“How about jumping?” it said, in a voice barely audible, tainted with the dust of age. It was the start of many things. A budding romance, a glorious reuniting of lovers, and a terrible curse, all leading to a very satisfactory ending for the Sonata for Harp and Bicycle. My first reason why the ending of Sonata for Harp and Bicycle was satisfactory is because all loose ends are tied well. The ghosts of two jilted lovers are reunited.
Us readers immediately pick up the love Newt has for Catherine. Near the end of the story, another aspect of irony is used which concludes that Catherine adores Newt. She adores him as he is sleeping ,but Newt is unaware. In the end of the story, Catherine and the reader know that she would have no choice but to run to Newt if he called for
Porphyria is a youngish woman with 'yellow' or blonde hair who though she doesn’t say much in the poem, has the power to block out the storm outside. She manages to change her lovers gloom demeanour into joy. She first takes quite a dominant role in the relationship with her and her lover. He sits around quite, waiting and moping around, until she arrives and lights up the mood & atmosphere in the room. I think porphyria is quite controlling and maybe a bit selfish.
Jo Shapcott’s poem is about the Great Storm and she describes the damage and chaos of the storm on her home and how something comforting like here home can be turned into a nightmare. In last stanza Jo Shapcott compares her love life and the storm together which gives a strong idea of how chaotic her life is. In the first stanza Shapcott describes literally what she is seeing and how chaotic it is: “Through the window everything was horizontal.” This description of the effects of the storm is very powerful because it creates an image of how strong the winds must have been to topple and push down objects. This description also is very eerie and must have been frightening to Shapcott since you would never expect to see every bin and shed toppled over and trees being uprooted which tells the reader of how there was no objects that were tall left creating a horizontal image. The result of this shows how the environment around you could be
Such vibrancy still flowed from her, her lips as radiant as ever, her skin as fresh as rain on the deathless earth. Now truly seeing Juliet dead, my life became pointless. But wait, thou be’t Tybalt there as well, oh cousin why. Your death was not intentionally. I then kissed Juliet good bye and
His good looks forced her to say “I’m sick of shadows” and break the curse by leaving the tower, which results to her tearful death. ‘The Lady of Shalott’ includes many magical and mysterious things, like; the curse, The Lady of Shalott herself and the fact the weather reflects the feelings of the lady of Shalott. This makes the poem super natural and it also leads onto the next question, which is the HOW part of the title- HOW did Tennyson make the atmosphere mysterious and magical? (Using the magical and mysterious things) Tennyson used some extraordinary techniques to create the poems atmosphere, the mood of the poem and vivid imagery. Such as: - Pathetic fallary and personification.
Explain the ways in which the writer develops the core character in: The darkness out there and when the wasps drowned The Darkness out there Penelope Lively begins “The darkness out there” by stereotyping Mrs Rutter as a “Dear old thing”. Later on in the story Penelope develops her into an “old bitch” this already starts to change your perception of her, but when a small flashback is revealed our first instinct of Mrs Rutter is changed, and this time for good. At the beginning of the story Mrs Rutter is referred to metaphorically as “a creamy smiling pool of a face” which suggests that she is warm towards Kerry and Sandra. Also, the word creamy also states that she is soft. As well as that the word creamy has a percussive sound associated with it which emphasizes her pleasance.
It is only when Calixta initially starts to feel discomfort and tension that the storm progresses. The storm overall is brief, just like their affair. Ironically, as soon as the affair was over and Alcee leaves, “the sun was turning the glistening green world into a palace of gems” (Chopin, “The Storm” 415). Even their actions reflect the day itself. In the beginning, there is tension, then sexual fulfillment, and ultimately happiness and satisfaction, as is reflected at the end when the sun comes out.
Is it the story behind these words that inspires us or is it simply time spent in a worthwhile and entertaining endeavor that creates a lasting memory? From my point of view, for a text to truly change one’s life, for actual change to occur, the lessons learned must be universal and the story as influential as the words are eloquent, and even then, the change is incremental and occurs book by book. A friend’s favorite line is from Dickens: "Heaven knows we need never be ashamed of our tears, for they are rain upon the blinding dust of earth, overlying our hard hearts.” When she first read these words in Great Expectations, a book she does say changed her life, she had never read anything as beautiful and true as that quote, and all other writing would be compared to it. It altered all of reading habits from that point forward. No longer would she read flat prose and pabulum and think it art.
Short Critical Essays Title: Still I Rise The poem “Still I Rise” begins with Maya Angelou enthusiastically/proudly saying in the first stanza “You may write me down in history with your bitter, twisted lies, you may trod me in the very dirt, but still, like dust, I’ll rise.”, meaning that no matter what hurtful words or rumors being spread or spit at her, their negativity will not put her down. Ms. Angelou used the word choice “trod” to express how people were stepping on her, figuratively, to lower her self esteem and boost themselves up. No matter how hard the people around her wanted her to fall, she stayed strong on her own two feet. In the second stanza “Does my sassiness upset you?Why are you beset with gloom? 'Cause I walk like I've got oil wells pumping in my living room.”The word “beset” set an angry tone to this part of the poem.