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Image of a guillotine-style mousetrap seller in the mid-19th century. In February 1855, Emerson wrote in his journal, under the heading "Common Fame": If a man has good corn or wood, or boards, or pigs, to sell, or can make better chairs or knives, crucibles or church organs, than anybody else, you will find a broad hard-beaten road to his house, though it be in the woods.
Unlike most of Poe's poems relating to dying women, "Lenore" implies the possibility of meeting in paradise. [1] The poem may have been Poe's way of dealing with the illness of his wife Virginia. The dead woman's name, however, may have been a reference to Poe's recently dead brother, William Henry Leonard Poe. [2]
In social science, disenchantment (German: Entzauberung) is the cultural rationalization and devaluation of religion apparent in modern society.The term was borrowed from Friedrich Schiller by Max Weber to describe the character of a modernized, bureaucratic, secularized Western society. [1]