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Stephen Crane
The opening story is full of gloom and foreboding. None of the men know the color of the sky, for the simple reason that their eyes are fixed on the waves. And these waves—which are gray, a...
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Stephen Crane
Stephen Crane's very short, but pithy poem "A Man Said to the Universe" is an expression of its author's generally bleak view of man's relation to the cosmos. One has only to read some of Crane's...
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Stephen Crane
“A Dark-Brown Dog” is a short story by American author Stephen Crane (1871–1900). Crane is renowned for his Civil War novel, The Red Badge of Courage. He is also noted as a master of American...
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Stephen Crane
At eNotes, we can't, of course, write your assignments for you. We can, however, offer you guidance so that you can write it for yourself. "Blades of Grass," also known as "In Heaven," is a rather...
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Stephen Crane
"A Man Saw a Ball of Gold in the Sky" can be interpreted as a Naturalistic poem. The movement called Naturalism, a movement which includes Stephen Crane, reveals the humanity of...
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Stephen Crane
The two people in this poem are the maiden and the sailor. They view the sea very differently because they have such different relationships with it. The maiden can just come down to the shore and...
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Stephen Crane
It is actually the Colonel that calls Collins "lad." One of the aspects of this story that it is hard to ignore is the predominance of rank that is alluded to. There are a number of different ranks...
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Stephen Crane
There appears to be two motives. The first is the desperate thirst of Collins and his fellow soldiers. Note what Collins says to his companions that sets the story in motion: Collins of A Company...
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Stephen Crane
Stephen Crane describes in the short story, Mystery of Heroism, why a young man would risk his life to get two buckets of water. In the beginning ofthe story the character, Collins, is cheered on...
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Stephen Crane
Crane in his various works seems to present war with gritty realism. He explores such concepts as heroism and patriotism and profoundly questions the extent to which traditional notions of these...
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Stephen Crane
Stephen Crane's disturbing naturalistic story, "A Dark Brown Dog" conveys a brutish tone to the life of the family of the boy to whom the dog attaches itself. The home is obviously one in the...
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Stephen Crane
Let us remember the three different types of irony that there are in literature before examining the end of this story. There is dramatic irony, which is when one of the characters and the audience...
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Stephen Crane
A man declares to the universe that he exists in order to be recognized, in order to feel that his existence is recognized, that he has meaning and purpose in the grand scheme of things. It is not...
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Stephen Crane
Stephen Crane's poem “I Saw a Man Pursuing the Horizon” is about a man pursuing an impossible dream. Just as we can never reach the horizon, no matter how hard we try, so the man in the poem...
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Stephen Crane
This excellent short story represents yet another attempt of Crane to quantify the strange, baffling and dangerous experience of war by debating the true nature of heroism and questioning the...
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Stephen Crane
This excellent short story by Stephen Crane bears many different hallmarks of Realist literature of the time. Let us just briefly remind ourselves about some of the characteristics of Realism....
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Stephen Crane
The ending of this excellent story is one of the most perfect moments of situational irony in literature. Consider what has happened: Fred Collins has risked death by going to get water for his...
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Stephen Crane
Personification is the literary technique where an author makes it seem as if inanimate objects are animate -- that they have qualities that only animate objects have. Given this definition, you...
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Stephen Crane
In this excellent short story, the nature of heroism is discussed through the example of Collins, a Private who, desperate for some water, braves passing through a field which is being bombed to...
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Stephen Crane
“I Was in the Darkness” is a very short poem, only five lines, with the final line set off from the rest. Despite the brevity, however, the poem tells a complete story, and a common one. As the...
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Stephen Crane
Much criticism has been given over Stephen Crane's "A Dark Brown Dog." While some readers tend to interpret it superficially (being simply about a boy and his dog), others scrutinize it much...
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Stephen Crane
Your original question asked more than one question, which is against enotes policy. I have therefore edited your question. Please do not ask multiple questions again. The exposition of this grimly...
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Stephen Crane
Crane undoubtedly drew on his experiences as a war correspondent, so we might say that the poem is written from that perspective or, more generally, from one who has witnessed war up close. Note...
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Stephen Crane
Fred Collins, the protagonist of "A Mystery of Heroism," learns much more about life and death through actually experiencing the Civil War rather than reading about it in a textbook or hearing...
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Stephen Crane
The answer to your question can be found at the beginning of the story, in the first paragraph. One of the key aspects that it is important to realise at the beginning of this excellent tale is the...
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Stephen Crane
There is a characteristic underlying irony of tone in this poem that expresses Crane's opinion on the illusions held by men: If they believe in God [notice Crane's use of the small letter g] in...
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Stephen Crane
Well, Stephen Crane is an author who is recognised as capturing the elements of Realism in his fiction, so you have picked a good author to focus on! If I were you, I would start by looking at the...
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Stephen Crane
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Stephen Crane
When "a certain tall soldier" in Stephen Crane's novel, The Red Badge of Courage, decided to visit a nearby brook to wash his shirt, he overheard news that would stir the entire camp. He was...