Past tense

'Compare the methods used by the poets to explore guilt in Giuseppe and The Deliverer' Both Giuseppe and The Deliverer focus on past events. Giuseppe intertwines historical events with a fantasy character – the "mermaid" - in order to hide some of the guilt the speaker's uncle feels over his part in the events the poem relays. In contrast, The Deliverer's startling honesty and lack of romanticism paint the themes and events in the poem as truthful and real, with the speaker facing the…

shifts from present to past tense halfway through the story, effectively depersonalizing the conflict between the children and allowing it to portray a larger conflict between countries. In the beginning, the author uses present tense. This part of the story is the part when it is peaceful and safe and the two children are friendly with each other. The use of present tense extends until Rami mentions how Bethlehem is the Lord’s city, which is when the author first uses past tense to describe how…

Yeats’s poem ‘’Leda and the Swan’’ and Dorothy Hewitt’s ‘’Grave Fairytale’’ have content that is both mythological and violently sexual. In Yeats’ poem the speaker retells a story from Greek mythology. It is that of the rape of Leda by Zeus. In Hewitt’s poem, the speaker creates a new version of Rapunzel’s fairytale. This essay will discuss the relationship between mythology/ folklore, violence and sex through the analysis of both poems. In Yeats’ poem, the speaker resents the rape scene,…

6. The author of “A House for Us” switches between present and past tense half way in the story to emphasize that the narrator is now recalling a memory. The change in tenses represents when the narrator begins explaining his last memory of when Rami is alive and delivers clarification to the conclusion of the story. The shift between past and present brings clarification to the story to give the reader an idea of the bigger picture. The break occurs midway in a deep conversation between the…

begins with giving a curious interpretation of the seasons, then with excitedly recounting her posh days of youth, then she describes a memory from her childhood with melancholy nostalgia and signs off with a resignation to boring existence in present tense. The talk of seasons struck me. Spring is creul? Winter keeps you warm? What sort of people think this way about seasons? I had the idea that maybe a corpse would think about seasons like this. The section is called “Burial of the Dead,”…

chapter have an alternate view on the passage of time, offering different insights into the way humans interact with it. For Benjy, time is meaningless. Every moment to him feels as though it had just occurred and he cannot differentiate between the past and the present. Simply hearing the name of his sister brings him back in time and he literally relives the moment, unaware that this is only a memory. Time is in constant flux, and attempting to understand his experiences can be disorienting…

Whether reminiscing or brooding, residing in the past cannot provide the feeling of wholeness. Alternatively, living in the future can only bring anxiety and fear. The reason bliss exists in the present moment is the freedom from stress it gives to fully appreciate each detail of life. Dwelling on the past will not bring joy to our present lives. When we reminisce, we are missing the current memories we could be creating. Then again, when we dwell on our past mistakes, we are constantly…

The theme of time is deeply rooted in its structure and characters. Faulkner discovered that time exceeded the objective. Time and subjectivity fuse together the known past with the unknown future to create a moment of the present. This idea led to Faulkner’s complex deployment of flashbacks within the flow of consciousness and his reliance of the repetition of these flashbacks (Walker 493-495). Faulkner not only incorporates time in structure and characters, but he also incorporates his own…

There are two packages of time theories that attempt to explain, in a nutshell, what exists –that is, the past, present, or future? Here, we consider one of the two packages: the B-package. It has a few notable strengths and weaknesses. The strengths of this package is that it is implied by an important physics theory: the special theory of relativity and that it is able to account for past- and future-tensed sentences. A weakness of this package is that it is unable to account for the ordinary…

into London life. Woolf highlights the experience of this veteran as he spirals into madness, stemming from his wartime past as well as the pressures put on him from society. In the passage, Septimus’s mental instability is a result of the fragmented time he experiences. Not only must Septimus comprehend the stimuli of the present, it is contested by intrusions of his past. The presence of Evans, a deceased friend of Septimus in the war, constantly undermines Septimus’s attempts at…