billdelaney
billdelaney
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September 4, 2011
University of California-Los Angeles - Los Angeles, CA, US (1960 - 1963)
Shakespeare, Hemingway, Poe, English literature, American literature, French literature, especially short stories
Biography
Freelance writer, editor, independent scholar. I have written several hundred essays, articles, and reviews for Magill's/Salem Press which are accessible online via eNotes. I have also published eighteen peer-reviewed literary articles in The Explicator.
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Answered a Question in The Open Window
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Answered a Question in Julius Caesar
In Act 5, Scene 5 of Julius Caesar, it is evident that the armies of Cassius and...
Answered a Question in Dusk
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Answered a Question in A Rose for Emily
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Answered a Question in Hamlet
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Answered a Question in Of Mice and Men
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Answered a Question in The Cop and the Anthem
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Answered a Question in Dusk
Stories like "Dusk" and "The Umbrella Man" owe their existence to the great...
Answered a Question in Dusk
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Answered a Question in Dover Beach
The poet cannot see the beach but can only hear the sound made by the waves...
Answered a Question in Dusk
The title "Dusk" seems quite appropriate for Saki's story for several reasons....
Answered a Question in Dover Beach
The principal image in this poem is the use of the sound of the waves washing the...
Answered a Question in Dusk
The article on Saki in Wikipedia states: "Politically, Munro was a Tory and...
Answered a Question in Dusk
Norman Gortsby is a young city dweller who considers himself something of a...
Answered a Question in The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock
The speaker does not compare the sunset to "a patient etherised upon a table," but...
Answered a Question in Ode to a Nightingale
To understand this stanza of Keats' "Ode to a Nightingale" you have to go back to...
Answered a Question in Lamb to the Slaughter
The title "Lamb to the Slaughter" is a double entendre. The obvious reference is...
Answered a Question in The Open Window
Among the lessons that might be taken from "The Open Window" one important one has...
Answered a Question in Dusk
My impression of the young man is that he is very bold and temperamental. He must...
Answered a Question in Dusk
Dusk is used first to establish a mood. It is the time when the day ends and the...
Answered a Question in Dusk
Norman Gortsby is what Americans today would call a yuppie. He is sitting on a...
Answered a Question in Dusk
One difference that stands out in comparing "Dusk" and "The Umbrella Man" is that...
Answered a Question in The Chaser
John Collier had a negative attitude about marriage. His story "The Chaser" is...
Answered a Question in Thanatopsis
I do not find the speaker’s attitude either comforting or disturbing. It strikes...
Answered a Question in Thanatopsis
It is not only the speaker of "Thanatopsis" who has experienced the fear of death...
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