Ramanjot Dhillon Mr. Desjardins ENG4U0-G February 12th, 2014 Deception and Truth Although humans look to love, being naive will only bring disappointment and grief. In the short story "Was it a Dream? ", Guy de Maupassant tries to implement the idea that nobody can be trusted. To begin with, the protagonist (who remains unnamed) is a man in the midst of grieving the loss of his partner. We are quickly acknowledged to the fact that the man is a very loving and caring person, and so was his wife.
Martin never got the affection from his father as a young child and that caused him to remember all the bad things. This was after he heard all the good things about his father. When his friend was going through all the loss, he gave Martin some good advice, “that if I had anything to work out with my parents, I should do it now, because one day that opportunity would be over.” So Martin starts getting close with his parents and once his father was on his death bed, he finally said those three magic words “I Love You.” He was able to get closure; Martin knew his father loved him, his family and that his father was proud of him. Use Concrete Language to Create Clear Visual Images of the Setting and Characters: Form Martin’s description of memories he had of his father, I could picture each event as I read them. I could see his father handing Martin the keys to the 1957 Chevy or his father being at the tumbling contest, and I would try to picture their reactions of the situation.
The men in both poems truly loved their women in the beginning, but by the end they had become obsessive, drove themselves to insanity, and slept next to the dead bodies of their lovers. God and the Angels played a role in the speakers mind, but in dissimilar ways, and both authors used some personification, one with the storm, while the other with the sea. Ultimately, love, true love, can drive you mad. The speaker in “Annabel Lee” describes his love for her as strong and powerful. He says “But we loved with a love that was more than love.” Their age had no determination on how much they loved each other; “But our love it was stronger by far than the love of those who were older than we.” In Porphyria’s Lover, the speaker describes their love more indirectly by saying she was “murmuring how she loved me.” This is very romantic, though she is still hesitant and can’t say it directly.
They do not ever want to show fear. Even after the war, the men still carry the grief of the war. Tim O’Brien carries the image of the young man that he killed, and it haunts him every day. Jimmy Cross tells Tim that he still has no forgiven himself about Ted Lavenders death. “At one point, I remember, we paused over a picture of Ted Lavender, and after a while Jimmy rubbed his eyes and said he’d never forgiven himself for Lavender’s death.
Harmonium and Nettles Harmonium and Nettles both highlight the theme of memory. As they both are looking back over past memories that are painful, the poems feature the feelings of being helpless in stopping the hurt that was caused. The writer in Harmonium feels remorse for the things he hadn’t said to his father as Armitage states “then mouth in reply some shallow sorry phrase or word too starved of breath to make itself heard”. The writer in Nettles is protective of the recurring threat to his child that he can’t destroy. “rain had called up tall recruits behind the shed,” this quote shows the father cannot destroy them .They differ in the way they felt powerless however as in Nettles the father is feeling powerless because of a physical threat whereas in Harmonium it is an emotional threat of the inevibility of death and unspoken feelings that makes the writer feel powerless.
Edna St. Vincent Millay and Anne Bradstreet express both similar and different uses of literary elements such as theme, tone and style. This is made evident in the two love poems, “To My Dear and Loving Husband” by Anne Bradstreet and “Love is not all” by Edna St. Vincent Millay. The authors vividly convey the general idea of love to the audience and readers. Although both poems are similar, there are many differences between these poems as well. In Anne Bradstreet’s poem, “To My Dear and Loving Husband,” she intensifies the meaning of love by suggesting to the reader that she adores and loves her husband.
The diction of soul implies that the love she has for her husband is genuine. Browning builds further on the spiritual realm of her love which gives the reader an impression that the love for her husband is so huge that it rises above the world: “when feeling out of sight for the ends of being and Ideal Grace” Shakespeare however, goes on to further on his exploration of love indicating that love is and “ever fixed mark” perhaps meaning that love is forever. He then uses personification to further build on his idea that love can endure everything saying that love “looks on tempests and is never
The boy relates his feelings to death and how he feels lost, even though he is not dying. The feeling of heartbreak for the first time can feel as though it is the end of the world, and this is how the young couple are feeling. They have extremely different points of view than the speaker. The speaker in the poem is an old man who does not understand why the young couple are mourning over their relationship. He also wishes he were younger and relates his thoughts about death to the actual meaning, not relationships.
There is brotherly love, love for art, and love through compassion. Ironically, the narrator learns to love art through misery as he sees his brother pour his pain and suffering into his music. “I was remembering, and it made it hard to catch my breath, that I had been there when he was born; and I had heard the first words he had ever spoken. When he started to walk, he walked from our mother straight to me. I caught him just before he fell when he took the first steps he ever took in this world.” (5) It is this greater than sibling connection between the narrator and Sonny which causes the narrator to care for Sonny almost like a father.
Unfortunately, Doodle was no match for his brother’s aggressive and selfish actions. In the end, Brother’s pride is to blame for Doodle’s untimely death. Brother’s pride was responsible for his opinion of Doodle. At times, Brother was kind and loving to Doodle, but the reader soon realizes that the narrator was mostly harsh and cruel to his brother. In the beginning of the story, Brother recounts the day Doodle was born, saying that he was a disappointment as soon as he entered the world.