Whitney Comp 2 31 March 2012 Explication of “The Raven” “The Raven” is a poem written by Edgar Allan Poe in the mid 1800s. The poem was written about a man having difficulties dealing with the death of his lover, Lenore. “The Raven”, is a mysterious poem that has a cold setting, symbols, auditory imagery, unusual rhyming style, and a calm but weird mood. Through the eighteen stanzas, the first stanza sets the scene. It is a late December night the last moment of the final month of the year, and the weather is depressing.
Wharton gives the feeling of bitterness and depression by using winter as the setting. One way she gave this feeling is when she referred to the sky as a “sky of iron.” Winter also symbolizes the cold, snow, darkness, isolation and loneliness. We learned early in the book that Ethan wanted to leave and go to a larger town, but that dream of his was never fulfilled. Because of this unfulfilled dream, Ethan gives of a depressed feeling up until he meets Mattie anyways. Death is everywhere in Starkfield.
“Nothing was moving but I could hear the trains going through and that very lonesome sound.” “I just had this image of what the town might look like in fifty or a hundred years... I just had an image of these fires up on the hill and everything being laid waste and I thought a lot about my little boy.” Cormac said. “So I wrote those two pages then that was the end of it.” “Then about four years later I was in Ireland and one morning woke up and realized it wasn’t two pages from another book it was a book and it was about that man and little boy.” The novel was awarded the James Tait Black Memorial Prize for Fiction in 2006 and 2007 Pulitzer Prize for
In the excerpt from Johnny Got His Gun, the author demonstrates the distancing relationship between a father and his son by using point of view, selection of detail and syntax. The point of view in the except is Third-Person Limited with a hint of second person in the beginning, “When you slept inside the tent it seemed always raining outside because the needles from the pine kept falling.” Turns into “Each summer they came to this place which was nine thousand feet high and covered with pine trees and dotted with lakes.” The switch helps the reader feel what the father and son experience while still holding on to the outside perspective. The Third-Person point of view helps to give off a sort of mystery to the story. We only seem to know the son’s mental anguish over telling his father that he wants to ‘hang out’ with someone else. The uses of selection of detail in the story suggests that this period of time is when things are changing.
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. Finally John was found lying on the ground with covered snow and realized he was dead already. Ann was a self, frustrated and with a weak personality. Also a wife of John who always felt loneliness once John had left her at the house during the coldest winter time. A women who had betrayed her husband because of Steven’s visiting, but felt guilty to John and realized that John was not a man she had been thinking of therefore, she regret started to regret herself.
After he has been blinded, his face is compared to “a lamp quenched, waiting to be relit” (Chapter 37). Images of ice and cold, often appearing in association with barren landscapes or seascapes, symbolize emotional desolation, loneliness, or even death. The “death-white realms” of the arctic that Bewick describes in his History of British Birds parallel Jane’s physical and spiritual isolation at Gateshead (Chapter 1). Lowood’s freezing temperatures—for example, the frozen pitchers of water that greet the girls each morning—mirror Jane’s sense of psychological exile. After the interrupted wedding to Rochester, Jane describes her state of mind: “A Christmas frost had come at mid-summer: a white December storm had whirled over June; ice glazed the ripe apples, drifts crushed the blowing roses; on hay-field and corn-field lay a frozen shroud .
Poe’s description of the setting as a “bleak December” (l. 7) day tells the reader of his loneliness. Winter symbolizes the darkness, the loneliness, and the gloominess Poe felt. The end of the year marked the time to celebrate holidays with family and friends. Poe chooses this time of the year to show the reader that the narrator has absolutely no one with whom to share his holidays. The most important symbol used in the story is the raven.
The last line is quite literal, he means after being alone all winter, when summer comes, he will come back to the world and potentially release his new music. Vernon’s lyrics are plentiful in imagery, mostly metaphors. The first two lines, 'Sold my cold knot A heavy stone' Says that Vernon left behind his heavy burden of depression. 'Sold my red horse for a venture home' Vernon sold his red car or other mode of transportation as he did not have enough the money to survive three months in his cabin. 'Colour the era, Film it, it's historical' Vernon feels that he will make musical history which may change the year
The Life Changing Poem “Fifteen” by William Stafford As teenagers, we all have had times where we were put into situations that resulted in an impetuous decision. “Fifteen” is part of the fourth book of Stafford’s poems, The Rescued Year, published in 1966. Many of the poems in Stafford’s collection are dramas of the human past which attempt to recapture an event or to confront one that has vanished (“Answers” par. 1) Most of his poems are set in the landscape of the American West. “Fifteen” is generally considered one of the finest poems in the collection and shows Stafford’s simple narrative style.
It has been suggested that, in writing A Christmas Carol, Charles Dickens was being a social reformer as well as being a novelist, Explain how Dickens tried to reform Victorian society through writing and publishing this novel In the story of A Christmas Carol Dickens describes Ebenezer Scrooge as living in London, a rich lonely and very mean man. His partner Marley had been dead for seven years. Dickens describes how Scrooge hated Christmas was unkind and refused to celebrate Christmas; he would not give to charity and would not join in with the Christmas spirit. London was a very dreary place with smog and a lot of poor people; it was Christmas eve and very cold with people trying to keep warm. Only rich children went to school, poor