The Lovely Libra: Indecisive or Complex? Libra is a diverse sun sign. Born from September 24 to October 22(or 23), Libras are known as peace-seeking diplomats who tend to have problems making decisions. The reason they are given the bad rap of indecisiveness is because they are able to see both sides to many topics. ...
The poet’s eye, in a fine frenzy rolling, Doth glance from heaven to earth, from earth to heaven; As imagination bodies forth The forms of things unknown, the poet’s pen Turns them to shapes and gives to airy nothing A local habitation and a name. (5.1.7-12). This stanza taken from Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Nights Dream ...
As famous French writer Stendhal comments, “Pleasure is often spoiled by describing it.” Perhaps that is why some people just hate to read romance. It seems that something in the pleasure of sexuality is lost when it hits the pages of a trashy romance novel. Ages before contemporary writers such as Nora Roberts began pouring ...
The use of opium has occurred for thousands of years throughout the world. The images and dreams induced by the opium poppy have inspired artists and been the subject of their works for centuries. In British culture writers were influenced by the effects of opium and its more socially-acceptable medicinal form, laudanum. Made infamous by ...
In a majority of poems from the Romantic era there is a profusion of the use of supernatural and mythological references in reference to the content of the individual pieces. They would come in various states and mean different things, yet they would all serve the same purpose and that would be to help the ...
