It portrays the poet's jealousy of the death Woman because she died peacefully while others has to live and face the ordeals of life. Her preoccupation with death is seen when she states that her jealousy for the death Woman is “nearly infinite”. The next stanza talks about how the Woman passed away without much trouble. It took place in a short time and the whole experience “Jostled “her. This had a disturbing influence on the poet.
Death is a Moth In the short story “The Moth’s” by Helena Maria Viramontes writes about a girl that is practically forced into taking care of her Grandmother Luna. Viramontes uses a great deal of imagery and symbolism that makes the reader search more in depth of the story. Further into details of what the narrator was really going through she suffered a lot and had to deal with reality that her life was not the same as her sisters that made her an outcast, cold hearted, and a caregiver to her grandmother Luna. Viramontes describes the character as to be different then her sisters, who made her feel like an outcast towards the rest of her family. “I always pricked my fingers or knotted my colored threads time and time again while
In “The Story of a Mother,” after having lost her child to illness, a mother goes through several obstacles in an attempt to reunite with her lost child. The writer puts the mother through all these trails to show her selflessness and desperation to the readers, some of whom had to go through a similar struggle with the loss of a child. In the end the bleeding and blind mother decides to leave her child in deaths garden so it might have a chance at beautiful afterlife. This story teaches the lesson to not kill yourself, in an attempt change the unchangeable. Not being able to give her child the wonderful life on earth, the mother finds comfort in leaving the child in God’s care.
The journey she takes is her remembering the first time she knew she was dead. Jean Rhys recurring theme of death can be referred to as a motif. Jean Rhys makes creative use of each of these elements in illustrating the speaker’s efforts to identify with her past life, an important motif in “Used to Live Here Once” (Clugston, 2010). Jean Rhys’s work is a reflection of her pain and her battles with the world. A writer of Tremendous originality and wit, she explores her melancholy subjects with heartbreaking grace (Castro, 2000).
They tried to convince me that the littlest things were really signs. My aunt asked me, “Meghan, do you remember the butterfly story? Then just look around and you will find your own sign for him.” The butterfly story is my aunt’s sign for her daughter who was killed by a drunk driver. My aunt went to her grave and prayed and asked God to tell her that Dana, my cousin, her daughter, was alright. She says that right after that a black butterfly with blue trim (the same colors of Dana’s favorite dress) landed on Dana’s grave, and she knew right then and there that Dana was in heaven and that she was alright.
Right before the mother dies she says to Cinderella, “Dear child, be good and I will look down on you from heaven and be near you.” Every day after her mother died Cinderella went out to her mother’s grave and wept, and she remained good. Eventually Cinderella’s father, who was very wealthy, remarried to an evil woman with two evil daughters of her own. These two daughters were beautiful on the outside but terrible and ugly on the inside. They were very mean to Cinderella and made her do all the chores every day until night came. After she was finished with her chores she would curl up by the dying fire and sleep there for warmth.
“My Madonna cried.” This is the line that opens the story and sets the theme of depression throughout the story. The Madonna doll in the story is used to represent death starting with the first sentence in the story. Josephine instantly thinks that her mother has died when she sees the tear rolling down her doll’s cheek. The doll is also the one thing that the mother holds onto as she tries to cling to what little life she has in prison before she is executed. The doll has been passed down from generation to generation in Josephine’s family, and seems to represent the tragedy of each woman’s demise.
At a young age Dickson lost her cousin and close friend Sophia Holland, which disturbed her deeply. Dickinson was also very close to nature and as a young woman enjoyed being outdoors. It is possible that Dickinson’s fear of death, as evident in this stanza, stems from events in her past such as the passing of her cousin and the only way she feels able to comprehend such a loss is through the use of figurative language with the theme of nature, to bring the topic of death to life a bit more. However, looking at this poem differently, it could be suggested that maybe death is something Dickinson longs for. ‘I willed me Keepsakes’ in the third stanza of this poem is simply stating that the person whose dying is prepared to die, they are ‘will(ing)’ to greet death.
“Grandmother” by William McIlvanney By the time I knew my grandmother she was dead. Before that she was where I thought she stood, Spectacles, slippers, venerable head, A standard-issue twinkle in her eyes – Familiar stage-props of grandmotherhood. It took her death to teach me they were lies. My sixteen-year-old knowingness was shocked To hear her family narrate her past In quiet nostalgic chorus. As they talked Her body stiffened on the muted fast Though well washed linen coverlet of her bed.
The first symbol the reader’s see that shows this theme of death and rebirth is in the graveyard when Mabel is visiting her mother’s grave. Her grave and the ones around it symbolize Mabel’s dead soul that she has at this point in her life. Because of this deadness inside of her she is able to connect with her mother this way. She feels secure and comfortable in the churchyard because she feels the same way as that atmosphere; dead. The churchyard is the first place that Mabel and Dr. Ferguson “meet”.