Cather made the seasons the biggest connection with the life of Burden. The spring brings lovely fruit and life with it. For example "I couldn't feel so tired that I wouldn't fret about these trees when there was a dry time (340). They were on my mind like children" (340). Cather uses Antonia’s life that is steadily growing and changing, to change the way Burden see Antonia.
Spring is the season that the earth comes alive again in all its beauty. In spring the weather starts getting warmer and the days start getting longer. The landscape comes back to life the leaves on the trees start budding, flowers start blooming, the grass becomes greener, the wild life and insects who have been a sleep through the winter wake up. You can smell the wonderful aroma sent of the flowers in the air, along with fresh cut grass. Kids are outside playing and people in shorts and t-shirts.
He starts talking about the flowers and how beautiful they are, and this makes Elisa feel beautiful and valued. A stranger is noticing her “place”, her hard work. When he offers to take the chrysanthemums out of the garden, off the farm, some place to grow, she is elated. “Beautiful” (690). “Oh beautiful” (690).
“There was a touch of warmth in the autumn sunshine, and what few trees I saw, all bent a little away from the prevailing wind. Still had a few last russet and golden leaves clinging on to the ends of their branches” this is meaning that the nice autumn feeling you get from the change from summer makes it so easy to describe. Golden leaves suggest that the leaves are now changing colour because of the season change and so the leaves will eventually fall. This will have an effect on the reader because they will be able to imagine the scene and what mood it is trying to make you feel. However…further on in that paragraph it says what Arthur Kipps imagined it would have been like.
He first describes his surroundings with things such as “sunshine and great bursts of leaves growing on the trees” which convey happiness and fresh start (4). He compares this to movies, saying that it grows just as fast and he shows hope by saying that “ life was beginning over again” (4). While utilizing these particular words, the author develops a cheerful mood and a bright outlook on what may happen to Nick in his future in the West Egg. Rhetorical Analysis Chapter 4-6 Thesis: In this passage, Fitzgerald uses affectionate and admiring diction to describe Gatsby’s feelings towards Daisy. (90-91) The author sets an
In the life presented, there would be a beginning, and an end. Similar to the people and animals in his stories that would also come, and pass away. The feeling of life in the air was also shown when James Hurst, in "The Scarlet Ibis," described a graveyard flower blooming. The graveyard flower blooming was a sign of life flowing through it,
In the opening stanza, the composer clearly outlines that the poem has a carpe diem theme which is Latin for "Seize the Day." The line “Gather ye rose-buds while ye may” is a metaphor for living life to the fullest while the image of roses suggests a number of things such as being symbolic for sensuality and the fulfillment of earthly pleasures, Roses being vegetation they are tied to the cycles of nature and represent change and the unstableness of life. Like the "virgins," the roses are buds which are fresh, youthful and full of life, being youthful, like life however is challenging with many decisions to be made. The poem shows that life is short and life is such that one day one experiences joy which is suggested in the line “And this same flower that smiles today” and the next day death symbolized by the setting of the sun and the line “tomorrow will be dying”. Again this relates back to the thesis that change can happen rapidly or it could take years even
Both poems address the idea of seizing opportunity and living life to its fullest, but from different perspectives – one positive and optimistic, one negative through pessimism. The poems are similar because they both speak of love and seizing opportunity. Herrick’s first stanza begins by stating, “Gather ye rosebuds while ye may/ Old-time is still a-flying” (lines 1-2). What these lines portray is we must seize opportunity as we can because time is always moving and doesn’t slow down for anyone. Through the visual imagery of “gathering rosebuds,” the rosebuds are a symbol for purity and innocence we can draw the conclusion that the speaker is telling the virgins they are innocent and pure, but soon they will bloom and that is when life should be lived to the fullest, for example by having sex, marrying and having a family.
If you have any questions or concerns, please ask! I look forward to working with you this semester! “Climb the mountains and get their good tidings. Nature's peace will flow into you as sunshine flows into trees. The winds will blow their own freshness into you, and the storms their energy, while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.” John
Both have incorporated Pagan concepts but given them their own spin to make them more palatable to their followers. According to Buckland, (2006), Ostara, is a Pagans spring festival, celebrating the planting of seeds which, will grow into new life has similarity with Lent and Easter. Lent is a period of spiritual renewal; Ostara is the time to plant new seeds, which may be literal or spiritual “in nature.” Lent is by Easter: the death and resurrection of Jesus; Ostara is also about new life and