Before the poetic turn, everything was positive, but after the transition, everything seemed negative. An example of negativity is “I felt like crying. It wasn’t fair”. We see the ‘change for worse’ in the narrator’s negativity. the use of the poetic turn shows how the narrator is different at the beginning and at the end.
Narcissus' vanity has clearly been a curse, but as his section of the poem reaches its end he slowly is relieved of this curse when "a flower whispers my name with such slight moment" (lines 12-13). In these lines he is beginning to stop paying attention to only his own beauty and hear the soft calls of Echo. "It seems filament of air, the world becomes cloudswell",
1. Why might Sonnet 18 by Francesco Petrarcha be interpreted as a poem about defeat as much as a poem about love? Use specific examples from the text in your response. Answer: In Sonnet 18, the speaker wants to describe the beauty of his love, but can’t find the words to do so. The speaker says “Then in mid-utterance the lay was lost” when he tries to think of the words to describe his love’s beauty.
| LoveNatureColourSexuality | “He saw the flowers beat against her dress in blue waves.”Juxtaposed to “Brown”Use of pathetic fallacy – new environment, new feelings. Love etc. | Metaphor. Natural imagery used to celebrate sexuality.Alt. Crit – Feminists would say she appears weak and fragile – compared to a flower etc.Oranges –mother’s heart is like a “Brown Pebble.”Form – third person
“A Rose for Emily”: Evil that signifies Emily A rose is assumed to mean a beautiful flower characterized by prickly stems, pinnate leaves, and fragrant flowers with five petals that can range from white, yellow, often red or pink. A rose however can mean pain, sorrow, and even evil. The first sentence of the short story A Rose for Emily introduces one to Miss Emily Grierson who is referred to as a fallen Monument (206). She was a last reminder of the old south and an inherited obligation for the town. As humans we all know that what is born must die but for Miss Emily on the other hand did not believe this so much and certain symbols prove this.
Wellek described romanticism as ‘Imagination for the view of poetry, nature for the view of the world, and symbol and myth for poetic style’ (Wellek qtd. in McGann, 735). Both Wellek and George spoke of Romanticism predominantly revolving around nature and imagination, two of the elements that are clearly evident in Wordsworth’s poem, ‘‘I wandered lonely as a Cloud’’. The poem can be argued to be typically a Romantic poem; this provided that you agree with the points made by Wellek and George. If however, you agree more with McGann and Day, the poem can be argued as not a romantic poem but merely a literary piece from the ‘Romantic period’.
The story can be viewed as a criticism of the sciences and the rational, which Romantics denounce in favor of the emotional and irrational. An example throughout the story is the sinful portrayal of Doctor Rappaccini and Baglioni as manipulators and how Giovanni’s passions, love at first then rage, override his rational thinking. The setting of Hawthorne's tale correlates that of the original story. Hawthorne retains some of the setting from the original story by placing the magnificent purple plant in the garden as the Biblical equivalent to the Tree of Knowledge. Rappaccini’s thinking conflicts with the spirituality of Beatrice because he wanted to control the spirit of Beatrice that ultimately cannot be controlled.
J.D. Morris and Co. Such is the simplicity, the truth, and the loveliness of Juliet's character, that we are not at first aware of its complexity, its depth, and its variety. There is in it an intensity of passion, a singleness of purpose, an entireness, a completeness of effect, which we feel as a whole; and to attempt to analyze the impression thus conveyed at once to soul and sense, is as if while hanging over a half-blown rose, and revelling in its intoxicating perfume, we should pull it asunder, leaflet by leaflet, the better to display its bloom and fragrance. .
Most of the time, people believe that they can’t connect with anybody; that nobody understands them. But seeing the beautiful Amoret in the picture illustrated to me that even beauty has its sadness. It comforts me knowing that even something as beautiful, pure, and calming as Amoret, can relate to me and my own difficulties in life. Trouble in paradise would be a perfect phrase to describe this painting. I was originally attracted to it by the bright coloring of the flowers that Amoret was holding.
She rejects the gifts conventionally associated with Valentine’s Day, such as ‘red-rose’, ‘satin cloth’, ‘cute card’, ‘kissogram’ but by bringing a Copernican revolution with the option of ‘Onion’ as a gift which we find in the second line as “I give you an onion”. The poem commences with a negative note “not a red rose” to slash the traditional offering of rose or satin cloth on Valentine’s Day. This is indeed to portray the idea that love is not to be taken as a bed of roses always, but to accept the thorns we find underneath the roses. Love has joyful and sorrowful nature. Carol gives the image of onion to love.