Twila Stephen
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I have worked for Portland Public Schools as a liaison supporting student transitions from high school to college. I currently work as a writing coach and continue to publish my poetry in literary journals. My passions are literature, classical music, and history.
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Answered a Question in Romeo and Juliet
Given the fact that Romeo is from an opposing and feuding house, Montague, and Juliet is a Capulet, her initial draw to him flies in the face of her self-identity and self-interest and has no rhyme... -
Answered a Question in If—
In the didactic poem "If—," the speaker gives counsel to his son about the traits of a good leader. But, rather than simply listing the traits of a good leader, the speaker provides concrete... -
Answered a Question in Our Casuarina Tree
The imagery of "the rugged trunk" as well as personification of having "scars" indicate that the Casuarina Trees of the poem symbolizes the long passage of time. This is because the tree must be... -
Answered a Question in As You Like It
Personification is the attribution of human characteristics to non-human things. An example of personification occurs in character Jaques’s soliloquy in Act II, Scene 7 of As You Like It lines 18... -
Answered a Question in To India My Native Land
Henry Louis Vivian Derozio's "To India My Native Land" starts out in a laudatory tone as the speaker glorifies the India of old before it became colonized. This tone is first indicated by the... -
Answered a Question in Paradise Lost
Satan uses techniques of classical rhetoric, or the art of persuasion, to compel Eve to eat the fruit. Accordingly, his appeal to Eve in book nine precisely follows the Ciceronian arrangement.... -
Answered a Question in The Odyssey
Odysseus does not dare shed his disguise because it would risk compromising the very reason for assuming the disguise in the first place, which was indicated in the preceding book: Odysseus,... -
Answered a Question in Absalom and Achitophel
Whereas the wit of satire before Dryden and the Restoration would tax the common abuses and vices of the people in rough and bitter attacks, the wit that Dryden uses to expose his characters in... -
Answered a Question in Hyperion
Allegory is a narrative that is designed to draw some parallel or other with a message or phenomenon outside the work itself. The fragmentary epic Hyperion by Keats has allegorical elements in it,... -
Answered a Question in Every Man in His Humour
The unity of time and place, as laid down by Aristotle, is that the time encompassed in the play must “keep within a single circuit of the sun” (Poetics) and that the action of the play must stay... -
Answered a Question in Bartholomew Fair
While Bartholomew Fair is not a rigorous allegory where every personage stands for a notion and every action for a principle, Jonson does make at least three characters out as associated with the...