Funny Face by Rozanna Lilley – Poem Analysis Title: At first the title “Funny Face”, gives us the impression of a poem full of fun and humour. But after reading the poem, we get a totally different way of seeing the titel. We get a sens of the funny face being something the girls of the pageant put on to satisfying the judgeses and the mothers. It is the only way these young girls can stand to do the pageants for the sake of their mothers. Settings: Funny face mainly takes place in a place called Garden City, I think that Garden City is what they call a special place in their backyard, since it is called ‘Garden’ City, it a place where they come to have fun.
As a child, Walker believes that she can get whatever she wants or make people like her only by being a beautiful little girl. She shows that she is confident about this idea at the age of two and a half when she wants to go to the fair with her father and tells him "Take me daddy, I'm the prettiest” (Alice Walker, 150) while she parades around wearing a beautiful dress. As children, people often imitate the things they see, but they are not taken seriously, and many adults see these behaviors as being “child’s play”. Walker is imitating behaviors she has viewed from older women in her community and actresses in movies that she watched. The behavior that Walker showcases during the first stage of innocence is similar to the behaviors the character
At the beginning of the poem the girl is portrayed as a typical little girl without a care in the world. Her parents and family members presented her with gifts and toys like any other child would be. She receives gifts like Barbie dolls, play ovens and pretend make up. Piercy uses an anaphora in the first stanza as she repeats the word “and” three times (2,3,4). This is an effective strategy because it stresses the amount of gifts the girl is given to play with.
Sylvia Plath's Child depicts her disappointing emotional statement owing to the world in which her child is being raised, and radically it derives from her instinct and affection as a mother. The poem begins with a cheerful and sincere tone represented by the symbols of beauty, innocence and the wonder of childhood. Stacks of positive metaphors, like" The zoo of the new" "April snowdrop" and "Indian pipe" reinforced the idyllic form of childhood. The positive tones turn negative by the sentence 'Pool in which images should be grand and classical'. Besides, 'wringing of hands' and 'ceiling without a star emphasize her concerns to her child and explicit her disappointment towards this horrible world.
Steinbeck has given a suitable title to the story, “The Chrysanthemums,” which relates to Elisa as chrysanthemums symbolize both Elisa and the limited scope of her life. Just like her, the flowers are unobjectionable and also unimportant; both are merely decorative and add little value to the world. Elisa is passionate and loving towards her chrysanthemums. She is smart, attractive and ambitious, but all these qualities go waste as she has limitations under which a married women lives. Henry Allen, her husband, clearly ignores her passion and care towards chrysanthemums.
'Do you smell that, Lulu? Mama said it's the earth back to work after the rain,’ announced Persephone, her tiny hand holding Leuce's gently swinging back and forth, back and forth. In the other a gold strand pulling a small wooden cart Hades fashioned for her, full of freshly picked flowers; blood red poppies, lilac crocus and glorious white lilies. 'Remember now, Persephone, we don't want to get mother angry by ruining our dresses. We'll play a little then back home it is... with no fuss whatsoever.'
Analysis of `The Flowers` by Alice Walker The Flowers by Alice Walker is about a 10 year old girl called Myop. Myop is just an innocent girl who collects flowers, and this day she decides to take it to another level. She walks into the woods to find new wonderful flowers. Things get more unpleasant as we continue to read the story. Myop decides to go back home where it’s safe and secure, but on her way back home she literally steps on a dead man.
As a girl of fourteen who rarely leaves her house, Hedvig is satisfied staying with her parents for the rest of her life. Hedvig is a prime example of a character that lacks identity because of her sheltered lifestyle, her similarity to the wild duck, her willingness to be influenced by Gregers, and her devotion to her father. Hedvig’s lack of identity derives from her lack of knowledge from the outside world. She does not attend school because of her father’s concern for her and spends her days cooped up in a house with very little to do. Hedvig, however, enjoys her life of looking through “books with pictures in them” (144) and watching “a big clock with figures that go out and in” (145).
In her poem ‘A Young Woman, A Tree’ imagery is used to create feeling, to create emotion for the character of the girl, evident in the line, ‘that in fifty years the idea will hit her for no apparent reason, in a Laundromat between a washer and a dryer’. This line gives you an image in your mind that helps you to connect with the poem. Another Technique Alicia Ostriker uses often is personification, especially throughout ‘A young Woman, A Tree’ where we see the tree come to life, when describing the tree, lines such as ‘Regular working people suffer so harshly, It makes a tree feel happier, Having nothing to do’, gives the tree a persona that you begin to empathise with throughout the poem. Imagery and personification are two techniques Alici Ostriker uses to give that personal touch to her poems, placing
In the short story "On Seeing the 100% Perfect Girl One Beautiful April Morning by Haruki Murakawa, the author uses the characters to show that even though no person is perfect they should take whatever opportunity they can to find that 100% perfect person for them. In the story the narrator sees a stranger as his 100% perfect girl. The narrator described many flaws that he saw on the girl, "She's not that good looking, She doesn't stand out in any way. Her clothes are nothing special... She isn't young either". But beneath all those flaws he claimed a feeling he felt "there was a rumbling in my chest and my mouth is as dry as a desert."