The Lady of Shallot by Alfred Lord Tennyson is a poem about a lady who is seemed as almost a god to the average person. The title is significant in that the story is about the Lady of Shallot and the people’s views versus her view of herself. Everyone thinks she is perfect and basically a goddess while she feels as if she is trapped and wants to escape. She is a good-hearted person but is locked away and wants to escape. Lancelot comes to save her and she gives him her heart, which broke her image as a person.
To Kill a Mockingbird Past Paper A.) How does lee use details in this passage to present Mrs Dubose as an unpleasant character? Harper Lee focuses on Mrs Dubose’ physical appearance to reflect that is is as hideous and revolting as her manners. Lee uses simile’s ‘which inched like a glacier down the deep grooves enclosing her chin.’ to depict detestable visual imagery, which highly reflects our first impressions of the woman under the skin. The description of her ‘ soot stained mantelpiece’ is very different to that of Miss Maudie’s house.
Medusa Carol Ann Duffy was the first female poet laureate who wrote many poems, including Medusa. Medusa is written in first person narrative and as a dramatic monologue. The subject of the poem is a woman who has been turned into a Gorgon, a woman with snakes for her hair, because of her jealousy and suspicion that her husband is cheating on her. Everything that she looks upon is destroyed. In the poem, Duffy uses different themes, structures and writing techniques to convey different emotions and actions.
The speaker gives the reader an idea of how known she is by including these lines. Along with all of the unknown curiosity that may flow throughout the Lady of Shalott, a lack of experience lingers around her as well. The Lady of Shalott is trapped within this castle by a curse. The author says, “She has heard a whisper say,/A curse is on her if she stay/To look down to Camelot”
“Mad Girl’s Love Song” by Sylvia Plath dramatizes the clash between perception and reality in the mind of a speaker who has lost a love so vital to her world that she begins to question her own sanity. No formal setting is introduced, which supports a theme of mental instability as it can be inferred that the entire poem is taking place within the speaker’s mind as she struggles to determine the degree of validity that her memories of a past lover hold. The beginning stanza contains the two central ideas of the poem: perception and instability. The poem is a villanelle in iambic pentameter and these concepts are presented through the poem’s two refrains. The first refrain, “I shut my eyes and all the world drops dead”, both contrasts and shares parallel structure with the second line, “I lift my lids and all is born again” (1, 2).
She brushes aside her feelings of loneliness and relishes the thoughts of the world she creates. In her mind she becomes an integral part of the events that are transpiring. She gains an elevated sense of identity and feels no longer alone. Sadly Miss Brill’s bubble is burst by some cruel comments made about her by a young couple, and she crashes back to the reality of her lonely nondescript life. “The Yellow Wallpaper” is
The idea of Miss Brill trying to avoid loneliness is created by her vivid illusions and her visiting the park. Likewise, Mansfield utilizes “the park” as symbolic to Miss Brill because to her it’s as if the world is a stage and if she were allowed to participate in it she would show everyone how loving and compassionate she could be if given the chance. Through this symbol Miss Brill has revealed that she is in denial about being alone by creating this fantasy in her mind. Katherine Mansfield depicts Miss Brill as an isolated old woman
In the first part of the poem Tennyson describes the setting surrounding the Lady of Shalott. He uses metonymy to describe the place where she dwells, “Four grey walls, and four grey towers,” is used to represent the whole castle in which the Lady is imprisoned. The reader is aware that the lady is imprisoned and not protected because of two things. Firstly, her castle is described using words with negative connotations, “Four grey walls, and four grey towers,” because of this the reader instantly thinks of confinement rather than protection. The next point is the contrast shown between the castle and the outside world, inside the castle there is little movement, life is bland, but outside the castle there is freedom and movement, it seems
Miranda Rubio Rubio 1 Mrs. Lynsey Barry American & British Literature & Composition 11 September 2013 Mistress Hibbins Mistress Hibbins is a symbol of the hypocrisy in the puritan life-style. The Puritans believe in a simple way of life, yet they call Mistress Hibbins a witch for preferring to be in the forest. Though she is merely a “bitter-tempered (Hawthorne 113)” woman the townspeople are afraid of her. “The crowd gave way before her, and seemed to fear the touch of her garment (Hawthorne 236).” Mistress Hibbins should be considered an excellent example of a good puritan woman. She shuns the luxuries of her brother’s mansion, for the quiet comforts of Gods creation.
After finding scarce historical accounts of women from the Elizabethan era, she turns to literary descriptions of women in poetry and plays to research more about their day-to-day conditions and lifestyle. An eerie vision of the Elizabethan woman emerges: Imaginatively she is of the highest importance; practically she is completely insignificant. She pervades poetry from cover to cover; she is all but absent from history. She dominates the lives of kings and conquerers in fiction; in fact she was the slave of any boy whose parents forced a ring upon her finger. Some of the most inspired words, some