Auden uses this imagery to physically present the cancer taking over Miss Gee’s body, personifying the cancer as the bull. Alternatively, the power and dominance of the “bull with the face of the vicar” could
This host’s life is similar to that of writer Emily Dickinson, in that they both are isolated poets who express darkness and death in a lot of their work. The poem that influences Helen the most mirrors a poem of Dickinson‘s, “A Slant of Light,” explaining the book’s title. Helen hopes she is inspiring her host with whispers of encouragement and ideas, thinking maybe that is her purpose for being here. But when the lonely poet
The poet uses tone and language methods to portray the way the child is treated. The mood for the majority of the poem is quite dreamy and we get the
Those whom I infect will burn, sweat, and bleed. I will course through their blood and when I reach their outer flesh they will not know the personification of death more so than in the speckled monster which seeks to kill them. Once I run my course, my image will forever be painted on the faces and in the souls of the survivors. Only after infection and survival will they be spared the next time we meet. The Speckled Monster by Jennifer Lee Carrell is a tale of civilization's struggle with the devastating epidemic of smallpox.
The first refrain, “I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead”, both contrasts and shares parallel structure with the second line, “I lift my lids and all is born again” (1, 2). By purposefully creating a structural contradiction, Plath draws focus to both a theme in the poem and a view of her own: people see things not as they are, but as the people themselves are, the world is a reflection of the person observing it (Buckley). This obscurity in reality is what creates the conflict for the speaker. The second refrain, “I think I made you up inside my head”, brings instability and self-doubt into the poem as the speaker questions if the one she loved so much, the one who still gives her so much pain, ever existed to begin with. The fact that this line was chosen as the second refrain, reappearing at the end of many stanzas including the first, and is always surrounded by parentheses seems to indicate that it is meant as a second thought for the speaker, a doubt of sanity always present and something thought only to herself, not to the “you” she is addressing, who is likely the one she
This is one of the many paintings showing Christina Olson, also being one of his later paintings during his life. The painting depicts her sitting on a chair, resting with a kitten on her chest while she sleeps. The darkness is self-evident, providing a setting to compliment the sadness that seems to be shown. With this painting, Wyeth is able to show a deeper meaning behind it, the state of Christina Olson herself, and the emotions the artist felt during the time. The dark setting and the little contrast of the painting leads me to think that Wyeth thought of Christina as a sad older woman slowly dying from polio.
LCT1 TASK 4 In the literary works “Miss Brill” by Katherine Mansfield and “The Yellow Wallpaper” by Charlotte Perkins Gilman, the literary elements of irony, point of view, and figurative language are adeptly used by the authors to reveal the social struggles of the protagonist in each story. Furthermore the authors provide insight to their own conflicts with society through their representations of the characters in their stories. In “Miss Brill” the central character is Miss Brill who struggles with her identity, loneliness, and her place in society. In “The Yellow Wallpaper” the unnamed protagonist struggles with women’s place in society, depression, and mental illness. The story “Miss Brill” portrays a middle-aged English woman residing in France.
The poem is about our perceptions of others because when you are reading the poem, you begin to mock Miss Gee’s life choices and appearance and then this is reinforced at the end of the poem when she is treated disrespectfully by the doctors and students. Auden uses a range of language that is extremely effective in revealing the story of Miss Gee. For example, in stanza three he uses the word, “serge” to explain the clothes that she is wearing which makes the reader feel she is trying to make herself look unflattering as “serge” is a heavy material that is thick and rigid. Auden also creates an interesting image of Miss Gee as he makes her appeal dull and unappealing as he describes the clothes she is wearing as “dark grey” which makes her appear as colourless and boring. He continuously makes her seem unappealing throughout the poem.
She wants to be free and be able to move around and make her own decisions. The second stanza is where the actions start to become more specific. The poet starts speaking about specific objects because those objects relate to the emotions that used to empower the narrator prior to her change and rejuvenation. “The bed is lifting out of its nightmares.” These two lines suggest that she used to live her live in a nightmarish state, and the poet is relating nightmares to a bed. The lines say that her nightmarish life is now over, hence ‘lifting out of its nightmares.” “From dark
“Leda and the Swan” alludes to the mythological story of Leda, Helen’s mother, who is raped by Zeus in the form of a great swan. The “Swan” is a symbol of mystery and passion in throughout the poem. Yeats uses startling imagery and language surrounding sexual tension in the first stanza to indicate his need to explore in order to satisfy. The imagery and language in the octave support Leda’s struggle with the rape, “great wings,” “beating still,” “dark webs” and “nape caught” represent the her resistance through the use of stressed syllables. The last line of the first stanza, “He holds her helpless breast upon his breast,” uses alliteration repeating the “h” sound making the line difficult to read much like the difficulty Leda is facing in her struggle with the rape.