Linda Pastan's Expectations Of Depression

Also, Pastan using signifies word regarding to her viewpoint to happiness. She makes an exaggeration, using the words “as if” (Linda Pastan, line 8). She explained the disappointment, which is not only appeal to the emotions of generating a sense, as well as depression. Pastan uses one word sentence that highlights her inability to get it. She “tried to hoist it/ on narrow shoulders again” (Linda Pastan, lines 15-16). Pastan’s word “again” exposes that she had happiness previously. This describes why there are expectations of her to be happy. In the next few lines, Pastan explains why she is powerless to achieve it again. Pastan does not want happiness that weighs like gold to sit on her “narrow shoulders.”(Linda Pastan). With using word ‘depression’, Pastan shows one would not want one’s …show more content…
Partly, it is through meditating so carefully on that experience, most directly, all that is lacking in relationships, environments and life itself. At times, Levis embarks on almost Homeric similes which lead further and further down the sorrowful trail (Larry Levis and All That Is Not). There is winter in this poem, and not just literal winter (Biblio). Levy represent the winter is death, as when Levis notes that” Something / Inside him is slowly taking back / every word it ever gave him” (Larry Levis). And there’s the endlessly winter of twinkle, some it realization before and after the stars have already, themselves died (Biblio). In the title poem, "Winter Stars", they mean to the author, "Everything / It cannot say."(Larry Levis). This sense of being removed--like stars in the sky--from that which is both beautiful and believable and, most important, being conscious of this removal--is what drives his work around the edge of the void. There is so much to respect in Winter Stars that it is difficult to know where to begin. (Larry Levis and All That Is