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Enoch Arden
A reimagining of Tennyson's castaway husband, returned to a world that has moved on — Bierce's vehicle for testing whether patience and virtue still pay.
supporting
Also known as The New Enoch Arden, Enoch
First appearance: poetry
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The able seaman who is cast away on an island and returns home after many years.
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Bierce takes the familiar figure of the long-lost sailor and sets him down in a landscape of graveyards, scarecrows, and epitaphs, where the dead are catalogued and the living are mostly schemers. The 'New' Enoch Arden…
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The emotional and psychological peak occurs when the speaker’s obsessive pursuit of the divine rose fragrance…
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