In the short story by Kate Chopin shows foreshadowing in the first sentence making it really easy to identify. It says how they must take great care with how they break the news to Mrs. Mallard because of her heart trouble in the past. I knew something bad was going to happen after I read that and from then on I took each sentence and broke it down while relating to how most stories and books describe the pre-death build up moments. Such as how she was looking out the window as she got the feeling of something coming to her that made her feel fearful. As she tried to fight it and push it back; however, she was powerless and was forced to abandon
She denies the seriousness of loss and the sadness it brings by highlighting the commoness of loss and depicting its nature not as a process but as an “art”, evading its disastrous nature. However the poet eventually comes to the realisation of the disastrous effect of losing a person and seems to waver in her opinion. In the first half of the poem Elizabeth Bishop portrays the nature of loss as a common occurrence on a everyday basis and argues that it is not as bad as people claim it to be. The poem’s title “One Art” subtly takes away the pejorative connotation associated with loss and emphasizes that people should accept loss as it is. The poet’s indifference to loss is revealed in the statement “so many things seem filled with the intent to be lost that their loss is no disaster”, highlighting that loss occurs commonly, like any other daily activity, and should not be allowed to let it upset ourselves.
They both explore the theme of love or rather painful love. the poet revels the link between the two poems’s through a verity of techniques which is done very effectively but also shows the difference between the obsessive love in “Havisham” and the possessive love of “Valentine”. The pain of love is evident from the beginning in both poems. “Carol Ann Duffy” uses the tone in the first couple of stanzas to show the unorthodox nature of the love. “Not a day since then I haven’t whished him dead”-Havisham This is very effective as the aggressive tone shows “Havisham” has been rejected and her love is causing her pain.
As a frustrated parent feels the narrator once again uses the metaphor of a child to describe how an author feels when their work does not turn out how they wanted. The narrator feels that her work is “unfit for light” in the way that a parent can be disappointed in their child (9). Anne Bradstreet’s use of metaphor allows her to demonstrate the frustrations of an author through the frustrations of a parent. The personification of the author’s work by Anne Bradstreet creates a feeling of empathy towards the author. The personification of the book as a child allows the reader to relate to the fears and struggles the narrator has with accepting her creation.
This book reveals what a family has to go through after a tragedy such as the one in the book happens to them. The author also writes how victims family's pain is not too different that of the perpetrator's family. The girls in her school start making her feel worst than she already feels
I felt cheated, like I had lost something special. Until recently, I had forgotten that feeling, and I generally ignored the passage of time – until I read Gwen Harwood’s “The Violets”, a poem, (among other things) about a young girl lamenting the loss of her day to sleep. “But used my tears to scold the thing I could not grasp or name, that while I slept had stolen from me”. This poem brought me to consider once more my first ideas on lost time, ultimately leading to a greater appreciation for every passing moment in my life. By looking at the shifting dynamics of relationships, life, death and memory, Harwood highlights the fact that we are living in a world where time is constantly slipping out of our hands.
However in this poem she cannot find a happier memory and recalls a dream instead, “I dreamed once long ago, that we walked among day-bright flowers.” Her use of positive imagery such as the “day-bright flowers” lightens the mood and achieves the same effect of the memories in The Violets, as she stops thinking of death and causes the reader to forget the unhappy nature of the initial memory and be emotionally moved by the warmth of the following memory where she is “secure in my father’s arms.” In her poems The Violets, Father and Child and At Mornington Gwen Harwood demonstrates through her use of memories, her loss of innocence, the love for her parents and how quickly time moves. Her memories also serve to engage the reader and make us feel her sense of happiness, sorrow and
Alisa Key August 16, 2010 AP English 11 The Scarlet Letter The progression of Hester throughout The Scarlet Letter was dramatic and varied greatly. In the beginning of the book she was feeling ashamed, isolated, and shunned by the townspeople. To her, the “A” stood for more than adultery, it stood for “ashamed.” She was being imprisoned by the judgment of others; the lock was a simple scarlet letter. She was living while being haunted by her past. Even seeing her own daughter, Pearl, would sometimes bring up the emotion of her sin all over again.
It seems to me that it is the fear of change that we do not like in our lives, and this starts from the day we are born. We all have change in our lives be it good or bad and our psychological reaction to this is similar to that of the grief process. We all seem to have a fear of death and yet it is inevitable from the day we are born. The joyous occasion celebrated by family and friends when a child comes into the world and the sombre and sad exit we all have to face at some point when it is the end. I will first bring my own experiences to this essay on loss and grief and how I have coped in my own way.
Who would fardels bear, dagger and burdens?” (Armstrong). In other words, he means that who would want to put up with something that is emotionally difficult and why live a miserable life. We should all live life to the fullest. Set aside all issues and stress. Although, we know it is just as hard to not think about that as it is to get rid of it but it’s a known fact that we’re not promised another hour yet another day.