Close Reading of a Poem Celissa Brooks Eng125 Karen Lawler March 26, 2007 Close Reading of a Poem Julia Alvarez’s poem Woman’s Work is about “the relationship between mother and daughter through the work that each performs.” (Barnet & Burto & Cain, 2011). Julia Alvarez tells a story from the point of view of the daughter, now a grown woman remembering her childhood. After reading this poem there are a few interpretations that one can make of Julia Alvarez’s thoughts and feelings about the relationship she had with her own mother, or the relationship between a mother and daughter, as the mother instructs her daughter. To communicate the meaning of the poem, Julia Alvarez uses several literary conventions and poetic devices, such as simile, imagery, alliteration, irony, and rhyme. Julia Alvarez was born in 1950, in a time where most women did not work outside of the home, and woman raised their daughters to be housewives.
Edna St. Vincent Millay was born in Rockland, Maine on February 22, 1892. Her parents got a divorce in the 1900s when Edna was eight years old. Her father was a teacher and had a gambling problem. Edna lived with her mom and her sisters; Norma, and Kathleen live in a bad area. Her mom was a nurse trying to help the family.
In the short story it shows that their mother is a recovering addict. It shows the point of view of having a parent that is a drug addict. Noemi explained that their mother hardly took care of her and Olivia. The prospective on having a drug addict as a parent is that they are unable to take care of their children. The author added this into the story, because it is very common for children to have parents that are drug
Anne's imagination leads her into conflict with her surroundigs, but Emily uses her imagination to compose poems and stories. In the third part, Emily's Quest (1927), she publishes her first book, is confused by reviews, which are conflicting, and marries Teddy Kent, an
Sierra Luers AP English 11 Period 3 Psychological Analysis of Ethan Frome Edith Wharton, the author of Ethan Frome, grew up in a privileged American family. At a young age she took interest in writing about the inside of her family’s social circle. At 23 she was married to a man from a well-established family. After thirty years of marriage she divorced him as he had serious emotional and depression problems. Wharton was even thought to have resented him for his incapability’s of the life she wanted , she felt tied down and stifled; the passion and romance had been long gone.
SUMMER READING AND ASSIGNMENTS 2013 AP English Language (DUE 1st DAY OF SCHOOL, AUGUST 2013 – NO EXCEPTIONS!) Assignment #1: Read the novel Breath, Eyes, Memory by Edwidge Danticat. The novel revolves around a mother and daughter and the experiences they have in Haiti and New York. As you read the novel, mark important passages that reflect how Martine and Sophie cope with their situations. In a well-written essay (no less than 3 pages and no more than 4 pages), compare and contrast the different relationships between the women in the novel (i.e.
How does Karen Levine make a private life public? How does she use the structure of the text to achieve her purpose? What elements of social, historical and cultural context does she include to help us understand the character’s life and also how do the writer and character respond to challenges? Karen Levine delivers a faction-based biography about a young girl and how her story brought together three lives- Hana Brady, the Jewish victim of the Holocaust; George Brady, the Jewish brother who never got to bid his sister a proper farewell and Fumiko Ishioka, the Japanese woman whom persistence is the reason this biography could exist. Although this biography is based on three characters, the focus is mainly on Hana Brady and Fumiko Ishioka.
After giving birth to her second child, she was diagnosed with postpartum depression and was subsequently hospitalized (Empire Zine). As a way to help her work through her dilemma, her doctor suggested that she take up writing as a hobby. Her brush with insanity resulted in the development of the themes of madness and suicide, which she incorporated into much of her work. In “Young,” Sexton dives into the emotions and thoughts of a child who is at a time in her life where she is lonely. In the beginning of the poem, Sexton describes the woman who is looking back to her childhood summers at this time saying, “A thousand doors ago when I was a lonely kid in a big house with four garages and it was summer as long as I could remember.” The young girl
Willa Cather was an extremely accomplishing journalist and author of short fiction novels also she was an English teacher, fraught with becoming a novelist (Arnold 2). It was just common sense that her long experience in newspaper work that Cather would start her occupation in journalism, though in the 1880’s it was unusual to have a woman in this field (Forman 3).That did not stop her though she kept on making more and more novels and short stories At a young age Cather wrote more than forty so tries, at least 500 columns and reviews,etc. even after she wrote novel she kept on making short stories (Arnold 3). Now only did Willa achieved myriads of things but she also gained awards as well. Willa Cather first received widely praise as an crucial author when Cather got the Pulitzer Prize in 1923 for One of Ours (Pollard 81).
Born in Amherst, Massachusetts, she lived a mostly introverted and reclusive life. After she studied at the Amherst Academy for seven years in her early stages of life, she spent a short time at Mount Holyoke Female Seminary before returning to her family's house in Amherst. During her teenage years she discovered poetry through the works of William Wordsworth and Ralph Waldo Emerson. They both heavily influenced her to write poetry. Ralph Waldo Emerson taught her about transcendentalism which would become a big part of her poetry later on in life.