Poems are pieces of writing that convey meanings through nature and rhetorical devices. Phillis Wheatley uses nature as well as light and dark imagery, reason and love to show the meaning in her poem “Thoughts on the Works of Providence”. Her audience is forced to think about the meanings of the poem through the imagery she uses. Wheatley efficiently uses rhetorical strategies to get her message across about God’s providence, which is how God provides for us. The reader must adequately absorb the imagery in order to understand what the poem is about.…
Yunior and Aurora have a very complex relationship with each other, which they describe as a distressful connection that keeps them bound together. Yunior, initially starts to negatively view Aurora when she starts to hang out with the Hacienda kids, especially her sexual partner Harry. The instance when Aurora goes to visit the Hacienda is the time Yunior really begins to view her differently from before. He even expresses his anger when he beats up a guy coming out from the Hacienda. After all this, Yunior begins to think twice about his feelings for her and acknowledges that their situation can never be how it used to be in the past.…
How do mythological allusions in Mark Z. Danielewski's House of Leaves establish the novel’s setting of the house on Ash Tree Lane? Introduction Literature has, since its conception, maintained a close relationship with religion and mythology – not only through religious texts and mythical canon. Much prose and poetry embrace the use of allusions: textual references to other works or bodies, and these references serve to better elaborate a part of the text and/or connect the reader to the text through something familiar (Cuddon 27). One can find prevalent evidence of both these uses of allusion in Mark Z. Danielewski’s 2000 novel House of Leaves.…
Media Studies scholar Amy-Chinn Dee touches upon this troubling narrative here as she believes creator and writer Joss Weldon ultimately fails Inara as a women with agency by falling back on harmful tropes. In this particular episode of the show, Mal is off kilter upon first meeting this incredibly beautiful and business savvy woman whom he attempts to discredit and annoy. His continued nature toward her throughout the series suggests that he romantic feelings for her but is at odds with her professions which aids in giving her agency. “Yet whore stigma clearly remains a trope of the Firefly universe. In the flashback to Inara’s first encounter with Mal in “Out of Gas” (that recounts how she came to rent the shuttle)…
The Bible describes the Garden of Eden as a perfect, beautiful, and lush Earthly Paradise. Likewise, The Land of Cockaygne, a fourteenth-century poem, opens with a detailed account of a beautiful land with an abundance of food and without worry. The initial use of sensory detail within the text outlines Cockaygne to be an environment far greater than Eden. However, as the poem builds the lighthearted description of Cockaygne transitions to illustrate contempt of an order of monks and nuns due to their sexual encounters.…
Today the character of Rhiannon from the First Branch of the Mabinogi is considered to be a strong female lead in the Celtic Literature. However, her role within the story is not so clear-cut and much of her power and influence within the text is determined by her ethereal nature. In order to examine the important of Rhiannon’s divinity, it is necessary to understand how the concept of a sovereignty goddess and Otherworld ruler combine to create a position whereby Rhiannon both improves upon and secure Pwyll’s realm. Rhiannon is undeniably a divine figure with a layered history. Her divinity directly contributes to her role as sovereignty goddess.…
Imagery is seen by reader in the description of Sheri because it creates an image in reader’s mind of a young lady seemingly peaceful sitting upon the picnic table, resembling a person of which someone passing by may look upon as a “good…
Risa Ward is undeniably against unwinding and hates everything related to unwinding. Risa is a runaway unwind which means she is supposed to be unwound, but runs away from the cops before they get to her. Risa is captured by the cops and is sent to talk to a middle aged woman. Behind the woman, Risa notices a young male around the age of 16. The male approaches Risa and Risa backs away in her wheelchair.…
When the curtain waves by the wind, her intention also sways, sometimes faintly and perhaps occasionally violently. Then, Else begins to question John’s unfaithful, and the suspicious annoys her to have hallucinations of many women’s shadows from the curtain. Next, she symbolize how she suffers in her marriage by the curtain, toadstools are painted as if it is in joint and shape of strings in endless convolutions (771). From the expression, we sense she suffered under delusion around and around in her mind. Finally, she clinches to separate from him; she no longer feels John’s affection toward her.…
Julia Alvarez’s poem On Not Stealing Louise Bogan’s The Blue Estuaries conveys the speaker’s discoveries—the book, her love for and confidence in reading poetry and her girl’s voice--as surprising and serendipitous. This is conveyed through the use of imagery, figurative language and selection of detail. Imagery is used in the poem to convey the speaker’s discoveries: her love for and confidence in reading poetry. The poem begins with the speaker stumbling upon the book, which she says surprised her. The speaker goes in depth to describe the book, noting its “swans gliding on a blueback lake… posed on a placid lake, your name blurred underwater sinking to the bottom.”…
The Prelude: Wordsworth’s Mental Conflicts and His Imperfect Solution The Prelude, an autographical epic poem by William Wordsworth, describes not only a journey of the author’s life and experience, but also a process of how he “fixes the wavering balance of” his conflicted mind, by seeking comfort in the “spots of time,” or, in other words, his memories of childhood and nature (Book I, L622; Book XII, L258). Just as Martin Gray notices, “The poem is itself a therapeutic exercise” (Gray 62). To be specific, there are three major mental conflicts in this poem, as far as I am concerned. Wordsworth is worried about the transience of great intellectual works, about his inability to tell prophecies, and about his detachment from the nature.…
Ruth is a very skeptical, realistic and selfless woman and emotionally and mentally the strongest person in the play A Raisin in the Sun. Ruth is realistic about everything, she tries to protect and take care of her family even when they’re being disrespectful and rude. In the play A Raisin in the Sun by Lorraine Hansberry, Ruth is motivated by her family. Ruth’s objective is to protect her family and she does this in multiple occasions in this play, and it shows her selflessness and her determination and her work ethic. Ruth is motivated by her family and will protect them at all costs.…
Good and Evil An illustrated collection of poems entitled, Songs of Innocence and of Experience, written and illustrated by William Blake shows a variety of perspectives. The innocent and pastoral world for a child pitted against a world of corruption and repression for adults. The same situation or problem is first presented through the perspective of a child and then shown from experience. The poem “The Lamb” is the counterpart for “The Tyger”, which shows two sides to the human soul: a bright side and a dark side or good and evil. The lamb represents all that is good in the world and innocence while the Tyger showcases the opposite, focusing on evil, corruption, and suffering in the world.…
Wondrous but Fearful Tyger William Blake’s “The Tyger” in Songs of Experience, written in 1794, describes the Tyger as “fearful” while appreciating its beauty. During this time, Blake was one of the first people to see a tiger; this inspired him to write “The Tyger” and paint the creature as a majestic but fierce being. Although the origins of the Tyger are questioned, the creator is referred to as “he” implying a male divine creator. While examining who or what created the Tyger, in addition to the industrial and fiery imagery, the answer could reveal what the Tyger symbolizes. William Blake’s “The Tyger,” in Songs of Experience, uses the creation of the Tyger, along with the dark, fiery environment, to argue the Tyger belongs to the creator's world and was created for a purpose; although the creature may be labeled as evil and symbolizes the human mind, the creature represents the other half to create a whole.…
An epic struggle between God and nature takes place within Alfred Lord Tennyson’s mind in his elegy, In Memoriam A.H.H.. Tennyson brings to life his own world of grief and suffering in a quest to discern man’s purpose on earth. He draws on his own experiences and knowledge of the natural world to challenge his personal beliefs on both God and nature.…