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The Yellow Wallpaper

  The Yellow Wallpaper   By Charlotte Perkins Gilman the deterioration of a woman's mental health while she is on a "rest cure" on a rented summer country estate with her family. Mental Illness and its Treatment. ... Gender Roles and Domestic Life. ... Outward Appearance vs. Inner life ... Self-Expression, Miscommunication, and Misunderstanding. "The Yellow Wall-Pepar" It is very rare that simple conventional individuals like John and myself secure tribal corridors for the late spring. A pioneer chateau, a genetic domain, I would agree that a spooky place, and arrive at the level of heartfelt felicity — yet that would ask a lot of destiny! Still I will gladly announce that something doesn't add up about it. Else, for what reason would it be advisable for it to be let so efficiently? Furthermore, why have stood for such a long time untenanted? John snickers at me, obviously, yet one anticipates that in marriage. John is commonsense in the limit. He has no per...

Ozymandias Poem - In English

Ozymandias Poem "Ozymandias" Percy Bysshe Shelley, 1792 - 1822 Ozymandias I met a traveller from an antique land Who said: “Two vast and trunkless legs of stone Stand in the desert . . . Near them, on the sand, Half sunk, a shattered visage lies, whose frown, And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command, Tell that its sculptor well those passions read Which yet survive, stamped on these lifeless things,The hand that mocked them, and the heart that fed: And on the pedestal these words appear: ‘My name is Ozymandias , king of kings: Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!' Nothing beside remains. Round the decay Of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare The lone and level sands stretch far away.”