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topos/vanitas
21 items with this tag.
Jul 24, 2026
Wild Ducks
graph/work
setting/europe
form/nonfiction
concept/history
concept/economics
author/chesterton
form/essay
form/satire
form/aphorism
concept/paradox
concept/wonder_and_gratitude
concept/satire_of_society
concept/the_common_man
concept/critique_of_progress
concept/nature_vs_civilization
concept/the_artist_and_society
topos/vanitas
topos/beatus_ille
motif/food_feasting
motif/the_journey
motif/birds
histref/victorian_england
setting/london
character/robin_hood
character/richard_iii
character/julius_caesar
character/elizabeth_bennet
character/fanny_price
character/queen_elizabeth
concept/literary_criticism_2
concept/nationalism_and_patriotism
concept/war_and_its_cost
concept/power_and_corruption
concept/democracy
concept/freedom
concept/anti_industrialism
topos/sic_transit_gloria_mundi
motif/window
motif/stone_and_marble
motif/road
setting/new_york
setting/paris
setting/rural_england
archetype/tyrant
archetype/rebel
form/travel_writing
form/literary_criticism
form/biography
histref/first_world_war
histref/french_revolution
histref/puritanism
histref/medieval_england
histref/napoleonic_wars_the_navy
histref/napoleon
histref/william_penn
histref/ruskin
histref/shelley
histref/jane_austen
Jul 24, 2026
VARIOUS POEMS
graph/work
author/shakespeare
form/song
form/lyric
form/elegy
form/epigram
concept/love_romantic
concept/beauty
concept/transience
concept/mortality
concept/beauty_and_truth
concept/marriage_and_fidelity
concept/immortality_of_art
topos/carpe_diem
topos/tempus_fugit
topos/vanitas
topos/immortality_through_verse
motif/birds
motif/rose
motif/flowers
motif/seasons
motif/the_grave
motif/desire
histref/greek_mythology
Jul 24, 2026
Transience · Decay · Carpe Diem
graph/work
author/dickinson
form/lyric
concept/transience
topos/tempus_fugit
concept/grief_and_loss
motif/mutability
concept/mortality
motif/seasons
topos/carpe_diem
motif/flowers
motif/nature
concept/immortality
motif/animals
motif/memory
motif/death
motif/time
motif/decay
topos/sic_transit_gloria_mundi
concept/beauty
form/letter
topos/ubi_sunt
motif/the_grave
motif/dawn
motif/winter
motif/sun
concept/nostalgia
topos/vanitas
Jul 24, 2026
Thought
graph/work
author/whitman
topos/vanitas
concept/satire_of_society
concept/self_and_soul
motif/money_gold
motif/decay
Jul 24, 2026
The Speaker
graph/work
form/nonfiction
concept/history
author/chesterton
form/literary_criticism
form/essay
concept/friendship
concept/the_artist_and_society
concept/joy
concept/faith
motif/letters_writing
concept/melancholy
character/christ
character/judas_iscariot
character/job
concept/nationalism_and_patriotism
concept/mortality
concept/eastern_religion_and_asceticism
concept/education
concept/suffering_and_pain
concept/wonder
concept/paradox
concept/the_woman_question
topos/vanitas
topos/memento_mori
topos/world_upside_down
motif/clothing_and_costume
motif/ghosts
form/sonnet
form/fairy_tale_fantasy
form/novel
histref/puritanism
histref/reformation
histref/catholic_church
histref/bible
histref/eastern_religion_comparative_religion
histref/boer_war
Jul 24, 2026
The Remarkable Rocket
graph/work
concept/economics
author/wilde
concept/pride
concept/satire_of_society
concept/appearance_vs_reality
concept/alienation
concept/deception
concept/class_conflict
topos/vanitas
topos/world_upside_down
archetype/fool
archetype/antihero
motif/fire
motif/animals
motif/marriage
motif/white_and_red
motif/water
motif/moon
form/fairy_tale
form/satire
form/fable
setting/the_court
character/the_remarkable_rocket
Jul 24, 2026
The Picture of Dorian Gray
graph/work
author/wilde
concept/self_and_soul
concept/beauty
concept/power_and_corruption
concept/conscience
concept/guilt
concept/sin_and_the_fall
concept/temptation
concept/innocence_and_experience
concept/the_artist_and_society
concept/good_vs_evil
concept/transience
topos/the_double
topos/fall_from_innocence
topos/carpe_diem
topos/vanitas
topos/paradise_lost
archetype/double_doppelganger
archetype/shadow
archetype/satanic_figure
archetype/innocent
motif/the_mirror
motif/the_supernatural
motif/the_book
motif/blood
motif/decay
motif/time
motif/flowers
motif/the_city
form/gothic_novel
form/novel
form/epigram
histref/victorian_england
setting/london
setting/a_garden
character/faust
character/dorian_gray
character/lord_henry_wotton
character/basil_hallward
character/sibyl_vane
character/james_vane
Jul 24, 2026
The Masque of the Red Death
graph/work
author/poe
topos/dance_of_death
topos/memento_mori
topos/tempus_fugit
topos/vanitas
topos/sic_transit_gloria_mundi
concept/mortality
concept/terror_and_horror
concept/fate_and_free_will
concept/pride
concept/power_and_corruption
motif/death
motif/the_clock
motif/blood
motif/masks_disguise
motif/light_and_dark
motif/time
motif/wine_and_drink
motif/dreams
archetype/death_personified
archetype/tyrant
character/death_personified
setting/the_castle
form/allegory
