A Rose for Emily and The Thorn

On the surface, the literary pieces A Rose for Emily, by William Faulkner and The Thorn, by William Wordsworth, appear to be rattling different kit and caboodle of literature. A Rose for Emily, is a grey Gothic short storey compose in 1930 nigh a wo humans refusing to veer with the clocks and becoming the sum of local gossip. The Thorn  was written by the wild-eyed poet William Wordsworth closely a middle-aged man and his experience observing a womans emotional breakdown. Though the settings for A Rose for Emily  and The Thorn  and the time outcome they were written in are different, both works share similarities in hurt 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 southern Gothic, the subgenre of Gothic fiction, are usual passim much of Faulkners work, make him one of the key authors of the field. such(prenominal) featu res of southern Gothic allow in deeply flawed characters, ambivalent gender roles, de itemt settings, and situations that see crime and violence, poverty, and alienation. These features comprise the aggregate of A Rose for Emily  and progress reflect Southern Gothics nonions of interpret the decay of southern aristocracy. The of import character Emily Grierson is a relic of the Souths past and is never commensurate to move forward in her life. The old world or so her crumbles and withers just as the once proud central office she lives in deteriorates with the passage of time. The battlefront of devastation is apparent throughout the story and is another portion expressed in Southern Gothic works. Such features of death and the supernatural are withal present in Romantic literature.\nRomanticism came about as a defiance of the scientific rationalization of the Enlightenment blockage by returning to artistic experiences of awe and wonder that had not been seen since the Renaissance. Romantic writers s...