The story begins with two people, alone on a quiet afternoon, fishing in a lake. After discovering each other's true personalities and the clashes that ensue from their differences, "The End of Something" fatefully ends with the final separation of Nick and Marjorie. In the opening paragraph, we can almost smell the lumber. Vivid imagery cascades through the senses - the smell of moist pine and damp spring air. However, the descriptions of scenery are added in by Hemingway to suggest detriment in the future of our two lovers, Nick and Marjorie.
‘Big Two-Hearted River’, by Ernest Hemingway, focuses on how Nick, the main character of the whole story, attempts to rediscover and restore his identity as a free man through the reconnection with nature and wildness in upper Michigan. Unlike the rest stories in IN OUR TIMES, this short story never refers to any grim scenes of war or death. Yet, certain glimpsesof story still imply that the aftermath of war have profound influences on Nick. In the other words, nick like Hemingway himself is continually haunted by snarled flashbacks of his pastsuffering and grief despite the fact that he physically gets rid of the war. Nick’s soul has been removed by war, and he numb to his life.
Auden vs. Williams on Icarus Both W.H Auden and William Carlos Williams were inspired to write about an amazing masterpiece of the 16th century by Peter Brueghel, "The Fall of Icarus". Both "Musee des Beaux Arts" and "Landscape with the Fall of Icarus" are poetic representations of and expectations on the famous painting. They are both shedding light on ancient myth explaining their similar points of view. Stylistically both poems are written differently, yet both try to convey the same meaning. In the painting, the focus is on the farmer plowing his field, while in the corner one can see the legs of Icarus drowning in the sea.
The novel is set in Yorkshire which is a rural place and Wuthering Heights is referred to as ‘completely removed from the stir of society.’ Heathcliff lives in a desolate village with a small number of people; he rarely has to engage in conversation with anybody outside of Wuthering Heights, which may be a reason why he chose to live away from society. Being isolated from society us a characteristic of a Byronic hero, so setting Wuthering Heights in an isolated place is one factor Brontë uses to present Heathcliff as a Byronic hero. When Lockwood meets Heathcliff he describes him to possess dark qualities that a dark character would have. The first piece of information the reader gains about Heathcliff is that he has ‘dark black eyes.’ Due to his eyes being described as dark and black the reader gets the impression that Heathcliff is also a dark character due to the fact that dark eyes are often used to represent characters with dark souls. Mr Earnshaw also helps the reader to recollect a rather dark image of Heathcliff as he describes him as ‘as dark almost as if it came from the devil.’ The use of the word devil creates strong imagery of a deeply rooted darkness within Heathcliff, which helps the reader to develop a strong image of a dark character, which is yet another quality of a Byronic hero.
An example of this chaos is the incident at the Grangerfords. At the climax of the Shepardson-Grangerford conflict, Huck is sitting in a tree observing when he says, “I wished I hadn’t ever come ashore that night to see such things” (Twain 115). Huck is clearly appalled by the moral corruption he has witnessed between the two families and it all happens while on land. When on the river, however, everything is calm and collected. In one scene when Huck and Jim are floating on the raft Huck says, “It’s lovely to live on a raft.
For all that time, he had been trapped in a void of his own blackened sorrow where his suffering only grew. The break could also intensify the emotion and draw the reader’s eye to the word “weep”. Continuing after “The black river of himself” the poet uses multiple images to convey a sense of nature, or a compatibility with the land: The grains of his wrists is like bog oak, the ball of his heel like a basalt egg. His instep has shrunk cold as a swan’s foot or a wet swamp root. The Grauballe man takes on the image of being
Summary — Chapter 18 The narrator repeats the descriptions of the hills of Natal that open Book I: the valleys are lovely, and the grass is thick and green. Looking down upon it all is High Place, the residence of a white farmer named James Jarvis, the father of the slain Arthur Jarvis. Jarvis hopes that rain will soon fall on his dry fields. The hills of Ndotsheni below are dry and barren from over-farming, and no one knows how to solve the problem. Jarvis ponders all the possible solutions to the over-farming.
Discuss Thomas’ presentation of nature in ‘Old Man’ In the poem ‘Old Man’ by Edward Thomas we see a recurring theme of nature which can also be viewed in his other poems whilst going alongside the theme of war. We see in the first stanza that it begins with the theme of naming as the plants with strange names are remembered fondly and the phrase ‘knows it well’ that it suggests a familiarity and and wealth of memory associations which is challenged later on in the poem. It uses gentle internal rhymes such as ‘tree’, ‘rosemary’, ‘things’ and ‘clings’ which suggest a fond, conversational reminiscence, linking in with another large theme of age. The word reverse putting ‘clings’ before the negative ‘not’ encourages the reader to hold both positive and negative meanings in their mind momentarily. We are therefore given the sense of ‘clinging’ – that the speaker takes an interest in the plant for its names, and ‘clinging not’, in that they seem out of place with the plant itself.
His poem captivates his readers or listeners and sends them on a fictional road that describes how each situations outcome may be altered by the choices being made and how a conclusion will be different every time. Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” illustrates the act of choosing and dealing with life’s “speed bumps”. According to the author of Journey into Literature R.Wayne Clugston, “Robert Frost’s lyrical style and masterful use of ordinary language and rural settings made his poetry delightful. Building on delight, he engaged in ironic inquiry to give expression to complex ideas and questions that define the human spirit” (as cited in Clugston, 2010, section 2.2) “The Road Not Taken” is easily comprehended because most people experience this identical state of mind dealing with day to day issues. Is this right or wrong?
“On either side of the river lie long fields of barley and rye (1-2) this quote opens with the description of the landscape, leading up to the Lady Shalott’s duality of life and nature. Her constant flow of sadness through herself relates to the running of the river. Furthermore, “And thro the field the roads runs by” (4) a possible connection to another environment maybe to the supernatural world comes into play her life, to the outside life and the mystical side. Frustration is definitely felt in “I am half sick of shadows,” (71). Descriptions of wind straining, woods waning and bank complaining setting tones of negative connotations addressing her feelings leading up to her flight from the tower.