In order to emphasise Larkin’s outlooks onto time and it’s passing, one can highlight the similarities and differences between Larkin and Abse’s poetry. In ‘Love Songs In Age’, Larkin illustrates the view that time and it’s passing merely leads to many disappointments. The enjambment he uses amongst all three stanzas, “and stood/relearning” in the first and second and “more/the glare” between the second and third; this implies the suggestion that love cannot stop the passing of time and the instances that happen within it, for example the death of the woman’s husband. During the first stanza, Larkin uses imagery to create a memoir of the music sheets that the woman has found, “one marked in circles”, “and coloured”, suggesting that the joy of life, love and happiness isn’t appreciated until age shows what one has missed during their youth. We can then imply from this suggestion that Larkin feels time is only appreciated during the older years of one’s life.
There are critical moments in the play and it usually occurs when Blanche fell apart. Tennessee Williams set the background as dull; we can feel that it is not a normal atmosphere. Through this, we can say that the play is filled with sadness. The actions takes place in New Orleans on an evening early in May, in front of an apartment on a street car named Elysian Field. In Greek mythology Elysian Field means Heaven, the place where Greek heroes or those favored by God went after death.
The following paragraphs will give just a few examples of this . One of the first examples of foreshadowing is the comparison of the archaic house with Emily as it raises its “stubborn and coquettish decay above the cotton wagons and the gasoline pumps.” (Faulkner) This actually foreshadows the willful decay of Emily herself. She, like the Old South, is on their way out. In the next part of the story there are a few examples of foreshadowing. The one that pops out is after Emily’s father dies, she “told them that her father was not dead.
The mood of this poem shows a paradox between life and death. The beginning of the poem tells of spring and new life. In the lines “…when Icarus fell it was spring” the reader can see the vast contrast between fall and spring. (Landscape) The poem goes on to a mood that is far more melancholy in that this is a story of death. It plays on the emotions of humanity, in that when a person dies the world should not be so happy and full of life.
In the Scarlet Letter he uses symbolism -the practice of representing things by symbols, or of investing things with a symbolic meaning or character - all throughout his novel, to explain the life’s of the puritans and their customs. In the conclusion, Hester and Dimmesdale are buried next to each other which symbolize that the community has, in many ways forgiven them for their adultery. Even after death, the legend of their love continues while their graves are slightly apart, they share a common tombstone, “On a field, sable, the letter A, gules,” I translate this as a symbol that they could not be together in life, but in death they share a scarlet
flowers are gentle. You have to teat a flower nice so it can grow. A person can show that they are kindliness gentleness by giving someone flowers. When someone dies people leave flowers on their grave, to represent death. Myop feel sorrow for the dead man because of the way the he looks.
The narrator states when Doodle dies, “Limply, he fell backward onto the earth. He had been bleeding from his mouth, and his neck and the front of his shirt were stained a bright red.” (Hurst 354) as opposed to when the scarlet ibis dies, “Its long graceful neck jerked twice into an S, then straightened out, and the bird was still.” (Hurst 351) is very similar, too. Hurst also uses nature for symbolism, “I lay there crying, sheltering my fallen scarlet ibis from the heresy of the rain.” (Hurst 354). The book gives the definition of “heresy” as “mockery,” which can be seen as the rain being society or other people mocking diversity even after death. Hurst uses foreshadowing in this story as well.
The wild rose bush is a representation for hope and life after death and the prison door represents harshness and evil. Both the prison door and the wild rose bush being used together is a strange combination. One represents evil and the other represents hope and grace. The rosebush adds life the prison door adds death, and both of them together give twist to the story. The rosebush adds life to the prison door.
Foreshadowing is one of the elements of style which make "The Scarlet Ibis" great. For example, the author states, "The last graveyard flowers were blooming, and their smell drifted [through] our house, speaking softly the names of our dead." This passage clearly foreshadows the death of Doodle. Also, Hurst comments on Doodle's full name, "William Armstrong," that "such a name sounds good only on a tombstone," again foreshadowing Doodle's death. Later, Doodle's cries of "Don't leave me!
Secondly, Noodle buries the bird. I think that this is very important. I think Noodle buried the bird because he thought he would die too. The scarlet ibis died from a storm. Storms often start off mild and progress into worse.