“There comes John's sister. Such a dear girl as she is, and so careful of me! I must not let her find me writing”. However, John’s absence from his wife for great periods of time may say otherwise. The author cites “John is away all day, and even some nights when his cases are serious.” In the end I honestly believe that John genuinely love his wife but was clueless in helping her get better.
Precisely, because of gentle manners of Death, the initiation of love appeared in her mind. Emily lived a mostly introverted and reclusive life, and was responsible for home affairs with her sister. There is no doubt that she was desire for outside world. We can see Emily is a shy and unbending woman; she is intelligent and erudite, while her literary talent and enthusiasm would be blockaded by her father’s yard. She baked bread for her father and attended her ailing mother day by day.
The woman in the poem speaks of her life as though it were a chore and the man, her lover, is but a bother. In “Living in Sin” the speaker expresses their tone in the opening line “She had thought the studio would keep itself; no dust upon the furniture of love.” The speaker thought that moving in would be a fairytale like story for her lover and herself if they moved in together. She never guessed that she would actually have to take care of their home. It also makes the reader think that perhaps the speaker came from a wealthy or well off family where the speaker didn’t have to do the usual household chores. “Half heresy, to wish the taps less vocal, the panes relieved of grime.” The speaker is not even up to cleaning windows on her own.
AN ANALYSIS OF THE NECKLACE KIMBERLY BRAY ENGLISH 125: JOURNEY INTO LITERATURE SARAH LAHUE FEBRUARY 25, 2013 My analysis was on “The Necklace” by Guy de Maupassant. This particular story presented a woman who was desperate for a luxurious lifestyle. She is unhappy in her marriage and unhappy with her life. Her husband represents simplicity and the idea of living within a means. Mathilde obsesses over things that most other women never notice or care about.
I grow older” (Pound, line 18; 23-25). The Merchant’s Wife describes nature in a sad tone despite her seemingly happy love in her marriage. Their relationship is described that their marriage was not a matter of personal choice, and that the husband reluctantly went away on a long journey. Nevertheless she worries about her husband’s journey, “You went into Ku-to-yen, by the river of swirling eddies” (Pound, line 16). At the same way she confirms her anguish “Please let me know beforehand/And I will come out to meet you/ As far as Cho-Fu-Sa” (Pound, lines 27-29).
In the poem Praise Song For My Mother, the author develops a clear contrast between past and present which let the readers understand how significant the poet’s mother was to her. To begin with, the poet sets the past using the words ‘You were’ referring to her mother. In this way we get to know that her mother was very meaningful to Nichols and that she is not with her anymore. In the line ‘You were water to me’ this is very clear, as the importance the author’s mother had on her is compared to the essentiality water has to living, and therefore to the poet’s actuality. On the second place, the author explains using metaphors, how her mother nourished her character and how she gave her tranquility.
As such, poetry served as a tool women used to occupy their free and private times with, such as when Anne Bradstreet wrote poems professing her love for God and her husband when her husband, Simon Bradstreet, was away. In addition, it is very likely that women often wrote poems so they could later look back upon them, musing upon the differing thought process between now and then. Looking back upon previous interpretations of certain beliefs or events could have served as yet another entertaining way to consume time. Because poetry is essentially a collection of thoughts, the ability to write poetry served as an easy way to keep the brain stimulated and to keep the most boring periods of life fun, which consequently led women to write poetry in their free time as a form of entertainment. In addition to keeping themselves entertained, women wrote poetry which somewhat served as a diary, to keep track of their daily thoughts with which her social needs wanted to share but could not because of the inability to confide such private and possibly even scandalous thoughts with even her closest relatives.
She shuns the luxuries of her brother’s mansion, for the quiet comforts of Gods creation. She abstains from the town gossip circles, for time alone to allow more time for inner reflection. These characteristics should make her a good role model but instead she is simple labeled as a witch for her peculiarities. She is so misunderstood that even a so-called devil child can see her goodness “What is it, good Mistress Hibbins? (Hawthorne 237)” Mistress Hibbins is a lonely, widower that misses her husband and wants to be with him.
She describes that this new relationship was different than before; she feels that now they are closer than ever before. Aleshire points this out in the last stanza “I answer that I love him, too, but hardly knowing him, what I love is the way reserve has slipped from his feeling” (pg. 90) to describe that her father was a doctor and barely had enough time to spend with his daughter. Throughout the poem, Joan shows a message to the audience the love for her father. In Joan Aleshire’s poem, the theme she is portraying is her love for her father and that death is a toll that we all have to take.
The basis of all her stories is realistic image of the society and people, especially women with their own needs, she never doubt in the strength of women and thought that they can overcome any temptation. Her writing resembled Maupassant’s writing but had a flavor of her own style. She tried to create a real portrait of her heroines instead of blind idealization but always left some kind of understatement for the reader to make his own illations and judgment. The plot of the short story “Respectable woman” develops around the relationship of a couple Mrs. Baroda and Gaston and Gaston’s college fiend Gouvernail. The plot seems simple enough.