This should be a positive image but I find it quite ironic as the natural beauty, peace and quiet are shattered by the sounds and sights of war so it affects everyone. It think it would be around spring, maybe even summertime due to all the flower picking that seems to be going on. We soon find out this beautiful place in the Scottish countryside must be totally different from our main characters home town. There are two characters that we are introduced to in this short story, Miss Laing and our main character Margaret. Miss Laing
"Zora Neale Hurston." American Short-Story Writers, 1910-1945: First Series. Ed. Bobby Ellen Kimbel. Detroit: Gale Research, 1989.
The poet talks about the motion of how a tree bends when being blown over by strong winds and how she wanted to be different and also how she wanted chaos. Furthermore this line could be taken as metaphorically because she describes herself to the wind and how she is flying along with the objects taken by the storm. Shapcott describes metaphorically of how she loves the rush and darkness of a storm: “singing into the rush, into the dark.” The poet describes the storm which would create fear and a lot of adrenaline with the verb ‘singing’ which is very unusual since singing is usually related to being calm and relaxing. This could lead onto how Shapcott could think being part of the chaos is comforting to her and how she has freedom just like as music does. This gives the reader an image of how wild she is and how she has been controlled by the law until chaos breaks
28 Sept. 2014. <http://transcendentalism-legacy.tamu.edu/authors/thoreau/>. 4. "Henry David Thoreau." Bio.
The poem Wild Geese. Based on what I got from reading the poem is that nobody is perfect in the world or society. There are people that do wrong. And it’s about Mary Oliver’s life. It also speaks of nature.
‘Flowers’ by Robin Jenkins is a short story about a young girl who has been evacuated to the Highlands during WW2 and dislikes it so much that she decides to break the rules. She rebels by going to the beach where the fighter jets practise bombing and finds a gruesome scene. This short story deals with a less pleasant side of life concerned with the consequences of war and the loneliness of the main character Margaret. In this essay I will show unpleasant life can be. Robin Jenkins first shows you how different the little girl is, “red eyed dissenter”.
What connections have you found between the ways in which Plath and Hughes write about the seasons and/or time of the year in their poems? In Plath and Hughes poems, the use of seasons and time is often used in order to represent the narrator’s inner world of feelings. Furthermore, they are used to set the tone of the poem and therefore inflict emotion upon the reader. In Plath’s ‘Spinster’, Spring is shown to cause uncomfortable feelings within the narrator, leaving them in “disarray”. The confusion and therefore discomfort within the reader is evident as a result of the “irregular babble” of the birds and the “tumult”.
Fagin, Larry. New American Poetry, World Poets Vol.3. Ed. Ron Padgett. New York: Charles Scribner’s Sons, 2000.
The bark thy body is, /Sailing in this salt flood. The winds thy sighs, /Who, raging with thy tears, and they with them, /Without a sudden calm will overset/Thy tempest-tossed body." (Shakespeare, 3, v, 131) 6. a) Juliet is speaking to the Nurse. b) Her tone is more calm and kind but is fake because at this time she is angry with the Nurse and disappointed in her for not siding with her and comforting her
However, a “tyrant spell” has entranced her and, she “cannot go.” The second stanza continues horrific place. Bound describes giant trees with branches that are being weighed down with cold snow, and these might describe horrific moments of her life. She says, “The storm is fast descending,” furthering the sentiment of being trapped in this dreadful situation. Bronte affirms this notion in the last line by ending once again with the words, “I cannot go.” The final stanza, Bronte describes very difficult conditions. There are “Clouds beyond clouds” in the sky, then “Wastes beyond wastes below.” Wastes are barren land, creating the impression of a lonely, uncomfortable place where a woman would not wish to be alone on a stormy winter's night.