shore | | Wind-swept and desolate. | | It was a sunless strand that never bore | 10 | The footprint of a man‚ | | Nor felt the weight | | Since time began | | Of any human quality or stir | | Save what the dreary winds and waves incur. | 15 | And in the hush of waters was the sound | | Of pebbles rolling round‚ | | For ever rolling with a hollow sound. | | And bubbling sea-weeds as the waters go | | Swish to and fro | 20 | Their long‚ cold tentacles
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The Hollow of the three hills Nathaniel Hawthorne’s short story begins on a paradox. He writes ‘’in those strange old times…’’ yet the time period hasn’t been specified at all. This can be seen as a deliberate attempt at vagueness. Hawthorne is trying to distort the reader’s sense of time as most successful gothic stories take place in haunted settings outside specific time periods. The rest of the paragraph has been devoted to the description of the setting. The Hollow is a place of dark magic
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The Hollow of the Three Hills is a story of dishonor‚ deceit‚ and death. The author‚ Nathaniel Hawthorn portrays the main character as a beautiful woman with a shameful and abominable past. She tries to run from her problems. The main character was so driven by curiosity and remorse that she brought herself to go see a witch. They met in a place described by Hawthorne as "a hollow basin‚ almost mathematically circular‚ two or three hundred feet in breadth‚...the resort of the Power of Evil and
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Textual Analysis of "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" 1.) Romantic Description: a. pg. 715 - "there is a little valley‚ or rather lap of land‚ among high hills‚ which is one of the quietest places in the whole world. A small brook glides through it‚ with just a murmur enough to lull one to repose; and the occasional whistle of a quail‚ or tapping of a woodpecker‚ is almost the only sound that ever breaks in upon the uniform tranquility." Irving describes nature as an untouchable force. He ignores
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commitment‚ and adultery. She uses the gothic concept of inapt ability to escape death. Nathaniel Hawthorne: “Young Goodman Brown” was a story about a husband facing trial between his religion and his wife. The main character Goodman Brown is a Christian man who walks out on his Christian wife “faith”. Hawthorne was very clever in naming the characters; he uses the allegory and imagery. He takes a different gothic approach‚ he never uses the concept of death like Atwood does‚ instead he uses religion‚ and
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King School 8th The Sleepy Hollow The Legend Of Sleepy Hollow it tells the story of Ichabod Crane‚ superstitious schoolmaster from Connecticut‚ who competes with Abraham "Brom Bones" Van Brunt‚ the town rowdy‚ for the hand of 18-year-old Katrina Van Tassel‚ the daughter and the student of Ichabod
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Analysis T.S. Eliot’s “The Hollow Men” to me represents several interpretations of death or “the end”. The poem is split into five parts‚ each part presenting a different point of view or idea of death. There are several “kingdoms” of death presented in the various parts‚ intertwining within eachother throughout. I view each part as representing a different member of the hollow men looking at the different “kingdoms” of death. Part I’s presents a dank‚ dark cellar and is associated with violence
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Culture-Relationship Paper Having outlined the nature of leisure in general‚ the more specific definition of leisure can be described with some exactitude how the concept may and may not be applied. In the first place‚ leisure should be distinguished from free time‚ that is‚ time left free not only from regular employment but also from overtime and from time spent in travel to and from the work place. Free time includes leisure‚ as well as all the other activities that take place outside
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Nathaniel Hawthorns use of sound‚ colour and symbolism in The Hollow of Three Hills -Leandre Kleynhans LW 11Y AS Levels English Nathaniel Hawthorne turns the perhaps often ignored topic of adultery into a compelling story that keeps the reader enthralled by using various literary techniques. He focuses on using colour and sound as a way to activate the audience’s imagination and create a somewhat magical picture that only the mind could produce. He describes certain things and places in a precise
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Emptiness in "The Hollow Men" "The Hollow Men‚" a poem written by T.S. Eliot shows the narrators disgust and his faithless attitude toward all mankind. He refers to the human race as being "hollow‚" (1) and having a "headpiece filled with straw‚" (4) which creates the feeling and theme of emptiness. Eliot also uses allusions‚ symbols‚ and repetition as powerful‚ and depressing poetic devices to make mankind seem hollow. The theme of emptiness is clearly visible throughout the poem‚ and it begins
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