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The poem serves as an allegory about a king "in the olden time long ago" who is afraid of evil forces that threaten him and his palace, foreshadowing impending doom. As part of "The Fall of the House of Usher", Poe said, "I mean to imply a mind haunted by phantoms — a disordered brain" [1] referring to Roderick Usher.
The poem is recursive, ending where it begins, with the stanza "I can't go out no more. There's a man by the door in a raincoat" The poem also has ties to the Dark Tower epic. When King originally began writing The Stand, he wrote "A dark man with no face." This became the description for Randall Flagg and is an exact line from the poem.
Lois Duncan Steinmetz (April 28, 1934 – June 15, 2016), known as Lois Duncan, was an American writer, novelist, poet, and journalist.She is best known for her young-adult novels, and has been credited by historians as a pioneering figure in the development of young-adult fiction, particularly in the genres of horror, thriller, and suspense.
In a Dark, Dark Room and Other Scary Stories is a collection of horror stories, poems and urban legends retold for children by Alvin Schwartz and illustrator Dirk Zimmer. It was published as part of the I Can Read! series in 1984. In 2017 the book was re-released with illustrations by Spanish freelance illustrator Victor Rivas. [1]
These heartfelt, profound, and sometimes funny works of poetry are perfect to share for your Thanksgiving celebration. The post 20 Thanksgiving Poems to Read Around the Table appeared first on ...
"Halloween" is a poem written by the Scottish poet Robert Burns in 1785. [1] First published in 1786, the poem is included in the Kilmarnock Edition . It is one of Burns' longer poems, with twenty-eight stanzas, and employs a mixture of Scots and English.
The "Stalin Epigram", also known as "The Kremlin Highlander" (Russian: Кремлёвский горец) is a satirical poem by the Russian poet Osip Mandelstam, written in November 1933. The poem describes the climate of fear in the Soviet Union. [1] Mandelstam read the poem only to a few friends, including Boris Pasternak and Anna Akhmatova.
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