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Banquo's role, especially in the banquet ghost scene, has been subject to a variety of mediums and interpretations. Shakespeare's text states: "Enter Ghost of Banquo, and sits in Macbeth's place." [ 32 ] Several television versions have altered this slightly, having Banquo appear suddenly in the chair, rather than walking onstage and into it.
The king then awakens to find the ghost transformed into a beautiful woman. [20] One of the key early appearances by ghosts in a gothic tale was The Castle of Otranto by Horace Walpole in 1764. [21] Washington Irving's short story The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (1820), based on an earlier German folktale, features a Headless Horseman.
The poem's references can be overly obscure because of the many specific Cambridgeshire locations (such as "Haslingfield and Coton") and English traditions to which the poem refers. Some, including George Orwell, have seen it as sentimentally nostalgic, [3] [4] while others have recognised its satiric and sometimes cruel humour.
Illustration by A. B. Frost "Phantasmagoria" is a narrative discussion written in seven cantos between a ghost (a Phantom) and a man named Tibbets. Carroll portrays the ghost as not so different from human beings: although ghosts may jibber and jangle their chains, they, like us, simply have a job to do and that job is to haunt.
After an evening meal at the inn, Parkins inspects the whistle while alone in his room. First clearing the hard-packed soil from the item onto a sheet of paper, he then empties the soil out of the window, observing what he believes to be a sole individual "stationed on the shore, facing the inn". Parkins then holds the whistle close to a candle, discovering two inscriptions on the item. On one ...
First appearance in Posthumous Poems, 1824. The Triumph of Life was the last major work by Percy Bysshe Shelley before his death in 1822. [1] The work was left unfinished. Shelley wrote the poem at Casa Magni in Lerici, Italy in the early summer of 1822. [1] He modelled the poem, written in terza rima, on Petrarch's Trionfi and Dante's Divine ...
Later in the novel he quotes a poem that he attributes incorrectly to The Ingoldsby Legends, its actual source being Sir Walter Scott's epic poem Marmion. In Henry James's 1888 essay "From London", his stay at Morley's Hotel (and the recollection of the four-poster bed) brings to mind The Ingoldsby Legends, he "scarce knows why".
After he began at the Detroit Free Press as a copy boy and then a reporter, his first poem appeared on 11 December 1898. He became a naturalized citizen in 1902. For 40 years, Guest was widely read throughout North America, and his sentimental, optimistic poems were in the same vein as the light verse of Nick Kenny, who wrote syndicated columns during the same decades.