Just as she used time of day in The Violets, she uses seasons to symbolise a time in her life. Autumn symbolises her middle age. In this stanza she paints a grim picture of her innocence lost as she has become aware of age and death by saying “we stand, two friends of middle age by your parents’ grave in silence among the avenues of the dead.” The reason she has chosen to set this part of the poem at the grave of her friend’s parents because of her love for her own parents, and she deeply empathises with her friend’s loss. It is typical in her poetry that, when the present becomes too miserable, Harwood will transcend the current time and return to a happier memory. However in this poem she cannot find a happier memory and recalls a dream instead, “I dreamed once long ago, that we walked among day-bright flowers.” Her use of positive imagery such as the “day-bright flowers” lightens the mood and achieves the same effect of the memories in The Violets, as she stops thinking of death and causes the reader to forget the unhappy nature of the initial memory and be emotionally moved by the warmth of the following memory where she is “secure in my father’s arms.” In her poems The Violets, Father and Child and At Mornington Gwen Harwood demonstrates through her use of memories, her loss of innocence, the love for her parents and how quickly time moves.
Robin Shreve Ms. Johnson English 112 April 13, 2013 Symbolism of Two Stories Symbolism is one of many elements an author can use to aid a reader in understanding the picture being painted with words in a story. Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” and Peter Meinke’s “The Cranes” is filled with symbolism throughout these two stories. “The Story of an Hour” tell us about Mrs. Mallard who has a weak heart. She is told of her husband Mr. Mallard’s death from her sister Josephine and husband’s friend Richards. Her first feelings were of despair and then her mind begins thinking and she realizes she is free.
In As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner uses a subtle and discreet narrative manner to bring forth important pieces of information that adds to the story, and ... As I Lay Dying As I Lay Dying. William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying is a novel about how the conflicting agendas within a family tear it apart. Every ... As I Lay Dying
Literary Devices For Eighth Grade Alliteration The repetition of consonant sounds in words that are close together Susie sells seashells by the seashore. Allusion A reference to someone or something from literature, history, religion, mythology, politics, sports, or another field that many people are familiar with After Craig gave her flowers, Kris gushed to her friends, “He’s my Romeo!” Antagonist The opposing force in a work of literature Nazis in Night, the Socs in The Outsiders, Jonas’s society in The Giver Characterization The way an author reveals the personality of a character The character’s thoughts, feelings, words, appearance, behavior and other character’s comments and reactions to this character Dynamic
Research Paper English 201 August 7, 2008 The purpose of this paper is to compare and contrast the deaths described in the “Suicide Note” by Janice Mirikitani and “Out, Out”,by Robert Frost. Both poems have distinct differences and similarities. Both poems are similar in that they are written to describe the pain of death. The two poems are similar in that the author uses personification to give the reader a “feel” for what is going on, and how the series of events take place. Additionally, the two poems are similar in that in Suicide Note, the college student is trying to please her family by getting perfect grades; she is working hard at school, and feels that she is not good enough, smart enough, or pretty enough (Mirikitani, 1417); the college student is under pressure to live up to her parent’s expectations.
They are sitting together when she calls Maxim over to come and join them. This is the first time the narrator encounters Maxim de Winter. What does the narrator do to the book of poetry? The narrator rips out the inscription “Max – From Rebecca” from the book of poetry and burns it. Describe Mrs. Van Hopper Mrs. Van Hopper has “piggy eyes” and is described to be a chubby and unattractive woman.
Spring and All William Carlos Williams expresses a theme of seeing simple things differently as death approaches in his poem Spring and All. The writer does this through writing a poem full of meaning and symbolism. The speaker of the poem is an ill or elderly person who is nearing death, and at first, sees things in a very glum way. The speaker is describing barren, muddy field and a cold wind. Then the speaker describes dead leaves and weeds.
Lily and Rosaleen are invited to stay with the Boatwright sisters. One day when Lily finds August reading a book, she’s curious about what it is. Thinking to make casual conversation, she asks August, “What are you reading about?” (131). “…but boy, was I wrong.” “It’s about a girl whose mother died when she was little,” she said. Then she looked at me in a way that made my stomach tip over.
She was tired” (640). The boring and exhausting image of Evelines’ daily life is brought to the reader’s attention by the effective descriptive words used to explain the scene. The writer uses words like “invade” to describe the sun setting. This gives the reader a violated impression early on in the story of the atmosphere. Another clue is the reference to the smell of dusty cretonne; James Joyce is giving the reader the ability to understand that the girl, Eveline, notices dust on the curtains.
The effect is Harris’s death, she realizes, but what is the cause? Her journal also becomes her second confidant the one she can confide in when she needs an ear to listen, but not a mouth to comment. “Until the night that Harris died, I loved the sound of rain...Now I hate it. It makes me think of someone crying” (44). It is the result of writing in her journal that prompts the answer to Terri’s question.