Mairs uses allegorical idioms such as ”my god is not a handicapper general, in order to equalize the great race of life.” to show her sense of humor yet convince herself to be crippled and not handicapped. Additionally, Mairs uses this rhetorical structure to add clarification to her explanations. Mentioning "gods", "fates", and "viruses" in her mitigation gives it a 3-dimentional view that will allow more than just one group of society to interpret her. Nancy Mairs, keeping "cool" through her writing, refuses to
K’ung Shang-Jen introduces the simple, yet thought provoking, fan as a symbol of how the hero and heroine should live their lives. Both Hou and the Fragrant Princess reject living above their means and maintain the belief that living virtuously will lead to their desired fate. Accordingly, the two experience authentic happiness and dismiss the temptations of external encounters that test the strength of their virtue. One reoccurring burden that the two face is Juan, in his attempt to win the Fragrant Princess’s affection. Reacting to Juan’s pretentious efforts, the Fragrant says that she would rather stay true to the
- No doubt or confusion in her mind, this can be contrasted to skrzynecki doubtful expression in “migrant hostel” even though both poets explore culture. - Easy to see whom’s perceptions change and who’s stay the same. Migrant hostel This poem depicts the many hardships and emotional challenges that beset migrants struggling to adjust to new cultural environments. Changes that are physical, personal, social and economic overwhelm those who have exchanged their worlds on one side of the world for another seem foreign. Culture has been sacrificed for dreams of new opportunities and new beginnings.
Within Emily Dickinson’s poetry, she expresses her own perceptions of what is within the package of an individual’s yearning to belong in society’s game. This positions us to shape our own notions and understanding of what belonging entails with Dickinson’s insights as an initial framework. In the area of belonging, being accepted or gaining a sense of affiliation by someone or a group of people may require you to alter something about you and what you are about. Similarly, where there is an opportunity of belonging or a sense of placement there is always the possibility of loss and neglect. Within Dickinson’s poem I died for beauty.. beauty and truth underpin the essence of her message of sacrificing yourself in the name you desire to be recognised as.
This poem, “Villanelle” by Marilyn Hacker, could be interpreted in a couple ways such as the distance between couples in a relationship or the distance between societies as a whole. I believe the speaker could be speaking of the general population or perhaps a relationship that has become stale, routine, and no longer appreciates why they are together in the first place. The speaker makes the poem relatable in these ways, whether the reader might feel lost in a relationship or alone in society. In this poem, the author seems to yearn to define the distance a person or a people have between them. “Every day our bodies separate, explode torn and dazed, not understanding what we celebrate.” (1-3) I believe this means how people go on with their day to day, not realizing how they are connected to each other and don’t understand how our unity should give us reason to celebrate.
Gladys strong desire to be accepted into the white community shown through the repetition of ‘white’ and cleanliness throughout the play, showing that she isn’t able to reach a state of mind in which she feels accepted. As with Dolly she’s a lost girl trying to find her true identity and sense of belonging, but then comes to a realisation that where she is, is where she truly belongs, by the help of an Australian boy. Claude McKay’s also presents perceptions of culture belonging with his poem ‘America’, presenting his interpretations of his belonging into the country and points out his emotions as well by comparing it with motherly characteristics. Both of these texts all have one thing in common which is having two cultures trying to belong within the society, the Indigenous people and African American people confronting he same confliction of equal rights among
Josie’s involvement in Tomato Day, a distinct part of Italian culture parallels the postcard for Skrzynecki. Josie strongly believes that her family’s expectations of her prevent her from immersing herself in Australian society, “This might be where I come from, but do I really belong here? That’s the past, and you can’t let the past run your life.” The use of rhetorical question examplifies the confusion felt by Josie and helps the reader understand the overwhelming difficulty of bridging two cultures. By the end of her journey Josie has an epiphany that is similar to the ‘lone tree’ in the postcard speaking to Peter. Josie realises that her heritage is a part of who she is, “I know now that what’s important is who I feel I am”.
Mother describes how Dee would read to her and Maggie “without pity; forcing words, lies, other folks' habits, whole lives upon us two, sitting trapped and ignorant underneath her voice” (104). The mother uses the words without pity, forcing, and trapped to show that she and Maggie had no choice but to listen to Dee. The mother goes on to say that Dee would “shove us away at just the moment, like dimwits, we seemed about to understand” (Walker 104). Dee was not trying to educate or even attempt to help her mother and Maggie understand what was being read. Dee only wanted to lord over them her superior intelligence and education, therefore boosting her own ego.
Her poetry very much reflects this, and she advises the audience subtly in her writing that it is not society’s fault that she cannot live in the regular social world, but she just needs something that society doesn’t give her. She also wishes acceptance or tolerance from the world, wanting to ‘belong’ to a small degree, even though she cannot. Dickinson’s poem “this is my letter to the world” is her main body of work, being one of the only two poems that were published in her lifetime, and is one of the strongest poems that shows her connection with nature and her lack of belonging to the human world. The form of a letter to convey her message functions as a strong metaphor to show her separation already from society. Dickinson states that her ‘letter’ to the world was a one sided attempt at communication ahead of her.
Women in Gilead are not only forbidden to vote, they are forbidden to read or write, dress codes are used as a way to subjugate them; ordinary colours become symbolic of their social status while masking individuality, which is discouraged in the regime. Offred, the novel’s protagonist represents these women as a handmaid. She is not a hero. Offred's internal conflict was part of the grinding process, and this message was manifested through Offred when she decided to fight back. At times she wanted to give up and accept the will of the regime, but her memories and her humanity wouldn't let her.