The theme of Leila Hall’s short story “Girls in the Rear-view Mirror” concentrates mainly on the lives of the common truck drivers who have to spend weeks and months away from their families which not only makes them physically tired but also they become mentally and emotionally weak thus falling into circumstances that makes them engaged in immoral activities. The story even describes the tragic life of the prostitutes who need to face so many struggles throughout their lives. The struggle not only includes losing respect in the society but also includes suffering from diseases like AIDS which has no cure and ultimately losing their lives. The disease is caused by having unprotected sex with strangers who might be already infected by the disease.
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Poetry in both its written and oral forms is known by the attractive expressing of the imaginative feelings and thoughts of an individual in a thrilling manner. Poems are always metered or structured and follow a pattern in view of the words connecting each other expressed by sound or actual word meanings which is the reason for use of rhyming words in poetry. However, prose is rather ordinary and is mostly considered straight-forward and typical language form. Most common areas of writing like the newspapers and magazines use the form of prose. It is considered simple and not very expressive. One very significant difference between a poetry and prose is that poetry is represented in lines whereas the basic unit of a prose is always …show more content…
He said that that only the legs of the statue are standing but the wrecked trunk remains partially buried in sand. The statue that the traveller is talking about is the statue of the Egyptian King Ramses II who was called as Ozymandias by the Greeks. The traveller speaks about the brilliant work of the sculptor who gave a meaningful expression to the lifeless thing by capturing the passions of the king. According to his inscriptions, Ozymandias was portrayed parallel to God but the present destroyed version of the statue of the great king indicates a huge divergence from his empty boast. The main concept of the poem is to understand the transient nature of lives on earth. It clearly explains that no matter how much power a person may possess during his life time, it will all be gone once the person dies and nothing remains permanent on
Poetry in both its written and oral forms is known by the attractive expressing of the imaginative feelings and thoughts of an individual in a thrilling manner. Poems are always metered or structured and follow a pattern in view of the words connecting each other expressed by sound or actual word meanings which is the reason for use of rhyming words in poetry. However, prose is rather ordinary and is mostly considered straight-forward and typical language form. Most common areas of writing like the newspapers and magazines use the form of prose. It is considered simple and not very expressive. One very significant difference between a poetry and prose is that poetry is represented in lines whereas the basic unit of a prose is always …show more content…
He said that that only the legs of the statue are standing but the wrecked trunk remains partially buried in sand. The statue that the traveller is talking about is the statue of the Egyptian King Ramses II who was called as Ozymandias by the Greeks. The traveller speaks about the brilliant work of the sculptor who gave a meaningful expression to the lifeless thing by capturing the passions of the king. According to his inscriptions, Ozymandias was portrayed parallel to God but the present destroyed version of the statue of the great king indicates a huge divergence from his empty boast. The main concept of the poem is to understand the transient nature of lives on earth. It clearly explains that no matter how much power a person may possess during his life time, it will all be gone once the person dies and nothing remains permanent on