These two poets also share a strong sense of place and seek to either record or celebrate the craft in which was associated with their early years. They are both considered to be Northern Irish poets with an Ulster nationalist heritage. They both present in a wide range of their poems, the tension between imagination and memory between rural and urban life, childhood experience and adult remiscence. The title of these two poems, Forge by Montague and The Forge by Heaney suggest that they are on the same subject; however, Montague’s could be interpreted as ambiguous by the reader. Forge, (interpreted as a verb and/or a noun) suggests that it is the act of completing a task or belonging to a sense of place.
I have learned how we can find a way to relate to his writings in the way the writer’ thoughts become our own reality by placing part of our own personal experiences into the writing itself. The biggest area this writing impacted me personally, was in the way it help me recognize the foolish ideas many people outside of Maine view
Where there would usually be prepositional phrase “ lashing off of the boy” there is now a verb phrase as the main component of the phrase is “lashing”. The prepositional phrase has been compressed into one non standard English word. This is typical of the Scottish accent and dialect and provides some context to the novel. The reference to Jean Claude Damn is a cultural reference which can be used to entice the reader to carry on reading as it is someone can all relate to as as he is a familiar icon within popular culture. The use of jargon also relates to the reader and the swear words make the text a lot less formal which is relative to the context of the novel.
A Dangerous Symbol In his extremely short story, “The Paring Knife,” Michael Oppenheimer utilizes symbolism masterfully. In literature, authors typically use objects with which the readers are familiar in order to assist in plot development or to convey a key theme. They accomplish this by arranging the language so that the focus is continually shifted to the object throughout the selection. The reader is able to grasp new meaning because of either universal familiarity with the object or an immediate understanding of what the object represents within the context of the story. If an object is viewed by most or all readers in the same manner, the author is making use of conventional symbolism.
| A Modest Proposal is an essay written by Jonathan Swift in 1729 that points out the issues concerned politics and economy between Ireland and England during his time in Britain. As an Irishman, the author delivers his message to the audience by using satires, which is a literary work that attacks or makes fun of vices, abuses and any other fault or imperfection. Another prominent feature is the verbal irony, a figure of speech that helps building satires in a literary work. “In Swift’s essay, one important way in which the author engages with the audience is to make them see deeper political, moral, and social truths and problems through his use of irony. The essay is certainly a Juvenalian satire that is aimed at making his contemporary readers recognize the kind of cold, calculating inhumanity of blunt rationalism when used to address social problems such as poverty and overpopulation.”(Nicole Smith) “Ireland in the 1720s was a dependent kingdom of the recently-formed United Kingdom.
SYMBOLISM IN “RED CONVERTIBLE” The symbolism can be defined as the use of symbols to signify ideas and qualities by giving them symbolic meanings that are different from their literal sense. Many authors use this literature device in their stories to reveal the theme or to give and emphasize the message. The symbolism captures significant elements and confers complexity and depths to the story. By using this figure of speech, the writer communicates and shares his ideas without thorough explanations; leaving the final interpretation to the reader. In the short story “The Red Convertible” write by Louise Erdrich, the symbolism is used to illustrate the changing bond between two brothers Henry and Lyman.
Nicks Liability Not every narrator is the voice of the author. Before considering the "gap" between author and narrator, we should remember how, as readers, we respond to the narrator's perspective, especially when that voice belongs to a character who, like Nick, is an active participant in the story. In The Great Gatsby, the story is told through the eyes of an active, biased, participant. Nick Carraway has a special place in this novel. He is not just one character among several, it is through his eyes and ears that we form our opinions of the other characters making him unreliable.
Redefining Truth in Tim O’Brien’s The Things They Carried By: Rose Monahan May 2011 The Pennsylvania State University In an interview with Tobey C. Herzog, Tim O’Brien discussed the merits of truth by saying, “You have to understand about life itself. There is a truth as we live it; there is a truth as we tell it. Those two are not compatible all the time. There are times when the story truth can be truer, I think, than a happening truth” (120). Many literary scholars have struggled with the “truth” in one of O’Brien’s most famous works, The Things They Carried, a collection of twenty-two tales on the Vietnam War that stand alone just as strongly as they tie together.
Firstly, because it IS the last story, it is one that is more likely to be overlooked by some of you in your study of the stories. Secondly, it is a short story worth reading and considering in the general context of our work on identity and belonging. The simplicity of plot, the power of the language, the questions it raises about our struggle as human beings to survive in hostile environments against overwhelming odds and the unusual setting of the story have- for me anyway- elevated this story as one of the best in the anthology. In my speech I will be discussing four main aspects – plot, style, setting and theme. Firstly, let me give you a brief overview of the story which is set in the freezing wilderness of north Canada.
Dubliners by James Joyce, is a collection of short stories first published in 1914. (Haslam and Hooper, 2012, p13). Joyce arranged these stories in sequence to portray the city of Dublin ‘growing up’, ‘I have tried to present [Dublin] to the indifferent public under four of its aspects: childhood, adolescence, maturity and public life’ (Haslam and Hooper, 2012, p18). Throughout his sequence of stories Joyce used central themes such as religion and psychological paralysis to convey his concerns regarding some of the darker aspects of Dublin society and ‘the narrow morality of its inhabitants’ (Haslam and Hooper, 2012, p19). The story of ‘Eveline’ portrays adolescence in Joyce’s sequence, and tells a tale of a young girls desire to escape the brutality of an abusive father and a restrictive mundane existence by having the chance to leave her home with her lover.