Anne knows that God is rewarding and gives gifts to the deserving of it. Even though all this destruction happened to her, her belief in God becomes stronger than ever. She says “In silence ever shall thou lie, Adieu, Adieu, all’s vanity” (line 35-36), and that we have no control over all the small things in this world, rather God is the one who gives us the gift of life that we should be thankful for. In Anne’s next poem, “ To My Dear and Loving Husband”, she describes the love she has for
Because of her past, Wu’s grandmother will forever have a recollection of her childhood pains. Wu states, “The bindings that long ago made her cry,” when she recalled a moment with her grandmother (572). On the other hand Wu speaks about her view of feet binding. Being raised in an American culture, Wu was unfamiliar with the act of “binding” and in looking at her grandmother, she comes to realize the remarkable differences between their worlds. The most noticeable difference her feet.
Writer, Amy Tan, in her narrative essay, “Mother Tongue,” recounts the struggles of growing up in a “broken” english household. Tan’s purpose is to bring to attention the injustices that are put upon individuals that don’t speak English as their first language. She adopts a reflective tone in order to capture the emotions of her readers. Tan sets the stage of her essay by recalling stories that exemplify how her mother has been put down based on how she spoke. She states: “...her intent, her passion, her imagery, the rhythms of her speech and the nature of her thoughts” (4).
In “A Pair of Tickets”, Jing-mei carried on her mom’s dream for her to meet her half twin sisters and to learn and understand more about her heritage. The similarities between these stories were that there was a mother-daughter relationship between Jing-mei and her deceased mother and between Mama, Dee, and Maggie. In Alice Walker’s, “Everyday Use” they were talking about a quilt which was basically a part of their heritage. The author showed the different type of mother daughter relationships when it comes to Dee, Maggie and Mama. Mama’s tone becomes compassionate when she speaks about Maggie.
At the beginning of the plot of “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker, the narrator, who we later find out is “Mama” or Mrs. Johnson, begins to tell the reader using first-person narration that she is waiting in the yard, which is “like an extended living room.” She moves away from her description of her yard to say that “Maggie will be nervous until her sister goes” because of her burn scars. She obviously feels inferior to this sister the reader has yet to meet who seems to have had many opportunities in life that Maggie did not. The narrator describes this unseen other daughter in terms of a TV show guest, implying that there is something stunning or glamorous about her. She says that she has had a dream in which she is on a TV show with her daughter and the host is congratulating her on raising such a fine girl as her daughter pins an orchid on her dress, a flower that the daughter has said she does not like because it is tacky. The narrator of “Everyday Use” by Alice Walker moves from her description of her dream to bring reality to light, saying in one of the important quotes from “Everyday Use” by Walker, “In real life I am a large, big-boned woman with rough man-working hands” and discusses how hard she works around her property, often comparing herself to a man or masculine things such as killing and cleaning hogs, wearing flannel pajamas, and killing a bull calf with a sledge hammer.
For example she alludes in the poem to Job 1:21, “And when I could no longer look;/I blest His name that gave and took” (13-14). Bradstreet uses this reference because right before her eyes, she is watching God take away what he gave her. She blest his name as it happened just as what happened with Job when he got everything taken away from him by God. Simultaneously, Bradstreet illustrates Puritan literature by praising God’s providence in her poem. This is a very massive characteristic.
Discuss how a poet presents his/her ideas in a poem you have studied. In the poem ‘Death of a Naturalist’, Seamus Heaney uses a range of imagery, sound devices and structure styles to express the idea that growing up alters individual perspectives. One of the techniques which Heaney uses to implement that growing up changes perspectives is imagery. Heaney describes the ‘warm thick slobber of frogspawn that grew like clotted water’ as ‘best of all’. This tells the reader that it is positive and he really enjoyed having the frogspawn.
“And then my heart with pleasure fills and dances with the daffodils”.... “Mechanical mastodons munching the red earth”: such contrasting views of our environment. Daffodils is a poem in which Wordsworth explores the great pleasure that the environment can bring you in times when you feel down. At the beginning of the poem the poet feels lonely, but once he is immersed in the natural environment his mood changes to one of cheerfulness, lightheartedness and joyousness. ‘In such a jocund company’. Not only does his mood show us his great pleasure, but the rhythm used too.
This resulted in her getting involved with an older man at the tender age of twelve. Dreaming to be a mother from that young age, she finally adopted two young girls, Marie and Jeanette, in the hope of becoming a loving and nurturing mother to them. However, wounds of their past conflicted with Hogan’s dreams of the present. She soon discovered the pain and trauma her daughters went through as abused children. “With our oldest daughter, all the pain fell outward, onto others, whom she would hit or abuse, but for Jeanette, pain came to an inward point” (84).
Abitay Dinara Dr. Ford D. Principles Literary Criticism EN 308 “Every day use” by Alice Walker In tis short story Alice Walker shows the way of living, of a family to represent the reader the way heritage is forgotten and, or ignored. The struggle reflects the characters contrasting ideas about their heritage and identity. Mama would also have to be the main character because she narrates the story. This story really about the mama. She has a two daughters.