Scythe

Even though the old man has been unsuccessful for eighty-four days in a row, he treats every day as a new day and fishes to the absolute highest level possible for him each day. He is meticulous and precise with his fishing. It truly seems that he has not, and will not ever give up his pride as a fisherman. This determination and perseverance shown by the old man is nothing short of inspirational. When a fish finally swims near him, it is no surprise that the old man manages to hook the fish…

Life and death are two of the most thought about concepts throughout the human race. These are also the ideas that Robert Warren uses his poem Evening Hawk to address. While the poem appears to be about a hawk flying through the sky with little regard to anything else, including time, a thrush that is still, and a flying bat that is wise beyond what humans can believe, Warren actually uses the poem to deliver a message challenging the concept of time that humans have created. It is through…

In the time since its discovery, many artists have interpreted Homer’s story of Achilles’ shield. They have created and shared paintings and poems, each showing a slightly different version of the famous piece of metal. One artist who describes the shield of Achilles is the poet W. H. Auden. His rendition of the shield differs markedly from Homer’s original. Homer’s depiction of the ancient Greek world on the shield is a microcosm of humanity, displaying both peace and conflict enveloped by…

killed’, now representative of the butchered French. “Requiem for the Croppies” continues the idea of the atrocities of war through the contrast of depiction of people fighting a civil war. Where farmers oppose the trained English soldiers, ‘Shaking scythes at cannon’, as if primitive compared to the well-equipped English. ‘And stampede cattle into infantry’, without horses or any other means to overcome the English, they are a contrast to each other, a one-sided battle, as ‘The hillside…

Suddenly, they turn on their heels and leave, trudging through the muddy garden, walking towards the family’s wheat fields. Overhead, the dark, steely gray sky is overcast and the piled haystacks are lying in swaths, cut and thrown together by a scythe. Next to the bleak skies, they appear especially golden, almost highlighted. The sweet scent of freshly cut hay blends with the rain and the smell of damp earth. Down by the haystacks, her father works in the rain, bundling cut wheat and…

In his journal of his third voyage to the New World, Italian explorer Christopher Columbus said, “I have come to believe that this is a mighty continent which was hitherto unknown.” While he was correct he had reached a large continent, he was incorrect in assuming that it was uninhabited. In fact, the Americas had a sizable native population. After Christopher Columbus’ voyages, the Americas became a destination for many European colonists who hoped for a fresh start in the New World. However,…

gains a renewed perspective of himself and the world around him. This idea can be portrayed in the couplets “The butterfly and I had lit upon, Nevertheless, a message from the dawn” and “That made me hear the wakening birds around and hear his long scythe whispering to the ground” as the use of personification and imagery opens the personas perspective of the world around him, enabling a change of mindset which introduces the transformational process of discovery to evolve. When noting…

peasants time was to do the agricultural labor on the fields (S9). As a farmer i have to farm the land. I grow many crops on the farm.The farmers could also farm meadows, and vineyards of the kings estate (S9). A long scythe help the farm cut crops without bending down (Simkin). The scythe made farm the crops a lot faster. (STEWE-2) The peasants paid the king in the produce they made (Bishop). The peasants had to pay the king at least every mouth. They pay for protection. (SIP-B) In the middle…

Sutpen’s attitude and values, which influence his lifestyle, have drastically changed due to the huge impact that events in his past have had on his upbringing. These events helped him to become who he aspired to be but they also played a huge role in his downfall. In order to exemplify how Sutpen’s past actions affect his attitude and values, Faulkner uses multiple points of view, visual imagery, and indirect characterization. 1807 in a small town in West Virginia, a child who was a virgin too…

In chapter 11 of “How to Read Literature Like a Professor,” Foster explains how violence in literature usually means more than just a punch. There are two kinds of violence: character caused violence and authorial violence. Character caused violence is any type of violence in which there is a guilty party. Even if it is not a direct group, there is still someone or something to blame. Shootings, stabbings, drowning, poisonings, bombings, starvation, etc are all examples of character caused…