Are any songs sad with hope? What type of sad is there? Reword the essay topic: Paul Kelly’s songs often tell stories of despair and misfortune but occasionally they instill optimism in the minds of both the protagonist and the listener. * If I could start today again * From little things big things grow * Ghost town Brainstorm of possible songs: * Deeper water * Adelaide * To her door * Beggar on the street of love * How to make gravy Group the ideas: The songs that are purely about sadness and contain no hope - (winter coat, love never runs on time) Sad with no hope e.g. death - (Adelaide, ghost town) Songs that sing of sad events but ultimately instill hopeful in the end- (deeper water, to her door, how to make gravy) Paragraph one: In Paul Kelly’s anthology of songs, he has created a number of mellow songs that are primarily about despairing characters and provide no sense of hope to listeners.
“Leaving alien miles unleashed and unrestrained. Watching the hurricane of writhing snow rage past the little house” (234). She was overpowered by the storm which left her planted in the freezing drifts in which Steven arrived. Now Ann can relax as there is someone to do the chores and keep her company, but in a short amount of time this changes. Steven turns into a awful man who knows he has the advantage of Ann for the night, “but in a storm like this you are not expecting john?” (236).
Imagery is anything visually descriptive that appeals to one of the senses. Throughout the first part of the poem, the sailor writes about the weather and how utterly cold it is. The sailor says his feet were “cast in icy bands, bound with frost, With frozen chains, and hardship groaned,” which helps us visually see how he is extremely cold and that he is a prisoner or in exile. Lines 15 through 19 go on even further describing “an ice cold sea,” and how his body is “hung with icicles” and “the freezing waves.” These are negative images that describe the lonely and extreme cold experienced at sea. The sailor never mentions man, but he does talk of “The death-noise of birds”, “The mewing of gulls”, and “icy feathered terns.” The sailor feels connected to the birds because they too endure the same hardships at sea.
Campbell aims at justifying the importance of myths to people. On the other hand, Bill Moyers is opposed to Campbell’s argument about myths. Campbell believes that America has lost ethics of life and should find its way back through appreciating myths. Moyers differs with Campbell’s argument and consequently states that some myths are backward and cannot be accommodated in the current modern society. Personally, I prefer Bill Moyers arguments as he constantly disagrees with Campbell mythic arguments.
this very discontent feeling would further add to the very isolation the Glaspell is trying to portray. How is anyone to feel connected when they much live with a foul personality? “He was a hard man” (Glaspell 181); “Like a raw wind that gets to the bone” (Glaspell 181). He gave his wife a dispirited sense of being. She probably felt smothered by his bleak nature and with the fact that the farmhouse was too isolated for anyone to want to visit, Mrs. Wright was left alone.
Again, this proves that the Valley is desolate because there is no happiness sprouting from it. Fitzgerald also illustrates the Valley of Ashes as a neglected place. The billboard of “the eyes of Doctor T.J. Eckleburg” and their gigantic irises represent the eyes of God, although not concretely expressed. The eyes on the billboard are described as “dimmed by…paintless days, under sun and rain, brood on over the solemn dumping ground”. The denotation of the word solemn is gloomy or somber, however the connotation of this word in our case is that of marked by the invocation of a religious sanction.
He found the lone and deserted shelter with drifted snow sprinkled inside. All was over. He started sobbing. Why did he cry? Was he a weak man?
The opening of Christmas Carol sets the mood, describes the setting and introduces many of the main characters. In A Christmas Carol Scrooge is represented from the beginning as a depressed old man being described as a “squeezing, wrenching, grasping, scraping, clutching, covetous, old sinner!” I think this is a prefect description of him in once sentence. People know Scrooge well and try to avoid him as much as possible; this suits Scrooge because he doesn’t like to interact with other people and he is not sociable in anyway. The name “Scrooge” was created by Dickens and is now in the dictionary as a person who is mean a miserly person, this is how Scrooge is in the novel a symbol of miserliness. Scrooge is a mean cheap
After a long time they get mean.” All the characters have inner conflict because of dissatisfaction with the external environment and of the people around them. This disappointment gives air to the hopes and dreams that lurks in most of the protagonists of the novella. In contrast to ‘Of mice and men’ is a gloomy tale, a parable of men traveling through a world of brutality, inhumanity and distinction. Their dreams look to be darkened, blocked by different means, pleasure seems to be impossible, and physical deformities affect and cut down their hopes. At the beginning of the novel, the scene is taken into a forest with plenty of sunshine and a tree promising that life is beautiful.
The snowball missed and caused a ripple effect on all the people of Deptford. Similarly in the novel The Manticore, David Staunton who was the son of Percy Boy Staunton feels guilt for becoming the person least wanted to be like. In both the novels the characters feel immense guilt, try to ignore this feeling, and then realize that recognition and assessment of their actions is inevitable before inner peace can be obtained. In Fifth Business Dunstan Ramsay feels guilty because the snowball that was planned to strike him instead hit Mrs. Dempster. The snowball caused her to go into premature labour.