By using this device, it seems as though the narrator is representative of most people who are not sure of their reason for life, and the voice is coming from a God-like figure. The poem then becomes something people can relate to due to the fact that praying or speaking to another “higher” being can comfort them. In the last line of the poem, the narrator has faith that the God-like voice knows where happiness is, and this is when the poem turns around. The echo voice admits that he does not know where happiness is, meaning that the speaker must find the feeling on his own. Another device used is the “ABAB” rhyme scheme which is a repetition in the speaker’s voice, as if the questions are simply monotonous.
One southern blues artist that influences The North Mississippi Allstars is R.L. Burnsides, who wrote a song called Po Black Mattie. This song is about Burnside’s past lover, who has gotten kicked out of her present lover’s house and the fact that Burnside wants to see her again. N.M.A covered this song and made it much more contemporary compared to Burnside’s acoustic original because of the use of distortion on the electric guitar. Other than the obvious mention about Memphis, this songs lyrical material is Southern rock/ blues because the southern dialect used to tell the story conveys a Southern vibe.
In this poem, Dunbar explains that African Americans have allowed the mistreatment get the better of them. He addresses Douglass to remember his strong words and hope it serves as a comforter in the phrase "through the lonely dark". In the phrase “voice high-sounding o'er the storm”, Dunbar uses symbolism on the word “storm” which symbolizes segregation. With a calm tone, the speaker is addressing Douglass of all of this and all that is wrong in the world. Also, the use of visual and auditory imagery allows the reader to depict vividly the surrounds of the slave times and the seriousness of the struggles they are faced with.
The protagonist, Vivian, is dying of stage four metastic ovarian cancer, and therefore the play is situated in the hospital. She is a complex character; she is intellectual, literal, flippant, arrogant, and witty. Throughout the play Vivian uses her humour, sarcasm, irony and puns to hide behind her intellect - which she learnt from Donne's sonnets - to hide her emotional side. Thus by the end of the play she realizes to regret her philosophy of 'life and text being the same'. Her use of intellect makes the play witty - a metaphysical conceit.
It is amazing that only through great hardships, such as Esch having to fight Manny and her finding out that she is pregnant, could she receive true insight. Unfortunately, Esch’s blindness cost her her childhood and possibly a natural relationship with someone her own age. Blindness can normally be defined as the inability of one to see, but according to Fuertes and Ward, blindness is not only a physical impairment, but also a “mental flaw” that can consume someone and can be rather “unfortunate”. One of Ward's more subtle themes in her novel, Salvage the Bones, is that of blindness. Esch, the main character and heroine of the award-winning novel by Jesmyn Ward that portrays the life of a rural Mississippi family before, after, and during Hurricane Katrina, embodies Ward’s theme of subconscious blindness, by showing it to be the primary cause of Esch’s bad decisions and self-loathing.
His good looks forced her to say “I’m sick of shadows” and break the curse by leaving the tower, which results to her tearful death. ‘The Lady of Shalott’ includes many magical and mysterious things, like; the curse, The Lady of Shalott herself and the fact the weather reflects the feelings of the lady of Shalott. This makes the poem super natural and it also leads onto the next question, which is the HOW part of the title- HOW did Tennyson make the atmosphere mysterious and magical? (Using the magical and mysterious things) Tennyson used some extraordinary techniques to create the poems atmosphere, the mood of the poem and vivid imagery. Such as: - Pathetic fallary and personification.
Miss Brill’s Fantasy Presented on a day described as “brilliantly fine” with “the blue sky powdered with gold” (1270) “Miss Brill”, a short story by Katherine Mansfield invokes an interesting perspective on how coping with rejection and accepting reality can be a difficult combination to balance; failed attempts are inevitable, unforeseen and extremely painful to experience. Using the main character as the narrator, as if the reader is allowed to view “a record” (unk) of Miss Brill’s thoughts, Mansfield engages the reader in a dramatic story which reveals the true to life fact about society’s cruel disregard of the aging population, its brutal rules of acceptance, and it’s lack of human compassion. Seen through Miss Brill’s personal revelations and ideas about self-preservation the author demonstrates how hiding from reality as a means to secure self-worth proves to be a waste of time, and will only impede the capacity to achieve inner peace. Miss Brill is an elderly woman amidst an inner struggle with loneliness, insecurity, denial and rejection which she keeps concealed with a clever use of fantasy. During one of her Sunday visits to the park Miss Brill’s self-image will be painfully restructured in her mind.
In Passage 2, the sentence People all across America—black and white, young and old, listened to songs with lyrics that were intensely honest and personal, songs that told about any number of things that give us the blues: loneliness, betrayal, unrequited love, a run of bad luck, being out of work or away from home or broke or broken hearted (lines 43–47), the author is a. defining blues music. b. identifying the origin of the blues. c. describing the lyrics of a famous blues song. d. explaining why blues remakes were so popular. e. making a connection between the blues and the Civil Rights movement.
Explain the ways in which the writer develops the core character in: The darkness out there and when the wasps drowned The Darkness out there Penelope Lively begins “The darkness out there” by stereotyping Mrs Rutter as a “Dear old thing”. Later on in the story Penelope develops her into an “old bitch” this already starts to change your perception of her, but when a small flashback is revealed our first instinct of Mrs Rutter is changed, and this time for good. At the beginning of the story Mrs Rutter is referred to metaphorically as “a creamy smiling pool of a face” which suggests that she is warm towards Kerry and Sandra. Also, the word creamy also states that she is soft. As well as that the word creamy has a percussive sound associated with it which emphasizes her pleasance.
In Act 2, Scene 2 line 35, Macbeth said, “Methought I heard a voice cry ‘Sleep no more! Macbeth does murder sleep’, the innocent sleep, sleep that knits up the raveled sleave of care, the death of each day’s life.” There is another example of this motif. At the end of this play, Lady Macbeth described as a sleepwalker. Gentlewoman describes Lady Macbeth’s illness, in Act 5, Scene1, line