1. Why might Sonnet 18 by Francesco Petrarcha be interpreted as a poem about defeat as much as a poem about love? Use specific examples from the text in your response. Answer: In Sonnet 18, the speaker wants to describe the beauty of his love, but can’t find the words to do so. The speaker says “Then in mid-utterance the lay was lost” when he tries to think of the words to describe his love’s beauty.
Basically talking about his lost love, self-torture and about being consumed by his past. To me I think writing was Poe’s way of coping with his wife death ,because it provided him with his own insane characters with similar pain for him to deal with, as opposed to detraction from his own pain so that he could come with these much the same with his on life. The poem setting seems like it’s midnight in a dark room where the protagonist wife has past away and he is in a terrible sate of grief and misery and all he wants is to bring her back, but he can’t, and he knows this. Then with doubt and fear he locks himself up inside this dark room, filled with darkness and hopelessness in the middle of the night and while he’s alone by himself, he hears the raven who I thinks is his subconscious also death. He wants the raven to deliver Lenore to him or show him to her, but the raven only mocks him seems like and shows’ him how no one waits for you after death, you are all by yourself.
Her father disapproved of Robert Browning and eventually disinherited her; she never saw her father again when she went to Italy. Cut off from the family wealth and support, her dependence on Browning increased. Within the poem she is reinforcing her own belief that she ‘loves him’ by repeating the phrase ‘I love thee’ eight times over the fourteen lines; giving it a feeling of a pros and cons list.
Meanwhile, that happened at home, he also struggled financially and as an author whose fame was so limited. The familiar stories he wrote: “The Manuscript Found in a Bottle,” “Ligiea,” “The Haunted Palace,” “The Murders in the Rue Morgue,” “The Gold Bug,” “The Fall of the House of Usher,” and the most recognized is “The Raven,” were not discovered as often till after his death. At the age of 40, Poe was found unconscious, and was rushed to the hospital in early October. His death is unknown and unsettling but his spirit lives on in his writing of Gothic literature and
When the narrator describes a poem his wife wrote about an experience she had when the blind man touched her face, he says, “I can remember I didn’t think much of the poem” (20). As the story continues, the narrator talks about the tapes that his wife and the blind man exchanged. When he found out that one of the tapes was about him, he and his wife sat down to listen to it. As the narrator heard the blind man speak his name he exclaimed, “[…] I heard my own name in the mouth of the stranger, this blind man I didn’t even know!” (21). The narrator is clearly jealous and even resentful of his wife’s relationship with the blind
After two years of captivity he had found a new purpose for his life, to take out revenge upon the man, who had deluded his only source of human affection in his life. The physician was a person of wealth and intellect, who had married a much younger and beautiful woman, to compensate for his deformed image, and to have a companion who could offer him warmth, which he could not attain from reading all the books ever written at the time. Losing this person completely destroyed his world, which lead him to exchange one purpose of his life with another. It is true, that he had neglected his wife during their time together. But I do believe that his years in captivity made him appreciate her more, he had realized her worth.
His goal of being with her had come true, but while being out on the town Tom finds out about the affair and things are laid out on the table. An argument starts up between Tom and Gatsby on who Daisy loves with Gatsby saying, “ ‘ Your wife doesn't love you…. She never loved you. She loves me….. She never loved you, do you hear...She only married you because I was poor and she was tired of waiting for me. It was a terrible mistake, but in her heart she never loved anyone except me (137).” As he argues with Tom you can see his defiance to believe that Daisy could love another.
Raymond Carver well known famous short story writer currently diseased has become one of the most influential American writer’s after his death in 1988. Raymond Carver’s most famous stories written in every language was “Cathedral”. In the story Cathedral a husband and a wife are in disagreement of his wife’s blind friend coming over to stay the night at their home. Consumed by jealousy and judgment the husband’s sarcasm and drug use were reminders of Carver’s own life growing up. The way Carver relates to his characters comes off as unemotional and distant, concluding that his stories were reminders of his own life experiences.
It starts while he is 18 in 1785 and continues until he is 27 in 1794. John Quincy liked girls and would court them with his poems, but he was also known for his poems being hurtful towards girls (pg. 111). John Quincy was depressed and just worn out when his father, at the time was Vice President, and his mother, at the time was sick, came into town. The author will quote poems from Quincy Adam’s journal and will then try to evaluate what he was implying.
At one point at the at the end of the story, the narrator himself refers to how she is controlled by her husband and has no freedom to do what she wants." Additionally, her fathers love for literature influenced her, and years later he contacted her with a list of books he felt would be worthwhile for her to read".Clearly Gilman had a difficult life to deal with due to her father abandoning his family, and the lack of affection from her mother, which is the same feeling most women at that time felt but with their husbands. Since loneliness was a concept being drastically affected by her past at the time The Yellow Wallpaper was written, it is fair to say that it definitely had an impact on Gilman as she was writing her story.Another social influence affecting Gilman at this time was depression sine during that period lives of women was very upsetting since having no control over their lives and decisions usually would put a person under depression.Therefore, because of social factors such as loneliness and depression for the lives of women in the 1800's heavenly influenced during her writing of The Yellow Wallpaper to adopt the universal truth that a women should not be controlled by anyone, she should be able to have a freedom of