death and its consequences of Jean Anouilh's Antigone and Creon Literature Essay
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This paper is based on cross-text character analysis of the play Antigone by Jean Anouilh and the story, Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad. The analysis reflects on the comparison of life, death, as well as its consequences on Antigone as an opposing subject to her uncle, Creon, as well as the perspective of Mr. Kurtz in the novel Heart of Darkness.
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Alexie Sherman What You Pawn I Will Redeem Literature Essay
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The paper dwells on “What You Pawn I Will Redeem” by Alexie. It narrates the story of Jackson Jackson, a chronically homeless Spokane Indian man who needs money to buy back an important family relic that was stolen years back.
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Moral Lessons From Childrens Literature Literature Essay
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Children who are exposed to literature at a tender age are likely to be more creative. Moreover, children’s literature also serves as a tool to sharpen the thinking capacity of children, who often have to use their mental capacity to decipher the meaning of the story, as well as analyzing the moral lessons in each literature piece.
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Skin Color Is the Mistake for Which Tituba Literature Essay
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The African culture was considered inadequate and it was associated with evil. Such a cultural consideration formed a very strong ground from the whites to disrespect her (Tituba). Additionally, being that she was a black woman, she was considered an evil perform worth no respect and reverence from any community member.
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Compare & Contrast 2 literary work (2 different genre) Literature Essay
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They expose the conventional assertion that families belonging to races other than Whites are more disjointed, but more accurately, extended families have varying roles in different family lives. The role of an extended family is to afford the family with almost everything that it needs.
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Reading Sad Literature Literature Essay
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The first stanza phrases such as "apple boughs," "lilting house," green grass, and "prince of the apple towns", symbolically represent childhood. Moreover, the author has described tunes from the chimney as watery meaning that childhood comprises refreshers and invigorations something that is absent in old age. As we progress to adulthood we smother.
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