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is it possible to adapt ancient graeco-roman prosodic styles, forms, principles, modifications into modern verses? does anybody know good authors who write in vernacular or modern languages with greek …

Are there any special prosodic features to Milton's blank verse? Is it just unrhyming iambic pentameter, or does it have any restrictions on what the final sound in a line must be like even though the …

Here is a follow-up to my previous question about Ann Patchett's Commonwealth. I'm unclear about Dick Spencer's role in concealing the affair that Bert Cousins is having with Beverly Keating. Spencer …

Ann Patchett's Commonwealth opens in the 1960s with Bert Cousins showing up at the christening party of Fix Keating's daughter Franny: Albert Cousins hadn't been invited to the party. He'd passed Dic …

Freud's "The 'Uncanny'" (available online at ricorso.net or archive.org) includes this summary of an unidentified short story: In the middle of the isolation of war-time a number of the English Stran …

The text of The Count of Monte Cristo states multiple times that Villefort must imprison the innocent Dantès in order to fulfill his ambition. This ambition is realized in his gaining an audience with …

In The Taming of the Shrew, after Baptista decrees that Bianca cannot marry while Kate remains single, Hortensio proposes to Gremio that they set aside their rivalry over Bianca and work together to f …

I don't understand what Book I Chapter 48 of Machiavelli's Discourses on Livy is trying to convey: Chapter XLVIII He who would not have an Office bestowed on some worthless or wicked Person, should c …

I'm looking for a quote in the book series A Song of Ice and Fire, but I can't remember which book or chapter. I also can't remember which character said it nor the exact quote, but it was something a …

To whom does the "we" in the fifth stanza of this poem refer? Is it the ghosts who haunt houses, or the humans who live in the haunted houses? Haunted Houses Henry Wadsworth Longfellow All houses whe …

It is a big deal to Winston when he has the photograph of the three men in New York. Proof of the Party's lies. But is his Ogilvy fable not just as much proof - in a sense - that the Party lies ( assu …

I noticed in Will Quadflieg's interpretation of Goethe's Faust that Faust seems to be relatively calm during his first encounter with Mephistopheles. I get that in the original text, Faust mentions in …

A short story I think I read in the early 2010s: It's about a boy whose mother left him following a falling out with his father, so now the new status quo was the father coming home after a long day o …

While reading John Steinbeck's Of Mice and Men, I noticed a peculiar repetition in chapter 4, where there are three mentions of the noise made by the horse's tackle. It was Saturday night. Through th …

From the section "An Absurd Reasoning: Absurdity and Suicide" of The Myth of Sisyphus by Albert Camus: I therefore conclude that the meaning of life is the most urgent of questions. How to answer it? …