The Loss

Empowering poetry allows a poet to relate to their audience through universal ideas of death and loss and the consolation brought by childhood memories. Gwen Harwood’s Father and Child and focuses on a recollection of childhood memories that deeply impacted her perspective on mortality and her relationship with her father. The mirroring structure of the Father and Child depicts a complete role reversal between the persona and her father, showing a switch in comforting each other in the face of…

moments in life can not be individually understood without experiencing the severe loss of certain events. For some people these events can be taken for granted sadly removing some of the value from life. In the novel Johnny got his gun, the protagonist begins to understand the importance of his memories and events that he has experienced throughout his life to develop a sense of personal worth symbolically within his loss. the literary effect of flashbacks within the novel is to make certain…

several times that playing sports was one of the only things that made them feel truly happy while growing up. Therefore, over the course of two years, I was able to notice how difficult it was for him/her to be a coach as opposed to a player. The loss of that time in their life was something he/she significantly struggled with when it occurred, and was still struggling with it during our time together. My reactions to the coach, then, were almost identical to my reactions to Ben. I felt…

friends are her “fountain of faith” and the number was not necessary. This maturation Taylor has comes from her loss, much like Peter. Jeannette also experiences loss throughout her entire childhood, she was constantly having to give up all she had because of her parents mistakes. At first, I do not think she saw it that way, but later and into adulthood she comes to this realization. Her main loss was that of her childhood, because of her father’s drinking and her mother’s inability to hold a…

“The Violets” enhances my understanding of the inevitability of maturation as a result of a loss of innocence and the acceptance of mortality. Harwood’s representation of these profound ideas through the combination of poetic devices and a reflective tone retains a timeless significance and offers the reader an extensive, relevant and enduring exploration Harwood’s analysis of the universal concept of loss of innocence is examined through poetic devices in “Father and…

Fictional Literature is something that affects the lives and thinking of many readers from age six to 96. It holds the power to share a story that can reveal a reality on real life, but it can also be there to simply bring laughter in an impossible utopia. Many writers have this plan and idea in mind before they set out to write a fictional work of art, however what the reader receives from that written piece can be totally different; nevertheless, it impacts the reader in one way or another.…

In ‘Tess of the D’Urbervilles’ Hardy presents the theme of innocence throughout the novel. This theme is directly linked to the character of Tess, and her loss of innocence, during the novel. Because of the pastoral genre, we expect as an audience for a loss of innocence to be a feature in the novel, which means Hardy presents this innocence as being dangerous and desirable. When we first see Tess, she is depicted as a girl of innocence, in her ‘white muslin’, as white has connotations of…

solemnly relies on the experiences they have encountered and in what ways do they react. Ralph having to lead the group in reasonable thought expresses the maturity that was gained. The impact of killing and the deaths of living creatures resembled the loss of innocence in the novel. The boys having to encounter the deaths of their close friends and having to persevere through those times, signifies the change from their juvenile ways. Due to the isolation the boys were placed in on the island,…

conflict with his past self. Phoebe Kitanidis shows readers a glimpse of Marshall’s former self in a flashback of Marshalls. When this particular memory returns Marshall finds that he and Elyse originally planned that only she would drink a memory loss potion in order for them to save the town. However in the flashback Marshall says he gets a “really sneaky, unethical idea- even more so than [his] usual ones” (Kitanidis 274). This idea is to wipe his memory as well so that Elyse will not…

Death. The loss of someone can weaken us from despair or strengthen us from the legacy left behind them. The savage murder of clutter family members created vigilance in the inhabitants of Holcomb and strengthened security. However, suspiciousness among neighbors rose, mistrust corrupted long lasting friendships and fear contaminated in the veins of the inhabitants. The murder of the Clutters strengthened Holcomb from vigilance, but weakened the mistrust of their neighbors. Despite handling the…