Madison Carroll Ms. Diana AP English Literature 1 November 2012 Assignment #3 Despairing Companionship “Modern Love,” a poetic sequence by George Meredith, describes a skeptical view regarding of modern love. Meredith’s devastating tone, complex similes and metaphors, and dark imagery convey a sad and regretful outlook on modern relationships. “Modern Love” is riddled with a tone of regret and heartache, making this modern love more like the opposite of love. The speaker says, “she wept with waking eyes” and her “strange low sobs” were “strangled mute.” The words describing this woman are full of grief, full of “vain regret.” Her husband is painfully aware of his wife’s sadness, through her reaction to “his hand’s light quiver by her head” and her sobs that were “dreadfully venomous to him.” The speaker’s worried tone shows that the husband wishes for his wife to be happy, but his actions of loving care and cautiousness do nothing to quell her tears. This view of modern love is hopeless, full of despair for both the man and his distraught wife.
Relationship appear to be the main cause of sorrow in both stories. Two stories works where communication and the use of accommodition come into play occur in ‘’ A Secrt Sorrow’’ by Karen Van Der Zee and ‘’ A Sorrowful Woman ‘ by Gail Godwin. The antagonists, Kai and sorrowfull huasband, try to mend there partnes despair because of the women in there, lives. Faye and the sorrowful woman struggle with personnel issues. The antagonist Kai, and sorrowful
Williams included her alcoholism to create the awareness of blanches need to escape the harsh reality of life and how out of control she is. This is also shown in scene III where she ‘cannot stand a naked light bulb’, and insists on covering it with a ‘paper lantern’, reflecting her need to hide from reality of her past. Additionally the burning need for sexual desire in the character of Blanche can very easily be interpreted as immoral lust, however, I feel that Williams has included her relentless sleeping with men as a reflection of her loneliness and insecurity. The story of her ‘degenerate’ husbands suicide is clearly the root of her problems, as ‘she didn’t just love him but worshipped the ground he walked on’. She cannot face up to reality and deal with her emotional problems in a ‘normal’ way, thus creating a sordid reputation for herself.
Budge Wilson’s “Lysandra’s Poem” demonstrated how adversity pushed Lysandra to become bitter and cynical, causing her to interpret experiences in a negative light. Budge Wilson depicts how Lysandra’s upbringing in an abusive household caused her bottle up her emotional turmoil. Lysandra’s response to conflict is demonstrated when the Elaine recounts, “If I were in the house at the time, we would race upstairs at the first hint of conflict, and I would watch this withdrawal… I sat on the bed hunched under an afghan while Lysandra read on, her lips in a thin, tight smile.” (126) The way they turned their noses at the first hint of conflict speaks to how Lysandra tried to ignore the problems in her home. However, we see that Lysandra tried to mask her true emotions when her father became abusive. The words “thin” and “tight” to describe her smile illustrated that Lysandra actually felt constricted and angry inside, despite pretending to be happy by putting on a smile.
This extract takes place after Othello has sent Desdemona away to bed, and she engages in brief but intimate conversation with her servant Emilia. Desdemona is clearly upset with the way she had been treated by Othello, and she sings the 'The Willow Song', an old song about a male lover who lies and causes his lover to weep and sigh. This exchange shows greatly the differences between women, as how Desdemona gets increasingly deluded by her love for Othello, and seems to revert into the role of the traditional woman, and how pragmatic and straight forward Emilia is. Also, it is noted that this is the only scene where its participants are all women and is thus somewhat poignant, showing the only time where these two women are able to express what they truly think and feel in a world so surrounded and controlled by men. The extract begins by Desdemona mentioning the 'song of the willow' and that she will 'sing it like poor Barbary(her mother's maid)'.
Lady Macbeth was stronger in handling the situation, expressing almost no emotions over what her husband did. As Macbeth was expressing the faults of his responsibilities, Lady Macbeth comforts him by saying, “Consider it not so deeply.” (2.2.41) and “These deeds must not be thought / After these ways; so, it will make us mad.” (2.2.44-45), reassuring Macbeth with lack of care, not to fret over what he has done. Macbeth cannot bare what he had just done, however, showing clear signs of anxiety and guilt, as he says, “Methought, I heard a voice cry, “Sleep no more! / Macbeth does murder sleep” –the innocent sleep”
After Juliet has refused to marry Paris, Lady Capulet gets very upset but even she is shocked by Lord Capulet’s reaction and shows this by saying “fie, fie, what, are you mad?” (III, iiiii, 163). This shows how Lady Capulet loves Juliet by attempting to protect her from Lord Capulet’s wrath in an admittedly feeble attempt but an attempt never the less. After Juliet’s “death” Lady Capulet seems to find new stores of maternal instincts while weeping for her. This feeling is supported by the predominant theme of Cat’s in the Cradle by Harry Chapin which is regret for years not better spent with sons or daughters. As the tragedy progressed Lady Capulet became closer to her daughter in how much she cared for
The exceptions to the moral wrongness of cheating are based on the circumstances surrounding the individual and not on the particular consequences. Dmitry and Anna are both married to different people that they are not in love with or no longer in love with leaving them both in a marriage with no intimacy. When the person you are cheating with is also in a situation where they are miserable in their current relationship it develops a strong reason for adultery to be justified. At the beginning of the story it may have seemed Anna was engaging in an illicit relationship with Gurov for no real reason, until the end of the story when she realizes herself that Gurov “was her husband truly–they were truly married, here in this room–they had been married haphazardly and accidentally for a long time”(Oates 460). The circumstances that surrounded Anna’s adultery lead her to the conclusion that her husband made her unhappy and she did not love him but there was no way she could be with the one she loved,
The phrase ‘heart fit to break’ links to the iambic tetrameter breaking as the speaker’s heart is breaking, and so does the pattern. Form is used to tell the story of ‘Porphyria’s Lover’ as the rhyme scheme shows the instability of both their relationship, and the lover’s apparent lack of sanity, whilst the iambic tetrameter shows that Porphyria’s lover is heartbroken because of this. The structure of the poem is another useful aspect that Browning uses to tell the story. ‘Porphyria’s Lover’ has been written in one long stanza, rather than in lots of stanzas. This not only builds up the excitement in the reader, but also builds tension as to what the lover will do and when.
Phelps was crying,” then Mrs. Bowles angrily said, “… I always said poetry and tears, poetry and suicide and crying and awful feelings, poetry and sickness; all that mush!” (101). Just reading one thing, one poem caused distress. The poem made them think about something real. It makes people think and feel, instead of just watching something like the televisor. It caused anger, and sadness.