One has been orally transmitted through the ages picking up and losing stanzas and even whole verses, while the other follows a rigid blueprint. In “Sonnet 130” Shakespeare avoids the use of similes and figurative language in order to show that woman’s beauty is completely human, but it is still beautiful. As the poem is read or heard the Imagery invoked is of a rising sun, a beautiful coral reef, an early snowfall, and a woman’s whose beauty does not outshine these things, but is enhanced by their presence. The description of damasked roses perfumes brings to mind wonderful smells, and the idea of music having a more pleasing sound than a single voice is description so apt that it is all that comes to mind. A goddess walks by as the next line is read and while she is more beautiful than anything visualized up to now she is too perfect to truly desire.
With Laura being as fragile, the candle symbolizes her hopes and dreams that are which snuffed out from society. Throughout the play, Williams also uses candle light imagery to describe Laura and her emotions. The candle light represents hope and how it is lost, but the character who demonstrates this most is Laura. Light, in any form, brings some form of happiness to people. Laura demonstrates her happiness when she shares a tender moment with Jim.
Steinbeck has given a suitable title to the story, “The Chrysanthemums,” which relates to Elisa as chrysanthemums symbolize both Elisa and the limited scope of her life. Just like her, the flowers are unobjectionable and also unimportant; both are merely decorative and add little value to the world. Elisa is passionate and loving towards her chrysanthemums. She is smart, attractive and ambitious, but all these qualities go waste as she has limitations under which a married women lives. Henry Allen, her husband, clearly ignores her passion and care towards chrysanthemums.
While she can’t be held entirely responsible, she cannot be entirely absolved of that responsibility either. The novel opens with Clarissa heading out to buy flowers, and shortly thereafter, tossed in with a smattering of London images, she announces that she loves “life; London; this moment of June” (Woolf 4). Yet throughout the novel, Clarissa is referred to as being cold, lacking passion, a woman whose soul has died (Woolf 80, 59). Clarissa’s dearest friends, Sally Seton and Peter Walsh, consider her to be aloof and snobbish. Yet Clarissa did love Sally, and clearly, her affair with Peter was nothing if not passionate.
Symbols of the Glass Collection in the Glass Menagerie In The Glass Menagerie by Tennessee Williams, Laura is the axis around which the plot turns, and the most prominent symbol. The blue roses, the glass unicorn, and the entire glass menagerie, all in some sense represents her. The glass menagerie is an especial symbol in the play, and it mostly describes Laura’s beauty and fragility throughout the play; however, at the end of the story there is a new dimension about its meaning. She is still beautiful and fragile, but like her collection, she is no longer inviolate. Laura’s collection of glass animal figurines represents a number of facets of her personality.
For Amanda the fire escape represents where that special gentlemen will come and rescue her daughter from becoming an old maid. As the other important symbol Williams uses Laura's glass menagerie. It represents Laura's sensitive nature and weakness. She is very innocent, very much like the glass that she polishes and looks at. Breaking of the unicorn symbolizing part of the innocence Laura has lost.
By having the bird flee rather than take the crumb, Dickinson mocks the ignorance of man’s views of nature, as nature itself flees the tainted touch of mankind. The bird leaves and returns to a graceful, dignified atmosphere which is its home. In the last stanzas the bird transforms into a magnificent sight of grace, the tone follows the flow from humdrum dullness to a state of almost eerie awe. The narrator is looking up and away. The poem is by Emily Dickinson, Emily Dickinson, is said to be one of America’s greatest poets, is also well known for her unusual life of self imposed social seclusion.
The flower is everything she is and everything she is made of. Elisa has “growing hands” which in turn brings out the fertility and the rich potential that they possess. Henry does not see the beauty in the flowers like Elisa does. He does not appreciate the “ great soft blossoms shaped like a woman’s breast”(Steinbeck 240) which is the reflection of her sexually. which in turn he cannot appreciate or see the ripeness and vitality of the woman whom seems to be created in every way possible for reproduction.
Beautiful words for a beautiful flower that unfortunately did not have the chance to blossom into a little diva. The pain she felt is one feeling that is only felt by her, to understand that feeling you have to go through that same situation yourself but it’s a situation that is not wished upon anyone. In the first stanza the poet refers to the stillborn as “beautiful flower” which I completely agree upon as that is how babies whether alive or stillborn should be referred as. She uses metaphor in the first stanza, as a comparison between a stillborn and a beautiful flower. Just as how a flower has petals that are big and bold and stand out so too does she associate it with a baby that has eyes that are big and bold but no longer hold life in them.
'Do you smell that, Lulu? Mama said it's the earth back to work after the rain,’ announced Persephone, her tiny hand holding Leuce's gently swinging back and forth, back and forth. In the other a gold strand pulling a small wooden cart Hades fashioned for her, full of freshly picked flowers; blood red poppies, lilac crocus and glorious white lilies. 'Remember now, Persephone, we don't want to get mother angry by ruining our dresses. We'll play a little then back home it is... with no fuss whatsoever.'