2008 AP LIT FREE RESPONSE: Section II, Question One In both poems “When I Have Fears” by John Keats, and “Mezzo Cammin” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, both narrators expose their unfulfilled aspirations with the underlying fear that death will soon approach. Keats explains how his career as a famous, credited author has not yet been fulfilled, and fears that he will not live long enough to do so. Conversely, Longfellow looks back on his past slightly disappointed, but assured that he has the latter half of his life to accomplish his objectives and goals. Longfellow is dismal and terrified of death, while Keats comes to realize that his dreams are infinitesimal in the grand scheme of things, and any life lived is a gift that will eventually succumb to death. Keats’ poem is one extensive run-on sentence that truly “runs” across the page.
Lucy Berry, English essay “Apparent Failure” “So killed themselves: and now, enthroned Each on his copper couch, they lay” Discuss the ways in which Browning presents life and death in this poem. In your answer, explore the effects of language, imagery and verse form, and consider how this poem relates to other poems by Browning that you have studied. In the poem “Apparent Failure”, Browning presents death in an inhumane, animalistic way due to the Morgue being an old slaughter house. He contrasts life and death to display his anger at the status afforded to death (which weren’t offered in life). This experience shocked Browning but also taught him to avoid this kind of death.
The guilt Reverend Dimmesdale suffered as he could not be with the one he loved was killing him on the inside so he that the meteor was a sign he should wear the “A”. The shame and troubles Hester and Pearl must go through he thinks he must too. The reverend's view of the meteor was much different than the town’s people they thought it marked the entrance of Governor Winthrop’s into heaven. The book The Scarlet Letter has many forms of symbolization but two of the most prominent one is the “A” , the forest, and the meteor. In this book we keep seeing aspects of imagery being shown in forms of symbols.
Willie Thomas Crossing the Swamp By Mary Oliver In the eloquent and vivid poem “Crossing the Swamp” by Mary Oliver, the composer correlates the endeavors of life to the skirmishes and hassles of trying to travel through a swamp. The definition of a swamp can be described as a wet tract of spongy land, often having a growth of certain types of trees and other vegetation. The aspiring writer Mary Oliver compares this marshland to the struggles of life. In this descriptive poem she uses many lucid and keen adjectives and other poetic devices to compare the two objects. In this art, Mary Oliver uses this entire poem as a metaphor to compare the struggles of escaping a thick and murky swamp to the hard knock lives of people in the world.
Faulkner Paper Faulkner echoes a resounding sound of despair through his novel As I Lay Dying by providing fear-inspiring and depressing depictions of both human nature and life itself. Despite the mastery of his literary abilities, the events and aftermath of As I Lay Dying fail to provide the "Pillars to endure and prevail," which Faulkner himself claims to be essential for a true novel, and because of this failure William Faulkner is hypocritical in his Nobel Prize speech. To begin, Faulkner provides a disturbing depiction of human nature all throughout his novel, using each characters selfishness to iterate humanities separation from itself. To explain, in his speech Faulkner praises mankind for its capability of "compassion and
“Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do at least one thing well, you’re needed by someone” says Martina Navratilova. There is a great misconception that many have learned to believe: that the disabled are less capable than the able-bodied. The short documentary "Breathing Lessons" about Mark O'Brien, a poet/writer who was confined to an Iron Lung as a result of polio, portrays a disfigured man that could mold great works of art through his mastery of the English language despite his disability. The short story "Cathedral" by Raymond Carver is about a figuratively blind man who receives the gift of sight from a literally blind man.
Caesura is used within the poem, to give a sense of inconsistency; the lack of punctuation gives this uneasy feeling, where we know that something just isn’t right. The descriptive language that is used emphasizes the sheer number of casualties, and makes the reader feel disconnected from the events being described. Dawe has offered the simile, “Telegrams tremble like leaves from a wintering tree”, to help describe the misery that we as his audience, could never fully understand. War can have devastating
He is tormented by the local children and his life is miserable, lonely and full of fear. In the poem he gets describes as 'A solitary mister' which reflects on the fact that he is isolated from the society. Similarly 'The Clown Punk' is a piteous man who is not accepted by the society because of his identity and the way he looks. In the poem the narrator describes him as a 'basket of washing' which empathises on the fact that he is not respected and made fun of. The structures of both poems have been written to convey the isolation of the characters for example the poet in T.H.I.T.P has divided the poem into seven stanzas, each consist of six lines.
“…Did they really believe that this war would end wars…it all happened again, and again, and again,” this use of rhetorical question and repetition emphasises the anti-war sentiment that both Bogle and Dawe capture. Similarly in Homecoming, it is illustrated the dehumanisation of war. “…mortuary coolness…deep-freeze…sorrowful…frozen sunset…wintering tree…bitter…grief…”through an extended metaphor, it is suggested the implications on the society from the death of thousands of loved ones; the coldness is symbolising the death, grief and struggling of society and the individual. Dehumanising effects give poets their anti-war point of view the effectively portray the bonds between the society and the
Since he had so many deaths in his life he wrote this poem to express how he sees death taking over locations that were once spectacular and are now in grieve and the absence of the liveliness. This poem shows an image of how death rises and becomes a higher power and taking away the light. The outcome of all the pain and horror that follows in deaths footprints in a city isolated by water is seen as a putrid