English 1010 The two poems “The New Colossus” and “The Unguarded Gates” are considerably the same in that they are explaining how immigrants are coming to the “enchanted” land. But as Emma Lazarus writes “sunset gates shall stand”, Thomas Bailey Aldrich writes “ is it well to leave the gates unguarded” exclaiming how he is weary of letting immigrants trample over the land he considers pure. Thomas Bailey Aldrich’s poem “The Unguarded Gates” gives off that he is a white supremacy. In the second stanza he says “Oh liberty white goddess, is it well to leave the gates unguarded?” worrying that immigration will only bring “unknown rites and gods” into his pure land. To me this sounds as if the land he is used to is only of white people set in their own ways and he doesn’t want poor and non-whites in to “trample” on their customs.
In The Great Gatsby by F. Scott Fitzgerald, Fitzgerald illustrated an unattainable dream of Jay Gatsby. Gatsby wishes he can re-create the past again with Daisy, but Gatsby is so naïve to believe that it is possible. The book is filled with important symbols that serve as an important significance. The green light at the end of the Buchanan’s dock represents Gatsby’s dream of meeting Daisy again. The Valley of Ashes is a dark place, where only the poor live; they are separated from the rich.
Juxtaposed to the negative imagery the overcramped housing evokes, the words ‘roses’ and ‘myrtle’ have connotations of beauty and innocence. This could relate to the wider meaning of the poem as, despite the patriot marching towards the gallows, he knows he is going to a better place, empty of corruption and evil. The use of pathetic fallacy represents the patriot’s despondent feelings. Furthermore, the rain could also be used to reduce the patriot’s dignity. However, the rain could also symbolise the patriot becoming innocent, similarly with the roses and myrtle, as the water could be considered to be washing the patriot’s sins away.
Steinbeck addresses the underlying message of the human condition and the importance of relationships, and uses the characters in the novel to illustrate the hopes and dreams of Americans in the 1930’s. Still widely read today, Of Mice and Men takes place during the 1930’s, south of San Francisco in the Salinas Valley of California, where Steinbeck spent his own life. The book was largely influenced by the conditions of the Great Depression in the 1930’s, therefore addressing the real hopes and dreams of working-class America. The economic recession, barren farmland, droughts and dust storms caused many people to leave the once lush lands of the Midwest. Due the Great Depression, many people left their farms and moved to cities, or farther west to California.
On the other hand, representations 1 and 3 tend to lack in this specific detail. For example, representation 2 uses a specific example to support the information it gives in the subject of police payment: “A constable in Northamptonshire protested in 1880 that his pay was less than a farm labourer...” Therefore, these details make the source more detailed and therefore more accurate and complete in its portrayal of the effectiveness of policing late Victorian Britain. Conversely, representation 1 lacks in specific examples, meaning it is less detailed than representation 2. Also, representation 3 is a cartoon, therefore probably has little fact inherent in its representation. Also, it may probably also be a purely fictional account of police work, and therefore has much less fact or details to it compared to representation 2.
The author best describes this by the statement “It made people sad. It reminded them of things they wanted to forget, such as poverty, drought and starvation. You never knew when the rice was going to run out.” (Pigott, 1990, pp. 167-168) Within a short time, the author’s definition of beauty which had been in tune with the European one had slowly started to change in favor of the African one. This was because of the fact that the African definition seemed more realistic and didn’t make a female feel ashamed of her body if she was on the heavier side.
When he writes to a friend, contrasting the deep peace of the wild with the discontent bred by cities, he claims that "It is enough that I am surrounded with beauty." On a piece of plywood inside the abandoned bus in which he died he identifies himself as "an extremist, an aesthetic voyager." It is an identification that goes with his passion for aloneness and his avoidance of enduring human commitments, whether to family or to the friends who help him get to Alaska. His proper affiliate is an avant-garde artist like the impressionist painter Paul Gauguin, for whom Tahiti was a necessary escape from his family and the contaminating commitments of bourgeois Europe. Alaska was Chris' Tahiti as Walden was Thoreau's.
Appreciation for the smaller things in life allows one to make the best out of a bad situation. An appreciation of these things may be vulnerable to the influence of one’s mood. This becomes apparent to Alain de Botton when he states, “When we are in a good mood and it is sunny, it is tempting to impute a connection between what happens inside and outside of us, but the appearance of London on my return was a reminder of the indifference of the world to any of the events unfolding in the lives of its inhabitants” (59). There is a common misconception that the external environment can affect one’s internal mood ones, though it is moderately the opposite happening: mood affects how we perceive the weather; however, that is not the case. The environment can play a major role in one’s mood, but in another aspect; a person’s temper is a factor in how they perceive the weather.
Comedy and a calm tone in the beginning of “The Lottery“ may imply the exact opposite of what is to happen. However, readers will quickly see that everything is not what it seems. As readers, we can take many different things from the quote, “although the villagers had forgotten the ritual and lost the original black box, they still remembered to use the stones (Jackson 10)” The short story “The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson makes a bold and controversial statement concerning hypocrisy and flawed human nature. In the short story, readers are informed of the traditional nature of the village. However, we are also informed of the many broken traditions.
‘My heart turns to its melancholy work’ has been very carefully worded. Melancholy isn’t a word meaning death, depression, hopelessness and despair, it is simply cheerless but not to the point of gloom. So his job is saddening and repetitive, it could be better, he hopes to move forward but don’t we all? ‘The honey gathered’ in my mind is the dreams gathered from the day. The sorrows are the awakenings from these hopes and the reasons behind not going.