The ‘rain’ is a negative use of pathetic fallacy, setting a negative tone before they have come together. Fitzgerald uses tiresome vocabulary to describe the scene: the man in the garden ‘dragging’ the lawn mower and the ‘soggy whitewashed alleys’, of which Nick drove through. As the scene is remiss and tired looking, I think this reflects Nick’s feelings upon the help he is providing Gatsby. Fitzgerald uses a tactful method for which Gatsby engages Nick into helping him meet Daisy. He takes him somewhere alone at an odd time of night, which is interesting because at ‘two o’clock’, everything will be deserted, with nobody around therefore Gatsby will expect Nick’s full attention.
It’s winter now, and they need a place to stay. The place is completely stripped of anything of value, what with the broken windows. Anything that wasn’t bolted to the floor was stripped out as soon as someone pried the nails from the boarded-up windows. The addicts are only looking for a way to get out of the cold and the damp, a hidden place to do their drugs and forget their troubles, if only for a short while. The neighbor across the street sees the addicts come and go, and she’s beginning to notice some dealers loitering on the corner.
Fog is something you can kind of see in the background, but you cannot have any other interactions with it. You cannot touch, smell, taste, or even hear it. Also, fog always appears in the background, and when you get too close to it, it seems as though it has disappeared from that spot and moved even further back. This analogy to fog gives the effect of Prufrock being a silhouette in the distance. Prufrock’s neurotic tendencies are apparent in line 58: “When I am pinned and wriggling on the wall (58).
Browning structured this poem as a dramatic monologue and has included structural features such as enjambment which makes the poem sound less like a crafted speech and more like a casual conversation, which may be seen as eerie considering the events later on in the poem. Porphyria’s Lover follows an iambic tetrameter in the first four lines, however in the fifth line “I listened with heart fit to break”, the regular tetrameter breaks, just like our narrator describes his heart breaking. The poem is set in the lover’s cottage in a secluded forest in the middle of the night. The reclusiveness of the cottage may symbolise the fact that Porphyria sees her lover as a secret, less important part of her life and wants to hide him away. However Porphyria is not given a voice in the poem and does not say anything throughout possibly showing that the narrator sees her as his possession who does not have a voice of her own.
This poem is like no other of William Stafford’s. “Ask Me” is about as close as Stafford comes in his best poems to a formal sonnet of fourteen lines” (Anderson). The first part of the fourteen lines are asked by the (I) or the person who is speaking. The second half would usually answer the questions asked within the first half, but Stafford does not for (I) is the one asking the questions. At first the poem doesn’t seem to have any of the traditional flow and rhymes at the end of the lines, but he does show internal rhyming within the lines.
Highwayman assessment At the beginning of the poem, the mood is gloomy, mysterious and incomprehensible. The poet creates this by using metaphors such as, ‘the wind was a torrent of darkness’ and ‘the moon was a ghostly galleon. The poet describes colour when he says, ‘a coat of the claret velvet’ and he also describes colour when he says, ‘breeches of brown doe skin’. The poet uses repetition when he says, ‘The Highwayman came riding-riding-riding- The Highwayman came riding, up to the old inn door.’ This has an effect on the reader as it emphasises the movement of the highwayman. This affects the reader as it adds to the tension.
Language and Style in the Poem: The poem is made of four quatrains made up of two couplets each and the rhyme scheme for each of these quatrains is AABB. There is a variety in the meter in the poem. Pure use of iambic tetrameter is found in lines 2,4,14, 16. The rest of the lines are variations of the iambic tetrameter in the form of trochaic trimeter and catalexis. The Speaker and the Subject/Focus of the Poem: The recurring use of ‘I’ in the beginning of the lines of the first stanza suggest the speaker’s obsession with himself.
Not to do so would surely have led to madness. I now take precautions to make myself less threatening. I move about with care, particularly late in the evening. I give a wide berth to nervous people on subway platforms during the wee hours, particularly when I have exchanged business clothes for jeans. If I happen to be entering a building behind some people who appear skittish, I may walk by, letting them clear the lobby before I return, so as not to seem to be following them.
Critical Essay – “The Pedestrian” by Ray Bradbury “The Pedestrian” is short story by Ray Bradbury about a man walking through a city in 2052 and about the changes in technology and how it has taken over our way of life. The short story effectively potrays the setting in 2052 and this critical essay will look at how the writer’s presentation has an impact on you and how it deepens our understanding of the subject. The writer describes the setting effectively by using useful word choice such as “to enter out into that silence that was the night” the word silence links to quiet, calm and empty which shows us that the city is like that, which is unusual for a city to be because cities as we know them today are busy and noisy even in the night but in the world of the pedestrian Ray Bradbury effectively creates the setting. Bradbury uses effective comparisons to deepen our understanding of the setting by saying “it was not unlike walking through a graveyard” he creates the image that the city is dead and lifeless meaning no-one goes out, the place is empty and silent. Comparing the city to death is a strong comparison, it emphasises on the dramatic silence of the city which deepens our understanding of the setting.
The poem is full of examples of slant rhyme which is spread throughout the poem. The “whisky” and “breath” in line one, and in line ten, “battered” and “knuckle” have the same “uh” sound. The “dizzy” in second line and “easy” in forth line have the “zyy” sound. The poem contains a different forms of figurative language to emphasis put upon the meaning of poem. Roethke is discussing the relationship