To what extent is Dickens representation of the messianic figure reflective of his 19th Century context? Parallels can be drawn between the Christian messiah Jesus Christ and a handful of characters from Charles Dickens literary classic A Tale of Two Cities. The messianic characteristics represented by the various characters in Dickens novel often reflect his 19th Century context as he draws on similarities of the political, economic and social distress between his era and the French Revolution. The lovely persona Lucie Manette stands out to us as something too good to be true. She is embodied with Christ-like qualities as she is depicted as being “the golden thread” to her father’s situation as she “had the power of charming this black brooding from his mind”.
In Walt Whitman’s poem, “Of the Terrible Doubt of Appearances,” he questions and doubts reality. Although Whitman is not religion, I believe he might be referring to God towards the end of his poem as he talks about death or perhaps a lover, “I cannot answer the question of appearances or that of identity beyond the grave, but I walk or sit indifferent, I am satisfied, he ahold of my hand has completely satisfied me.” I believe Whitman may also be referencing his sexuality in this poem, he is satisfied; he perceives reality but doubts its uncertainty and appearances. When Whitman mentions his lovers and friends though, it seems as if everything will be okay and reality doesn’t feel so confusing. In Whitman’s other poem, “Song of Myself (Section 11),” he paints an image of a mystery woman watching twenty-eight young men bathing by the shore. I do believe Whitman is also referring to his sexuality in this poem as well, and that he may be the twenty-ninth bath as well as the mystery woman mentioned.
Enjambment makes the poem storylike and colloquial The Buzz Saw – repetition of ‘snarled and rattled’ keeps going back to the buzz saw, tension as we don’t know what’s gonna happen. Hints at tragedy to follow, ‘and nothing happened: day was ALL BUT DONE’, almost safe, almost averted from tragedy. Personification of saw, aggressive and menacing, AURAL IMAGERY, onomatopoeia makes tenser as we can visualise situation. 30 Minutes Before, seems to blame adults to a certain extent for not preventing the accident earlier on, expresses regret, ‘day was all but done’, wistful tone, builds tension as we now know that something will happen to the boy,
Character Essay The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock An insecure yet very opinionated character was Prufrock. A “seen it all” kind of attitude was through the whole poem, but there was still a simple love character beneath him that he was too shy to show. He expresses a lot of himself, though he lacks a sense of confidence. (40) “And indeed there will be time, to wonder, ‘Do I dare? And ‘Do I dare?’, Time to turn back and descend the stair, with a bald spot in the middle of my hair”.The poem starts out with verses of “what not to do with your love”, yet he fails to express the person he has feelings for but also fails to recognize himself in all this.
The purple hibiscus flower is a representation of freedom and hope. Jaja is drawn to the atypical flower that was bred by Aunty Ifeoma’s “good friend Phillipa” (Adichie 128). The abnormal nature of the flower signifies how out of the ordinary the defiance of Jaja on Palm Sunday was. For Jaja, the flower is hope that something new can be produced. He longs to break free of his Papa’s rule this is portrayed when he takes the stalks of the purple hibiscus home with him, and “[gives] them to the gardener” (Adichie 196) to plant.
The words “drizzle…bedrenches” are negative onomatopoeias which present use of pathetic fallacy to suggest a sombre and melancholic mood to the poem. Although Emma is now dead, Hardy see’s her “phantom figure” remaining on forever on that hillside. Hardy compares the event they shared with his estranged to his present life without her. Repetition is used to
The flowers are a symbol in the poem, but also in reality for the family (a symbol of new life, after death). The bruise is seen as not really part of the boy - he is “wearing” it (a metaphor), as if it could come off. Heaney likens the bruise to the poppy, a
Furthermore, Buck directly refers to us throughout the poem by using words such as ‘our’ and ‘we’, expressing his view that we all have a role, and that we are all responsible for our lost heritage. He aims his message directly at the readers. The first stanza illustrates how ignorant man is. We see our lives in monochrome, when in reality, we just fail to notice how colourful and vibrant our lives really are. We are ignorant to the ‘kaleidoscopes of colour’, the ‘saffron’ and ‘madder’ that make up our lives.
English Essay To what extent is the future doomed in Eliot’s poetry? T.S Eliot’s poems “The Waste Land”, “Hollow Men”, and “The Love Song of Alfred J. Prufrock” explore the sense of doom and failure that existed in the desolate perspective of life after World War I. Eliot believed that modern society lacked a vital sense of community and a spiritual centre. The poem, “The Waste Land” presents a series of conversations or scenes that lead through the wasteland to a moment of hope, the expectation of rain, at the end. The poem expresses the disillusionment of the post war years, the anguish and barrenness of modern life and the isolation of the individual. It deals with the decline of civilisation and the impossibility of recovering meaning in life.
In my opinion, these lines reflect Macbeth’s hopelessness and indirectly reflect much thinking of Shakespeare. Macbeth speaks these lines after listening to his wife’s death. At this time, life to Macbeth is meaningless and the death is not very important and worthy being painful at all. When uttering this saying, Macbeth may think about his real life in which he made “a lot of noise”, he wrote a story, he fought many battles, he tried to become a king, he kept the throne; however, after death they all seem to become nothing. In Macbeth’s as well as Shakespeare’s thinking, all people in this life are just bad, stupid actors- shouting and running about and generally making a lot of noise and fuss but not much sense, and then they die anyway and become completely meaningless.