“Simply” is not a powerful enough word and because it suggests that the narrator finds it easy to deal with the pain of wishing death upon herself. “Frankly” is a definitive word, and it also conveys the feeling that the narrator is being direct and making a difficult, yet forthright statement despite the consequences of its dismal meaning. Carson stayed true to Sappho’s unusually wide spacing in between stanzas which makes the tone of the poem more concrete. The narrator is in despair and at a loss for words. She no longer wants to live, and therefore, it is hard for her to convey her feelings.
A. Explicate (meaning analyze and interpret) a single poem The poem: Resume by Dorothy Parker I chose the poem Resume by Dorothy Parker because her callousness and frank tone in this poem is amusing and although she is kind of making light of the subject of suicide, her use of satire is entertaining. This poem is short, concise and straight to the point. A lot of people can appreciate how she does not attempt to mince words; she says exactly what she means. She lists the ways one can commit suicide but you can tell the central theme of this piece is that suicide is simply not worth all the extra effort. One can tell she feels living is a lot easier than taking one’s life.
Critics have described Beatrice and Benedick as characters who defy the romantic expectation. Evaluate this and other interpretations, adding your own personal responses. In Much Ado About Nothing, the principal characters of the plot are Beatrice and Benedict (though some see Hero and Claudio as the main storyline in the play) and are poles apart it first seems. Beatrice is fiery and independent, and doesn’t live up to the Victorian stereotype that her more reserved and naïve cousin Hero does. Benedick also doesn’t sit with his stereotype either, though more so than Beatrice does.
The letters that Irene sends are often full of misinterpreted information that often causes trouble, where it is none of her business. So I think as an audience we feel pity for her, as we see how lonely and devout of purpose she is, but also she is clearly a very bitter woman so perhaps we don’t feel too sorry for her. The first line of the monologue, ‘I can’t say the service was up to scratch’, sets the tone for the rest of a Lady of Letters, with Irene moving from one disappointment and source of complaint to the next at a rapid rate. Her only link to the community that she seems to mostly despise is the letters she writes; these letters are an outlet of her frustration and fear of a community she has been almost completely isolated from. Irene doesn’t realise this isolation as she thinks she has been sent a personal letter from an opticians, when in fact it is simply generated advertising.
SaME NEGLECTED ASPECTS OF LOVE IN SAPPHO'S FR. 3I LP. MAX TREU EBLJOMHKONTOYTH, 1 Modern interpreters of Sappho's fragment 3 I in LobelPage's edition may be divided into two main groups: there are those who see in the "fjvo~ wV'YJe a personal riyal of Sappho and argue that she is jealous of the man 1), and those who reject jealousy and say that the poem expresses Sappho's love for the girl 2). Textual difficulties would seem to account for this, but added to them are certain preconceived notions concerning the nature of Sapphic love: both groups of interpreters share, basically, the same belief of old: Sappho, to put it bluntly, gives expression to her homosexual feelings. As a result the poem has never, in my opinion, been treated fairly.
The final line, which is a stanza on its own, is an exception; this underlines it and creates a sense of evil as she suggests that she wasn’t to kill him as from the Greek mythology when you look at her she will instantly turn you into stone. The first paragraph of the poem sums up the whole poem. The words ‘a suspicion, a doubt, a jealousy’ show the whole process she is going through and the emotions that she is feeling. It also goes onto talk about the curse that she has. The danger shown by upsetting Medusa is emphasised by the metaphor of "bullet tears", since tears are commonly seen as weak and fragile, but bullets are shown as cold violent and deathly.
Pride is controlled by a hate of falling below your standards. Pride does not leave room for kindness and mercy and it makes people think of "self" first and of others only if it benefits; it is unreasonable. This essay will show the role love plays in Armand and Desiree's lives and the destructive power of pride and the effect of the choices our characters make. Desiree is mostly described being soft and gentle by describing her attire. "Beautiful and gentle, affectionate, and sincere"(185).
After reading Swift’s poem, I would like to partially retract my statement. Although Swift does utilize the feminine gender as a vehicle for his social thoughts, his text is more concerned with satirizing humanity than solely attacking women. For Example, Swift uses "strephon" to criticize the idealization of love. In his investigation of the dressing room, Strephon represents the idealizing lover in an environment of realism. Many others believe that this was a flaw in many people of Swift’s time, male and female.
His attitude makes it seem like he finds women untrustworthy and weak. Throughout the play Hamlet’s treatment towards women were unkind, unfair and disrespectful. Hamlet is unkind towards Ophelia and Gertrude throughout the play. Hamlet: Ay, truly; for the power of beauty will sooner transform honesty can translate beauty into his likeness; this was sometime a paradox, but now the time gives it proof. I did love you once.
Another technique that Rossetti uses to create memorable characters is Maude Clare's repetition of 'half'; this illustrates another side to Maude Clare's seemingly arrogant character 'queen'. It conveys that she feels betrayed and rejected by her 'Lord'; 'Here's my half of the golden chain/ You wore about your neck.' Many critics believe that Maude Clare giving back Thomas' gifts along with the repetition of the plural pronoun 'we' reveal a significant factor of Thomas' character; he is fickle. Therefore, throughout the poem