Analysis of `The Flowers` by Alice Walker The Flowers by Alice Walker is about a 10 year old girl called Myop. Myop is just an innocent girl who collects flowers, and this day she decides to take it to another level. She walks into the woods to find new wonderful flowers. Things get more unpleasant as we continue to read the story. Myop decides to go back home where it’s safe and secure, but on her way back home she literally steps on a dead man.
Lee also gets across the point that Maycomb is tired and lifeless when he states that ‘stiff collars wilted by nine in the morning.’ The word ‘wilted’ if often used to describe flowers which have no life in it and this gives the impression that the men work really hard and how tired and lifeless they are afterwards. ‘Wilted’ also suggests that the men are almost drooping because they are so tired and they don’t have the strength to carry themselves. Lee describes Maycomb as slightly pessimistic as when it was hot in Maycomb, the dog would have ‘suffered.’ This implies that even though they could make the most out of the good weather, they are considering it as some sort of torture or inconvenience to them. They could have done lots of activities out in the sun however they just carry on with their daily life at a slow pace, it almost seems that they only know how to walk leisurely and they don’t know how to have fun. In the passage, Lee says that they ‘ambled across the square,’ this is particularly effective on giving the readers a clear impression on what Maycomb is like because the verb ‘ambled’ is when someone moves at a slow or relaxed place.
Men stood for hours on end in waterlogged trenches, unable to remove socks or boots. Soldiers feet would soon start to numb and the skin would turn red or blue. If untreated, the foot usually needed amputation, due to gangrene. A lot of disease in World War 1 was spread by rats. Another disease soldiers caught during World War 1 is dysentery.
It seems that none empathize for his emotional state when in line two Avison says his “weeping is for the dust of elm-flowers”. He is left behind, uncared for, and specific diction is used to accentuate this idea. The “dust”, “rotting grape”, and “potato peel” emphasize how the July man is left aside much like these objects. The gloominess of the man’s situation is thus encompassed by the first eight lines. The next four lines further describe the man’s setting, but now with more neutral terms.
The greener ones were vomiting. The odor was absolutely terrible. Outside, one man somehow drew my attention. He was lying there, totally nude, horribly starved, nothing but a skeleton. I picked him up, but I could hardly feel him.
For all that time, he had been trapped in a void of his own blackened sorrow where his suffering only grew. The break could also intensify the emotion and draw the reader’s eye to the word “weep”. Continuing after “The black river of himself” the poet uses multiple images to convey a sense of nature, or a compatibility with the land: The grains of his wrists is like bog oak, the ball of his heel like a basalt egg. His instep has shrunk cold as a swan’s foot or a wet swamp root. The Grauballe man takes on the image of being
“The Worn Path” Written by Eudora Welty In the short story “The Worn Path” by Eudora Welty there are echoes of melancholy and longing for forbidden fruit represented by love and wealth. The story intertwines the fruits of labor, lust and love and warmly wraps the softness of perils roughly handled for all to see. Even the title itself, “The Worn Path” weaves this thread of colors foreshadowing bluffs beyond one’s control. Are the bluffs lies or truths? The worn path tells the reader to be cautious on the path chosen in life.
"Knock-kneed" is a condition that makes knees hit together when walking. Owen employed this in his poem to show the reader how tired the soldiers were. They could not stand up and walk straight because they had already "cursed through sludge" for many miles. He also utilized the phrase "blood shod", which is when a horseshoe gets put on too hard and the horse's hoofs start to bleed. This exhibited the physical pain that the soldiers were going through.
In the first line, "Bent double, like old beggars under sacks”, shows us that the troops are so tired that they look like old beggars, slouching from being so drowsy. Another smile the writer demonstrates is, "His hanging face, like a devil's sick of sin," which I believe suggests that his face is bleeding and covered with red blood which represents the devils color. A strong metaphor that the writer uses is in line 24, “Of vile, incurable sores on innocent tongues,” This emphasizes that these troops will never forget the traumatic experiences they endured while being at war. Through the use of Wilfred Owens language in this poem we can get drawn to the poem and have a sense of feeling of what is happening to these troops and have empathy towards them. The imagery which is used in this poem is also used to show the tone and theme.
The first stanza recognizes the numb souls of demoralized men with the similes "Bent double, like old beggars under sacks" and "coughing like hags." Their lameness, blindness, deafness, as they “trudge” towards the rear, reinforces the dejection of spirit. The exhausted “Men that marched asleep” can no longer hear "the hoots of tired, outstripped Five-Nines that dropped behind". These remote shells are token reminders of the relentless shadow of looming death and when threatened by it, the soldiers come alive. The second stanza stirs the staggering men to life with a chemical attack; "Gas!