Spring Hail Analysis Spring Hail is a poem written by Les Murray. A literal interpretation of the poem tells the story of young boy and his pony and their journey through the aftermath of a storm. The repeated refrain “this is for spring and hail, that you may remember: for a boy long ago and a pony that could fly” allows a hint of nostalgia to seep into the consciousness of the audience while reading the poem and allows the audience to understand that the poem is a recollection of past events. The lilting voice of the poem and lack of rhyming scheme also means the poem can be easily taken as simply a vividly written narrative. But further contemplation reveals the poem to be a lyrical analogy.
In the novel 'of Mice and Men' written by John Steinbeck, one of the protagonist who names George travels with his friend Lennie, they find a new job in the ranch and try to adapt themselves to new circumstance. During this time, they meet an old swamper whose name is Candy. Generally, Candy and George are different because they have different backgrounds, and they are similar because they have the same wishes about their futures. To start with, the reason why George chooses to come and work on the ranch is that Lennie and George have no choice but to leave their hometown. In the novel, George and his friend Lennie worked in their hometown-- Weed.
The comparative work on Kafka’s country doctor and Hawthorn’s Young Goodman Brown: By Maryam Moosavi In this essay the two prominent short stories ,The country doctor by Kafka and Young Goodman Brown by Nathanial Hawthorn are compared together with regards to their journeys and the meaning the authors tried to convey in both works .In both works we see the main characters starting a journey that would cause them to face a lot of challenges and the end does not turns out well .Young Goodman Brown is starting a night journey toward the forest at the sunset to go to a devilish ceremony and leaving his wife ,Faith alone .The country doctor goes on an urgent journey to survive a patient whose house is ten miles away in the sever storm. Mysterious figures: Both in Young Goodman Brown and The Country Doctor there comes a mysterious figure to push him toward their journey. Both of the figures that appeared to main characters at first have a kind of unlikely aura that the main character fear them or is suspicious toward them. In Young Goodman Brown ,the old man who is the Devil doesn’t give Goodman Brown the feeling of security rather his appearance is giving him a sense of terror and insecurity. In the Country Doctor, the doctor is suddenly encountered by the groom at the door of his own pigsty who seemed to be friendly at first by offering the horses but then by acting strangely toward Rosa and putting those two marks on her face, shocked the confused doctor.
Roethke's decision to use words such as “waltzing” (line 4) and “romped” (line 5) in his poem bring about a certain energy that Hayden's poem does not. His tone is a light one, a happy one where there seems to be joy in the home and two family members that care deeply for each other and enjoy showing that appreciation outwardly. In Hayden's poem there is a darkness to the home which surfaces with descriptions such as “blueblack cold” (line 2) and describing the house so cold its “splintering, breaking” (line 6). Hayden's dark tone is brought about through the words he uses and as it echos throughout the poem the relationship between the father and his son is described. The father has already been defined as a working class man as his hands are “cracked... from labor in the weekday” (line 3) and now on this early Sunday morning he awakes to “[drive] out the cold” (line 11).
As the book progresses, the innocence of the children start to fade away into evilness. Ralph says, “’I’m calling an assembly….’ ‘What do you want?’” The quote tells us about the well-behaved nature of the British kids fading away. Golding does not represent the loss of innocence of the children as something that has been done to them but the releasing of the inborn evilness and savagery inside them. When Simon enters the forest opening in the beginning of the book it is shown as a place for peace and calmness but when Simon returns to this place he finds a sow’s head on a stake in the middle which was the offering to the beast. The offering disrupts the peace in the area and is a great symbol to recognise the disruption of a child’s
When Sharon and her dog on their way back, she looked back again and has seen “Coyote had paused to sit on the highest hill, silhouetted against the sky, to yodel one more time, no longer at me or my dog, but to the sky, or to nobody and nothing in particular, to the universe, a signature cry, saying I am” (p168). These encounters lead Sharon from afraid of coyotes to feel sad about them and, eventually, to become more familiar with them. The plot arrangement in here shows the process of how the author transformed to a person who eventually fit into nature. This process also clarified that if human beings interact with wild animals; they will be more familiar and will find a proper way to live with
Big Two-Hearted River: Part I and II (Analysis) This story is about a soldier's return to nature. The soldiers name is Nick, he has returned to his hometown as a means of recovering from trauma of a war. It appears nature has a healing effect for Nick, whose experiences while camping and fishing serve as a means for his healing. The effect of the war is reflected in his indifferent, detached, catatonic state. When he finds that his hometown has been completely destroyed by fire, he takes a walk through the woods, takes on meticulous fishing rituals, and has a fascination with the fish.
English Honors 11 23 April 2012 Steady Winds My Ántonia, by Willa Cather, follows the story of Jim Burden, as he travels from Virginia to live with his grandparents in Nebraska and starts a new life. Throughout the novel, Cather incorporates the landscape and weather into the text as a way to set the tone for the coming scenes. The vivid descriptions of the terrain help inform the author of the characters feelings and emotions through their trials and tribulations. Whether rainy and stormy, or clear and bright, Jim Burden’s experiences mirror the surrounding conditions. Young Jim Burden’s feelings of loneliness become apparent right away in the novel when he first arrives in Nebraska.
Another aspect of Romanticism that Tom Sawyer displays is his reason and logic being replaced by unrealistic and fanciful thinking: "Every animal [including rattlesnakes] is grateful for kindness and petting, and they wouldn’t THINK of hurting a person that pets them. Any book will tell you that " (140). Making the connection to Romantic ideals, Mark Twain characterizes Tom Sawyer as not discerning logically, but rather having delusions of grandeur. Through the character of Tom Sawyer, Mark Twain is able to hyperbolize the aspects of Romantic literature that he discerns to be flawed as well as create a foil for the main character, Huckleberry Finn. During the times Tom Sawyer is not present in Huck's life, Huck is able to devise plans in most circumstances even if his plans do stay relatively simple.
The next four lines of the poem describe the love as changing to cold or unyielding care for the nymph and the shepherd. The autumn of the relationship begins to change the love to something less spirited and a familiar chill begins to overcome the couple. Line six of the poem reads, “When rivers rage and rocks grow cold, “describes the feeling of love as time swiftly makes a mark on the relationship (Barnet, Burto and Cain, 2007). The nymph is responding to the shepherd’s wishful thoughts of sitting together with the nymph in the summer and watching lazily as the sheep and other shepherds walk in meadows. Lines 9 through 12 describe the world as shrouded in a blanket of frost, which fades the flowers of spring and leaving fields empty of wondering sheep and void of fruit (Barnet, Burto and Cain, 2007).