She sought refuge in the hills of England. She was very appreciative. She thought it was wealth. She thought of the undulating land as blessed or sacred as can be seen in parenthesis in line 14, ‘As if God’s finger touched but did not press.’ As a result of Browning’s Evangelist childhood, her poems were filled with biblical allusion. Browning over-exaggerates the features and beauty of the nature of England almost making them come alive with her use of personification.
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
* Something that is almost beyond that of a common human. * Quote on pg 151- top of 1st new pargraph “world was redolent of orchids and pleasant” * Young Daisy has “artificial life” filled with the fragrence of orchids, snobs, and orchestras whose tunes portrayed the sadness of her life. * The fragrence of the orchids is pretty and soothing. * Daisy got lost in the life she was leading and was not able to wait for her true love Gatsby to return. * “dying orchids on the floor beside her bed” pg 151 quote * Daisy was in a fog and she did not know what to do without Gatsby.
Jay Gatsby loves Daisy and with her, his American dream can be completed. The words “minute” and “far away”, make it sound as though it is impossible to reach. Minute making it sound close, but then the following appreciated distance, makes it unreachable. “If it wasn’t for the mist, we could see your home across the bay” (94). The mist is covering Daisy’s house and the green light.
The shawl itself evokes the single most powerful theme of the story: the magical provision of safety, nourishment, and succor within a hostile environment. Magda is seen as special, a child to be saved from the Holocaust. She is protected by a "magic shawl" that shields her from the Nazis, and nourishes her when her mother's breasts stop providing milk for her to live off of. It is a shawl that keeps Magda quiet when she must hide during roll call and protects her from the "bad wind with pieces of black in it, that made Stella's and Rosa's eyes tear". While they all carry heavy physical loads, they also all carry heavy emotional loads of grief, terror, love, and longing.
Parsley By Rita Dove 1. The Cane Fields There is a parrot imitating spring in the palace, its feathers parsley green. Out of the swamp the cane appears to haunt us, and we cut it down. El General searches for a word; he is all the world there is. Like a parrot imitating spring, we lie down screaming as rain punches through and we come up green.
In Swallow The Air, May’s dysfunctional relationship with her family is emphasised, highlighting how this affects her sense of belonging. Winch uses imagery to highlight the positivity between May and her father “I would be the mango that breaks off the stem into my dad’s fingers…” The informal, affectionate language they use with one another shows their belonging to one another. Similarly, Mays and her mom’s relationship enhances her sense of belonging, illustrated through the metaphor of the dead stingray, “[it] “swallowed its struggle” alluding to it as “an Angel fallen, lying on its back”. Equally, a lack of affiliation is also experienced “aunty drowned out, and she faded from her safety”. Winch highlights both the positive and negative effects of relationships which affect May sense of belonging symbolised through “Paradise Parade”.
The lyrics “the stars are her only, lonely companion”, directly translates why this song gives a lonely aura. The lyrics are basically saying that snowflakes are her only friends. Also the lyrics, “send your stars and your down to me” is her directly asking for them and it seems that she finds comfort in the snowflakes. The lyrics “falling to the sleepy lands” seems as though she seeks comfort in them to help her fall asleep. To farther elaborate on the lonely concept, “I am ready to catch them in my hands”, shows that she is open to the snowflakes, it truly sees them as a companion of her
There Margaret discovers dead airmen laying on the beach. In the course of the short story Jenkins exploits a range of literary techniques such as characterisation, imagery, symbolism, setting and recurring motifs in order to explore the theme of loss of innocence. Jenkins begins the story with an emblematic event of “gathering flowers” by children from Miss Laing small Scottish school, both the flowers and children represent here innocence and beauty because of their pure and sinless nature. The activity itself indicate simple pleasure which is contrasted with Miss Laing's 'frown' expression, that makes the situation not entirely innocent and creates unsettled atmosphere. After that Jenkins introduces his main character; Margaret describing her as a
Further into “There Will Come Soft Rains” the author posts the actual poem : There will come soft rains and the smell of the ground, And swallows circling with their shimmering sound; And frogs in the pools, singing at night, And wild plum trees in tremulous white, Robins will wear their feathery fire, Whistling their whims on a low fence-wire; And not one will know of the war, not one Will care at last when it is done. Not one would mind, neither bird nor tree, If mankind perished utterly; And Spring herself, when she woke at dawn, Would scarcely know that we were gone. Personally I really like this poem by Sara Teasdale. When reading her poem you can imagine the frogs and the wild plum trees. You can hear the robin’s whistling and the smell of the ground.