Paul Zimmer states, “Even now when I hide behind my elaborate mask it is always known that I am Zimmer” (Lines 21-23). In this last paragraph from “Zimmer in Grade School” Zimmer brings the poem to present tense and makes a self reflection of himself now. Robert Hayden also has an element of self reflection in his last paragraph from “Those Winter Sundays”, “What did I know, what did I know of love’s austere and lonely offices?” (Lines 13-14) He is now speaking from an adult’s perspective by reflecting on past emotions and looking back and asking himself what did he know about the consequences love has sometimes. Both authors write in a mature manner throughout their poems, but have a really good way of putting the reader right back in the scene they were in. Zimmer makes a statement in which it seems like he is speaking from a younger age.
.“If thou didst ever hold me in thy heart…Absent thee from felicity a while…and in this harsh world draw thy breath is pain…to tell my story.” Hamlet asks his friend to tell his story after he actually dies. He wishes for this to happen so that people know the real story and remember. All and all, Horatio is very important throughout the play and is a great friend to Hamlet,
Compare how poets use language to present feelings in “The Manhunt” and one other poem (Nettles) In ‘Manhunt’, Simon Armitage uses rhyme to reflect the togetherness of a relationship. He says “After the first phase, after passionate nights and intimate days.” As the poem goes on, the reader can start to recognise that the un-rhymed cuplets show how fragmented their relationship has become. In ‘Nettles’ Vernon Scannell uses elements of nature, the nettles, to portray his keen anger towards the pain his son is going through. At the beginning of the poem, Scannell uses soft ‘s’ sounds to emphasise the soothing of his injured son who has fallen in a nettle bed. The child is presented using emotive language.
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn Many scholars and critics complain that Mark Twain botches the ending of his novel. I think the ending is was consistent with the entire novel and is important the way it is. Huckleberry Finn (Huck) is actually poised and ready for change in this life and his progression was not destroyed as a result of the ending. As a reader I was able to see Huck go from an unsure boy to a confident young adult with a great sense of right and wrong. We are reminded again with the ending to remember that Huck is just a simple boy who just wants to go with the flow of whatever life brings.
Themes are arguably the essence of literature, giving words purpose or intention or atmosphere and feeling. Amongst the most used themes in all of literature would have to be that of time. Time is a man-made concept, created to indicate moments in the natural progression of existence. Thematically, time can encompass many other feelings and concepts such as regret, contemplation, nostalgia and sadness, which can be evoked through longing for a 'moment' in time. Each poem I have chosen reflects aspects of contemplation, sadness or regret.
The climactic moment of a novel or play is often internal rather than external, a flash of insight or an epiphany on the part of one or more of the characters. In a well-organized essay, explain the epiphanies experienced by both the narrator and Jefferson and how the character arcs and story arcs parallel one another. 3. Culturally significant allusions – to the Bible, classical mythology, and the like – are common in works of literary merit. Write a well-organized essay in which you examine Gaines’s use of biblical allusions in A Lesson Before Dying and evaluate how they contribute to the overall theme of the novel.
This is a problem because if he wants to save everyone he has to sign his name to a piece of paper saying that he is a witch but he cannot do that because he is to proud of his name to tarnish it with such a thing, and in return he dies and cannot save the community. John proctor is a tragic hero in the novel The Crucible because he won’t let himself ruin his name. Edward Murray says “John Proctor is a physically powerful, distrustful of authority, and strong willed. Struggling against his own fears and guilt, reshaped by a new understanding of self at the end of the play.” In this quote Edward is saying that John is a strong willed person that struggles against his own fears. Meaning that he wants to save the community by admitting to everyone that Abigail is just trying to get back at Elizabeth, but his own fears of what the people will then think of him is holding him back from being the savior of the community.
In this essay, I am going to explain how Shakespeare manages to sympathize with these protagonists. During the play of Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare manages to effectively describe the tragedy of their relationship. He achieves this by creating sympathy for the two protagonists, Romeo and Juliet, which consequently affects the audience of the play. At the beginning of the play the audience is told that it will all end in disaster. This is emphasised with the fact that the two young lovers foreshadow their own death.
In “The Author To Her Book” by Anne Bradstreet, the speaker who takes on the role of an author, displays her insecurities for a piece of literature she has written. Through the extended series of comparisons between the speaker’s poems and her children and the vivid personification, the poet expresses the strong and intimate bond she develops for her work and her ambivalent feelings towards it. Also, Bradstreet’s self-deprecating poem explores the idea of perfection in literature. Firstly, the title reveals the relationship between the author and her book. The tone of the title is set apart from the rest of the poem.
(Sneider 25). He is right, and this adds to the power and talent of Wordsworth. Normally the reader would be interested in the specifics of the event, but we lose ourselves in the sparse beauty of the words. We forget to ask those other questions. The poem "She Dwelt in Untrodden Ways" is very simple.