| This develops the theme of grief and sadness that resides in Hamlet because Hamlet is pointing out how his father is going to be like the song with the hobbyhorse that was forgotten. Hamlet doesn’t see, “how great a man can be forgotten so soon”(Mr. Kendall 33-34). “For O, for O, the Hobby-horse is Forgot” was a popular song written by Harrison Birtwistle during the time Shakespeare wrote Hamlet. | - Craig, For O, for O, the Hobby-horse is Forgot, Blogger, 28 February 2013, Web. 16 July 2013-Mr. Kendall, Hamlet, Analysis by A.H., Act III, Scene 2, lines # 115-175, 269-279, Web.
This means he is described as fragile and precious because of his injuries, with his punctured lung described as delicate as “parachute silk”. These images show Laura’s tenderness for her husband and how she wants to protect him. Similarly, Scannel also chooses imagery of war for what is really only a minor childhood incident. He refers to the spears of the nettles, calling them a “regiment” and, when he has cut them down and they have grown back again, he refers to them as “tall recruits”. This war and battle imagery used in the poem helps the reader to understand deeper, about the metaphorical meaning of this poem; that it is not just about comforting his son from the pain of the nettles, but also about the future pain of which he knows he will experience in his life.
Harmonium and Nettles Harmonium and Nettles both highlight the theme of memory. As they both are looking back over past memories that are painful, the poems feature the feelings of being helpless in stopping the hurt that was caused. The writer in Harmonium feels remorse for the things he hadn’t said to his father as Armitage states “then mouth in reply some shallow sorry phrase or word too starved of breath to make itself heard”. The writer in Nettles is protective of the recurring threat to his child that he can’t destroy. “rain had called up tall recruits behind the shed,” this quote shows the father cannot destroy them .They differ in the way they felt powerless however as in Nettles the father is feeling powerless because of a physical threat whereas in Harmonium it is an emotional threat of the inevibility of death and unspoken feelings that makes the writer feel powerless.
Both of the poems ‘Born Yesterday’ and Nettles’ deal with an unidealistic view focused on the inability to protect our loved ones from inevitable pain. Both Vernon Scanell and Phillip Larkin convey the theme of the lack of power to deliver happiness using the relationship between a man and a beloved child. In the poem ‘Nettles’, the relationship explored is between a father and son using the adult’s perspective whereas ‘Born Yesterday’ uses a bond between a man and his friend’s new born daughter. The first poem recalls an incident where Scanell’s young son was stung by nettles, displaying the poet’s desire to protect his son from the dangers of the world. The title ‘Nettles’ creates the thought of the severe stinging pain that the nettles produce that the reader will have experienced.
Love is the Most Powerful Weapon The stories “The Scarlet Ibis” and “The Gift of the Magi “ have similar themes. The theme to “The Scarlet Ibis” is it is never known how much you love someone until that person is gone. The author, James Hurst, showed that the narrator loved his brother by saying: “For a long, long time, it seemed like forever; I lay there crying, sheltering my fallen scarlet ibis from the heresy of the rain.”(Hurst 604). In the story, the narrator got his brother, Doodle, to walk and he took it too far because he started to get Doodle to jog. Because of the narrator taking it to far, Doodle died under a tree in a rainstorm.
In the fantastical world that is Cyrano de Bergerac, there exists the type of hero that has been lost in the modern world. Although Cyrano feels the ache of a heart “so heavy with love [he has] not told”, and the forlorn anxiety that he would “die without telling [Roxane]”, he is still the most kind and brave of friends. Since childhood, Cyrano had been by Roxane’s side. He was the one that she could depend on to be there for her, to play with, and she was there for him¾when he would hurt his hand; she would say “Now, what have you been doing to yourself…” The nature of Cyrano’s affection had always been true, and never for any
Amir’s relationship to his mother, father and half brother, Hassan, are guilt ridden and strained. Finally, Amir addresses this guilt and proves his remorse through selfless acts. It is through selfless acts that his sins of the past are settled and he is able to become a man and form a complete sense of self. Amir’s sense of guilt stems from the very moment he was born. Amir’s mother died in childbirth and at times, Amir feels like Baba resents him for taking the life of his beautiful wife.
Dimmesdale is forced to hide his identity as the father of Pearl, the daughter of Dimmesdale and Hester, to not compromise Hester’s bold attempt to keep his paternal connection secret. He is affected psychologically and his anguish deepens as the story progresses; no help to Chillingworth, the real father (what a love triangle, eh? ), who is stoking Dimmesdale’s psychological suffering as if it were a camp fire that keeps him happy and warm. Dimmesdale’s psychological affliction also makes him live in physiological agony as seen by the “paleness of his cheeks” (99) and his “troublesome chest cavity” (187). Because Dimmesdale hides his shame by trying to appear collected towards the community, he “burns in secret” (159) which leads to the climax of his trouble a top the scaffolding where he finally lets out the guilt he has been hiding and falls
The brother recognizes the fact of the truth that he is in way to deep. The story is no longer for him to tell but Kendricks. The words from the victims brother is simple, if something happened to him before the album dropped, make sure he (kendrick) tells his story in a postive light. This gives us his most famous lines of his whole album, “ When the Explainlights shut off/And its my turn to settle down/My main concern/Promise that you will sing about me/ Promise that you will sing about me”. These are the words from the brother to Kendrick .
One of the earliest literatures that guilt was a theme is in the Shakespearian time period with the play "Macbeth". Macbeth himself and Lady Macbeth, following the killing of Duncun they both are filled with agitation, lack of sleep, little appetite and have nightmares continuously. "Ere we will eat our meal in fear, and sleep in the affliction of these terrible dreams"(Shakespeare 127). In both scenarios, "Macbeth" and "Frankenstein", guilt brings pressure internally to externally. "Studies have shown that negative emotions actually weaken your body, while positive emotions strengthen your body"(Enlightenment).