Since in reality- a home cannot have true feelings, you can come to the conclusion that the poet made the home feel animated by giving it human-like characteristics. The speaker personifies the empty home to highlight the emotion of loneliness that the home is feeling, and also shows its contents as objects that miss and long for their owners. When the poem mentions “it stays as it was left,” and “shaped to the comfort of the last to go as if to win them back.” it is referring to how if the last people who left the house were to return they would find it just the same as they left it. A home is occupied with objects, memories, and so much more. A home grows, develops, and changes along with the people who change with it.
Emily Dickinson explores the concept of not belonging due to a lack of connection experienced with her place in society. Dickinson’s poetry then contrasts this, by exploring her sense of belonging to her poetry and to Nature. In the poem I had been hungry all the years, the persona in the poem initially seeks a belonging with society, however she immediately rejects this belonging due to her sense of discomfort and lack of connection intuited. In the poem I died for beauty but was scarce, Dickinson explores the perception of making the deliberate decision to belong to her art and indirectly to nature. The film Pan’s labyrinth explores the sense of belonging the character Ofelia feels to a fantasy world that she has created, as a consequence of not feeling a connection to the real world.
The Village and The Crucible are similar in many ways. Being both a closed society, they bring about closed-minded behavior. Closed-mindedness is, in a sense, thinking outside ideals, opinions, and beliefs don’t apply to your position, that the very essence of your actions aren’t apart of others. Closed-mindedness runs within everybody. “Far from being restricted to a select group of individuals suffering from an improper socialization, closed-mindedness is something we all experience on a daily basis.” (Arie W. Kruglanski “The Psychology of Closed Mindedness” Psychology Press.
Devoid of identity everything on this planet would be uniform and cause the boredom of the century this will deprive the world of ever having a joy and passion for life. The texts that validate and prove my analysis that identity is the key component of life are: 1) “Portrait”, the themes of identity that portrait provides are the effect of time on identity, change of identity, and that the identity of a person is his image. 2) “Nobody Calls Me a Wog, Anymore”, the themes that this poem expresses about identity are diversity of identity, the identity’s passion for equality treatment despite of differences, and respect. 3) “Happy Endings”, written by Margaret Atwood, explores identity through freedom, choice, and destiny of and identity. 4) “Persona”, a movie by Ingmar Bergman, portrays the weakness and strengths of a person’s identity.
Isolation and Loneliness in Fahrenheit 451 In the novel Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury the theme is isolation and loneliness society that uses technology to cover up their loneliness. Through figurative language, foils, and symbolism the theme of isolation and loneliness is revealed. Many characters in the novel Fahrenheit 451 are seen as being lonely and lacking of emotion. This can be seen by Bradbury’s use of figurative language. Bradbury writes “He lay far across the room from her, on a winter island separated by an empty sea.”(Bradbury 41) The idea of isolation and loneliness is compared to a winter island.
However, she now realises that “no hand will save her”, but the poem ends in peace and acceptance, as death will be followed by eternity - “waters that bear me away forever”. The poem contrasts the unthinking impulses of childhood with the reflective appreciation of middle age. Death has been placed in perspective as only one aspect of life and memories and friendship enable people to transcend death. The poetic voice acknowledges the true value of friendship. There are images of change such as Harwood as a child, carefree and confident to a middle aged person with an aging body — “when our bones begin to wear
Lonliness vs. Solitude In this article the writer portrays solitude as a necessity in order to "steer the ship of our life." The writer also ensures we do not confuse solitude with loneliness, which is more clearly defined as, "A negative state, marked by a sense of isolation." In reviewing this article my initial thought was in agreeance. Then I asked a few simple questions. How can I attain solitude?
This is the case for Emily Dickinson and her poetry, as well as two very different texts, ‘Walking Naked’ by Alyssa Brugman and the play ‘Stolen’ by Jane Harrison. They all show the desire to belong by several individuals, and all express the same issues that connect them, even though their stories are all vastly dissimilar to each other. Emily Dickinson was born in 1830 and ever since adolescence; she felt a lack of connection with the human social world. Her unusual connection with nature however had become her outlet of her lack of belonging in society. Her poetry very much reflects this, and she advises the audience subtly in her writing that it is not society’s fault that she cannot live in the regular social world, but she just needs something that society doesn’t give her.
Farmer highlights the inner resilience of her characters as they come to realise their place in the world. In a selected passage from “A Woman in a Mirror”, readers are confronted with a nameless protagonist, a universal emblem of society’s tendency to ignore the torment of illness and death rather than face the truth. The protagonist’s underlying tendency to refuse to acquiesce to the very possible thought of “cancer of the cervix” preferring to “take risks”, “I never took risks” appears to have tailgated her apparent “solitude”. Farmer’s focus on emotional disconnection is a reiterated one, whether it be in effect of the internal isolation, such as “A man in the Laundrette” or the result of cultural displacement “Ismini” and “Pumpkin”. The protagonist’s self-pity is often stressed in her reference of time, “Time was andante” as she procrastinates her shear loneliness without addressing the common cause “Peter had died”, preferring to delve into the intrinsics of the event as the “car glided under the lorry”, rather than acquiesce to the reality of her impeding future.
At the end of the poem, it seems as though the protagonist had given up, until the “alter ego” finally came out of hiding. Harwood begins her poem with the protagonist talking about someone “who stands beside [them]”, in the dark, “nameless, indifferent”. It is described as someone, or something, that is always near them, watching their every move, yet unable to say any words or make any sounds. In lines 2-4, it seems as though the protagonist is very fearful of the shadow that is following them, as they are unable to see who it is, but can feel the eyes of the shadow on themselves. With the use of short-syllabled words, the feeling of fear is intensified, and it engages the readers, making us want to read on.