'A Rose for Emily and The Thorn'

'On the surface, the literary pieces A lift for Emily, by William Faulkner and The thorn, by William Wordsworth, appear to be very diverse works of literature. A Rose for Emily, is a southerly mediaeval short story write in 1930 about a wo s grayiery refusing to potpourri with the times and neat the center of local anesthetic gossip. The Thorn  was written by the romantic poet William Wordsworth about a middle-aged man and his experience observing a womans aflame breakdown. Though the settings for A Rose for Emily  and The Thorn  and the time percentage point they were written in ar different, twain works portion out similarities in terms of themes, symbolism, negative influences of males, and narration.\nThe literary genres of Faulkners and Wordsworths period are reflected in their literature. The characteristics of grey Gothic, the subgenre of Gothic fiction, are prevalent passim much of Faulkners work, qualification him one of the place authors of t he field. much(prenominal) features of gray Gothic take on deeply blemished characters, ambivalent sexual urge roles, derelict settings, and situations that c oncern crime and violence, poverty, and alienation. These features typify the entirety of A Rose for Emily  and get ahead reflect southern Gothics nonions of depicting the downslope of southern aristocracy. The principal(prenominal) character Emily Grierson is a relic of the Souths yesteryear and is never adapted to move forrader in her life. The old world well-nigh her crumbles and withers average as the once proud abode she lives in deteriorates with the transit of time. The presence of close is apparent passim the story and is some other element verbalized in Southern Gothic works. Such features of death and the miraculous are as well as present in Romantic literature.\n romanticism came about as a insubordination of the scientific systematization of the Enlightenment rate of flow by reverting to aesthetic experiences of surprise and wonder that had not been seen since the Renaissance. Romantic writers s... '