The metaphor "the blood flowing" represents the heart which is a symbol for love implying that without marriage there is no love and you have to have love to survive. This is also supported with "house" and "day" as a metaphor signifying the importance of marriage in life. Blumenthal concludes the poem by revealing that each partner takes turn in holding up the ceiling, which can go on "for many years without the house falling". This suggests that by sharing our problems
The third stanza is about the defeated side of this battle. A dying man lay down when his "forbidden ear" heard the sounds of victory (line 10). He is hearing the sounds of celebration coming from the other team; sadly, these sounds were forbidden to his dying ear because not only had he lost the battle, but also he never will be able to triumph in success due to the fact that he is dying. Even though success is antithetical to failure this poem clearly illustrates that they depend on one another for the triumph of success to fully be appreciated. Ultimately, the paradox was an effective way of conveying the idea that success and failure are dependent on each
I love thee freely, as men strive for Right; I love thee purely, as they turn from Praise. I love thee with the passion put to use In my old griefs, and with my childhood’s faith. I love thee with a love I seemed to lose With my lost saints,—I love thee with the breath, Smiles, tears, of all my life!—and, if God choose, I shall but love thee better after death. Sonnet 29 by Edna St. Vincent Millay Pity me not because the light of day At close of day no longer walks the sky; Pity me not for beauties passed away From field and thicket as the the year goes by; Pity me not the waning of the moon, Nor that the ebbing tide goes out to sea, Nor that a man's desire is hushed so soon, And you no longer look with love on me. This have I known always: Love is no more Than the wide blossom which the wind assails, Than the great tide that treads the shifting shore, Strewing fresh wreckage gathered in the gales: Pity me that the heart is slow to learn What the swift mind beholds at ever
Morrie deteaches himself so that he can accept these predicaments in his life and so that he will be able to embrace his deathe easier since he’s well aware that it’s approaching. A quote Morrie constantly refers is to “Love each other or die”. He stresses this quote and major theme in the novel because he feels that an abundance of love and compassion is the highest sense of fulfillment that one can experience; especially because Morrie had such a significant lack of both love and compassion throughout his childhood. Love is so crucial to Morrie as he is nearing his final days of life because he feels that without the care of those who love him, he would perish. Morrie is not afraid of dying, however
Because ..... Because I got you to look after me, and you got me to look after you, and that’s why.” As the novel comes to an end so does this relationship when it is broken as George shoots Lennie in the back of the head to prevent him from being tortured and captured. At this stage George does fall into loneliness because his best mate, his other half has disappeared from his life at the click of a finger and now George has become like everyone else, a lonely ranch worker. Even though George and Lennie have each other George still feels
Joe Bonham was a soldier who almost lost his life fighting for his country. If he wasn’t unconscious when the bomb dropped and he lost his legs and almost died, I’m pretty sure he wouldn’t be thinking for himself, ’‘this is great, I fought for my country and died with honor.’’ Almost everybody wants to live and taking another persons life is to me the worst think anybody can do. There is not anything worth killing for, not democracy, not peace and certainly not when u have the intensions of
The poem ends with a question, “slouches towards Bethlehem to be born?” causing the tone to shift to confusion. Throughout the poem, Yeats incorporates multiple examples of imagery. Yeats uses dark imagery which gives the reader a sense of death, while at the same time the reader gets the feeling of the loss of innocence. For example “the blood-dimmed tide is loosed and everywhere; the ceremony of innocence is drowned”. Another example of imagery used in the poem is, “a shape with lion body and the head of a man; a gaze blank and pitiless as the sun; is moving its slow thighs” line 14-16, gives the reader an imagine of the Sphinx which symbolizes a judger of evil.
"today or tomorrow sickness an death will come (and they have already arrived) to those dear to me, an to my self, an nothing to remain other than the stench and the worms." so in this i think what tolstoy ment was nothing of him, himself, will be carry on into the future and the memory of him would vanish forever and all that will be left is his roiting corpse. so how do people continue living after knowing this. I think what tolstoy came to the concluion that the simple, uneducated.and without weath people live more happy meaningfull lives,then do the rich adn powerful. I think that wealthier families do not apreciate all that they have or each other.poor people struggle and are more desevering of love therefore are more family oriented.
Derek Sullivan Looking for Someone to Listen In “Misery” the reader experiences a look into the emotional conflict envisioned by Anton Chekhov. The theme seems to be humans need to share their grief, even if it’s with an animal. Throughout the story the main character Iona, who lost his son to death a week prior, tries to talk to different people with no avail. It seems no matter how hard he tries they just ignore him or yell at him. “His misery is immense, beyond all bounds.
To a person living in a world completely devoid of religion, hope, and ultimately happiness, the only feelings left to him or her are despair, depression, and loneliness. In his 1925 poem “The Hollow Men”, T.S. Eliot uses literary devices such as allusion, setting, and symbol to produce this both awe-inducing and tragic image of these hopelessly lost souls so desperate for their visions—illusions, really—of dreams and a meaning behind their existence. This theme of hopelessness is conveyed through the above literary elements working in unison to display the completely dismal and hopeless world, which is the setting of the poem. The first poetic element Eliot introduces to create his image of hopelessness is allusion.