Sir Phillip Sidney exaggerates this expression to construct a drag of hate over time. Desire is depreciated by the speaker throughout the poem, yet not upon its enlightenment but for its golden coating. Sidney provoked pessimistic diction when calling desire just as bad as, “scums and dregs”. By this implication of downgrading “desire” to the lowest of the low, the reader feels the negativity received by the writer though the speaker. Sidney continues the cynical thought by quoting, “band of all evils”.
He tells his detailed observation of the valley. The description of the valley reveals the hopelessness, both of the valley’s condition, and the people within it. People call the place “the valley of ashes.” This name is quite ironic, since fertile land, not ash, is usually associated with a valley. In general the description of the valley is negative. Fitzgerald calls this place a “certain desolate area of land,” and describes it as a grim place in which even “the motor road [hurriedly] joins the rail road, so as to shrink away” from it.
Similarly his dog “is a drag-footed sheep dog, grey muzzle and with pale blind old eyes”. We could clearly see that they are alike. Which is particularly significant because later when Carlson suggests they should kill the dog because it’s getting “old” and “stinky” is he perhaps saying that Candy is getting old and stinky and he should leave. This portrays an important idea about life in the 1930s America that there is no place for the weak in a society where everyone is just about themselves. It also says that it particularly unusual for someone like Candy to get compensation for his work injury at the time of ‘the great depression’.
Brief Interpretation: A Modest Proposal 2. A Modest Proposal is a persuasive, satirical piece. The main purpose of this article is to convince the reader to side with the idea of selling and cooking children in Ireland. During this time, Ireland was immersed in poverty, so the author ironically attempts to convince the reader that eating children will be a solution to the people of Ireland. This piece is an extended satire because obviously the author’s proposal is implausible and irrational.
• “Ralph wept for the end of innocence, the darkness of man’s heart, and the fall through the air of the true, wise friend called Piggy.” (235) Reasoning: This quote that was stated at the end of the book shows the reader and myself that the world of savagery only leads to murder and sorrow. That in fact, humans are not naturally civil. They’re naturally evil and animalistic. And this quote alone could destroy Rousseau’s idea that humans are naturally
“Marginalia is defined as, “marginal notes or embellishments (as in a book) or “nonessential items” (merriam-webster.com). In this poem, Billy Collins reflects his thought on the people and their important as they find certain notes in the margins of the book. Poet begins with explaining that how notes in the margin are “ferocious” and “skirmish” against the author. By these words, he means that notes in the margins are very irritating, cruel, and argumentative. These notes serve against the author as they directly challenge.
She certainly did not “pass in silence without matching wits”(292) with Swift. She gives him a taste of his own medicine. While Montagu’s retort was humorous and insulting, she seemed to miss the point that Swift was trying to portray. She merely counterattacked him for writing such a disgraceful poem. It went right over her head that Swift was trying to say that everyone has at least a few less-than-winsome qualities or that the reason he used a female character was only to emphasize this fact, to show that, while men may put women on pedestals, that does not
Theme: “Thistles” by Ted Hughes is a poem about survival and triumph. It describes the life cycle of the thistles and how difficult it is to get rid of these wild plants. This poem also portrays how the thistles have to fight to stay alive and to ensure the continuity of their kind as well as the fact that they conquered over their aggressors. In the first line of the poem, the diction “against” hints us about the plight that thistles have to go through. “Rubber tongues of cows” suggest the destruction of the thistles by men in which the imagery “rubber” suggests ability to stretch and wrap around the thistles and hence destroying it.
In the story both the characterization and conflict help to show how “pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.” The characterization of the narrator allows the reader to see the problem brought about by having too much pride. The author’s use of indirect characterization in “The Scarlet Ibis” is one way the story relates to the quote. In the beginning of the story, the narrator said, “It was bad enough having an invalid brother, but having one who possibly was not all there was unbearable, so I began to make plans to kill him by smothering him with a pillow.” This demonstrates that the narrator has a hard time dealing with his brother’s disability. The author allows the reader to see how desperate the narrator is to have a typical life with an ordinary family. The narrator feels that it is one thing for Doodle to be disabled, but he would rather do away with Doodle than deal with the embarrassment of having him in his life if he were mentally weak as well.
This is supported by the Othello by William Shakespeare and A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams. Both literary works show theme of deception and characterization that convey the critical lens. If a person does a wrong thing he/she should try to fix it before it’s too late. If they will not take any steps to fix it, it will eventually affect them in a bad way. Both literary works showed how a person did a wrong thing and it has caught up to him/her.