The author takes the time to describe something that is generally pleasant to his eyes, giving a sense of serenity in his tone. The reader can also feel a certain feeling of intimacy between Momaday and the land since he was a Native American: “For my people, the Kiowas, it is and old landmark, and they gave it the name Rainy Mountain.” Everything Momaday sees in the land is positive. When the author uses the term “loneliness” it is only to emphasize the beauty of the land by saying it pushes your imagination
Gretel portrays the cowboy as a selfless congenial man, doing anything to make sure his livestock is healthy and safe. Gretel, in her essay, captures the setting that a cowboy must live in and how they are almost at a sexual standoff with females, not being able to connect with them on an emotional level. Gretel also tips the scale of society’s perception on manliness by stating a cowboy is not a man’s man because Cowboys are tender and caring behind their rugged and rigor skin. Gretel’s essay really lets a reader reassess what the definition of what an American cowboy is. The reason I chose Lychee as the title is because if anyone knows lychee, it’s a fruit which is very pointy and rough on the outside, yet soft and sweet on the inside, but there is a seed on the inside that people just throw away or don’t eat.
. .” (134). Yet Remarque contrasts this utterly gruesome imagery with gorgeous descriptions of nature. Remarque shows that despite being surrounded by bloodshed and limbs of his fellow soldiers, the soldiers can still recognize beauty in a world that seems to have abandoned them. For instance, after he is relieved from frontline duty, Paul gains a deep reverence for the natural world around him: “We hear the muffled rumble of the front only as very distant thunder, bumblebees droning by quite drown it.
We know Fitzgerald is describing the valley in contrast to the ‘eggs.’ We can see this from how he calls the valley “a Fantastic farm where ashes grown like wheat” the quote which is almost sarcastic reflects on how such a dead place is vibrant and appears to be full of life. This is further developed when Fitzgerald claims the ashes in the valley “take the form of houses” this tells us that it has a ghostly effect onto those who enter, compared to the eggs where it is full of people. Fitzgerald is also clever to place a reminder of how civilisation currently was at the time; this is by the sign showing the “eyes of Doctor T. J Eckleburg” this is used to remind us about the contrast of the two places in America and hints at the idea the rich are aware of the extreme contrast but are only watching it. We also see contrast from the way Fitzgerald describes Wilson’s garage by calling it “unprosperous and bare” this is a huge contrast to how Fitzgerald describes the apartment later on in the novel. While the garage is bare and empty the apartment is “crowded to the doors with a set of tapestried furniture entirely to large for it.” This quote also builds on the hypocrisy of the time as the rich are willing to over do their apartments while the poor have no choice.
Weir highlights the potential for communities to compromise different values, through his representation of the peaceful Amish community, set against the declining American society. The film commences with a panoramic view of long, lush grass with the Amish emerging from it soon after, accompanied by natural and ambient lighting. This establishes the Amish effectively as peaceful people, harmonious with nature. However, this view of the Amish is soon juxtaposed in the next scene with the English. Weir effectively uses a long shot of a train station with everyone independently travelling along with harsh and artificial lighting.
The fables shown at the play include “The Ants And The Grasshopper”, “The Fox And The Crow”, “The Two Stubborn Goats”, “The Fox And The Grapes” and “The Tortoise And The Hare”. At the end of each of these fables the audience is left with meaningful morals that will educate more than just the children that attend the production. “The Ants And The Grasshopper” is a fable about a carless grasshopper, played by Walter Bondurant, who spends his summer running and playing not worried about preparing for the barren winter season. Luckily the ants, played by Rachel Walters and Scott Lamar, show the careless grasshopper how hard work and preparation pays off in the end. Winter approaches and the ants have a hill full of food while the grasshopper is left hungry with no food in sight.
Serene, pastel images of beautiful lilies floating on lakes, pleasing to the eye and without the hint of unrest. Hughes disputes this in his poem, claiming that the very spirit that moved Monet to paint nature’s beauty moves mankind to ignore its savagery. To enforce this idea, Hughes recounts the flight of dragonflies he sees near water lilies: the pond is their “furious arena”. He makes special note of the fact that dragonflies eat meat, an idea which implies bloodshed and assault. He claims that it “bullets by or stands in space to take aim”, distinct images of war.
To be happy most people buy themselves things. They surround themselves with material objects that make them happy. Christopher McCandless, however, is the opposite; he wants to get rid of the material world. In his conquest to rid himself of the false elution of material happiness he heads to Alaska to live alone and to be a part of the wild. This theme of happiness through simplicity with nature weaves itself throughout Into the Wild.
“And then my heart with pleasure fills and dances with the daffodils”.... “Mechanical mastodons munching the red earth”: such contrasting views of our environment. Daffodils is a poem in which Wordsworth explores the great pleasure that the environment can bring you in times when you feel down. At the beginning of the poem the poet feels lonely, but once he is immersed in the natural environment his mood changes to one of cheerfulness, lightheartedness and joyousness. ‘In such a jocund company’. Not only does his mood show us his great pleasure, but the rhythm used too.
Also, the alliteration implies the imagery of a bruise, caused by a physical contact. The use of language implies the overpowering personality of nature itself is more than humans can handle. Plath uses parts of plants and animals and gives them meaning and soul for what they are worth to the speaker. The “white heather,” and “a bee’s wing” suggests the simplicity in all forms of nature, yet they are still overwhelming for the atmosphere and speaker. In a similar manner, Hughes has the ability to conceal emotion in insignificant forms of life.