THREE SIMPLE WORDS Prologue “And by the evening fire repeat Evangeline’s story While from its rocky caverns the deep-voiced, neighboring ocean Speaks, and in accents disconsolate answer the wail of the forest.” (lines 1397-1400) –Evangeline, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow Mother’s warm breath ghosted across my ear as she read. She flipped the worn, tea-colored page, reached Read more…
A good heart is the support for, and the most important part of, a person. Possessions can be lost then replaced, while the heart cannot be replaced. After the prince and the swallow died, there was no one else in the city that was as selfless as them. Once they were gone no one else in the city could replace their kindness. This idea is demonstrated in a short story by Eudora Welty, which also proves that genuine goodness is the base of life.
All these questions, including the troubles Keats was facing, caused him to go in and out of depression. Keats, bombarded with all these difficulties in his life, as well as his doubts about whether he was doing the right thing, was still able to become one of the major poets of the Romantic period.
A Review of Freshman Year: Lessons Learned I was at a diner with some of my friends from school (one of them being the girl Jordyn I wrote about in my “first day of school” piece— it turns out I actually had spelled her name wrong there) and we were eating plate after plate Read more…
Crane’s The Third Violet is essentially a love story between an artist and a girl with a higher social status than he. Situated in a peaceful rural area where vacationers can enjoy hikes in the woods and picnics near streams and rivers, The Third Violet has been criticized as a work that is confusing, and too short, and “were it not for the dog and one or two touches of nature, we would not like it at all” (unsigned). This speaks volumes about the critic’s opinion on this particular story. He or she plainly disliked it.
