“In a Notebook” by James Fenton “In a Notebook,” written by James Fenton in 1982, is a poem in which Fenton describes his past and present surroundings as young soldiers from a local village set out for war. Through descriptive language and other literary devices such as imagery, Fenton highlights the destructive power of war, and how the past beauty that Fenton was once so deeply awed by is now gone, and all that is left are burnt, void cities. Fenton uses imagery in the poem to foreshadow the incoming war, and highlight the devastation that it brings. Fenton starts by saying how “there was river overhung with trees,” which creates an image of these long, beautifully weeping willow trees that used to hang over a soothing river. It has an
“All of life is an act of letting go, but what hurts the most is not taking a moment to say goodbye.” As Martel written, we all have our moments of happiness and gloom as well and nothing is there to protect us, just like nothing was there to protect them while out at sea. Similar to other Naturalist works, "The Open Boat" scrutinizes the
He sparsely uses punctuation, which creates the illusion that the rules and conventions of writing do not matter in this post-apocalyptic world; it creates a sense of disorder as the importance of the ‘normal’ means nothing anymore. McCarthy doesn’t use apostrophes in his writing; ‘dont’ is the word he uses in place of ‘don’t.’ This relates to the theme of disorder as McCarthy is revealing to the reader that it is such a ‘barren, silent, godless’ world there is no hope for the previous code returning anytime soon. McCarthy’s lack of punctuation, including commas, gives his sentences a running feel: ‘He dreamt of walking in a flowering wood where birds flew before them he and the child and the sky was aching blue but he was learning how to wake himself from just such siren worlds.’ The lack of commas reflects the ‘barren’ land as there is a desolate mood to the sentences. This also reveals that McCarthy wants the character of the man to be seen as a man who is solely focused on looking after and caring for his son and information he would previously have had a care for are not important anymore. The opening of The Road quickly
Truman may have this job because it keeps him in a controlled and limited setting. His job reinforces and reflects his fears because he is unable to go anywhere. Sitting behind a desk forced to do paperwork and not being able to do anything but that. He is trapped and cannot “explore.” 3. Three specific clues that Truman’s world is an illusion is the continuous routine of all the extras on the show, people take away his father and Lauren, and before it started down pouring, the rain was only raining on him and nothing else.
The chorus of the song accurately conveys this fact, “I am in misery, there ain't no other who can comfort me. Why won't you answer me? Your silence is slowly killing me .” This misery has become Ethan’s life and at least he feels, now that Mattie is basically gone, that he is alone in this world, and that he has nobody left with whom he can converse and truly connect
At the same time, the narrator didn’t use emotional words to express his feeling but readers could understand his pain of seeing how his brother suffered after war was already beyond explaining by words. When Henry said “it was no use”, the narrator was silent as he could do nothing. In the end, Henry jumped into the river and the red convertible demised with him. The narrator described the dead scene in a peaceful and not violent way, showing to the readers that his sadness couldn’t be explained and pretended to be nothing
Both “The Soldier” and “Dulce et Decorum Est” are poems written by soldiers in World War I about the war. “The Soldier” comes from the beginning of World War I in 1914, while “Dulce et Decorum Est” comes from the end of the war in 1917. “The Soldier” portrays death in the war as bittersweet, explaining that even if the narrator dies his burial place will always have the essence of England, his home country. In contrast, “Dulce et Decorum Est” portrays the war realistically, portraying the fear and raggedness of the soldiers when trying to survive in the trenches. Both poems have many common elements but are very different.
He was self built from the ground up. Whitman was self educated, independent, intelligent, and unique in many ways. Although most of his life he was alone, he left a mark on American by his writs of poetry which were influenced by Emerson himself. He struggled through life, desperately looking for an alternative to becoming a farm boy. This in turn, led to a failure in teaching, personal failure of his newspaper, and going through a fictional writing phase.
He wanted to sleep until the day of his death. Meursault was a nihilist. I learned that nihilism is the belief that nothing really eistst and life has no meaning. I realized during interactive orals that Meursault viewed life as ‘nothing’ which is why he was so nonchalant in everything he did. Raskolnikov was an absurdist.
He states that he will live a simple life without spending time and money on things he does not need, and thus reducing his economic needs. Besides, he wants to rest spiritually, not having to follow any religions, rituals or traditions. In the text the author uses long and complex paragraphs and sentences which often makes them difficult to follow and understand. Besides, he uses allusions (Ulysses), metaphors (time is but the stream), oxymorons (bottom of the sky, pebbly with stars), irony (be thrown off the track by mosquito’s wing), hyperbole (terrible rapid and whirlpool),