To live a barren sister all your life, Chanting faint hymns to the cold fruitless moon. —Theseus' warning to Hermia of what could become of her if she doesn't agree to marry the man her father has chosen for her. (A "barren sister" is a nun.) But earthlier happy is the rose distilled Than that which withering on the virgin thorn Grows, lives, and dies in single blessedness. —Theseus' reminder to Hermia that here on earth married women are happier than unmarried ones.
In the street below a peddler was crying his wares. The notes of a distant song which some one was singing reached her faintly, and countless sparrows were twittering in the eaves. Spring signifies the start of life anew, which is what she faces now. Rain feeds new growth; the peddler is independent; and birdsong is often characterized by feelings of lightness and buoyancy. Louise’s name is only mentioned at the end of the story, when her sister Josephine begs of her to open the door to her room.
femininity against masculinity in "A White Heron" Since its first appearance in the 1886 collection A White Heron and Other Stories, the short story A White Heron has become the most favorite and often anthologized of Sarah Orne Jewett. Like most of this regionalist writer’s works, A White Heron was inspired by the people and landscapes in rural New England, where, as a little girl, she often accompanied her doctor father on his visiting patients. The story is about a nine-year-old girl who falls in love with a bird hunter but does not tell him the white heron’s place because her love of nature is much greater. In this story, the author presents a conflict between femininity and masculinity by juxtaposing Sylvia, who has a peaceful life in country, to a hunter from town, which implies her discontent with the modernization’s threat to the nature. Different from female and male which can describe animals, femininity and masculinity are personal and human.
Throughout the whole movie there are little things that show up and can be compared with the epic tale. For starters, Everett’s first name is Ulysses, that of the main character in The Odyssey and he is set off on a journey to return to his wife at home after being away for a few years in jail. On their journey they stumble upon and blind man who is singing on a manual railroad car and speaks of where they have been and where they are going. The men are later enchanted by three women they come across on a river who they refer to after as being sirens. These women enchanted them with their singing and put them to sleep.
The lines that indicate it is morning are seen when Romeo says "Look, love, what envious streaks/Do lace the severing clouds in yonder east." (Shakespeare, 3, v, 7). Juliet thought it was still nighttime because she heard a bird's song and said it was nightingale; she believes it was a nightingale because she knows every night the nightingale chirps on the pomegranate-tree. 3. Lines that predict Romeo's death is when Juliet says, "O God, I have an ill-divining soul.
When the girls start to sing the song “I’m the Sheik of Araby. Your love belongs to me. At night when your’re asleep Into your tent I’ll creep” this shows how Gatsby has the power to take back the love that Daisy has given to once and knows that it can happen once again like when they last met. When Gatsby is talking to Nick on page 152, Gatsby mentions how Tom never loved Daisy as much as he did to her. Gatsby enforces that he and Daisy should be together even thought that Daisy has moved on and let go of the past and got married and with a child.
When she first observes Pete her thoughts are clouded "Maggie perceived that here was the beau ideal of a man. Her dim thoughts were often searching for far away lands where, as God says, the little hills sing together in the morning. Under the trees of her dream-gardens there had always walked a lover." (Crane pg.19) Pete doesn't want to date Maggie per say, he just wants to sleep with her. He shows this when he says "I'm stuck on yer shape Mag."
The speaker expresses his angst in blaming the angels for his loved one’s death because “The angels, not half so happy in heaven, \ Went envying her and me” (Lines 21-22) The speaker goes on to say that even though his Annabel Lee is dead; their love is far from it. And neither the angles in heaven above, Nor the demons down under the sea, Can ever dissever my soul from the soul Of the beautiful Annabel Lee. (lines 33-36) The speaker again implies their love is strongly than any heavenly force as well as any force below and that his love is never-ending, their souls are entwined forever and can never be separated by any
January was finally nearing its closure and God had allowed the wind to breathe again, and to ripple through our summer-tortured air that hung heavily on my shoulders. I was making my way to the Carramar tribe when my ivory stallion noticed the crystal sparkles of a nearby billabong. With no denying the horse of pure satisfaction, I allowed her to canter excitingly over to her relief. I strolled without purpose through the maze of dead grass, tall enough to keep me camouflaged. My eyes wandered through the blades stretching to the sky when they settled on a young Aboriginal girl weaving a basket by a small bark hut.
When the hard clay is swept clean as a floor and the fine sand around the edge lined with tiny, irregular grooves, anyone can come and sit and look up into the elm tree and wait for the breezes that never come inside the house. Maggie will be nervous until after her sister goes: she will stand hopelessly in corners, homely and ashamed of the burn scars down her arms and legs, eyeing her sister with a mixture of envy and awe. She thinks her sister has held life always in the palm of one hand, that “no” is a word the world never learned to say to her (p279). We find very early in the story that this a simple and humble family, by the way the narrator explains in detail the front yard. A significant detail is the way the narrator slightly describes the differences between her two daughters:” Maggie will be nervous until after her sister goes: she will stand hopelessly in corners, homely and ashamed of the burn scars down her