Does the writer allude to biblical or mythological literature? for what purpose? and What aspects of work create deep universal responses to it?

In
the poem href=""> by href="">Edgar Allan Poe, the
author makes biblical references in relation to the raven. For instance, he calls the raven a
prophet, but is also not sure if the bird is a prophet or a devil. Poe writes:

"Prophet!" said I, "thing of evil!prophet still, if
bird or devil!
Whether Tempter sent, or whether tempest tossed thee here
ashore"

When the bird arrives, the author is
lamenting his lost love, . Like a mythological creature, the bird has human-like capabilities.
He does this to imbue supernatural qualities in the bird. Specifically, the raven can talk.
However, maddeningly for the author, the bird says only Nevermore. Regardless of what the
author asks, the birds response is always Nevermore.

Because the author
thinks the bird is a mythical or biblical creature like the seraphim, also mentioned in the
poem, he asks about Lenore:

By that Heaven that bends
above usby that God we both adore
Tell this soul with sorrow laden if, within the
distant Aidenn,
It shall clasp a sainted maiden whom the angels name Lenore

Again, all the bird will say is Nevermore. This pattern of asking
the bird and getting back only Nevermore begins to drive the poet mad. In fact, the bird might
really be nothing more than the reflection of the authors own increasing madness, as his
obsession with Lenore grows.

In another biblical reference, the poet asks the
bird, Is there balm in Gilead? Balm of Gilead represents a cure, presumably for his love
sickness. It is mentioned in the New Testament. In other words, will the poet ever get over
Lenore or find her again?

The reader can sympathize with the authors deep and
unrequited love. The meter of the poem, plus the use of the supernatural dialogue with the
stone-faced bird help build the rising tension, as the poet continues to berate the bird. In
this way, the poem evokes intense responses by general readers.

name two laws that were plased apon the Jews

In
his book
href="">Night,
author
href="">Elie
Wiesel writes of his experiences during World War
II and the horrors the Jews endured
both before and in the death camps during
the Holocaust.

When the Wiesel
family is deported, the
Nazis are vicious as they load people into the railway cars. "There
are
eighty of you in the car," the German officer added. "If anyone goes missing,
you
will all be shot, like dogs." Elie writes, My father was crying. It was
the first time I
saw him cry. I had never thought it possible.

The Nazis passed laws that
circumscribed what Jews could do. They
passed a law that Jews must wear Jewish stars on their
outer clothing to
identify themselves as Jews. Wiesel writes that in response to this law, his

father said, "The yellow star? So what? It's not lethal €¦" (Poor Father! Of what
then
did you die?)

The local police who worked with the
Nazis were often
instrumental in enforcing the various Aryanization laws and
the Nuremberg Laws. The Hungarian
police were screaming. That was when I
began to hate them€¦They were our first oppressors.
Wiesel writes:

"The same day, the Hungarian police
burst into
every Jewish home in town: a Jew was henceforth forbidden to own gold, jewelry,
or
any valuables. Everything had to be handed over to the authorities, under
penalty of death. My
father went down to the cellar and buried our
savings."

During the roundup of Jews,
it was forbidden to go outside, so people relieved
themselves in a corner.
During the long march to the death camps, Nazi law forbade Jews to
stray.
According to :

One by one,
the
houses emptied and the streets filled with people carrying bundles. By
ten o'clock, everyone was
outside. The police were taking roll calls, once,
twice, twenty times. The heat was oppressive.
Sweat streamed from people's
faces and bodies. Children were crying for water. Water! There was
water
close by inside the houses, the backyards, but it was forbidden to break
rank.

At the camp were more laws. Days
without food or water. We were
forbidden to leave the barrack. The door was
guarded by the SS. In addition, Wiesel writes that,
We were forbidden to sit
down or to move.

The penalty for breaking the law
was
steep and generally involved some form of execution. Wiesel notes that a prisoner
was
condemned to hang for stealing:

"In the name of
Reichsf¼hrer
Himmler€¦prisoner number€¦ stole during the air raid€¦according
to the law€¦prisoner number€¦is
condemned to death. Let this be a warning and
an example to all prisoners."

Nobody
moved."

Why did President Harry Truman decide to drop the atomic bomb on Japan?

There are
several important reasons. First, Japan had rebuffed all talks of surrender of any kind. They
had turned down the proposed Potsdam Declaration, taking the stance of
mokusatsu, "to kill by silence." It appeared that the Japanese
would defend their islands to the last man, as they had previously at Okinawa and Iwo Jima.
Secondly, Allied estimates concerning an invasion of the islands calculated that losses would
probably be at about one million killed, wounded and/or captured. The Allied command decided
that dropping the bombs would save hundreds of thousands of American, English and other Allied
forces' lives. They also figured that the atomic bombs would show Japan the depth of the Allies'
new power and force a surrender.

Who were the main writers during the age of Chaucer and list one of their literary works?

Chaucer
(ca. 1343€“1400) often called the "father" of English poetry because he chose to write
in the vernacular, more specifically, the Englishof southern England and London, was surrounded
by writers, both in England and the Continent, whose works bridged the period between
medievalism and what became known as the Renaissance.

