2008 AP LIT FREE RESPONSE: Section II, Question One In both poems “When I Have Fears” by John Keats, and “Mezzo Cammin” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, both narrators expose their unfulfilled aspirations with the underlying fear that death will soon approach. Keats explains how his career as a famous, credited author has not yet been fulfilled, and fears that he will not live long enough to do so. Conversely, Longfellow looks back on his past slightly disappointed, but assured that he has the latter half of his life to accomplish his objectives and goals. Longfellow is dismal and terrified of death, while Keats comes to realize that his dreams are infinitesimal in the grand scheme of things, and any life lived is a gift that will eventually succumb to death. Keats’ poem is one extensive run-on sentence that truly “runs” across the page.
Poetry Study ‘Dawe Is A Moralist In Poetry. Challenging His Readers To Re-Assess Their Lives And Life Itself.’ Discuss. Dawe challenges his readers to reassess their personal values in their lives and of life itself. Homecoming is a commentary, its views on the waste of young lives in war and the disregard for the human remains once they have served their purpose. Katrina discusses the lack of control that we have in life and that death is simply another part of life that we must accept.
1 Red Badge of Courage: Literary Analysis In Stephen Crane’s Red Badge of Courage, on the surface, it appears to be about a young boy’s internal struggles when going off to war including: lack of courage, fear of being dishonored, and worst of all, being alone in his situation. As the book goes on, the motif of fear and courage show Henry’s process of maturing as well as emotional growth but also his final understanding of the true meaning of courage. Crane uses Henry as a way to convey his beliefs about war and how it is destroying the lives of our youths today. Toward the beginning of the story, Henry believes that being either wounded or killed in battle would be the only way to earn his “badge” and become accepted as a real soldier. Yet by the end of the novel, he matures and decides to redefine what he believes courage is because of the traumatic and courage-demanding scenes that tell the story in the Red Badge of Courage.
In Mesopotamia, wheat was the primary staple food and in China it was rice. To further advance on this topic, an economic difference can begin to be analyzed. While the geographic regions both supported a staple, they were still different land plots that lay in Mesopotamia and China. This is why rice was farmed easier in China’s geographic and climatic regions and why wheat was produced more often in
The soliloquy by Hamlet favors more the expression of pathos. The reason for this is because he says everything from his heart because he is seriously considering suicide. He impacts the reader by making them feel bad for him and the situation in which he is in. In the soliloquy pathos is used in a way to make the reader feel a sense of sadness because Hamlet makes it seem as though there is no point to life. He says “For who would bear the whips and scorns of time” which means who would deal with lives problems.
In the poem the young boy shows to us that he is terrified of growing up when he says; “The whole idea of it makes me feel like I'm coming down with something”. When the narrator says this it makes you think that he feels sick to the stomach about getting older. The language device the narrator used was a simile and it is effective because it tells you that not everybody feels good about growing up. The poem also shows that the narrator is terrified of growing up when it says “something worse than any stomach ache”. The language device the narrator used was a metaphor.
The people look forward what they did or what they will do, no matter how it was or how it will be. In fact, this poem is talking about the boy who broke up with his love, and he felt sad. I said that because the first line told us “Tonight I can write the saddest lines.” It makes the readers sorrowful and feels miserable. The speaker’s constant juxtaposition of past and present illustrate his inability to come to terms with his present isolated state. As in the rest of the poem, is simple and the point, suggesting the sincerity of the speaker’s emotions.
It is evident that his negative feelings about the effects of war have had a prevailing influence on his work. The structure also resonances with a sonnet form, which has clear thematic link to emphasize his love for his son. The use of enjambment throughout the poem creates a conversational tone, as though it is an internal monologue, to convey Scannell’s own private thoughts towards the strong bonds between him and his son and feeling of despair at his lack of power to protect him. The title, “Nettles” bring awareness to the harsh stinging pain that is inflected by the weed, which we have all experienced in our own childhood many times over. In this poem, the nettles represent the many dangers in the world that could bring us pain, yet we are helpless to protect ourselves against them.
‘Please. You can’t you have to carry the fire… ‘I can’t just take me with you papa. I can’t.”(McCarthy, 278). The intent in writing this paper was to set the mood and tone to that of a dark state and bring the audience into the book and make them feel the pain that the boy is feeling. The tone after reading this passage comes out as a dark and depressing one in which you feel for the boy and know that he is having a hard time with his father’s death.
Quinn Lamar Lamar 1 En111 Professor Brooks Many people fear dying at a young age. Along with that come fears of not being able to fulfill all their dreams, not being able to live a prosperous life and take full advantage of their time on earth. It is a sad fate that is uncontrollable by any human, and to view a young and premature death in a positive light would be horrendous to many. However, Alfred Edward Housman does exactly that in his poem "To an Athlete Dying Young." Housman implies in his poem that it is better to die in one's prime rather than to live to a rip old age just to see all their accomplishments fade and become meaningless to everyone.