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The revenant becomes a former lover and crime and punishment take the place of sin and retribution. [61] The theme of sin becomes notable once again in the Scottish "Demon Lover" tradition (notably Child D-G), which establishes that the former lover is the devil who "came to carry off the unfaithful girl to the hills of hell."
Demon (Russian: Демон) is a poem by Mikhail Lermontov, written in several versions in the years 1829 to 1839. It is considered a masterpiece of European Romantic poetry . Lermontov began work on the poem when he was about 14 or 15 [ 1 ] [ 2 ] but completed it only during his Caucasus exile. [ 3 ]
Demon Lover may refer to: The Daemon Lover, a medieval British ballad; The Daemon Lover, a short story by Shirley Jackson. "The Demon Lover", a 1945 short story by Elizabeth Bowen; My Demon Lover, a 1987 comedy horror film "Demon Lover", a 2010 short story by Cecelia Holland; Demonlover, a 2002 film by Olivier Assayas
Charlotte Dacre (17? [Note 1] [1] – 7 November 1825), born Charlotte King, was a British Gothic novelist, and poet.[2] [3] Most references today are given as Charlotte Dacre, but she first wrote under the pseudonym "Rosa Matilda" and later adopted a second pseudonym to confuse her critics.
“I’ve always liked that word, but I’ve never used it in, like, everyday life when people are like, ‘That’s my lover over there,’ or calling each other a lover.
Sonnet 144 is an English or Shakespearean sonnet.The English sonnet has three quatrains, followed by a final rhyming couplet.It follows the typical rhyme scheme of the form abab cdcd efef gg and is composed in iambic pentameter, a type of poetic metre based on five pairs of metrically weak/strong syllabic positions.
He was written about by Johann Weyer in 1583 in the Pseudomonarchia Daemonum.. Amon, or Aamon, is a great and mighty marques, and commeth abroad in the likeness of a Wolf, having a serpents tail, [vomiting] flames of fire; when he putteth on the shape of a man, he sheweth out dogs teeth, and a great head like to a mighty [night hawk]; he is the strongest prince of all other, and understandeth ...
The Demon Seated (Russian: Демон сидящий) is an 1890 symbolist piece by Russian artist Mikhail Vrubel. [1] The painting's background is a mountainous area in a scarlet sunset. The composition emphasizes the constraint of the demon's figure, as if pressed between the upper and lower bars of the frame.