10th Pre-AP English 10 December 2012 Love, Greed, and Misery Finding “The Pearl of the World” is an admiral achievement. When a man finds something this astonishing it tends to change him for the worse. Makes this man want, and then want some more of anything he desires. John Steinbeck proves this tendency in his novel The Pearl through Kino’s poor decisions and the pearl itself, “that humans are never satisfied, that you give them one thing and they want something more” (Steinbeck 25). In John Steinbeck’s novel The Pearl, John Steinbeck uses the pearl as a symbol of love, greed, and misery to teach a principal lesson that influence peoples morals and ways of life.
Artemis has him locked away only to please her every need. If he even looks at another with lust she will abuse him in terrifying ways. While she seems to be sincerely sweet sometimes, things with Artemis never really run easily when it comes to her. She goes from hot to cold within seconds, and can take her healing hand and rip Acheron’s heart and body to pieces with a single thought. She feels as though she has ownership of him simply because he chose to give his love to her in the beginning of their relationship.
In order to emphasise Larkin’s outlooks onto time and it’s passing, one can highlight the similarities and differences between Larkin and Abse’s poetry. In ‘Love Songs In Age’, Larkin illustrates the view that time and it’s passing merely leads to many disappointments. The enjambment he uses amongst all three stanzas, “and stood/relearning” in the first and second and “more/the glare” between the second and third; this implies the suggestion that love cannot stop the passing of time and the instances that happen within it, for example the death of the woman’s husband. During the first stanza, Larkin uses imagery to create a memoir of the music sheets that the woman has found, “one marked in circles”, “and coloured”, suggesting that the joy of life, love and happiness isn’t appreciated until age shows what one has missed during their youth. We can then imply from this suggestion that Larkin feels time is only appreciated during the older years of one’s life.
The poem “The Love Song of Alfred Prufrock”, written by T.S. Elliot, is a mélange of diverse elements. Its true gestalt is the examination of the tortured psyche of a man trying and failing to confess his love due to his lack of courage. At the same time, the poem illustrates and develops the setting and personality of the character, Alfred Prufrock, throughout the entire piece, as is typical in a dramatic monologue. Elliot uses many references to other author’s pieces to relate and help the reader to visualize his words, and also different poetic formats to aid in gracefully moving along the torturous thoughts and actions of the emotionally distraught man in the poem.
Cynthia Norton Professor Emily Ryan - Radder 11 March 2012 EN 102 HY3 Spring 2012: Short Fiction Paper Assignment Ways of Revealing Character between Emily Grierson (A Rose for Emily) and Mrs. Mallard (Story of an Hour) There are many ways to reveal character when it comes to short stories. I am going to explain how characters from two stories reveal their character by the actions they present. In these two stories Mrs. Mallard and Miss Emily Grierson have many personal demons when it comes to dealing with the men in their lives. One of them is controlled and has no independence in which she longs for. The other one who is very dependent on the men in her life and then is afraid of being deserted and abandoned.
Stephanie Lasasso AP Literature and Composition Dr. Godbold Block 1A January 22, 2012 To an Inconstant One Sir Robert Ayton’s poem To an Inconstant One is a narrative poem that talks about a man who and an unfaithful lover. The poem begins by stating the fact that it was not his fault, but hers that they are no longer together because she was very hasty about making decisions about love. The rhetorical question “What reason I should be the same?” makes the reader connect with the author and forces them to ask themselves the same question that he once had to ask himself: if you changed and lost your love for me, then why can’t I do the same? This goes towards establishing a connection with the reader and making them more interested in reading the poem.
ARCHETYPAL AND MYTH CRITICISM IN EMILY DICKINSON’S ”I died for beauty, but was scarce” AND ” The brain is wider than the sky” Since ancient times, readers have debated and critiqued literature from a variety of perspectives. They were considering how values are represented in a text, evaluating a poem in terms of its form, or even looking at literature to see what it might be saying about our lives in society, our political or power relations, gender roles, or sexuality. In this essay, I will be talking about the archetypal and myth criticism and focusing on two of Emily Dickinson’s poems : ”I died for beauty, but was scarce” and ” The brain is wider than the sky”. ”Archetypal literary criticism is a type of critical theory that interprets a text by focusing on recurring myths and archetypes in the narrative, symbols, images, and character types in a literary work. [1]” An archetype is an original model or pattern from which other later copies are made, especially a character, an action, or situation that seems to represent common patterns of human life.
For that reason, Poe tells a story in which the disturbing act of father-son incest is reenacted without being uncovered to his audience became his only outlet. There are a lot of passages in this story that would tell you more than what you are actual reading. This story makes you read between the lines, interpreting what Poe is trying to tell you by making you look at this story from the young man (narrator) point of view, making you search for more and intrigues you to try to crack what is really going on. Before Poe starts on this rampage of subtext and implicit meaning, he starts the short story’s first sentence with (True! –nervous—very dreadfully nervous I had been and am; but why will you say that I am mad?)
Georgiana is a beautiful woman, whose only flaw is the human feeling of love; in which she loves her husband unconditionally and gives her all to him. Every man she comes in contact with lust over her and believes that she is amazing. She never once contemplated leaving her husband for one of the men that follow her around and treat her likes the true angel she is; in-stead she stays with her unsatisfied husband. He is unsatisfied because Georgiana is not perfect in every single way; for Georgiana has a small birthmark on her right cheek, a crimson hand as if a fairy has placed its hand upon her. Her husband, Aylmer, grows more and more annoyed with her only imperfection as every day passes.
So I’m here today charged with the task of convincing you that an English poet, writing in the 1800’s, wrote poetry so memorable and unique that it is still worthy of critical study today, over 150 years after it was composed. Now the poet is Robert Browning and the first of his poems I’ll look at is the dramatic monologue My Last Duchess. What is it that makes My Last Duchess and Porphyria’s Lover so worthy of critical study today? The answer lies in the way Browning has raised concerns about the attitudes to women so common in the Victorian patriarchal times in which he lived and of sex and violence that is still happening today. In My Last Duchess the aristocratic Duke of Ferrara, from Renaissance Italy, is speaking to an ambassador who is from another state there to arrange a marriage between the Duke and the Daughter of the master his Count.