Mattie and Ethan’s time together without Zeena was like an insight to what a happy marriage should be between a husband and wife. During that chapter I was brought into the difference of how Ethan’s mood drastically changes to a bitter, isolated and neutral mood with Zeena’s presence to an excited, joyous and peaceful mood of just being an evening alone with Mattie. Ethan’s thoughts to all of his feelings about everything to his confusion and heartache of being in the position he was
In the poem “Singh Song!”, the poet uses repetition to show the persona of Singh as being very personal and intimate when he spends the little time that he has with his “newly bride”. The repetition of the word “baby” tells the reader that Singh is happy being married to his wife and that he gives her a high status in his life. The repetition of “my bride” is triple refrained which perhaps suggests that Singh has a surprising nature about his wife. This creates an interesting character as it tells us that he is willing to stop working and go against his father’s orders just to spend time with his wife. Despite the criticism he receives from his customers, Singh seems to hold his wife as a major and main priority in his life and could suggest that his emotional and mental wellbeing depends on his wife.
Lucie devotes her time to her husband from day to day while he is imprisoned. Her magnanimous sacrifices express to the reader the hardships she would endure to assuage her husband’s distress. Dr Manette puts his daughter’s safety before his own. During the trial, Dr. Manette exclaimed that “[his] daughter, and those dear to her, are far dearer to [him] and [his] life (Dickens chapter 39). The reader can conclude from doctor Manette’s statement that he fears losing his daughter and would sacrifice his virtue to secure his daughter.
It can be translated in different ways through the time. “Conjoined” (1891) by Judith Minty is a blank verse poem which uses a lot of metaphors that describe a broken relationship ; the poem gives you a feeling of a general unhappiness. In contrast, « My Dear and Loving Husband » (1678) by Anne Bradstreet, is a true declaration of love. The poet talks about her husband, celebrating their unity and stating that there is no other woman in the world who is as happy with her husband as she is. The two poems give two competing visions of marriage.
The structure in ‘The Manhunt’ and in ‘Hour’ reflects the nature of the love that the two speakers share between their partners. For example in ‘The Manhunt’ the stanzas are broken down into two line stanzas. This represents that their love is disjointed like his body; we can also see that each stanza has been dedicated to a different part of his body. Each stanza is also very short which shows the small steps that she has to take to help heal him physically and mentally. We can tell that he is hurt psychologically as it says ‘unexploded mine buried deep in his mind’ and physically as it says ‘the rungs of his broken ribs’ these are both effects of his traumatic experience at war.
Your arms are ‘tired, terribly tired’ which uses repetition to emphasize the emotion behind how hard life really is. Life is both physically and mentally demanding, with the ceiling being described as ‘heavy’ as though it is weighing you down, but also ‘feels as if…the ceiling will soon collapse’ which symbolises the mental struggle of feeling lonely and trying to hold your life (‘the ceiling’) together. However in the second stanza, Blumenthal changes the tone of the poem to rather positive. He explains how life becomes much easier when you get married; ‘Someone…walks into the room and holds their arms up to the ceiling beside you’. This is symbolising the support you gain from getting married.
He uses persuasion at the start of the poem, but then starts charming his mistress by saying he’ll love her once they have sexual intercourse. One of the most obvious similarities between both poems are that they both have a male narrator. Both poems are also similar as they both contain lines about death. In Sonnet 116, Shakespeare is saying that if its true love what someone is going through then they shall love someone even until they die. “but bears it out even to the edge of doom” He is really saying, that no matter what happens through life, you shall love that person unconditionally even when they die.
Olds suggests in this poem that “True Love’’ is all about two people having passion, oneness, and comfort with each other. These three things in a marriage or relationship create true love. Also, she tries to show that without true love, sex is no good. From the beginning of the poem, the speaker talks about the passion between her and her husband. She expresses that their love making is very intense and passionate.
She mourned of her husband’s passing but as she went up the flight of stairs into her room, Mrs. Mallard came to realize of her newfound freedom. She soon relished her liberation from her marriage to her husband Brently. Such freedom was short-lived, and as she her eyes caught sight of her husband’s entrance into the house, her heart gave way and she died. The two women do indeed share some similarities, but also at the same time show various differences that make their respective situations unique. Among the similarities between Calixta and Mrs. Mallard are the conditions of their marriages around the time of the stories: Calixta to Bobinot and Mrs. Mallard with Brently Mallard.
And his wife stayed true to him while he was away, even when the suitors were in the house trying to marry her. Any reader can interpret the concept of loyalty as appearing in The Odyssey. Readers can also observe the consequences of not being loyal. Therefore, there is a lesson contained in The Odyssey: Loyalty is an important characteristic that good people should have, and failure to be loyal results in tragedy. Disloyal characters cause their own destruction.