Good afternoon and welcome to the Critical Study of Texts Academic Forum. Today I will discuss how Gwen Harwood’s poems are valued through the challenging ideas of nostalgia and morality. Memory is a significant motif throughout Harwood’s poetry. Memory can be subjective, fickle and unreliable as demonstrated in ‘The Violets’. The memory process is so powerful as to superimpose images of the past on to the present colouring a faded and melancholy world.
Literary Devices: 1. Symbolism ex. This phrase can allude to alcoholism and being unable to cope, but as a symbol, it represents… Great way to connect the symbol of the bottle to the theme of the song 2. Simile – similarity between two objects (ex. my heart is beating like a hammer) ___ explores several themes including the fear of….
Each symbol serves to bring a new dimension of meaning to the story and create an increasingly intricate level of semantic detail. Mrs. Mallard’s heart condition is immediately recognized in the story as her sister Josephine and family friend Richard are cautious to break the news of her husbands sudden death. Much to the reader’s surprise, however, Mrs. Mallard’s secret triumphant behavior is soon advertised, revealing an insight into the marriage of these two characters. Louise briefly speaks of the moment she will first see the body of her husband. Although she dreads this inevitable scene, it quickly vanished from her mind as she is filled with positive thoughts of a new beginning.
“Wild Nights-Wild Nights!” “Wild Nights-Wild Nights!” is a poem with consistent exclamation to emphasize a women’s desire to reunite with an old lover. The first stanza introduces the speaker, reminiscing of fond memories of her and her old lover. She does not need any instrument of direction to seek her lover, because her love is enough. The emphatic speaker eventually regains her lover’s embrace. In Emily Dickinson’s poem, “Wild Nights-Wild Nights!” the author’s rebellious attitude, form, and nautical theme illustrates the sexual engagement between two old lovers.
For example, heart trouble is symbolic for love pain. This “pain” was a result from her controlling marriage and the overwhelming amount of energy that was required for her to keep the marriage functioning. However, after Louise reflects over the death of her husband and her new direction in life, the symbolism changes from dark to positive and light. One instance is the “open window” which faced her in her chair when she went into her room. The “open window” is mentioned multiple times throughout the short story and is present to refresh the idea of being free and having options.
Edgar Allen Poe demonstrates in his written works of “Lenore”, “Annabel Lee”, and “To Helen” an element that seemingly attempts to give the reader exceptional emotional sadness. Poe does this by telling the poem in a point of view where a man tells the story of the death or remembrance of a young love or woman. He also puts a sense of gloom in each of his poems. This allows for the reader to create a mental image if the setting, without him having to directly point it out. As well, the gloominess of his poetry could also be due to his longing effect of sadness that he attempts to express.
In Victorian times when Rossetti was writing, this would certainly have been considered shameful. The narrator answers the questions in the first quatrain, naming her sister Maude as the person who told her parents what was happening. Andrew Foster begins his poem in first person perspective indicating that the narrator is narrating a tale to the audience however the poem is actually aimed at the narrators’ younger brother and is written in free verse making the poem sound like a story being told in spoken English. The narrator starts off with the tone which the metaphor ‘Saddled with you’ set suggesting the negative feelings the speaker has for his brother, as if he is an inconvenience, restricting the freedom of the speaker. With the third stanza makes it clear that the older boys are still children, despite how they would like to be seen by the world: they 'chased
(78) The manner in which the narrator described each detail about the poem implies his discontent with the idea of his wife’s proximity to another man. He also brought up the strange back and forth of audio tapes between his wife, who at the time was married to another man, and the blind man in a way to kept in touch and to receive advice from each other. He said: This went on for years. (79) Once she offered him to hear the latest
In addition to the confusion surrounding the note Lady Chiltern originally sent to Lord Goring, that Mrs. Cheveley then forwarded in malice to Sir Robert, and that finally unites Sir Robert and Gertrude, there are a variety of stolen conversations and entrances and exits that allow every aspect of the character's lives to find resolution. Clearly, the letter is a very important tool. It represents Lady Chiltern's love for her husband. Originally, she wrote that she needed and wanted Lord Goring, but only so she could speak with him about her troubled marriage, to which she held so dear. Re-sent to Sir Robert, the letter takes on new meaning, and with Lady Chiltern's revelation that she has in fact held her husband on too high of a pedestal, the statements inscribed in it apply directly to him.
As a consequence, this world becomes known through “experience”, a state of being marked by the loss of childhood optimism and enthusiasm, by fright and inhibition, and by social and political corruption. William Blake considered that without contraries there is no progression and, indeed, some of his works are built on oppositions, like The Marriage of Heaven and Hell, Ideas of Good and Evil or, of course, the volume Songs of Innocence and of Experience. Two of Blake’s famous collections of poetry are Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience. The two collections go together-that is, many of the poems in Songs of Innocence have corresponding poems in Songs of Experience. Many of the poems are religious and a prime example of contrasting two poems is 'The Lamb' from Songs of Innocence and 'The Tyger' from Songs of Experience.