I would like to analyze the poem from a point of view as a female. The whole poem is a monologue of a woman, no ups and downs, however, calm and peaceful. A busy woman was invited by Death who is solicitous and polite to get on the carriage on a journey. Although she seldom left her home, she was glad to get on the carriage with a trace of hope and joy. Precisely, because of gentle manners of Death, the initiation of love appeared in her mind.
Marilyn, who held a strong will to live, steadily accepts the fact that she must be released. The feeling of guilt showers over her as Barton informs her about the reality that her being there influences “the life of not one person but the lives of many.” (6) Her beg for mercy decelerates as she ponders about the seven other people’s lives that have to be sacrificed if she clings for her life. Her will to write her family letters depicts her acceptance towards death and her love she feels towards her family. Before she dies, she is given the opportunity to talk to her brother, Gerry. Both Gerry and Marilyn feel venerable to her death because they don’t have the power to alter the law of science.
She describes him as kind and civil, someone for which she would “put away” (6) her “labour” and “leisure” (7), just to go on a carriage ride with. This is a ride which she is unprepared for. The temperature becomes cold as the sun sets and she is only wearing thin clothing; “only gossamer my gown/ my tippet only tulle” (15-16). This makes death seem attractive, someone whom the speaker could spend the rest of her ‘life’ with. However, “Immortality” is also capitalized and personified (4).
Hester, who is overjoyed by the thought of her future with Dimmesdale, calls Pearl to Dimmesdale. As Pearl walks slowly and cautiously towards Hester and Dimmesdale, Hester becomes impatient and decides to walk over to Pearl herself. Concept: The mood during Hester and Dimmesdale’s conversation in the forest is relieved and satiated as Hester and Dimmesdale are finally able to free themselves from the sin and secret they had been hiding for years. When Hester took
The poem, “Because I could not stop for Death-“, alludes to a possible afterlife or existence in different manifestations, especially in the last two lines “I first surmised the Horses’ Heads Were toward Eternity_”. Dickinson’s references to the “Setting Sun” and the “Dews” give suggestions to an organic or naturalistic view of life and death. Dickinson is very composed and calm in this poem as she tells a story about taking a carriage ride with death. Death is a kind gentleman and in no rush. She has no fear and sees her death as a positive event instead of a negative
According to Sartre we are “condemned to be free” whether we realize it or not. Here I shall apply this perspective of freedom to select parts of Kate Chopin’s novel The Awakening, with a view to evaluate the effects of freedom on the main protagonists Edna and Léonce. Feminist criticism of The Awakening to date, states almost without exception, that Edna’s suicide at the end of the novel is her only avenue of escape from the oppressions of a patriarchal society, after she has discovered freedom. Step by step, Edna divests herself of the roles and responsibilities expected of her as a wife, mother, and an active social being. In fact Chopin removes all conventional obstacles to a woman’s freedom from her path—husband, children, household duties, and enables her to devote herself to her painting, if she is so minded.
Mrs. Mallard is not hysterical with sadness, and instead is thoughtful of what Mr. Mallard’s death means in relation to her. She experiences a phase of realization, and suddenly she is adamant with the word “free,” it is almost as if she has never heard it before. Mrs. Mallard is in joy to her new solitude, thinking of the “years to come that would belong to her absolutely,” and how she would “live for herself.” Louise, deep in thought, experiences vast insight that women could not understand yet in 1894. Louise realizes that the joy from her husband’s death is not monstrous, and she is suddenly aware of what the future will hold. She began to understand that the boundaries of marriage were unfair, and that good or bad intentions did not change that.
Ismene’s argument was that “we must remember that by birth we’re women, and, as such, we shouldn’t fight with men.” (Antigone 77-78) Antigone with such a passion of honoring her brother states that no matter what, she will follow through with her mission. She expresses her passion when she states with conviction “I’ll still bury him. It would be fine to die while doing that. I’ll lie there with him, with a man I love, pure and innocent, for all my crime. My honours for the dead must last much longer than for those up here.
Alexis Chappell November 7, 2011 English Final Draft Compare and Contrast In the poem “When Death Comes” by Mary Oliver she talks about how death is to her. The author explains that death comes for everyone at anytime but it our job to see what we do with our lives before it arrives. Oliver talks about how she is more curious about death compared to other people who feel it. Mary focuses the whole poem on death, but she makes it stand out in a different way she turns the most negative part in life into the most positive. Mary by using images to make us see that life isn’t meant to waste.
This however, does not reduce the meaning of either, but strengthens the meaning of both. Each stanza symbolizes two complete opposites, life and afterlife. The actual death of the woman is not spoken of in this poem, it is only implied. Wordsworth’s choice to hide the death between the two stanzas is interesting, possibly illustrating that the speaker is unable to verbalize the pain that comes along with the woman’s sudden death. The choice to keep life and afterlife completely separate illustrates the contrast between what the speaker thinks of the woman while she is alive from when she is dead.