And I am the bird, that swoops down to swallow the mayfly.”(Hanh338). Meaning as long as everybody are part of samsara, everybody are also subject of doing harm to others. So there is no being that could be claimed a mad one, because all of them seek for happiness. In the poem, Hanh's say I’m a innocent person then say I’m the villains that hurting the innocent person. “I am a frog swimming happily in the clear water of a pond, mad I am the grass-snake their silently feeds itself on the frog.” Hanh's also uses rhythm by showing suffering and the understanding to the readers.
This can be proven by a quote on page 38, “I think fishing is dumb, I mean, it’s boring and all. Definitely dumb.” (Wetherell 38). Another significant point in the story that supports it being an internal conflict is at the point in time when the Narrator mistakenly hooks a large bass whilst his dream girl, Sheila, is in the boat with him. “Four things occurred to me at once. One, that it was a bass.
They have a few differences as well. To a Skylark by Percy Shelley is about a man gazing longingly at a bird, wishing he could be as happy, as carefree, as the bird. He knows that the bird lacks human troubles, such as heartbreak and loneliness, and he wishes he could be more like that. Shelley asks the bird to teach him to be more joyful: “Teach me half the gladness That thy brain must know; Such harmonious madness From thy lips would flow, The world should listen then as I am listening now.” (101-105) Shelley wishes that he could look at the world in the same gleeful way that a bird does. He wants to be as peaceful and exuberant as the bird.
"It is the human mind, the imagination which makes us special..." Malouf suggests life has a continuity, that there is a ceaselessness surrounding time and as a result, individual life is to be savoured. Malouf uses symbolism to represent life’s perpetuity. A prominent example of this is the migrational patterns of the birds in the novel. Birds continue regardless of time: "The timespan for them was more or less infinite.". When Jim marvels at the sandpiper’s ability to find its way across the world and back: "...because the [memory] was ... there... in the long memory of its kind."
Birds play a significant role in the Awakening; they are used in various scenes, describing various emotions, situations and states of minds. The birds are often used to portray Edna’s state of mind, and it could even be said that they represent where she is in her life; namely that makes the birds such a powerful tool in this story. In the opening chapter of the novel, there is a parrot in a cage. The fact that it is in a cage, makes it represent the complete opposite of a flying bird, which means that instead of representing freedom, it represents being caught, and kept in a cage. The parrot is captured in the cage, just as Edna is captured in her marriage, and a symbol of how Victorian women were trapped and put down by the patriarchal society.
Dunbar talks about the great pleasure and satisfaction to see the surrounding world and how the smell of freedom attracts the caged bird (Russel). Throughout the first stanza, the bird experiences the mental suffering of imprisonment. When the caged bird sees the sun shines on the landscape and smells the fragrance of flowers, it feels the agony of captivity and it yearns to escape the cage (Commings). The bird bemoans his fate because he cannot enjoy the warmth of the sun, the soft wind and the fresh water. In the second stanza, Dunbar describes the bird’s determination to break free as it roughly beats its wings against the bars until they bleed.
It is said the beautiful Sirens use their enchanting voices to lure sailors and make them die. Their beautiful singing will make men forget directions and shipwreck on the rocky coast. Sirens can be found in many Greek stories, especially in Homer's “Odyssey”: “But the sirens charm with their pure song, sitting in their meadow; the shore is full of bones of rotting men, with the skin shrinking around them (Odyssey. I2. 44-46)” Every man who hears Sirens’ singing will have to die, so it is hard to know what Sirens sing from those dead men.
What is up to debate is if he could have personally enjoyed his beauty if he knew all along he would end a swan. Throughout both fairytales of The Ugly Duckling, the duckling is treated with horrible cruelty and blunt hatred because of his looks. The misshapen and twisted shape of the late hatching duck endured many horrible acts of malignity. The Earliest act of cruelty based on the ugly ducklings looks is in Hans Christian Andersen’s version. Seeing the ugly duckling for the first, a “spiteful duck,” (Andersen) “flew out and bit him in the neck” (Anderson).
Serene, pastel images of beautiful lilies floating on lakes, pleasing to the eye and without the hint of unrest. Hughes disputes this in his poem, claiming that the very spirit that moved Monet to paint nature’s beauty moves mankind to ignore its savagery. To enforce this idea, Hughes recounts the flight of dragonflies he sees near water lilies: the pond is their “furious arena”. He makes special note of the fact that dragonflies eat meat, an idea which implies bloodshed and assault. He claims that it “bullets by or stands in space to take aim”, distinct images of war.
Elizabeth Bishop's "The Fish" is a narrative poem, told in the first person, about the confrontation between an amateur fisher--fishing in a "rented boat" (Bishop 1212; all references to the poem are to this edition)--and a "tremendous" battle-worn fish. A poem that acknowledges awareness in nature, "The Fish," although a narrative, sings in the way we expect lyric poetry to sing, for it is rich with imagery, simile, metaphor, as well as rhetorical and sound devices. I say "confrontation," but really the fish, with evidence of having been caught at least five other times, confronts the speaker (whom I'll call a "she" for convenience) only with its presence: the fight has gone out of him. The real confrontation is the speaker's internal struggle: should she keep the fish or throw it back? In a moment of illumination, she does the latter.