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  • Sharing Some of My Favorite Wintery Re-Reads

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   For today’s blog post, I am sharing a list of some of my favorite books to re-read in Winter!   Some of these are poems, some are fairytales, some are full-length novels, as I wanted to represent all of my favorite types of literature to…

  • The Occult Symbolism in ‘Nosferatu’ (2024): A Magical Media Analysis

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   Today is the sixth day of Dracula Week here at White Rose of Avalon, and I am doing a Magical Media Analysis of the Occult Symbolism in Nosferatu from 2024!   Now, I want to begin by saying that this film is my absolute favorite…

  • Ranking My Top 5 Favorite Dracula Performances

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   Today is the second day of Dracula Week here at White Rose of Avalon, and I am ranking my top five favorite Dracula performances!    Number 5: Max Schreck in Nosferatu: A Symphony of Terror (1922) ~Of course, I could not leave the original cinematic…

  • ‘Dracula’ by Bram Stoker: Book Review

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   Today is the first day of Dracula Week here at White Rose of Avalon, and I am beginning by reviewing the original book!   I have never actually posted a full review of the original novel here on White Rose of Avalon, so I thought…

  • ‘The Vampire’ by Rudyard Kipling: Poem Analysis

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   For today’s blog post, I am sharing my analysis of the poem The Vampire by Rudyard Kipling.   I have long loved this poem, especially as it went on to inspire one of the only Theda Bara films we can still watch today, A Fool…

  • ‘The Two Children’ by Emily Bronte Poem Analysis

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings!   Today’s blog post is an analysis of The Two Children by Emily Bronte.   The Two Children is one of my all-time favorite poems by Emily Bronte, as you can easily see the echoes of what would become Wuthering Heights later!   This will be…

  • ‘To a Wreath of Snow’ by Emily Bronte: Poem Analysis

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   Today’s post is an analysis of the poem To a Wreath of Snow by Emily Bronte.   This will be a stanza-by-stanza analysis of this lovely poem, with the sections in bold and all-caps being my analysis.   I accessed the text of the poem…

  • ‘In the Forest’ by Oscar Wilde: Poem Analysis

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   Today’s post is a line-by-line analysis of the poem In the Forest by Oscar Wilde.   The bold text between each line of the poem is my analysis.   I accessed the text of the poem on poets.org: https://poets.org/poem/forest-0.   Without further ado, let’s look…

  • ‘Ah! Why, Because the Dazzling Sun’ by Emily Bronte Poem Analysis

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   For today’s post, I have decided to do a stanza-by-stanza analysis of a poem by Emily Bronte!   For those who do not know, Emily Bronte is one of my favorite writers, so I always enjoy exploring her poetry in the Winter as a cozy…

  • The Heroine of ‘Nosferatu’: Centering the Lucy Character?

    Welcome back to White Rose of Avalon, my Darlings.   For his first Femme Fatale Friday of the New Year, I just had to write about the leading lady of all the Nosferatu films.   While I kept my post on Saturday about the three films spoiler-free for the new one, this post will not…