1. "I have hated the words and I have loved them, and I hope I have made them right." (528) After encountering Max being forced on the way to a concentration camp, Liesel becomes hopeless of the written word, seeing Hitler's words as the source of her suffering. Ilsa Hermann gives her a blank book and encourages her to write hoping she will. While then, Liesel writes the story of her life, containing both tragedy and beauty, at a fevered pace.
‘Elm’ finished with the disturbing line “That kill, that kill, that kill”We can see through her callous honesty and the unsettling atmosphere that she is tormented when she says “Till your head is a stone, your pillow a little turf”. Here, she is using an image of a grave and this sense of mortality is extremely personal, many poets wouldn't write about such agitated thoughts. Her startling honesty is seen when she says “I am terrified by this dark thing”. Plath is afraid, she is desperate and she is reaching out to her readers, begging for help. Her use of words in ‘Elm’ is also interesting.
The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne is a fantastic piece of American antitranscendentalism because in that it shows that humans are naturally evil, sinful, and guilty. Hawthorne's protagonist, Hester Prynne, shows in excellent example how human nature can be sinful. Although she is depicted as beautiful, angelic, and almost the epitome of perfection, Hawthorne reveals in his story how eyes are deceiving and humans are sinners by nature. Hawthorne writes, "Here, there was the taint of deepest sin in the most sacred quality of human life, working such effect, that the world was only the darker for this woman's beauty, and the more lost for the infant that she had borne," (Hawthorne, 39). Prynne commits adultery in the novel, one of the most unforgivable sins.
Compare how the Character is created in the poet ‘Medusa’ and ‘The Clown Punk’ In the poem Medusa and Clown Punk the characters have many similarities and big differences. Both poets have a sense of violence/threat but also sympathy and pity. Medusa is a dramatic monologue, a jealous, angry woman who is comparing herself to the Greek myth of Medusa. The Clown Punk is seeing this ‘clown punk’ in another perspective, a more close up way. Medusa can be related to the Clown Punk because although she was once accepted amongst people; beautiful and in love.
The added use of “they” ultimately shows the loss or lack of identity held by these men in life or death. In addition, the regular rhyme scheme in the poem portrays the ongoing harshness and bitterness that Browning feels towards the display. Enjambment blurs the evenly spaced content which furthermore shows that Browning is confused about why brutality was allowed and continued to happen. In the sixth stanza, Browning puzzles over the causes of suicide: disillusioned idealism, the world’s cruelty, money and women. This is shown by “Money gets women, cards and dice Get money, and ill luck gets just The copper couch…”.
Thus this was what she meant by not even the perfume of Arabia can cover up her guilty sin. Another example would be when Lady Macbeth says “Was your hands, put on your night-gown, looking not so pale: I tell you yet again, Banquo’s buried. (5, 1; 52). Considering the fact that Banquo is dead, and she was the one who influenced her husband to do all those bad deeds, in the end it caused her to relive this scene to show how cruel she was in the past. Thus it is shown that guilt can cause one to lose there inner conscience.
Clampitt uses the phoenix myth in comparison to the aftermath of the Holocaust and the Auschwitz death camps. In lines 10-12 Clampitt says, “Decay will undo what it can, the rotten fabric of our repose connives with doomsday.” After this she ends the poem in lines 13-15 by saying, “Sleep on, scathed felicity. Sleep, rare and perishable relic. Imagining’s no shutter against the absolute, incorrigible sunrise.” Clampitt is saying that we should not bring anew the daily memory of what happened at Auschwitz. She is also saying that history will repeat itself.
As he is moved around, he takes in his surroundings to see if any of it is familiar, and in this process he illustrates the opposition and message of the story. Along the walls he sees a painting of the Greek myth of Medea, a woman who kills her children, representing the loss of innocence in the narrator and a recreation of a Parthenon frieze with depictions of Greek warriors, Hohenzollern rulers and the presumptuous inclusion of Hitler. He passes the artistic renditions of the Nazi’s eugenic dreams, recalling faults in these racial paradigms like the Rhine maiden he considered “a bit bony and severe.” The nobility of the cause he gave his life for is called into question when he identifies the pre-fabricated war memorial hanging in the school, from the last war. This
This word can also mean to gain a victory but the only person here being damaged is herself. In the second stanza Duffy continues using graphic imagery to show the poem’s persona’s self-hatred. The word ‘bride’ generally has positive connotations but here Duffy uses a combination of plosives, sibilant and negative vocabulary to reflect what’s happening in her character’s mind. ‘My bride’s breath soured, stank/In the grey bags of my lungs.’ The choice of lexis with ‘stank’ in particular highlights how she even
‘Creative metaphor are those which a writer/speaker constructs to express a particular idea or feeling in a particular context’ Examine how Plath uses metaphor in Lady Lazarus. Plath uses metaphor in her ‘confessional’ poem Lady Lazarus in order to convey her emotional, physical and psychological struggle with depression. The poem could be interpreted as her attempt to understand or give voice to her suicide attempts. ‘Metaphor is important because of its functions- explaining, clarifying, describing, expressing…’ Plath uses metaphors not only to express her mental struggle, but also the reactions of others to it. She highlights through imagery the lack of willingness and understanding people show and their ignorance when it comes to mental health issues.