When he goes to the U.S. and moves in with a widowed woman and her daughter he falls in love, or becomes obsessed, with the daughter who just so happens to be a preteen. When narrating the story he uses poetry to make his pedophilia less offensive. Major : Dolores Haze (nicknamed Lolita) - She is the preteen whom Humbert falls deeply for. From Humberts perspective she is very alluring and flirtatious. She entertains Humbert’s obsession.
That was a good demonstration of how sadness is inherent in life. I think much of who we are as adults has to do with how we socialize, interact and are raised as children. The first four line of the poem “Barbie Doll” speaks about the child’s innocence. “Entertaining toys such as dolls, lack certain ingredients that teach cause and effects but will have psychological effect on how a girl child interprets what is beautiful and eventually how she see herself” says Dr. Hall, a child psychoanalyst with twenty years experience (preschooler.thebump.com). The following two lines and second stanza speak of puberty and what her class mates think of her.
Critical Essay – The Choosing “The Choosing” by Liz Lochhead is a poem that shows a vivid personal experience. It is a poem where the poet and her childhood friend – Mary – end up growing apart because of choices Mary’s parents made. The theme of the poem is that the choices that are made by our parents can affect your future. I will be discussing how Lochhead uses several different techniques to help show a vivid personal experience. At the beginning of the poem, where she tells us about the girls’ time at primary school, the poet uses repetition to emphasise how alike the girls were.
Poe Girl As a kid growing up and moving through elementary school, I never thought of poetry as anything more than writing something to make a girl like you. A poem would start out with the dry, decrepit, and overly used line, “Roses are red, violets are blue” and then would end with some witty rhyme to show the girl how “creative” you were. Poetry involves more than rhymes, I have learned. When used correctly, an author can pull on your heart strings, build your excitement, or even bring you down into the pits of despair. It is a great power to be able to mold words that will affect one’s emotions and conscience.
‘War Photographer’ and ‘Mother in a Refugee Camp’ are both melancholy poems with either memories they wish to forget or memories they can never forget because they are so distressing, ‘Once Upon a Time’ and ‘Poem at Thirty-Nine’ are from the perspective of a personae looking back and remembering their childhood. ‘Half-past Two’ and ‘Piano’ are similarly both child-based with naïve and innocent approaches to the past. Memories can be pleasant, warming and remind us of happy times, but they can also be sad, ominous and unpleasant things dragging up forgotten pasts and terrible nightmares. ‘War Photographer’, is an upsetting poem consisting mainly of contrasts between the idyllic ‘Rural England’ and the war torn countries ‘fields which explode beneath the feet’ he is photographing. Similarly, ‘Piano’ includes contrasts between his memories ‘A child sitting under a piano’ and now ‘I weep like a child for the past’ this line also displays a different side of the Lawrence’s poem, a much more sombre tone.
The initial, basic interpretation I took was a simple comparison between the contrasting ages of him, being an older man, and the school children within the poem. The symbolic figure of Leda, a mythological figure raped by a swan, and also makes reference to hints of Hinduism. The lonely, questioning depiction of Yeats at the beginning of the poem introduces this feeling of regret and disappointment. After researching the details within the second stanza, I have come to realize that the figure seeming to be Leda can also be interpreted as Maude Gonne, a love interest of Yeats’s past. This reference reinforces Yeats’s regret and disappointment within their relationship, reminiscing on what could have been, and the young and beautiful Maud Gonne.
The phrase "twice shy" seems to have been taken from the age-old proverb Once bitten, twice shy, and we are consequently led to expect that the characters in the poem have had a bitter experience in the past and are now attempting to recoup. The phrase is such an appropriate expression to describe the tumultuous feelings, emotions and attitudes that run through the mind of an adolescent in love. The central idea behind the poem is simple: a girl and a boy, presumably adolescents, go out for a walk on a cool, spring evening. However, their good upbringing forces them to move cautiously, to "preserve classic decorum" and to abstain from publishing feeling. Heaney masterfully intertwines the poetic elements of time and setting to provide an accurate description of the characters' thoughts.
A well renowned confessional poem is Sylvia Plath’s ‘Daddy’ which is addressed to her deceased father; the poem explores and refers to the holocaust in a child-like mellifluous rhythm, synthesising a nursery rhyme tone. Perhaps this conveys Plath’s grief of losing her father when she was young. First of all, the opening line of 'Morning song' “Love set you going like a fat gold watch,” introduces the concept of motherhood as the subject matter of the poem, conveying how the persona, feasibly Plath values and ‘ loves’ her child. The extent of the worth and appreciation of the child is emphasised by the simile ‘like a fat gold watch’ in the notion that the new life represents a likeness of the precious metal and how the persona’s value is similar to that of the admiration that man has for gold. Perhaps, ‘fat’ signifies the sheer size of the Child’s body and how much of a marvel it is that it was inside her for nine months
Colors in literature can portray a character’s emotions and feelings. In Alice Walker’s novel, The Color Purple, two symbols that contribute the essence of the novel- Celie becoming a liberated woman through all of her trials and tribulations- are letters and colors. Celie goes from a bound and depressed teen, to accepting her life for what it is, to finally in the end becoming a liberated woman, who is happy and makes the most out of her life. When the novel starts out, Celie writes to God. She is fourteen and needs to tell someone about what has happened to her.
I have a friend who, as a young girl, had to memorize this poem as punishment for some now-forgotten misbehavior. Forced memorization is never pleasant; still, this is a fine poem for recital. “Mending Wall” is sonorous, homey, wry—arch, even—yet serene; it is steeped in levels of meaning implied by its well-wrought metaphoric suggestions. These implications inspire numerous interpretations and make definitive readings suspect. Here are but a few things to think about as you reread the poem.