form/short_story
character/prospero
Jul 24, 2026
The Happiest Day
graph/work
author/poe
concept/disillusionment
concept/transience
concept/pride
concept/melancholy
concept/ambition
topos/tempus_fugit
topos/vanitas
motif/memory
motif/time
concept/nostalgia
form/lyric
Jul 24, 2026
The Doings of Raffles Haw
graph/work
concept/economics
author/conan_doyle
form/novel
form/science_fiction
concept/greed_and_money
concept/materialism
concept/power_and_corruption
concept/charity
concept/vanity_of_worldly_things
motif/house_mansion
motif/great_house
motif/money_and_gold
motif/gems_jewels
setting/rural_england
archetype/self_made_man
topos/vanitas
Jul 24, 2026
The Birthday of the Infanta
graph/work
setting/europe
concept/economics
author/wilde
concept/the_grotesque
concept/beauty
concept/appearance_vs_reality
concept/identity
concept/alienation
concept/grief_and_loss
concept/class_conflict
topos/the_double
topos/vanitas
topos/fall_from_innocence
archetype/double_doppelganger
archetype/outcast_wanderer
archetype/scapegoat
archetype/tyrant
motif/the_mirror
motif/rose
motif/flowers
motif/death
motif/masks_disguise
motif/animals
motif/eyes_sight
form/fairy_tale
form/allegory
histref/the_reformation
histref/catholic_church
setting/the_court
setting/italy
character/the_infanta
character/the_dwarf
character/don_pedro
Jul 24, 2026
Tamerlane
graph/work
author/poe
concept/ambition
concept/pride
concept/grief_and_loss
concept/love_romantic
concept/sin_and_the_fall
motif/crown
motif/death
motif/fire
motif/childhood
topos/sic_transit_gloria_mundi
topos/vanitas
topos/fortunes_wheel
topos/paradise_lost
archetype/tragic_hero
archetype/tyrant
archetype/usurper
archetype/king
form/dramatic_monologue
form/narrative_poem
Jul 24, 2026
The Fallacy of Success
graph/work
form/nonfiction
concept/economics
author/chesterton
concept/satire_of_society
concept/money_and_avarice
concept/pride
concept/critique_of_progress
motif/money_gold
histref/classical_antiquity
form/essay
form/satire
character/midas
character/vanderbilt
concept/self_reliance_and_earned_success
concept/deception
topos/vanitas
topos/world_upside_down
motif/secrets
archetype/self_made_man
histref/industrial_revolution
Jul 24, 2026
George Bernard Shaw
graph/work
setting/europe
form/nonfiction
concept/history
author/chesterton
form/biography
form/literary_criticism
concept/the_artist_and_society
concept/paradox
histref/puritanism
histref/irish_question
concept/critique_of_progress
concept/doubt
form/verse_drama
character/julius_caesar
character/cleopatra
character/hamlet
character/george_bernard_shaw
character/william_shakespeare
character/henrik_ibsen
character/friedrich_nietzsche
character/oscar_wilde
character/jonathan_swift
character/napoleon_bonaparte
character/charles_stewart_parnell
character/candida
character/mrs_warren
concept/marriage_and_fidelity
concept/nationalism_and_patriotism
concept/democracy
concept/poverty
concept/war_and_its_cost
concept/resurrection
concept/fanaticism
concept/vanity
concept/creative_evolution_and_the_superman
topos/all_the_world_s_a_stage
topos/world_upside_down
topos/vanitas
topos/poet_as_prophet
motif/wine_and_drink
motif/music_and_song
motif/animals
motif/home
setting/london
setting/ancient_rome
setting/egypt
setting/germany
setting/ireland
archetype/orphan
archetype/prophet
archetype/rebel
form/epigram
form/satire
form/problem_play
histref/first_world_war
Jul 24, 2026
The Praise Of Dust
graph/work
author/chesterton
form/lyric
motif/dust
concept/humility
concept/mortality
concept/wonder_and_gratitude
concept/grace_and_redemption
topos/memento_mori
motif/flowers
motif/white_and_red
histref/the_bible
concept/resurrection
concept/paradox
concept/metamorphosis_transformation
concept/providence
concept/apocalypse
topos/world_upside_down
topos/vanitas
motif/stone_and_marble
motif/sun
motif/fire
archetype/tyrant
archetype/prophet
archetype/dust_personified
form/dramatic_monologue
histref/christianity
Jul 24, 2026
NIL PEJUS EST CAELIBE VITÆ
graph/work
author/coleridge
form/lyric
concept/marriage_and_fidelity
concept/love_romantic
concept/friendship
motif/death
motif/the_grave
topos/vanitas
Jul 24, 2026
IV. Death by Water
graph/work
author/eliot
concept/mortality
topos/vanitas
motif/the_sea
motif/water
motif/the_wheel
topos/memento_mori
Jul 24, 2026
HONOUR
graph/work
author/coleridge
form/satire
form/heroic_couplet
concept/honour
topos/vanitas
motif/money_gold
motif/wine_and_drink
concept/temptation
concept/satire_of_society
Jul 24, 2026
Hast Never Come to Thee an Hour
graph/work
author/whitman
form/lyric
topos/vanitas
concept/vanitas
concept/love_divine
motif/money_gold
Jul 24, 2026
FULKE GREVILLE: LORD BROOKE
graph/work
author/coleridge
topos/vanitas
topos/contemptus_mundi
concept/pride
concept/power_and_corruption
concept/faith
archetype/tyrant
histref/napoleonic_wars
form/epigram
Jul 24, 2026
Before Morning
graph/work
author/eliot
form/lyric
topos/vanitas
motif/flowers
motif/decay
motif/dawn
concept/transience