2008 AP LIT FREE RESPONSE: Section II, Question One In both poems “When I Have Fears” by John Keats, and “Mezzo Cammin” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, both narrators expose their unfulfilled aspirations with the underlying fear that death will soon approach. Keats explains how his career as a famous, credited author has not yet been fulfilled, and fears that he will not live long enough to do so. Conversely, Longfellow looks back on his past slightly disappointed, but assured that he has the latter half of his life to accomplish his objectives and goals. Longfellow is dismal and terrified of death, while Keats comes to realize that his dreams are infinitesimal in the grand scheme of things, and any life lived is a gift that will eventually succumb to death. Keats’ poem is one extensive run-on sentence that truly “runs” across the page.
Compare how poets use language to present feelings in “The Manhunt” and one other poem (Nettles) In ‘Manhunt’, Simon Armitage uses rhyme to reflect the togetherness of a relationship. He says “After the first phase, after passionate nights and intimate days.” As the poem goes on, the reader can start to recognise that the un-rhymed cuplets show how fragmented their relationship has become. In ‘Nettles’ Vernon Scannell uses elements of nature, the nettles, to portray his keen anger towards the pain his son is going through. At the beginning of the poem, Scannell uses soft ‘s’ sounds to emphasise the soothing of his injured son who has fallen in a nettle bed. The child is presented using emotive language.
And the hero refuses the call by stepping out of the elevator without even looking back. The second step in the separation stage is the arrival of the magical being to guide and assist the hero to accept the quest. I think In D’Angelo’s essay his own conscience serves this purpose. After he stepped out of the elevator he starts to feel guilt. I think this sense of guilt and regret came from the benevolent guide, his conscience.
An opportunity to show the selfless and caring side of one's self was lost. Separation is the beginning of the monomyth cycle, and is marked by ''a call to adventure''. Paul's separation began when he entered the elevator with a negative outlook on ''elevator etiquette''. He admitted to ''purposely ignoring his fellow passenger''. Suddenly, the mystery man in the elevator collapsed and began weeping, draining his emotions.
The ‘porcelain’ emphasises how fragile her husband is and how careful she has to be around him, so she does not upset him. ‘The parachute silk of his punctured lung’ is another metaphor used to describe the man’s injuries. Parachutes are used in military, a punctured parachute will be useless as it will not do its job. This could suggest that the man is now, in this state, no use as he feels nothing, ‘the frozen river which ran through his face’ indicating everything has stopped and not moving - he has no emotions. The repetition of ‘only then…’ suggests the slow painstaking process of trying to mend his wounds.
In 'hitcher' death is something that has happened, like we would normally think what death is. The movement of both of the poems is very different, in the 'conscientious objector' death is introduced, and throughout the poem the speaker of the poem (a stable-boy perhaps) is saying all the things he does and how he refuses to help 'death', this shows that he could be a conscientious objector. In 'hitcher' death is very different, the poem starts of quite normally as a fairly normal day, until in stanza 3 where the poem has a complete change of movement and feeling as we read that driver kills the hitch-hiker and then continues his day as usual. The main and most important piece of imagery in the 'conscientious objector' in exploring death/loss is that death is personified as a person “I shall die, but that is all that I shall do for Death” “I him him leading...” we know that death is a person because the 'd' in death has been capitalised so it must be a name. Also the image that death is riding a horse “I hear him leading his horse out of the stall” this relates to the bible
Hale points out that the messy sewing is a sign of nervousness. Mrs. Peters disagrees and tries to defend Mrs. Wright by saying that when she gets tired her sewing becomes a messy. The quilt showed a disturbance in Mrs. Wright's life. The knotting of the quilt seemed to be the same type of knot used to strangle Mr. Wright. The women noticed that trifle, but the men were too busy looking at the dead body and making inferences about how Mr. Wright was killed that they overlooked the similar knotting of the quilt and of the rope around Mr. Wright's neck.
mahedi mazumder mazumder 1 harry antonian class # 13/12/2012 time Ignorance Is Bliss, Until The Truth Is Undeniable exploring humanity's mental perspective of death in Edgar Allan Poe's "The Masque Of The Red Death" The fear of death can be related to a fear of the unknown, the unknown that makes people uncomfortable to acknowledge, which results in them ignoring the idea altogether. In his story titled "The Masque of the Red Death" Edgar Allan Poe suggests through the use of narration, allegory and symbolism, that humanity's attitude towards death is one of ignorance and disregard that is driven by the fear of the unknown, resulting in our species doing all that we can to avoid it and not accept it as the inevitable consequence of life.
“Avaunt and quit my sight! Let the earth hide thee! / Thy bones are marrowless, thy blood is cold; / Thou hast no speculation in those eyes / Which thou dost glare with.” (3.4.93-96). Macbeth is trying his best to reassure himself that what he is seeing is not true and cannot be true but is unable to erase the image of the ghost from his mind. The demise of his psyche is seen at this point and it is caused by the murder of Banquo.
He leads them down the hallway to the tomb exhibit, but they get scared and run off, leaving Holden alone in the dark, cramped passage. Holden likes it at first, but then sees another “fuck you” written on the wall. Disgusted, he speculates that when he dies, somebody will probably write the words “fuck you” on his tombstone. He leaves the exhibit to wait for Phoebe. On the way to the bathroom, he passes out, but he downplays the incident.