The Lonely Goatherd

The definition of foils, or cross purposes, is when a certain character uses words or actions to show traits about themselves. This is term takes any type of literature to a new depth, meaning that you can one character act a certain way, but when he’s put in a situation, we’ll see the gruesome change that we don’t want. This also enriches the flavor of the texts, because you create breaking points for the characters and how they react to certain situations. One person who excelled in this usage of foils was none other than William Shakespeare; and one of Shakespeare’s best uses of this type of writing was the Tragedy of Romeo and Juliet. He constantly had the characters interacting with each, which not only showed us, the audience, what the characters were like, but it also forces the characters to adapt to their current situation adjust how they are to get past it. Romeo and Juliet has been a classic example of this for its constant plot twists and sudden outbursts. Cross purposing leads to a type of climax in acts 3:1 and 3:2 when Romeo has returned from his marriage. This foil mainly focuses on Romeo and Tybalt. These two are from opposite families, but Romeo is quite passive, whereas Tybalt is very aggressive and was roaming for Romeo to begin with. The previous night at the party, Romeo came wearing a mask to find his previous love, Rosaline; but in the process of looking, Tybalt recognizes him and on his way down to challenge him, his uncle stops him. So the next day,…

very handsome boy, outgoing, funny, and he had an avocation to drink beer. John’s family treats him very infantile, and is always comparing him to his brother. Lorraine was very shy and had paranoia, she was very self conscious. Somehow those two managed to become best friends. The Pigman lived a very mundane lifestyle, and the kids met the Pigman by a prank. Their prank was to keep some random person talking on the phone for as long as possible. Lorraine picked the Pigman and said that she…

Rationale A Poor man’s Happiness Sadness has no end Happiness does Happiness is like a feather, That the wind is blowing through the air, Fly so light. But he has a brief life. Needs wind to go on and on. The poor man's happiness seems The Great Illusion of Carnaval He waits all year For a moment of dream To make the fantasy King or God But will end on Wednesday. He dreams of what he wants to be, Because he has only one life He thinks There is only one chance To do what he wants. Golden…

Being alone in nature is the best thing to help a person be happy and find him or herself. That is the message both Henry David Thoreau’s Walden and Emily Dickinson's How Happy is the Little Stone. In the How Happy is the Little Stone, the poem starts out with “How Happy is the little Stone That rambles on the Road alone,” this shows that the rock is happy because he is all alone. We know he is all alone because the poem states that “And independent as the Sun” the speaker is trying to show…

Many poets will express their perspectives or nauture in various ways. In the poems, “Ode to enchanted Light” by Pablo Neruda and “Sleeping in the Forest” by Mary Oliver, the poets utilize similar and contrasting key elements to express their views of the beauties and powers of nature. In “Ode to enchanted Light,” Pablo Neruda touches upon the beauties of light and appreciation for the nature that surrounds us, through the use of figuative language, theme, symbolism, and mood/tone. Mary Oliver…

transcendentalists do. A. E. Housman in “The Loveliest of Trees” writes about how beautiful cherry trees are. He refers to the cherry trees as the loveliest trees, meaning he thinks they are beautiful. Like “A Noiseless Patient Spider”, this whole poem takes place in nature. This reveals that A. E. Housman values nature and the beauty of it, which is a main idea of transcendentalism. In both poems, the authors reflect on themselves while they are in nature. This is a major transcendentalist…

“I wandered lonely as a cloud That floats on high o'er vales and hills, When all at once I saw a crowd, A host, of golden daffodils;” In the first stanza of the poem uses a simile to describe the loneliness William was feeling when he stumbled upon the daffodils. “Beside the lake, beneath the trees, Fluttering and dancing in the breeze,” shows the reader, through uses of a metaphor to describe his view of the daffodils by comparing them to a crowd of people. This is also a good example of…

Stephen Crane and William Wordsworth are two authors who base many works of theirs on the idea of Naturalism. Naturalism is a literary movement in the nineteenth century that suggests the environment shapes human character. Wordsworth’s and Crane’s literary works contrast to prove that an individual’s viewpoint on the natural world depends on their own experiences with naturalism. Wordsworth sustains an optimistic tone within the compilation of his poems he has written. Two primary examples of…

Thoreau and Bryant had similar works from the fact that they were different from everyone else's point of view and, they saw their different subjects similarly. Thoreau saw solitude as a refreshing and wonderful thing to experience and Bryant saw death as a really wonderful thing, not lonely and sad. They also brought nature into their ideas as a companion and in some instances a divine being. Thoreau had some quiet, alone time with nature and writes that "some of my pleasantest hours were…

The poems “Fog” by Carl Sandburg and “I wandered lonely as a cloud” by William Wordsworth share both similarities and differences. One similarity that both poems share are symbols. In Sandburg’s poem, the title “Fog” is a symbol within itself. The title hovers over the poem just like fog does in nature. That cat mentioned at the beginning of the poem symbolizes how the fog approaches “on little cat feet” and then sits on “silent haunches” before “mov[ing] on” (Sandburg 899). The fog moves in the…