The poem “After Apple picking” explore the psychological aspects of the journey of life. It illustrates a persona who has probably spent his whole life picking apples finally tired of his work, and his struggle in attempt to analyse and reflect upon the meaning of his life. Frost conveys the idea that the persona had too much of a good thing and his sense of overwhelming exhaustion and frustration towards all the responsibilities in life though his use of sensory imagery and structure of the text. The type journey discussed in the poem is psychological one of life. The concept that devoting a whole life doing something that was once loved may end in dissatisfaction is examined.
Hughes compares a deferred dream to “ a raisin in the sun” due to the fact it was once a healthy purple fruit and is now all shriveled and unattractive to view, he uses “in the sun” to emphasize how to the dreamer feels defeat and the raisin to show further effects. Dreams can be subject to ridicule or abuse in the face of blunt opinions and pride and the only option can be to give up. The next question he states was “or fester like a sore and then run?” he compares a delayed dream to an open seeping wound. Fester is a bitter term meaning to become infected or decompose. Hughes uses this term to relate how a deferred dream can have a growing painful effect on the persons mind and soul by eating away at them causing misery, And how the irritation of losing hope and motivation can be just as daunting as a physical sore.
Fethiye market has no more than ‘seven pitiful apricots’. The use of ‘pitiful’ shows the emotion that the reader should be feeling at this point. The writer is trying to create a double the empathy for himself and the locals. Should we feel sympathy for the writer as well as the market traders? We are encouraged to do so but perhaps we should as he experiences guilt while he views ‘a scene of utter poverty’.
The very names of the characters are congested with deeper meaning. Shirley Jackson makes use of logical symbols to convey her feelings of how reluctant people are to change and the randomness of discrimination. Settings can be constructed for many reasons. They are used to give the reader information such as location and time, to construct components of the plot, characters and theme, to build the mood and also to foreshadow. In the setting of "The Lottery", the foreshadowing points the reader in a false direction, completely opposite of what is to come.
Abstract Plants compete for space, light, and nutrients both with their own species and with others in order to survive and reproduce. Alleleopathy, is any direct or indirect harmful or beneficial effects of one plant one another. This study is about the alleleopathy of a very famous plant, garlic ( Alluium Sativum). When one crushes the cloves of the garlic it releases a strong characteristic smell. The smell is produced by volatile, a chemical that evaporates into the air.
After beginning the poem with the question, “What happens to a dream deferred?” Hughes starts to answer that question in the following lines through the use of simile and diction. Lines 2-3 familiarize the metaphorical similarities of a neglected dream and a dehydrated raisin: “Does it dry up/ like a raisin in the sun?” Hughes’ use of simile to exhibit how an unfulfilled dream is similar to a raisin is fitting; much like a raisin is appeased of its life-giving liquid, so does the human spirit experience emotional undoing when an influential dream is not achieved. A raisin is a small, rather unattractive form of its past self, a once
With the use of imagery, Hughes is capable of constantly allowing the reader to put life to the words in his poem and imagine each word for themselves. This is first seen in the poem in stanza two lines two and three, when he asks: “Does is dry up”, and “Like a raisin in the sun?” The idea of a dried up raisin puts the image of a crinkly prune like raisin into the reader’s mind. This then furthers the meaning by suggesting that the inspiration and hope inside the dream, or in this analogy the raisin, is sucked away by the rays of the sun, leaving it lifeless much like the dream’s of a colored person in the 1960’s. Furthermore this leaves the reader with a strong image of deprivation which constantly runs through their mind and links them back to the idea of a ‘dried up’ dream. The constant use of imagery throughout the poem makes the reader capable of visualizing the essence of hope and how adversaries continuously make it fester away.
The portrayal of Gellburg in this scene is a complete contrast to the Gellburg exposed in scene two when he with ‘immense difficulty’ utters ‘I love you’ to Sylvia. The drastic change in Gellburg’s attitude reveals to the audience that he is finally attempting to restore damaged aspects of his and Sylvia’s marriage. Gellburg is frequently evasive or misleading about
If the audience was ever in doubt, they now realise that the outcome must be tragic. The hope and disappointment pattern of the previous scene is repeated but with more far-reaching implications: opportunities constantly arise for the whole problem to be cleared up satisfactorily, but these are always frustrated with ever more serious consequences. However, the opportunities are lost, not as a result of deliberate wickedness, but by accident. Thus, the act is indeed one of interruptions, of explanations tragically delayed. In the court Judge Danforth is trying to conduct an inquiry, but he is constantly distracted from one problem to another by chance.
Desire—The Viper in your mind By reading the short stories” A&P” and “The Lottery Ticker”, it is evident that both of them talk about the power and the negative effect of desire. In some situations, desire or emotional thoughts may impair people’s judgments, and even lead to some negative consequences. The character development in both stories highlights the power of desire and how desire makes people impetuous, They get influenced by the strong feeling deep down inside, For instance, in the story “A&P” , the main character Sammy is just a lazy and cowardly boy who complains about everything inside his mind. He rings up the purchase by mistake and “ the customer starts to give me hell ” (Updike, P134) He dislikes his job and describes the customer like“She’s one of these cash-register-watchers, a witch about fifty…” （Updike, P134）He has rebellious thoughts but he dose not dare to speak it out loud. All the things he can do is "…got her leather smoothed and her goodies into a bag” ( Updike, P135 ) For him, life in the A&P store is boring and also vulgar.