During Phoenix journey she traveled alone through the dark pinewood shadows and she talks aimlessly amongst herself. She constantly looked up into the skies as if she was asking for slight request in a prayer form. There were also a few idioms placed with in the short story for example, “a yellow burning under the dark, keep out from under these feet and an odor like copper” (Welty 2-3). There are quite a few ways you may perceive this story; I felt that the writer was stereotyping black women of the past when I first read the story. From the way the story was written it talked about black women’s hairstyle, clothes they wore, lack of education, and the certain usage of words.
‘I hope to heaven it isn’t Alcee Arobin’” (Chopin, 118). There is one other man in Edna’s life that deserves attention. He is the naked man at the seashore that Edna imagines while Adéle plays the music Edna calls “Solitude”. The narrator describes, “His attitude was one of hopeless resignation as he looked toward a distant bird winging its flight away from him” (Chopin, 44). Throughout the novel, the bird symbolizes the Victorian woman.
After a Death by Roo Borson 410182017 王彥翔 I think this poem is absolutely stunning because of the vivid imagery that is set up in such a simple short poem. I like this poem because it sets up such a strong feeling of sadness and comfort in only eight lines. Although she doesn’t directly tell us she has truly lost someone, we can obviously observe that the speaker uses a chair for a metaphor of the girl’s love toward the lost lover. However, the speaker doesn’t exactly explain her love. In the poem, "her love" may be talking about her father or a lover because the poem is unclear.
Ana Briceno ] Love Without Barriers: Virginia is the Inspiration for Annabel Lee The poem “Annabel Lee,” by Edgar Allan Poe depicts a deep grief towards the death of his beloved wife and cousin, Virginia Clemm. Throughout the poem, the narrator expresses the melancholic emotions he suffered after the death of his beloved one, however the feelings towards her were so intense that not even death could separate them. Poe expresses, in his letters to his Aunt Maria Clemm and friend, George Eveleth, the passionate affection he had for his wife, Virginia, as being intense and eternal. The feelings that Poe expresses throughout his letters are the same feelings he expresses in his poem; therefore Virginia is the inspiration of this poem. Virginia suffered from tuberculosis and died in 1847, two years prior to the writing of Poe’s poem; her death caused Poe to enter a deep depression.
For instance, the way he described her walking in a very conscious way, told me that she was an elderly lady who may be very brittle or ill. Also, he makes it seem like she is lonely as well, by the way he describes her relationship with the pigeons and the way she depends on them. He creates wonderful imagery throughout the entire poem. He paints a picture in my head of exactly what he witnesses every day. However, I hear no particular voice when I am analyzing this poem. When reading this poem I noticed that there is no rhyme scheme, but the pattern has four lines in each stanza.
Poetry Analysis “Home is so sad” By: Philip Larkin (1922-1985) This poem describes a home that is no longer inhabited by anyone. The poem can be taken two ways, literally or figuratively. The literal meaning being that the home literally is empty of people and falling into disrepair. Figuratively, when the poem says “home is so sad,” and “having no heart to put aside the theft” it is showing how the house is personified. Since in reality- a home cannot have true feelings, you can come to the conclusion that the poet made the home feel animated by giving it human-like characteristics.
Whitney Mims English Comp. 1102 Instructor: Robert Stiles Research Paper October 11, 2012 A Rose for Emily Emily Grierson, in this short story was a lonely child it doesn’t mention anything about siblings and it was very ironic that her mother was never mentioned throughout the story. Emily is considered “impervious” from what Shmoop Editorial Team states in their review on who Emily was; meaning that the things that would go on in the outside world or just in her town between the people there, it never affected her and the way she went about doing things. The Narrator emphasizes on how much she was her father’s daughter, from all evidence in the short story he controlled her ultimately until the day he died and it continued on even
“Absence” by Elizabeth Jennings is a heartbreaking, romantic and very personal poem, in which the speaker is talking directly to someone she misses terribly. She effectively communicates how her emotions were running wild when returning to a place where she had previously met with a lost loved one. Jennings describes how the place she visits has been left unchanged, despite her tragic loss, which it is shown throughout the poem to have left her emotionally shaken and feeling depressed. Absence is a three verse poem, each verse consisting of a clear 5 line structure in which Jennings makes the first, third and fifth lines rhyme in each stanza also the second and fourth line. Jennings generally uses soft, gentle language particularly in the first two stanzas of Absence, but this changes in the final stanza.
This low gate entrance to the fortress is the least heavily fortified, and is symbolic of an emotional soft spot in her personality which this man is trying to use to possibly start a relationship with her. This last stanza reiterates that the soul has chosen only one lover or companion from the “ample nation,” this time using the stone walls of a castle to symbolize her impenetrable isolation. Using walls and gates to symbolize a person’s isolation is not uncommon. Another work that uses this symbol is Pink Floyd’s album and film “The Wall” whose story follows the building and subsequent tearing down of the main character’s personal brick wall of isolation. Pink Floyd is less subtle about the symbol than Dickinson as the album features lyrics such as “In perfect isolation/Here behind my wall.” Because literal walls and gates are intended to physically separate
In the first stanza, it indicates that they are situated in “springs of Dove” (Wordsworth 2), or River Dove, where Lucy lives. She is young and alone, “A Maid whom there were none to praise And very few to love” (3-4). Where she lives, it is isolated and quiet as the writer describes Dove as a place with “none to praise” (3). In the eyes of the speaker, Lucy is lonesome, walking along the River Dove alone, in which he states that she is pacing along the river in “untrodden ways” (1), as if she is waiting for someone to join her, as she is still “A Maid” (3). However, due to the limited population of people that live by the River Dove, there is “very few to love” (4), which ultimately leaves Lucy in a secluded state.