This links in with the idea of fate, as fate can’t be organised or forced to follow specific rules, just like a free verse poem. The use of formal diction suggests that the speaker of this poem is a knowledgeable and wise person who knows about both the lives of the two characters talked about in the poem. The poem suggests that the speaker is excited about the two lovers meeting and thinks they are destined to be together. Throughout the poem there is a very joyful tone, which is created by the positive outlook of the speaker and also the imagery used by the poet. Due to this poem being free verse, the use of imagery is less than most other poems, however the poet still creates a scene in your mind through imagery, but also with the use of figurative language.
What does the café represent for the two of them? • The older waiter is reluctant because he is obviously living with the guilt or shame of either committing something wrong or going through something bad/wrong when he was younger. The refrain expresses that the waiter does not believe in God and is not deeply religious. The older waiter understands the need for the café because he and the old man are both lonely people, so he empathizes with him. The café represents them both.
Belonging is important when it comes to the acceptance of the society. With a sense of belonging, someone can gain an identity that they are happy with, they may choose to belong or they may choose not to. Through the verse novel “The Simple Gift” by Steven Herrick and the play “Othello” By Shakespeare show the differences of belonging and not belonging through these two texts. In the verse novel “The Simple Gift” By Steven Herrick, it first starts off with a young teenage Boy, lonely, angry, and lost and seemingly without any hope and direction. He is alone and uncertain about what life holds for him.
Cheryl Green English 114-05 Character Analysis Essay October 14, 2009 Words Walter Mitty in his Day Dreams vs. Walter Mitty in Real Life Day dreams are visionary fantasies experienced when still awake that can be of happy thoughts, desires or goals to name a few. In the short story by James Thurber “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty, day dreams help one man deal with his own mundane existence. The author chooses informal diction to give life to his protagonist character, Walter Mitty. Mitty lives a life that is stale, stagnant, boring, and the only excitement that he has is hisday dreams. In Thurber’s story there is quite a difference between, Walter Mitty in his day dreams vs. Walter Mitty in real life.
Frost indicates how life can be ruined by a simple malfunction or cease of light. Light, in the poem, however, does not symbolize sunlight, or even actual light for that matter, but rather thoughts, knowledge, and understanding. Although Frost’s poem is difficult to interpret and understand, once it is understood, the theme it conveys is obvious. Frost’s theme is that humanity is dependant on thoughts and knowledge, for, as long as we continue to think and grasp ideas, humanity will survive just fine. Frost compares a nearly never-ending play to like, for a play is a dramatic interpretation of real life and life, to humans at least, does seem nearly eternal.
Throughout the novel Paul seems to leave his emotions behind in order to survive. One of the major conflicts of the novel is Paul deciding if it's better to be more human or subdue his emotions to live. For example, in chapter nine after Paul is able to leave the hole he shared with Gerard Duval, he quickly returns to his normal self. His lack of emotion is vital to his survival because if he had been overly emotional after Duval's death he probably wouldn't have survived the shell fire in the next chapter. Even when he went home Paul had to pretend that the war wasn't so bad
Justin Egan Professor Engler EngWr 301 7-9-12 The Black River: A Literary Analysis on the Theme and Supporting Elements of Ernest Hemmingway’s Short Story “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place” The short story “A Clean, Well-Lighted Place,” written in 1933 by Ernest Hemmingway, starts in a well-lighted café late at night with two waiters talking about a recent suicide attempt made by the old man sitting in their café. Through heavy use of dialogue, key characteristics of each character are developed. The older man has a background story of his own. The younger waiter is just that; young, impatient, and arrogant. And the middle age waiter, who is the most detailed of the three, has a darker understanding of both of the other two characters.
In 1926 Hemingway published his first major novel, The Sun Also Rises, a depiction of what Stein referred to as the lost generation of young people in the 1920's. This novel not only established Hemingway as the preeminent writer of his generation, but revealed two key principles that would inform the writing of most of his career. First, he demonstrated his determination to strip language to its most essential components by omitting any word not absolutely necessary. Second, he stressed the importance of authentic experience in his work, confessing, I found the greatest difficulty, aside from knowing what you really felt, rather than what you were supposed to feel, and had been taught to feel, was to put down what really happened in action: what the actual things were which produced the emotion that you experienced. During the following decade Hemingway traveled to Spain, Africa, and Florida, gaining material for his future works through his experiences as bullfight aficionado, big game hunter, and deep-sea
However, there are also quite a few instances where awareness helps to empower a character. By the end of the story “innocence vs. awareness” becomes one of the most prevalent themes. From the first chapter till the last few pages of the book, the narrator, Jack, hosts an ongoing battle of “innocence vs. awareness” within himself. Towards the beginning of the novel Jack claims to believe in the principle “ignorance is bliss” so much as to seem nihilistic: “…after I got hold of that principle I became an idealist…If you are an idealist it does not matter what you do or what goes on around you because it isn’t real anyway.” (p. 45). In spite of his strong beliefs in the beginning of the story, Jack’s views begin to change in chapter eight after he informs Judge Irwin of the “dirt” he has on him.
Inspiration can be drawn from a variety of sources, in the first paragraph we see the writer struggle to identify content that would be of interest to the reader, implying that he was trying to connect to reader so that “we are both comforted by the honesty” hoping to drawn on real-life memories for inspiration. He then reflects on how his childhood has not proven to be a source of inspiration as his memories have been incidental and fleeting, with only snippets of moments from days