Ethan is influenced by his grim surroundings and becomes a bitter, melancholy man. A lot of his sad nature has to do with his surroundings, as the barren and empty characteristics of Starkfield have forced Ethan to become bitter and pitiful. At the beginning of the story the narrator clearly states Starkfield’s influence on Ethan’s appearance: “He seemed a part of the mute melancholy landscape, an incarnation of its frozen woe, with all that was warm and sentient in him fast bound below the surface; but there was nothing unfriendly in his silence. I simply felt that he lived in a depth of moral isolation too remote for casual access, and I had the sense that his loneliness was not merely the result of his personal plight, tragic as I guessed that to be, but had in it, as Harmon Gow had hinted, the profound accumulated cold of many Starkfield winters.” (Wharton 13) A character’s attributes depend on the location he grows up on. His face looks as gloomy as the night, cheerless and bleak.
this very discontent feeling would further add to the very isolation the Glaspell is trying to portray. How is anyone to feel connected when they much live with a foul personality? “He was a hard man” (Glaspell 181); “Like a raw wind that gets to the bone” (Glaspell 181). He gave his wife a dispirited sense of being. She probably felt smothered by his bleak nature and with the fact that the farmhouse was too isolated for anyone to want to visit, Mrs. Wright was left alone.
In Romulus,Romulus is depicted as an individual unable to belong to his surroundings. The quote “though the landscape is one of rare beauty… father could not become reconciled to it” indicates to the reader the father’s inability to connect with the landscape and thus develop a sense of belonging. Gaita also characterises Christine with a similar depiction. Christine, a “city girl”, is represented as an individual unable to find a sense of self because of a lack of connection to place. The quote “She could not settle into a dilapidated farmhouse in a landscape that highlighted her isolation” exemplifies a diminished sense of belonging resulting from a lack of an environment that is suited to her.
The repetitive connection of the first line with the last blink blink Cemetery silence reflects both the reality of the cycle of life as well as its temporal nature. In death the absence of social restriction is emphasise through the listening of no responsible obligations or concerns. Through this technique the poet indicates the loneliness and emptiness of life as he sees it. Here the concept of identity seems to be lack of identity emptiness constructed through a negative reaction and cynicism about th
Raymond Tong expresses his disgust and sympathy for a poor beggar in his short poem, “African Beggar”. In this essay I will analyse some key areas of this emotive piece of literature and evaluate the feelings expressed in this poem. This poem is about an old African man who is alienated in a foreign community. He has no home or money to sustain a reasonable life. We are told he is clearly diseased and nothing is said about a family which indicates he is alone.
MIGRANT HOSTEL A tone of instability and insecurity is set within the first stanza where the accumulation of the nouns “comings and goings”, “arrivals” and “sudden departures” suggests a sense of chaos and highlights the lack of stability within the poet's life. The use of enjambment of “wondering/ who would be coming next” allows the emphasis to fall heavily on “who”, illustrating the transient nature of the hostel environment and putting emphasis on the uncertainty of who is to arrive next. This constant change becomes unsettling and prevents the poet from finding a place of belonging and further hindering his self-identity, leaving him lost and confused. The physical and emotional divisions set up by different nationalities is further
The poem deals with the complexities of belonging and the daily struggles of assimilating. The opening line, “No one kept count” shows the reader that the persona and his family are in a negative situation. The emphasis on the ‘no’ highlights the personas tone which is also negative and the lack of order within the hostel. “We lived like birds of passage”, is an example of a pronoun to show that the migrants tried to unite and feel a sense of belonging within another but failed as the persona still feels a sense of not belonging. Pronouns are used throughout the poem to make the reader connect with the persona.
The setting of the feature article shapes the tone. The use of emotive language and imagery in the article suggests the tone and setting of the text. The use of emotive language such as “no home, no money, no hope”, “city’s brutal reality” and “heartbreak” all suggest that the tone of the article is depressing which also insinuates that the setting is bleak and desolate. The imagery of the article shows a man on the side of the street asleep with all of his belongings by his side, this is his home and it’s a very depressing scene. The use of the emotive word “brutal” implies that the setting of homelessness for these people is harsh and intemperate.
He is missing out on things others can do. Jonas knows things and he can't tell anyone about them. Jonas has to deal with the pain that comes from the memories. According to the novel “The Giver”on page 104 it says, “Limping, Jonas walked home, pushing his bicycle , the evening. The sunburn pain had been so small, in comparison, and had not stayed with him.
The techniques Eliot disposes throughout the poem ineffectively illustrate Prufrock’s social reclusion and cultural detachment. Prufrock’s social and cultural isolation is representational of a combination of his personal attributes and the part they play in holding him back from realising his true potential in life. His bleak view on life is impacted by his indecisive nature where he is always thinking over everything and never acting on impulse. These kinds of occurrences in Prufrock’s mind establish a well-built barrier separating himself, the hopeless individual, from all aspects of society. Eliot conveys these notions to the reader through the development of Prufrock’s introspective identity.