Browning over-exaggerates the features and beauty of the nature of England almost making them come alive with her use of personification. The poem is very descriptive and also plays on all the five senses. She shows the sense of taste with the use of the word ‘sweeter’ in line 12, ‘ Made sweeter for the step upon the grass’ and also line 20, ‘Fed full of noises by invisible streams,’ the sense of hearing is shown using the word ‘noises.’ Browning also used the repetition to give the reader a sense of continuity. She shows that nature is evergreen and will be omnipresent in this world. This can be seen with the repetition of words like ‘the’ and ‘and’.
It can be noted that brighter, vibrant colors, appear at the beginning at the poem, and begin to deteriorate into bleaker, darker colors as the poem progresses, along with the speaking voices emotions. An example of this can be seen at the beginning of the poem ‘Spinster, in which she describes the colors of spring as “a rank wilderness of fern and disarray”, expressing the speaking voice disdain for this disorder. As the poem progresses, the woman praises winter for its orderly format, “Of white and black”. Plath is obviously attempting to portray the speakers disdain for disordered arrays of colors, and prefers the contrasting colors of both white and black.
One of the taboos found in Carter’s text ‘The Bloody Chamber’ is the taboo of virginity and female purity. In the section ‘The Company of Wolves’ we find one of the characters that represents Little Red Riding Hood just as in the traditional fairy tale who is described to have “just started her woman’s bleeding” and to be “an unbroken egg”. A clear reference to the young girls purity and intact virginity, from this we can immediately draw direct comparisons to the traditional expectations society hold of a typical young, unmarried 20th century woman. Carter cleverly uses the character of Little Red Riding Hood, a beloved childhood character that a reader can easily relate to as a child of innocence and of course purity. However, through the use of this taboo reference to virginity Carter also tackles the point of female seduction and personal desire, for example when Little Red Riding Hood is flirting with the mysterious yet charming man in the woods she “lowered her eyes and blushed” showing her own desire for him.
Krystal Lehn Text Two: Picture book: The Red Tree Authour: Shaun Tan The picture book The Red Tree, by Shaun Tan reveals how illustrations can be used as powerful tools to communicate feelings, concepts, emotions and peoples personal experiences in a non verbal form. We don’t normally associate the colour red with a tree, rather we instinctively think of bright luscious green foliage breathing with life. A red tree in a forest would stand out, it would be different, it would simply not belong. The colour red is more symbolic of warmth and passion, feelings that the girl is devoid of. The girl is cold and alone, she has lost her passion for life
Third, her hair because of the straightness, functions as a symbol of white ness; Mrs.Turner worships Janie because of her straight hair and other Caucasian characteristics. Her hair contributes to the normally white male power that she despises, which makes her disrupt traditional power relationships ( male over female, white over black) in the novel. The Pear tree and the horizon represents Janie's idealized views in nature. In the bees interaction with the pear tree flowers, Janie witnesses A perfect moment in nature, full of erotic energy, passion interaction, in a blissful harmony. She chases after this ideal view throughout the rest of the book.
Nathaniel Hawthorne has a very impressive way of using his mastery of irony to portray the truth of the characters in his remarkable novels. The Scarlet Letter, a novel taken place in sixteenth century about a young woman named Hester Prynne who wears an “A” on her chest as punishment for her adulterous actions with the minister of the town, Arthur Dimmesdale. Hawthorne uses the names of characters or their abilities to stand out from their true qualities. Puritans consider the town is what people have built up and the forest is the true goals and standards of the people. In the Scarlet Letter, Hawthorne conveys several different types of irony – not just in the characters but in the symbolism and true meanings as well.
The black and red contrast in general drawing attention and it shows the sin, represented by the red, with the rebellion, represented by the black, which helps to reveal the truth about Hester in the novel. Red also represents passion. By ending with this image of the scarlet letter on a black background, it represents the passion Hester has for her tangible representation of the truth, Pearl. Everyone has seen Pearl for she cannot be hidden, much like the scarlet letter upon Hester, and the
An analysis of the theme of loss of innocence in Robin Jenkins short story “Flowers” by Agnieszka Petula Robin Jenkins in his short story “Flowers” has created a very strong character – Margaret who dynamically carry along the main theme of destroyed innocence. The author sets his story sometime during the Second World War in the picturesque Scottish Highlands. The choice of a child as a main character is very significant as a child accurately illustrate innocence. Margaret is a dramatic and dynamic character , her rebelliousness, anger and alienation instantly wins the reader sympathy. Jenkins puts the reader 'in medias res' so the reader finds themselves right in the middle of a situation and is immediately drawn into the story's plot.
Poppies were also associated with sleep (opium being a poppy derivate) and McCrae, being a doctor, would have been conscious of this: the idea of sleeping under the poppies is revived in the last lines. * “We are the dead.”: the poem turns, surprisingly, to the dead, who are given voice by the poet. This is a powerful and emotive turn, a direct address of the living by the fallen. * “In the sky, the larks”: these birds, traditional poetic symbols of natural beauty and freedom, contrast strongly with the world below. As often, nature provides an idealized backdrop to the war that provides a contrast with man’s immoral
This embodied sin of Hester follows her wherever she travels to, just as the actual embroidered letter sticks with Hester. Just as Pearl depicts her mother's sin, she also shows her mother's resilience and emotional strength. This is equivalent to how the scarlet letter ends up being a symbol of power in the Puritan society. "The scarlet letter had the effect of the cross on a nun's bosom. It imparted to the wearer a kind of sacredness which enabled her to