16/2/12 Drifters Bruce Dawe Response: The author is successful in immersing and engaging the attention of the readers. We can understand the persona's thoughts through multiple language and poetic techniques. The poem depicts the restlessness of a transient, gipsy like, rouseabout family who often 'drift' due to the fathers job. We learn about the characters and how they over come family distancing. There are subtle suggestions of uncertainty in life; (“one day soon...”), aimlessness, shiftless, feckless (“unpacked bottling-set”) and unfulfilled dreams; (“make a which Tom, make a wish”).
The second part of the theme develops throughout the text by comparing Morton's reaction to being faced with an issue by another, larger man, and by his wife. From this, the subject of taking on gender roles in society is also explored. The first section of 'Sunday in the Park' is spent setting the scene and establishing for the audience what kind of family the main characters have. The story is set in the playground area of a park, presumably somewhere in America, because of a character's choice of reading material. The playground is mostly deserted and peaceful, much to the delight of the story's leading woman (who is only ever referred to as "She").
Hester, who is overjoyed by the thought of her future with Dimmesdale, calls Pearl to Dimmesdale. As Pearl walks slowly and cautiously towards Hester and Dimmesdale, Hester becomes impatient and decides to walk over to Pearl herself. Concept: The mood during Hester and Dimmesdale’s conversation in the forest is relieved and satiated as Hester and Dimmesdale are finally able to free themselves from the sin and secret they had been hiding for years. When Hester took
Alienation in Katherine Mansfield’s “Miss Brill” In Katherine Mansfield’s short story, “Miss Brill,” we as readers are confronted with the idea that fantasizing can alienate a person from the world or society and can make us lonely. “Miss Brill” displays this alienation through her fantasies of being youthful, having companions, and being important. Miss Brill visits the park and fantasizes her entire life so much that she doesn’t notice she has grown old alone. Miss Brill always speaks to her only friend, her fur stole, so much that she hasn’t thought to make any other friends. Miss Brill fantasizes so much about being important and that ”somebody would [notice] if she [wasn’t] there” (135), that she didn’t realize what the community actually thinks of her.
Separation builds stronger relationships Long-distance relationships are defined as relationships between two partners that cannot see each other, face-to-face, on a daily or weekly basis due to separation. This type of relationship is based on trust, commitment and love. Since it often occurs in college students and military families, they will be the focus of this essay. Despite numerous goodbyes involved between the two partners, the relationship can emerge stronger from the separation due to an increase in mutual desire, the development of a deeper relationship and the freedom to pursue personal goals and ambitions. Separation in relationships is known to be difficult.
The phrase "twice shy" seems to have been taken from the age-old proverb Once bitten, twice shy, and we are consequently led to expect that the characters in the poem have had a bitter experience in the past and are now attempting to recoup. The phrase is such an appropriate expression to describe the tumultuous feelings, emotions and attitudes that run through the mind of an adolescent in love. The central idea behind the poem is simple: a girl and a boy, presumably adolescents, go out for a walk on a cool, spring evening. However, their good upbringing forces them to move cautiously, to "preserve classic decorum" and to abstain from publishing feeling. Heaney masterfully intertwines the poetic elements of time and setting to provide an accurate description of the characters' thoughts.
Is this right or wrong? Can I or can’t I? This poem is addictive because a connection with the audience has been established, and curiosity forces them to know how the speaker concluded his situation. “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood/And sorry I could not travel both/And be one traveler” (as cited in Clugston, section 2.2, para 1-3) draws a fork in a road for the audience to visualize, and the overwhelming uncertainty the takes hold of Robert Frost. He has constructed the perfect environment for an analytical thought process to occur.
A Joy that Kills – Louise's Paradox When entering into marriage, couples often have some hesitancy or reservations, many of which center on the idea of freedoms lost. Spouses are around much of the time, wake up to the same face each morning, try to accommodate the other's desires, and often are expected to justify their actions. The idea of freedoms lost (and the possible regaining of them) is a key theme in Kate Chopin's “The Story of an Hour.” Mrs. Chopin uses vivid imagery and descriptive detail to contrast the main character's rich possibilities in the absence of marriage and the drab reality of her everyday life. The nature of the main character's everyday life is not expressed as directly as in the imagery used to describe the day her husband apparently dies. One of the poignant glimpses into Louise Mallard's drab reality occurs when she retreats to her room and sinks into “a comfortable, roomy arm chair” (par.
The Imagination in Miss Brill In the short story “Miss Brill,” an old lady spends her Sunday witnessing human beings at the park. Although she is ignored by her surroundings, Miss Brill still seems to persuade herself that she is still important in that even though she is not noticed. She believes that if she was not at the park, the park attendees will still miss her. It’s obvious that she is a lonely person due to her dramatic thoughts and always trying to entertain herself through nonverbal communication between her and her own thoughts. In the beginning of the story, Miss Brill has a conflict between choosing which kind of fur she would like to wear to go to the park on an early Sunday morning.
However the failure of Hardy’s pilgrimage, similarly to Orpheus’, is inevitable, as Hardy is visiting the place in order to leave his courtship but by looking back at the hillside Hardy experiences the precious memory of his angelic wife Emma. Hardy also experiences the journey of reminiscing and how idealistic and romantic their relationship was, “Something that life will not be balked of”. The adjective ‘Fading’ suggests increasing distance and fading light and therefore the lessening importance of present reality. The word “Fading” also suggests the time f day being dusk, which has connotations of death. The words “drizzle…bedrenches” are negative onomatopoeias which present use of pathetic fallacy to suggest a sombre and melancholic mood to the poem.