Lastly, the tone revolves around a self-critical and enthusiastic one. The father makes the son analyze his life based on insights he gives him. Thus, its tone enables audiences to reflect on their life and adopt the author’s recommendations for a meaningful life. The straightforward poem Mother to Son by Langston Hughes is a story of a mother who assures her son that he is bound to face uncountable adversities in life, and must outwit them to keep going. Hughes
He is thoughtful one moment and conniving the next; he's willing to sacrifice for his family, but he's also willing sacrifice someone else's family for the benefit of his own, and he is unwilling to take responsibility for his own actions. “All my sons” is about living the American Dream. Joe has the house in the suburbs after WWII, has the perfect child, lives in the perfect neighborhood, and shares his life with the perfect neighbours. What Joe perceives as perfection was bought on lies and deceit. His feeling of family loyalty is based on disloyalty to others.
In his essay “Working at Wendy's”, Joey Franklin conveys that he works at Wendy's because he feels that, even though the job may seem demeaning, it is something he has to do for the benefit of his family. Franklin uses short stories or anecdotes from earlier in his life or from those whom he works with to prove this point. Franklin in the end shows that he is willing to do anything to provide for his wife and son. Franklin's feeling of embarrassment begins when he recognizes a member of his Boy Scout troop who also works at Wendy's. This disgrace carries on throughout the story as Franklin is embarrassed and uncomfortable working at a fast food restaurant because of his high qualifications.
“Reunion” by John Cheever is a short story about Charlie who hasn’t seen his father since his parents’ divorce. So on his way back to his mother’s house he schedules a lunch with his father. Yet Charlie’s view on his father changes when his father continually has problems controlling his bad attitude. In “Powder and “Reunion” the authors use father/son relationships, point of view and conflict to portray to the reader that almost all father and son relationships have their flaws. In the two short stories it seems as if the sons’ relationships with their father were quite different, but they also had their similarities because both of them cared for their son.
* He is not only realizing how his Bengali culture shapes him, but he is also accepting it by realizing the importance of his name, tying in with his family. * Throughout the novel, he tries to separate the Bengali culture and the American culture. But in the end, we see him finally accepting the two together. We see him realizing how Bengali culture ties into his own life and most importantly, how it was a crucial component with his parents as he states, “for all his aloofness toward his family in the past, his years at college and then in New York, he has always hovered close to this quiet, ordinary town that he had remained, for his mother and father, stubbornly exotic.” (281). * It is unquestionable that one’s cultural background plays a role in one’s identity.
The poet is suggesting that the natural world has so much more to offer than the one he is currently enduring. The drive into the country has made him realize he is more comfortable surrounded by nature. Although through stanza three he is becoming emerged in the scene in which he goes from the naturalism to different thoughts. “The miles yet to go” reveals a tone of melancholic regret. The poem is written as a turning point for the poet, his introspection gives him strength to make the decision that will change his life.
Not only does the wall act as a divider in separating estates, but also acts as a barrier in the neighbors’ friendship, thus separating them. Frost, the poet speaker, is the observant and enlightened neighbor. Every spring he realizes that both nature represented by the melting of snow and man represented by the hunters together contribute to making gaps in the wall. A combination of logical reasoning in which the apple trees grow in his plot of land and pine trees in his neighbor's, and intuition "Something there is that doesn't love a wall" convince him of the futility of this annual ritual of trying to 'mend' this particular wall. But at the same time he is a perceptive person who knows when to build and when not to build a wall: “But here there are no cows...to give offence."
Aristotle once said, “The impulse to form partnership of this kind is present in all men by nature.” Knowledge of one’s identity through knowledge of where one belongs can give meaning to life and bring about happiness, while exclusion can trigger a sense of unworthiness, even inferiority, and alienation as shown through the poetry of Peter Skryznecki and the film ‘Into the Wild’ We chose the poems of Peter Skrzynecki as our prescribed text and there is a greater sense of not belonging and alienation in every poem than belonging and acceptance. It is almost that he wants us to feel sympathy and condolence for him in his poems. Poems such as ‘Migrant Hostel, Ancestors and Feliks Skryznecki’ convey his message of being estranged and isolated from his identity of the polish culture and his uncertain future. To convey these views Skrzynecki uses a variety of techniques, the main ones being: metaphors, similes, personification, rhetorical questions and the use of tone. The poem Migrant hostel (Parkes 1949-1951) carries authencity and themes of difficulties assimilating into a new culture, feelings of uncertainty and insecurity and therefore issues surrounding identity, or the lack OF identity.
The neighbor who has the pine trees believes that the wall provides a sense of privacy and security to him. Even though he believes that two people can be neighbors and friends, he still feels some form of barrier is needed to separate them and “wall in” the space that is personal and the space that is private of the individual. His repeated line throughout the poem “good fences make good neighbors” (line 27) is evidence of the feelings he has towards his neighbor and the fence that divides the two properties. Another poetic technique Robert Frost uses in “Mending Wall” is imagery. This is evident in the first eleven lines of the poem describing the poor conditions of the wall.
Through the form of a verse novel he supports the idea that all humans seek a sense of belonging, and that without it our lives have little meaning. Yet Herrick also subverts some conventional understandings of belonging by showing that belonging can come from strange and unexpected situations, and is not just limited to one place or one person. Herrick conveys all of this through the different perspectives of Billy, Old Bill and Caitlin; employing a range of verse and narrative techniques to show their gradual sense of