In addition to Dante
Alighieri (The Divine Comedy, ca. 1308€“21), Giovanni Boccaccio
(The Decameron, ca. 1353), and Guillaume de Machaut (Le Remede de
Fortune, ca. 1361greatly admired by Chaucer), all of whom provided Continental
inspiration and models for Chaucer's work, Chaucer's contemporaries in England were turning out
works of profound importance to the English literary canon and the development of modern
English.

The writer known as the Pearl Poet (ca. 1360€“1400), whose work
included the dream vision poem, Pearl, and the Arthurian romance
Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, was writing in highly-alliterative verse
in a West-Midland dialectin a sense, looking backward from Chaucernevertheless provided Chaucer
with a familiar genre for his own dream vision poems in , House of Fame,
and Parliament of Fowls.

At about
this time, William Langland (ca. 1332€“1400) wrote The Vision of William Concerning
Piers the Plowman (ca. 1362€“1387), another dream vision, a satiric view of late
medieval secular and religious society couched in an allegorical framework that puzzles scholars
and readers today because it is, to be quite blunt, sometimes readable and sometimes maddeningly
obscure. Langland uses unrhymed alliterative verse, unlike the Pearl Poet, whose alliterative
verse has a highly-structured rhyme scheme. Despite its sometimes confusing narrative structure,
Piers Plowman is considered one of the most important works of the late
fourteenth century.

John Gower (ca. 1330€“1408), who was once ranked as equal
to Chaucer, is now generally considered to be at least a half-step below Chaucer as a poet, but
Chaucer himself referred to Gower as "moral Gower" because some of Gower's workssuch
as Vox Clamantis ("The Voice of One Crying")addressed social
upheavals within English society (for example, The Peasant's Revolt of 1381). Gower's most
well-known work, however, Confessio Amantis (The Confession of a
Lover), is both a critical look at English society and religion and a series of tales
not unlike some of Chaucer's moral examples in .

As we can see, among Continental and English writers in the fourteenth
century, there were several writers whose works clearly influenced Chaucer or provided ideas for
subject matter. Models of the dream vision, for example, which Chaucer used extensively
throughout his own works, were highly developed by the mid-fourteenth century, perhaps achieving
their greatest expression in Chaucer.

In what ways does the veil affect Mr.Hooper's relationship with his congregation, in The Minister's Black Veil?

was known
for his stories based in New England and dealing with Puritan religion. His works of literature
have become synonymous with sin and righteousness, and the judgments of townspeople.

is no different. Parson Hooper is the reverend in the town of Milford. He shows up at
Mass one morning wearing a black veil that covers his eyes. Immediately the townspeople start
gossiping about why he is wearing the veil. Some of the people say that he has gone mad, while
others say he is covering a shameful sin. Soon the children of the congregation become afraid of
him and the adults continue to gossip about him. Though the townspeople are curious about this,
no one has the nerve to ask him why he is wearing the veil. The only person who asks him is his
fiancee, Elizabeth. He won't even tell her why he wears the veil. The relationship with his
congregation changes dramatically. They now start seeing their own sins that they have been
hiding. Most of the people start to have less and less to do with him. Elizabeth, even though
she loves him, ends up leaving him, because he won't tell her why he wears the veil and won't
take it off for her.

Now that he is alone, he actually begins to become a
better clergyman. He begins to gain many converts who feel like they are living beneath a black
veil, as well.

"All through life the black veil had hung between him and
the world: it had separated him from the cheerful brotherhood and woman's love, and kept him in
the saddest of all prisons, his own heart; and still it lay upon his face, as if to deepen the
gloom of his dark-some chamber, and shade him from the sunshine of eternity".

This quote sums up how he was now living his life. Elizabeth never married and was with
him when he was dying. He tells everyone around him that they all wear black veils. He is trying
to show everyone that there is always something hidden within us.

need help!!!! can you help me with the theme of this poem Anne Frank huis by Andrew Motion????

I think
the dominant theme is liberty. The poem says that those looking at the pictures above Anne's bed
find "not only patience missing its reward," but "one enduring wish for chances
like my own: to leave as simply as I do..." and walk through Amsterdam. The kind of liberty
Motion is talking about is as simple and basic as it gets, but it was a reward that was denied
to Anne and her family despite their patience. The last stanza of the poem seems to speak to his
recognition of the difference between his life and hers, and it obviously struck a nerve with
him.

How does John Edwards use syntax and diction in his sermon?

Edwards'is, to be
frank, overwhelming. Rather
than develop sentences that are simple to understand, especially for
people
who are only listening to him and cannot see his text in front of them, Edwards seems
to
purposefully try to overwhelm his listeners with evidence of their own
destruction in an effort
to compel them to change. For an example of this
overwhelming sentence structure, we can
actually look at the very first
sentence of the text:

In
this Verse is
threatned the Vengeance of God on the wicked unbelieving Israelites, that
were
Gods visible People, and lived under Means of Grace; and that,
notwithstanding all Gods
wonderful Works that he had wrought towards that
People, yet remained, as is expressed,
ver. 28. void of
Counsel, having no Understanding in them; and that, under
all the
Cultivations of Heaven, brought forth bitter and poisonous Fruit; as in the two
Verses
next preceeding the Text.

He
divides clauses with
semicolons, clauses thatwith
minor...