In ‘The Remains of The Day’, Stevens stresses to the reader that his desire to meet with Miss Kenton lies entirely with ‘professional matters’ meaning his feelings for her are unintentionally suggested to the reader, even in the first few pages of the book. Throughout the novel, Stevens makes only one direct reference regarding his true feelings for Miss Kenton despite the fact we are aware of them from early on in the novel, making it apparent that Stevens ‘Supresses and evades the truth about himself and others. At the end of novel after Miss Kenton confesses that there are ‘desolate occasions’ in which she thinks about ‘a different life, a better life [she] might have had’ with Stevens, he reveals that ‘at that moment [his] heart was breaking’. The importance of this moment in the tale is it is the only point at which Stevens describes raw emotion to the reader and finally consciously reveals his love for Miss Kenton. For the greater part of the novel he gives an overly detailed account of events but often fails to convey his honest opinion of them to the reader.
The narrator explains in the first line that he “may cease to be” and rushes to include he is afraid to die “before [his] pen has glean’d [his] teeming brain”. It almost seems as though Keats was unable to fit his ideas neatly into spaced lines, with punctuation marks because he is afraid to lose valuable time while he is still living. In Longfellow’s poem, however, pauses, punctuation and composition of multiple sentences produce a relaxed tone and overall feel of the poem. The poem is filled with caesuras that decrease the entire speed of the poem. “Half of my life is gone,” the comma allows for a pause and a deep breath to continue on to say “and I have let the years slip from me”.
However, it cannot come to a character as an epiphany. It is all about going through life’s experiences with friends, family and even people that bother and irritate you. It could come in punishment form, as we have seen in many cases in our class, in plays and stories like The Miller’s Tale and Twelfth Night by Shakespeare. Characters like Malvolio, Nicholas, John the Carpenter have all been through this because there’s a certain need of cleaning up from their wrongdoings. Writers adopt the punishment method in their literary works to give a nice comic edge as characters get ‘taught a lesson’ for being too dull, gullible, manipulative, idiotic, etc.
He experiences loneliness in a society where people are constantly entertained without time given to reflection and personal development, activities often associated with the reading process. The more complicated fine distinctions of the world of books are available to him only when he leaves his reductionist society. Bradbury does not realize just how unhappy he is with his life and the world he lives in until Clarisse talks about her "strange" family, the one that actually converses with each other and enjoys nature. Bradbury show just how much Clarisse’s way of life is unaccepted in Montag’s world with the quote spoken by Clarisse, “White blurs are houses. Brown blurs are cows.
Making the mood of the poem depressing, Frost is able to get his point across that eventually everything will die. Frost uses word choice to discuss how short life is. He stresses that time flies by without knowing, “But only so an hour./So dawn goes down to day (4,7). Frost discusses that life may only last for an hour, or for a day. By using this word choice, he exemplifies that life is short and very precious.
In Raymond Carver’s short story “Cathedral”,he uses a first-person narrator to tell the story to emphasize the bewildering aspects of the transcending moment that he relates in the story. The narrator is concerned only about how the visit from Robert will affect him and is contemptuous of what role Robert may have played in his wife’s past. At the same time, the narrator lacks self-awareness. There was no conclusion at the end of the story. Carver finishes with leaving the narrator with his eyes closed imagining the cathedral he has just drawn with Robert.
He believes that what he knows of the world is only a semblance of the truth at best. Reality exists and he is able to intuit its existence, but it is finally beyond his grasp. Despite Bronk’s asceticism, he was constantly sought out by readers and many poets who would journey to Hudson Falls to visit; for young poets, this trip was something of a rite of
Norman’s role in this book is to help Tim to go from being a storyteller, or writer, to being a soldier. Tim learned that he could cope with experiences through his writing. He was “afraid to speak directly, afraid to remember” (Page 153) during the making of the book. Soldiers were
Poe is well known to be a very good writer, however, had no skills to meet job qualifications. He edited newspapers including ‘Southern Literary Messenger’, ‘Graham's Magazine’, ‘The Broadway Journal’ and Broadway soon came to a close with the company’s loss of money and Poe is back on the search of a job. Sadly enough, Virginia’s health began to fade and Poe was deeply distressed by it. Virginia passed away 10 days after Edgar’s birthday. Meanwhile, that happened at home, he also struggled financially and as an author whose fame was so limited.
“Biddlebaum the silent began to talk, striving to put into words the ideas that had been accumulated by his mind during the long years of silence” (Anderson 10). Biddlebaum uses his hands a lot when he tries to communicate but nothing ever comes out which exemplifies a communication barrier. This barrier tends to keep people away causing him to be viewed as an outcast. “George Willard, he had many times wanted to ask about hands...He felt that there must be a reason for their strange activity and their inclination to keep hidden away” (Anderson 12). Often times when people feel that a person is keeping something hidden, like in Biddlebaum’s case, it is very hard for the other people to understand Biddlebaum’s