“It’s not the last straw which broke the camel’s back.” In J.D. Salanger’s, Catcher in the Rye, the protagonist, Holden Caulfield, has many mental breakdowns. Though it may not have been one solitary event that pushed him off the edge, the one thing that started the whole ordeal was his brother Allie’s death. ”He’s dead now. He got leukemia and died when we were up in Maine, on July 18, 1946” (p. 38) Holden refers to his brother multiple times in the novel, showing how much impact Allie had on his life.
In The poem “Photograph of My Father in His Twenty-Second Year”, the speaker start to remembering about the time he has passed with his or her father by looking at an old picture of his or her father in his youth age wearing a jeans and denim shirt, leaning against the front fender of a 1934 Ford. After looking the picture through all, the speaker say “ Father, I love you, yet how can I say thank you, I who can’t hold my liquor either, and don’t even know the places to fish?” (line13-15). The statement he made at the end just express a feeling of regret, showing that their relationship wasn’t as a child could have expected. The only thing that her or his father left to him or to her was just painful memories and nothing else. Moreover, the speaker express his or her regret the fact the if the father was a really good father it would have at least make him enough responsible to go and fish himself.
It consists of eleven four-line stanzas. It is a basic structure of iambic pentameters with five stresses on each line on the second syllable and subsequent alternate syllables thereafter, except for slight variations so that the lines have a different pace. Each line is divided into five feet, which is the meter of the poem. Because of the use of stylistic devices such as alliteration and word choice, the lines sound as if they have a different pace, either slow, swift or jerky. They are all rhyming stanzas where the first and third lines rhyme and also the second and fourth rhyme in an a/b a/b rhyme scheme.
3) The tenor sax solo lasts for 4 choruses. It uses fast scales and quick runs like the alto sax it is also virtuosic. 4) The piano solo lasts for 2 choruses. This solo is calmer with a simple melody with leads into a string of parallel chords. The tonality of the piece is the G Mixolydian mode, a G major scale with a blue note, which I have previously
The second subject is split into two main melodic ideas which are both in the dominant of F major. The first melodic idea (bars 23-38) leads to a perfect cadence (bars 37-8) which is then followed by the second idea (bars 39) than leads to the codetta (50-63). In the codetta there are two more ideas in the dominant key. The first is at the beginning of bar 50. This is repeated up an octave in bar 54 before leading via a two bar dominant pedal (57-8) to a perfect cadence in F (58-9).
Meanwhile, that happened at home, he also struggled financially and as an author whose fame was so limited. The familiar stories he wrote: “The Manuscript Found in a Bottle,” “Ligiea,” “The Haunted Palace,” “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” “The Gold Bug,” “The Fall of the House of Usher,” and the most recognized is “The Raven,” were not discovered as often till after his death. At the age of 40, Poe was found unconscious, and was rushed to the hospital in early October. His death is unknown and unsettling but his spirit lives on in his writing of Gothic literature and
and that when coming to the end of life its not going to be easy , its going to be painful in some way, not all physical but even mental. He also says that, “Through wise men at their end know the dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they, Do not go gentle into that good night.” What he means is that at the end of life, the right is unenviable. In the second part of this line he is showing that the wise men don’t attract attention when they are dieing.
Emotionally he leaves home to continue his spiritual quest but physically stays out of respect for his father's approval. This moment marks a spiritual change in Siddhartha from a peaceful meditative state to the Samana's way of self-denial. Now he focuses on leaving the self, but soon discovers that this method is taking him in the wrong direction, away from enlightenment. He decides 'to leave all doctrines and all teachers and to reach [his] goal alone - or die (34)." After leaving behind another religion, he knows he can only find the answer through personal experiences.
The title could also be about Greenwich Mean Time - it could be a metaphor for when the clocks go back and we lose an hour of our daytime; darkness comes quicker (like the darkness had come into the poets life since she lost her lover) and what should be the ‘right’ time (GMT) is suddenly ‘lost’, like her lover was lost. The line ‘The clocks slid back an hour’ reiterates my previous thoughts; autumn time is when nature starts to die and fall away, much like the relationship in the poem; it has died and decayed and left the person to mourn the death of their lost love. Duffy then carries on in the second line to personify the clocks ‘...and stole light from my life’ which makes it more personal, as if someone physically ‘stole’ the writers partner. The use of the word stole is powerful. It is a dramatic word that implies that the narrator had been personally attacked.
There can be connections between the two because as we saw the ‘The Manhunt’ was a poem written by Simon Armitage and is about a man who is suffering from post traumatic disorder furthermore it is written in the point of view of his wife who has to live with her husband who had changed dramatically since the experiences of death in Bosnia. Linking on with this in the poem we see that the structure of it is much disrupted and is constructed into tiny little pieces maybe referring to the wife’s feeling finally it is also shows repetition of the conjunction referring to it being disjointed. Another poem of we looked at is ‘in Paris with You’, this poem is however totally opposite to the one above this is about having sexual desires towards a woman. This however doesn’t really have a connection to the appearance and what the poem is actually about, it just states in the last stanza about the ‘all points south’ referring to the bottom of the physical human body and in the first stanza it refers to the top of the body stating about ‘an earful’. Finally we can see that there is all round connection between structure and what the content of the poem is actually about.