Title Author Characters Mood/ POV Setting/ Theme Summary Analysis

Genesis 1-3 God- creator of peaceful -Love of God Beginning- heavens and God created the world for us.
“The Creation” everything -Rebellious nature earth He is the provider and source
-God of order of man 1sy day-lightness and of everything.
-God of Beauty and -disobedience darkness
goodness -free will to decide 2nd day- sky _Adam and Eve made the first
Adam- man; his 3rd day- land, sees, & sin which is the sin of
responsibility to eve vegetation disobedience.
Eve-would become Rivers: Pishone 4th- sun, moon, stars _God is trying to test us and
mother of Gishon, Tigris, 5th- fish and birds gave us our free will
everything; Euphrates 6th- animals, man, woman
rebellious nature of 7th- rest day
men

Genesis 22 God Strong faith _Mt. Moriah God tested Abraham to

1-22 Abraham “here I _ _kind of Legend sacrifice his only son to him.
“the sacrifice am” God knew that Abraham has
of Isaac” “God will provide” a strong faith into him.
Legend Isaac- Son of
Abraham
Angel of the lord
“Abraham,
Abraham”
“do not lay on the
boy”
Luke 25- 37
“The good
Samaritan”
Parable
Stopping by Robert Man Calm _ deals with the On the surface, this poem is “The woods are lovely, dark
woods on a frost horse And Serene contemplation of simplicity itself. The speaker and deep”
snowy evening nature. is stopping by some woods _the world is lovely, full of
1st person POV _happened in a on a snowy evening. He or evil nature, and mysteries
The poem snowy evening she takes in the lovely scene But I have promises to keep,
consists of four in near-silence, is tempted to And miles to go before I sleep,
(almost) stay longer, but _The things I want to do
identically acknowledges the pull of before I die
constructed obligations and the _snow- symbolizes white hair.
stanzas. Each considerable distance yet to The speaker alwaredy
line is iambic, be traveled before he or she acquired wisdom and he is
with four can rest for the night. reminiscing
stressed _When are we supposed to
syllables: stop? When we need to rest
and meditate. Reflect about
our life. It represents a
moment of relaxation from
the onerous journey of life
Tonight I can Pablo Ist POV _the speaker is sad
write Neruda because he is no longer
Sad with this woman and the
night reminds him of her,
which brings up bittersweet
memories that he struggles
to let go of.
_the stars shiver,' which
stars can't actually do, but it
creates a sense of coldness
that perhaps the speaker
feels, since there isn't the
warmth of anyone else to
feel.
The story of an Kate Louise _The Inherent _The story is short, made up
Hour Chopin Mallard - A Oppressiveness of of a series of short
woman whose Marriage paragraphs, many of which
husband is _The Forbidden Joy consist of just two or three
reportedly killed in of Independence sentences. Likewise, the story
a train accident. covers only one hour in Louise
When Louise Mallard’s life—from the
hears the news,
moment she learns of her
she is secretly
husband’s death to the
happy because
she is now free. moment he unexpectedly
She is filled with a returns alive. The short, dense
new lust for life, structure mirrors the intense
and although she hour Louise spends
usually loved her contemplating her new
husband, she independence.
cherishes her _The heart trouble that afflicts
newfound Louise is both a physical and
independence symbolic malady that
even more. She
 has a heart attack represents her ambivalence
when her toward her marriage and
husband, alive unhappiness with her lack of
after all, comes freedom.
home. _the doctors’ conclusion that
Brently she’d died of overwhelming
Mallard - Louise’s joy is ironic because it had
husband,
been the loss of joy that had
supposedly killed
actually killed her. Indeed,
in a train accident.
Louise seems to have died of a
Although Louise
remembers broken heart, caused by the
Brently as a kind sudden loss of her much-loved
and loving man, independence.
merely being _The open window from
married to him which Louise gazes for much
also made him an of the story represents the
oppressive factor freedom and opportunities
in her life. Brently that await her after her
arrives home husband has died. From the
unaware that there window, Louise sees blue sky,
had been a train fluffy clouds, and treetops.
accident. She hears people and birds
singing and smells a coming
rainstorm. Everything that she
experiences through her
senses suggests joy and
spring—new life.
Velveteen Marjorie The Rabbit- e 3rd POV _like the Skin Horse says to
Rabbit Willams “youngest” of the _Sadness to the little Rabbit, "real isn't
toys, emotionally; happiness something you are, it's
everything is new to something you become." We
Rabbit; runs the become Real through
gamut of emotions: experiencing the full range of
shy and uncertain, ourselves reflected in others,
and recognizing it is but a
scared and sad,
reflection of our own state.
jubilantly happy;
With practice we can accept
loves Skin Horse and what we see and love
Andrew/ Andrea ourselves anyway. Only then
and wants very can we truly be open to loving
 much to be loved in and accepting someone else.
return; All the wear and tear is the
The Horse- kind and sometimes agonizing beauty
wise and gentle; of this human condition. And
often plays just imagine how wonderful it
mediator or parent would be if we could all let
to the other toys; our threads show, knowing
that this is what makes each of
The boy
us so very Real.
To Celia Ben Celia- symbolizes 1st POV A sad love story “Or leave a kiss but in the cup,
Jonson women/ warmth _Sadness due since it is an And I’ll not look for
to unrequited unrequited love wine.”_ he is so in love that he
