In the poem “The Ruined Cottage” by William Wordsworth, the narrator listens to an old man sitting outside of an abandoned cottage tell of the family that used to live therein. The man describes how he was once friendly with the family living there, and how he embarked on various travels and visi...

Is there some famous metaphors that were used to refer to angels in the Bible or metaphors were never used in the Bible to refer to angels?

In Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen, when Elizabeth visits Pemberley with her aunt Mrs. Gardiner, Elizabeth looks at the splendour of Pemberly and starts thinking that she might have been mistress of that place, only to reflect that she would not have been allowed to invite her aunt and uncle o...

"Annabel Lee" is one of many pieces of writing by Edgar Allan Poe which explore the theme of a beloved woman who died young. As with other such works, most famously "The Raven", critics have speculated about who this young woman might have been based on, e.g. Poe's own wife or his mother. But I'm...

This short passage is quoted from chapter II of J. Steinbeck's The Pastures of Heaven: George cared for his house and kept a flower garden in front of it. The upper story of the house had never been lived in. This farm was a poem by the inarticulate man. Patiently he built his scene and w...