Miss Gee Auden tells the story in Miss Gee through a series of phases in her life which are used to create a big impact. As we read the poem ‘Miss Gee’ we begin with a conservative women who is very lonely and seems to have no relationships with anyone, whether that may be family, friends or something more intimate. Further on we create an image with Auden’s words about the temptations Miss Gee has and the struggles she faces in order to control them and if she does actually want control over them. Then at the end we interpret that Miss Gee has died, however the last few stanzas of the poem contrast greatly from the image we have in the beginning. Through a relatively short poem we invent a lifelong image of a person because of how Auden tells us the story.
Emily Dickinson was a poet and person whom did not publish her work, kept her love life low, and lived her last years of life in seclusion because she wanted privacy, which gave us some of the best poetry today. Emily Dickinson wrote poetry for most of her life and never let anyone get their hand on it. Dickinson knew she was a great poet but still did not publish her work while she was alive. In a criticism article called “The Three Privations of Emily Dickinson” by Ricahrd Wilbur he says ‘And she did say to Helen Hunt Jackson, “How can you print a piece of your soul?” (969). In this quotes Dickinson is saying that everything she writes is a part of her.
Knowing that Hulga/Joy disposition toward those girls was unfavorable and she ignored daughter’s need to be accepted. Mrs. Hopewell does not accept Hulga/Hulga/Joy and do not see her daughter as a highly educated thirty-two year old woman she is. She sees her as a young child coming of age who loses her leg in a hunting accident. She pities Hulga/Joy and defends her attitude due to her disability. Mrs. Hopewell think that Hulga/Joy has missed out on the best things in life and “who had never danced a step or had any normal good time” when she was younger (52).
He continuously makes her seem unappealing throughout the poem. He describes her physical features as “narrow” and “sloping” and mentions how she has “no bust” which is making her appear unhappy and ugly, and it is also emphasising the fact that she lacks sex appeal. Auden also uses simple colloquial language and vocabulary as it reflects her simple and basic existence in “Clevedon Terrace”. Through Auden’s portrayal of her, the reader automatically forms a critical opinion because he makes it seem her lifestyle is very dull and boring because “she did a lot of knitting” which makes her appear to the
“Sexton once wrote that poetry ‘should be a shock to the senses. It should hurt’ “(McMahan 560). The title of this poem foreshadows how the story will end. More often then not, the other woman is left with nothing but hurt and disappointing looks from society. While the male involved is able to return to his average life, as if nothing happened.
She is continually referred to as small, which is further lowering the impressions of the character that the readers have of her. Auden sets the setting of the poem in the opening stanza, which would also happen in a story “She lived in Clevedon Terrace At Number 83.” This is an ordinary address and place for the poem to be set, which shows to the reader that she is a normal person. Also through the repetition of ‘Clevedon Terrace’ in the poem is a constant reminder to the reader that the character Miss Gee is just like
I can never bring myself to talk of anything outside the common round.” This quote explains that she isn't able to speak out to her friends about things that she would to her notebook, also known as “Kitty.” Another theme is freedom, and the essay exemplifying it is Anna Quindlen's “Write for Your Life.” The essay speaks about a class of “at risk” students, in which are dealing with a lot more than they can handle at home and aren't really pursuing anything positive in life. To help fix the problem, the instructor(of the class) created
First, let’s look at the two most important words in the poem: “nobody” and “somebody”.There are two ways to understand the word “nobody”, one is “small potatoes” who have no talent or capability or thoughts, the other is someone who are talent and capable, but refuse to boast himself, or even refuse to let others know himself. Based on Emily’s attitudes towards life, as well as her great contribution to literature, “nobody” should be translated to the person who is capable but refuses to gain fame. And her “nobody” is truly somebody.And the word “somebody” stands on the opposition side of “nobody”.To be "somebody" is to have status in society; society, the majority, excludes or rejects those who lack status or are "nobody"--that is, "they'd banish us" for being nobody. And through the comparison of these two, it is easy to find that Emily Dickinson was implying that to be a “nobody” is much better than to be a dreary “somebody”—for being somebody means being too busy keeping the names in circulation and it is not as fancy as it seems to be. Second, we are going to appreciate this poem from the use of punctuation.in an original version, we could find that she used nine times of dash, six times of exclamation mark and two times of question mark.
She does not have any power neither in the society nor her family, thus she is led to alienation. Celie is driven into writing for expressing herself. Celie begins to write letters when she is fourteen years old, she is uneducated and the letters are addressed to god because of her father’s threat ‘You'd better not never tell nobody but God’ (Walker 1). Celie is alienated and must tell no ‘body’. Walker’s use of God allows Celie to be expressive in her writing as nobody actually sees what she writes.
Lucy was hidden from the world but was beautiful to see, like a star shinning in the sky. She was all alone and lived unknown, and few could see. Lucy died alone! The elements I found interesting in this poem was language, form and tone. The language Wordsworth used is a simple language where he uses words of one syllable.