She does not want the stuff; the plates, the playing cards, the bed linen – she wants their collective impression of home. She wants the intangible yet vivid impression that life has played out here, amongst these things and so defines the space. It is as though there is an invisible web of memory around her; one composed of love, life, happiness and trial, joining each of the things she packs and every corner of the space. It is like a spider’s web set between trees, broken strand at a time by the unstoppable wind of
147) | * invasive authority | Role of physical home in concept of belonging | ‘I knew that Old Bill was giving me more than these keys I held holding someone’s past in my dirty hands.’ (p.166) | * metaphor | Romantic commitment | ‘Caitlin and I lay in the huge bed with the moon a perfect light to show Caitlin the beautiful green emerald ring.’ (p. 194) | * surreal/magical colour * imagery | Homes are not permanent | ‘I know I’m only here for a while so I tread lightly with respect for this house and for Old Bill.’ (p. 200) | * metaphor | Trappings and requirements of belonging. Billy’s uncertainty about belonging in a school environment | ‘Irene went over to the Resource section, brought back a TAFE Handbook and a government study assistance. If they paid me maybe, just maybe, I’d go back to school.’ (p.201) | * low modality | Belonging reaches beyond boundaries | ‘and I looked up into the sky, the deep blue sky that Old Bill and I shared.’(p. 205) | * symbolism |
Buson chose very explicit words when he wrote his poem. When reading it, it is very easy to imagine yourself stepping on a comb laying on the floor. This poem is very to-the-point, Buson does not leave much to the imagination. These two are different in length and the details, however, both portray vivid images associated with strong emotions. “Embrace” illustrates how a person appears “normal” by appearing to be embraced in a hug, however, when the person turns, they show his true feeling of loneliness.
“The Painted Door” Vocabulary: Hoarsely: Having a vocal tone characterized by weakness of intensityand excessive breathiness Detour: a roundabout or circuitous way or course Elongating: to draw out to greater length Title: The title is significance because it tells when John has left the home, Anne starts to paint the door which they have been deciding to paint after the winter time, which is an agreement among John and Ann; also when John was found that he was already dead, his hands were discovered a bit of white paint which is considered as a good man who had been come home to paint the door, but had seen Steven and Ann were sleeping on the bed. Setting: The story is set in 1880’s during a snow storm. The story takes place at Ann’s home, it is important because it is a place where Ann paints the door and where Ann and Steven spend time together while Ann is depressing about John’s leaving. Character: John is a slow, unambitional and a silence man who never talks and does not seem to care his wife. A man who went to see his farther during a big winter storm and left his wife behind at the house and told Steven, the neighbor John liked the most, to help Ann on the farm work; also Steven was told to spend time with Ann by himself.
Squativoo Up in Sing Sing I’m sitting in my room one rainy morning while I’m reading the papers, minding my own business like a guy ought to when in busts this dame squalling and leaking out her peepers, “please Andrew the Op, You’ve gotta help a dame out” she squalls “you can’t let them throw my in the joint, a doll like me can’t survive in there you see”, now this doll is leaking and making a mess all over her face, so I comfort the doll which is my duty as a gentleman and because she wasn’t too bad of a looker anyway so I tell her to shoot the works. She tells me her name's Lisa Perry and she heard about me from the dolls around the Mile High club. She says her guy, Big Bob as they call him, was slugged yesterday night at their joint and she comes home to find him stiff on the bedroom floor with holes in his side, she knew he was a goner from when she saw him so she flew the coup out of fear of being put in it. Turns out Big Bob owed some money to a guy named Billy the Dude, now Billy the Dude is known around town, and anyone who knows Billy the Dude will tell you he’s one guy you don’t wanna get soared up. Billy the Dude runs a group of distributors who supply green and moonshine around town and hang out at their joint near the Mile High club.
I tried to peer in his room to see what happened but he came bursting out of his somehow out of breath. “Hier, here!” he cried and tossed a tub of cream to me. Completely covered in faded German words. “Uh, thank you, danke shin?” I retreated back into our room and him to his. I opened the door and was surprised to see Phoebe not on the bed, but the floor.
PV2 Thrailkills Dorm Room Not everyone gets the opportunity to live in a suitable dorm room on a military post in another country. This dorm room that Private Thrailkill, Mary-Ruth resides at, in South Korea on Camp Hovey, is one of a kind. When you walk into room two nineteen, it makes you feel as if you were at home in the states. Kind of as if it were your one bedroom apartment. You can always smell an essence from her room at the CQ desk downstairs.
Tom Dacre, the chimney sweep, was described as being “quiet” and “a-sleeping,” the two states in which a child is considered to be the most pure. This theme of innocence is echoed by the simple, almost playful, AABB rhyme scheme. Such a scheme is commonly found in nursery rhymes, the paradigm of literary purity. The ironic use of such a rhyme scheme accentuates the inhumane exploitation of the “naked and white” children. The conclusion of the poem with the antithetical juxtaposition of “cold” and “warm,” further intensifies the unnatural nature of Tom’s condition as a chimney sweep.
In this lyric one can sense the sad and lonely emotion by the tone. There is also a lot of imagery and repetition used to send a clear picture, of life without that missing individual and the difference it makes. The lyric starts off with “Shirts in the closet, shoes in the hall” (Line 1), this line pin points the image of clothes that have been untouched and shoes that have been sitting there in the hall for a while. It immediately embarks the reader’s imagination to sail. In this line the sense that something is already wrong is given.
The window green.The toilet table orange, the basin blue.The doors lilac" (From Vincent's letters to his brother regarding his painting). This makes it seem that the color choice was purposeful. Jane Flanders' poem about the painting is interesting, although I do not agree with it. She seems to concentrate more on describing the person living in the room than the room itself --"is clumsy, still friendly". The line "an old wife beat the mattress till it rose like a meringue" tells us that the room is very old fashioned but fails to actually point to the fact that instead of looking like a regular room (rectangle), it is almost skewed downward toward the onlooker.Vincent van Gogh's shows an extreme perceptive of his room which was almost unrealistic while Jane Flanders gave the room an almost boring portrayal.