love does not need to drink to feel
happy.
“the thirst that from the soul
doth rise”
_ He wants her love and he
wants it more than anything
else.
I sent thee late a rosy wreath,
Not so much honouring thee
_The flowers could be a
metaphor for love, and when
he says he hopes that the
flowers do not die, he is
talking about their love.
As giving it a hope, that there
It could not withered be. But thou
thereon didst only breathe,
And sent’st it back to me;
_the woman sent the flowers
back to him after breathing on
them, but now the flowers
grow and never die.
_This could mean that maybe
they are not together, but she
wanted to show him that their
love would not die.
Since when it grows, and
smells, I swear,
Not of itself, but thee.
 _the speaker thinks very
highly of her if she only needs
to breathe on something to
make it smell like her forever.
This proves how much he
loves her since he can only
smell her on the flowers.
Sonnet 116 William 3rd POV _What is Love This sonnet attempts to _It attempts to give the
shakespear Serious define love, by telling both ideals/ idealism of rue love in
_Different Types of what it is and is not. In the contrast to fake one
Romantic Love first quatrain, the speaker _Love is not love when:
says that love—”the 1.When it can be altered
_The Dangers of marriage of true minds”—is 2.When the lover tries to
Lust and Love perfect and unchanging; it change his beloved
In Shakespeare’s does not “admit 3.If it shaken by troubles
sonnets, falling in impediments,” and it does
love can have not change when it find Love is:
painful emotional changes in the loved one. In 1.constant
and physical the second quatrain, the 2.eternal
consequences. speaker tells what love is
Sonnets 127–152, through a metaphor: a
addressed to the so- guiding star to lost ships
called dark lady, (“wand’ring barks”) that is
express a more not susceptible to storms (it
overtly erotic and “looks on tempests and is
physical love than never shaken”). In the third
the sonnets quatrain, the speaker again
addressed to the describes what love is not: it
young man. But is not susceptible to time.
many sonnets warn Though beauty fades in time
readers about the as rosy lips and cheeks come
dangers of lust and within “his bending sickle’s
love. According to compass,” love does not
some poems, lust change with hours and
causes us to mistake weeks: instead, it “bears it
sexual desire for out ev’n to the edge of
true love, and love doom.” In the couplet, the
itself causes us to speaker attests to his
lose our powers of certainty that love is as he
perception says: if his statements can be
 proved to be error, he
declares, he must never have
written a word, and no man
can ever have been in love.
The Cask of Edgar Allan
Amontillado Poe
Song Birds of Garry
Pain Kiltworth
How Do I love Elizabeth Dominated by her 1 POV Deep Love Sonnet 43 is easily one of the Two major facts about love
Thee Browing possessive father, most famous and according to Elizabeth
Elizabeth spent Loving recognizable poems in the 1.love is Eternal
most of her time someone English language. In the 2.love is immeasurable
alone in an upstairs Great Love poem, the speaker is
room. She was a Love until proclaiming her unending Immortality of Love
frail, sick woman death passion for her beloved. She _she will love Robert even
tells her lover just how
who needed opium after death
deeply her love goes, and she
and laudanum in an _Elizabeth’s writing is her way
also tells him how she loves
effort to cure her him. She loves him with all to express her love to Robert
pain. of her being, and she hopes
God will grant her the ability Line 7,8: Intense
Her only consolation to love him even after she has 2,3,4: idealism
was poetry and at passed. 14: deathlessness
this she was very 9,10,11,12: assurance
successful. When
Robert Browning
read her work he
was so impressed he
wrote asking to
meet her. The two
eventually fell in
love and decided to
secretly elope to
Italy in 1846,
despite the father's
resistance and
anger. He ended up
disinheriting his
daughter.
The Lady or the Frank King- semi Barbaric 3rd POV The Barbaric nature The princess can exercise free
Tiger Stockton king; not formally of the Princess will deciding the fate of her
educated _open ended _what will she lover, since she knows the
Princess- semi story choose for his secrets of what’s behind each
barbaric princes. Fell lover? door and can choose his fate.
in love with a _ Trust vs. betrayal
handsome _Covet vs. True love
commoner
I am nobody Emily Proud Prefer’s to be a _Autobiographical poem of
Dickinson humble nobody the author for herself
1st POV than a proud _persona, her decisive of
somebody being part of social world or
society
_being nobody feels that thay
you are an outcast

A rose for William Emily Grierson - The _Suspense Tradition versus Faulkner presented it in a
Emily Faulkner object of fascination _Flashbakcs Change disjunctive chronology to
in the story. She _ _Through the avoid predictions and clichés
ultimately poisons mysterious figure of regarding the story. Also, to
Homer and seals his Emily Grierson, build suspense.
corpse into an Faulkner conveys
upstairs room. the struggle that _the title is tribute for the
comes from trying main character, Emily.
to maintain Faulkner still wants to give her
Homer Barron - A tradition in the face sympathy even the crime she
foreman. Not a of widespread, did. Sympathy because of
husband type of radical change. tragic ending.
man. _Emily attempts to
exert power over
death by denying
the fact of death
itself. Her bizarre
relationship to the
dead bodies of the
men she has
loved—her
necrophilia—is
revealed first when
her father dies.