Characters Narrator (persona): A man of deep sensibility who extolls a young maiden with whom he fell deeply in love. Annabel Lee: Beautiful young maiden loved by the poet. She was of noble birth, as Line 17 of Stanza 1 suggests when it says she had “highborn” relatives. Annabel Lee probably represents Poe's wife, who died at a young age. Seraphs: Members of the highest order of angels around the throne of God.
She uses this bee-to-blossom experience as symbol of an ideal, happy relationship. A relationship where each person has mutual feelings of the other, and where there is no oppression or dominance over each other. Fast forward to her marriage with Logan, she returns to Nanny in tears crying about all that she wanted was the “things sweet wid mah marriage” like when she used to “sit under the pear tree and think” (Hurston 23). The quote reveals one of the many times that the pear tree symbol appears. The relationship that she has with Logan saddens her; she wishes for the beautiful and peaceful marriage that she dreamt of having when looking at the bee and the pear blossom.
It is a relationship where someone can accept you for you, including your flaws and good qualities. Tea Cake and Janie has a stable relationship. When Janie meets Tea Cake, Janie has already begun to develop a strong, proud sense of her. Ever since the moment under the pear tree, Janie has known that she will find what she is searching for only through love. In Tea Cake she finds a creative personality who enjoys probing the world around him and respects that Janie needs to develop.
However, she feels that everything is beautiful and hopeful because she feels more happiness than sadness after she believes her husband died. Also, “She breathed a quick prayer that life might be long. It was only yesterday she had thought with a shudder that life might be long.”(p.16). This sentence is an ironic sentence. She feels that life might be long whether her husband is alive or not.
Afterwards we couldn’t get to sleep, for longing for somebody to kiss us…”(as cited in Clugston, 2010, section 8.1 para. 117). Edie uses this to tell the reader what she is really thinking regarding the pilot. This insight to how she feels about the pilot also allows the reader to know how innocent Edie is regarding relationships and attachments to men. Edie also demonstrates how strong her attachment to “Chris” by her excitement she experiences
Through the visual imagery of “gathering rosebuds,” the rosebuds are a symbol for purity and innocence we can draw the conclusion that the speaker is telling the virgins they are innocent and pure, but soon they will bloom and that is when life should be lived to the fullest, for example by having sex, marrying and having a family. He continues the first stanza by personifying a flower with the ability to smile – the bloom, and he states, “And this same flower that smiles to-day/ To-morrow will be dying” (lines 3-4). From this statement, the reader
:”what does this make me think?” (Lynn) (20) When you first meet Rose you are immediately drawn in to the talents of this beautiful woman. The songs she sang and “Hymns so sweet and mighty you expected Jesus to come down of his cross and clap”. (Bloom) Make me feel that this family is not only loving, but faithful to God. Rose is beautiful in body as well as mind and spirit. Violet is in awe of her older sister and hoping to be like her as she grows older.
“She saw a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom; the thousand sister-calyxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecstatic shiver of tree from root to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom and frothing with delight. So this was a marriage!”(10). This quote signifies Janie’s awakening as a spiritual and sexual being. Janie uses this scene that she witnessed at the age of sixteen to explain to herself what a marriage is. To Janie a marriage is about a mutual and reciprocal fulfillment that should be filled with love.
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. Her memories also serve to engage the reader and make us feel her sense of happiness, sorrow and
He filled his lungs with his mothers lullaby. ♪♫ do a good deed ♪♬ sing with the harp ♬♪ and the water fairy will bless your heart”, as he finished singing the water fairy rose up from the stream in a swirling rainbow. “I saw you here yesterday”, the fairies voice was as gentle as a babbling brook, “and I knew you needed one of my best blessings, so I sent you Rangel. I know your heart’s been aching so I put a twinkle of your mothers love in Rangel’s eyes.” The fairy said, “from now on when you look into Rangel’s eyes you will see your mothers love and you will finally find peace.” And with that the fairy disappeared leaving only a ripple in the still water of the