Snowy Owl

Are Sunday’s in the winter special to you? Well, in the poem “Those Winter Sundays”, written by Robert Hayden, he writes about a special memory he has of his father when he was a kid on a wintery Sunday. The memory starts out regarding how his father would wake up early on winter mornings, on all days of the week. His father would get the house ready for the day before everyone else woke up. Years later when Robert is all grown up, he feels guilty for never thanking his father for all that he…

The poem “Range-Finding” was written in 1916 by Robert Frost. This poem talks about a battle which by the date one can assume he is talking about World War 1. This poem is about a bullet being shot which hits a person in the chest but focuses on the story behind it and all the many creatures that are affected by the war that is taking place around them. The theme of this poem is war effects all people and creature regardless of if they are directly involved with the war. Robert Frost shows the…

“Acquainted with the Night” by Robert Frost is a poem about a life full of loneliness and isolation. The poem follows the narrator as he goes through life feeling companionless and sees the world as a pessimistic place. Frost uses many different devices to show the meaning of this poem, such as tone, form, and cycling. Through these devices, he shows the constant depression and sorrow that the narrator feels. Frost uses tone throughout the poem to explain the way the narrator feels. He first…

I chose to write about “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”. This story caught my attention because it shows how fast a lifetime can go through the mind. Thoughts are like the speed of light. In reality, things only last for a few short seconds, but lasts for days in the mind of Peyton Farquhar. It is interesting to me how time is so much shorter in real life than it is in the mind. “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” is a very suspenseful short story written by Ambrose Bierce that takes…

The short story Ambrose Bierce wrote shortly after the death of a son speaks in-timately about the human experience of death and how the perception of reality can shape it. In short, the story seems to chronicle the unlikely escape of a condemned man only to reveal at end that he is truly dead. The majority of the plot happens within the space of time from the moment he drops from the bridge which serves as the gal-lows until his neck snaps. In reality, it is less than a second, but for Peyton…

Victoria Culpepper, in her essay “Realism and Romanticism in ‘An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge’”, explores how Ambrose Bierce reflects the literary change from Romanticism to Realism in his short story “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge”. Culpepper argues that Bierce’s use of literary devices such as structure, perception, irony, and symbolism come together to illustrate the ways in which Romanticism and Realism complement and contrast. The essay follows a simple structure, exploring each of…

railroad bridge looking twenty feet down into the fast- moving river. This story “An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge” is written by Ambrose Bierce. The story is divided into three sections which go from a flashback to the present. Each section of the story talks about different things that are occurring in the story. The story is told in third person limited omniscient. The setting of the story is at the Owl Creek Bridge located in Northern Alabama. In the first section of the story, the main…

The short story by Ambrose Bierce “An Occurrence at Owl Creek” brings up many interesting ideas and topics about death and dying. In the story a man was condemned to death because he intended to assist the confederacy but was captured by union soldiers. The story focused around the man who seemed to have escaped death because the rope snapped. As soon as it appeared that he had avoided death reality cut in and his neck broke. The story ended to his limb body hanging. This “occurrence” is…

County, Ohio (a free state), which is approximately 30 miles away from present day West Virginia (which was part of confederate Virginia during the American Civil War); similarly, the plantation that Farquhar was working on was about 30 miles from Owl Creek Bridge, so the proximity of a Confederate sympathizer to a Union foothold needing to be rebuilt was probably something Bierce witnessed in his early years. In addition to this, the nature of the war conveyed by Bierce in his work was…

The short story an Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge takes place during the civil war in the United States. “A man stood upon a railroad bridge in northern Alabama… The man’s hand were behind his back, the wrists bound with cord.” (Bierce) The narrator is in a very precarious situation. He is being taken to his own execution. As he walks closer to the hangman’s noose he begins to contemplate how he can escape. He notices the guards and the forest that the railroad track leads to. The rope is tied…