She sought refuge in the hills of England. She was very appreciative. She thought it was wealth. She thought of the undulating land as blessed or sacred as can be seen in parenthesis in line 14, ‘As if God’s finger touched but did not press.’ As a result of Browning’s Evangelist childhood, her poems were filled with biblical allusion. Browning over-exaggerates the features and beauty of the nature of England almost making them come alive with her use of personification.
Just as she used time of day in The Violets, she uses seasons to symbolise a time in her life. Autumn symbolises her middle age. In this stanza she paints a grim picture of her innocence lost as she has become aware of age and death by saying “we stand, two friends of middle age by your parents’ grave in silence among the avenues of the dead.” The reason she has chosen to set this part of the poem at the grave of her friend’s parents because of her love for her own parents, and she deeply empathises with her friend’s loss. It is typical in her poetry that, when the present becomes too miserable, Harwood will transcend the current time and return to a happier memory. However in this poem she cannot find a happier memory and recalls a dream instead, “I dreamed once long ago, that we walked among day-bright flowers.” Her use of positive imagery such as the “day-bright flowers” lightens the mood and achieves the same effect of the memories in The Violets, as she stops thinking of death and causes the reader to forget the unhappy nature of the initial memory and be emotionally moved by the warmth of the following memory where she is “secure in my father’s arms.” In her poems The Violets, Father and Child and At Mornington Gwen Harwood demonstrates through her use of memories, her loss of innocence, the love for her parents and how quickly time moves.
Fitzgerald uses color as a literary device to express deeper meaning, emotion, and the personalities of characters. The green light that is at the end of Daisy’s dock is a sign of Gatsby’s dream: to be with her one day. “He stretched out his arms toward the dark water in a curious way, and, far as I was from him, I could have sworn he was trembling. Involuntarily I glanced seaward – and distinguished nothing except a single green light, minute and far away” (20). Jay Gatsby loves Daisy and with her, his American dream can be completed.
Victor mentions the “sublime shapes of the mountains” in the chapter before the creature kills Elizabeth on their wedding night. This chapter is interesting structurally because it uses sublime settings to restore a sense of ease to Victor, before the next chapter shatters his false sense of security. However, while the use of sublime settings is sometimes used positively to reflect the beauty and power of nature as well as Victor’s mood, it is also used by Shelley to highlight Victor’s isolation – another example of how it is impossible to say whether places or characters are more important because they both co-operate in Gothic literature. Shelley uses the sea in particular as a place that reflects Victor’s anguish, isolation and nature as a tormented Gothic protagonist. At one point Victor states, “I looked upon the sea; it was to be my grave”.
In the novel the main character, Harry Hodby and his father, Mr. Hodby have both lost someone close to them. Because of this, they can both understand how love can endure beyond the grave. Harry lost his close friend Linda in a dreadful flood. This was devastating for Harry, he loved Linda a lot and as mentioned in poem The Flood, he often goes to Pearce Swamp “…to remember Linda/ and the day of the flood…” Harry also lost his mother, Mr. Hodby’s wife. On Sundays, they go to visit her grave.
The story is about the main character and his friends who like to escape everyday life to their local hangout they call Greasy Lake. Michael Walker, an author who wrote an analysis on the short story “Greasy Lake”, explains the major change in the main character through his summary. As the story unfolds, the main character and his friends run into problems and trouble. Anywhere from fights and sexual references to drug use and cursing, Boyle does a great job conveying his theme of enlightenment through the use of plot, setting, and point of view. Throughout the reading, the use of plot to convey the theme of enlightenment is constant.
Matt loves his little sister Kate; they used to be really close. They always play together and talk to each other when they were young. Matt wants to share the experiences that Kate has been through but Kate did not understand. Kate was escaping from the real world and she believed that Matt was having a terrible life. During the Simon’s (Matt and Marie’s son) birthday party, there were some conversations between Kate, Daniel and Kate, Marie; Marie told Kate to face the truth that Matt’s life was not a failure, and he love his son, his family and the farm.
A main character trait of Victor Frankenstein and the monster is their love and connection with nature. Both characters use nature to solace them when their moods are low. One of Victor’s favorite nature retreats is the beautiful lake in Geneva. He boated out there after William’s death and said himself how the “heavenly scene restored him.” Nature is able to satisfy Victor and create a sense of happiness. There are many aspects between the monster and Victor, but in many ways, are different.
White shows his epiphany that death comes up when one least expects it through telling a tale of him and his son just enjoying memories and time at the lake just to meet death while they are relaxing. White faces the quandary of death and shares it along with the epiphany that sparked within him by using words like soggy and chill to show the fear and grogginess he felt while recalling his times at the lake with his son. Another thing one must achieve to create a plausible epiphany is an intuitive perception of the essential meaning of something. Virginia Woolf through her essay “The Death of the Moth” demonstrates this well; the narrator slowly, through watching the death of this particular moth, realizes how she truly feels about the meaning of life in general.
The imagery that Browning uses throughout the dramatic monologue contribute greatly to the understanding of the speaker’s progressive feelings. Browning opens up by personifying the “sullen wind” that “tore the elm-tops” and tried to “vex the lake.” These words most obviously connote sadness and depression. Yet, when Porphyria entered, she was able to bring warmth to the cottage from the previously “cheerless grate.” Suddenly, the speaker is happy because his lover has arrived. He uses vivid imagery when he refers to her “yellow hair” and “smooth white shoulder.” He is filled with great joy (“surprise made my heart swell”) when Porphyria tells him that she is “too weak for all her hearts endeavor to set its struggling passion free from pride.” The speaker’s attitude continues by making a significant shift from happy to somewhat psychotic while he “debated what to do.” This psychotic stage of the speaker’s overall feelings is conveyed with intense imagery. The speaker finally makes up his mind, describing it in great detail – “all her hair in one long yellow string I wound three times her little throat around and strangled her.” The imagery found in the simile “as a shut bud that holds a bee I warily oped her lids” is such a perfect picture of the speaker slowly and nervously opening her eyelids.