The Redbreast

The Redbreast by Jo Nesbo tells two stories, one that takes place in current times and the other that begins in the early 1940s. These two stories that seem to have no discernible connection to one another are eventually woven into one narrative. The book is separated into parts with each section consisting of a variety chapters. There are 107 chapters. Each chapter provides the location and date. Grasping the full story is a challenge due to the two stories that initially don’t seem connected and to the red herrings that the author creates to throw the reader off. Just when there seems to be some answers emerging, something else happens in the novel that throws you off the solutions that you thought of in your head. This novel uses a lot of…

“Robin Redbreast” by Stanley Kunitz, is a reflective poem in which Kunitz finds a bird that has fallen out of a tree and tries to rescue it by sending it back in the air. Kunitz realizes while holding it in the air that the bird was shot, incapable of flying again. With this poem Kunitz is providing the reader with his impression on cruelty and death. The poem starts with a description of the bird: “all the color washed from him”. This foreshadows the ending of the poem with the speaker’s…

from it. Autumn is also used to set the tone in this poem, and whilst Autumn for many may produce visions of the death and decay, Keats urges us to remember that it is the “close bosom-friend of the maturing sun”. The state imposed on the world by autumn is one of darkness and rot, yet this seasonal change is completely necessary to once again to “load and bless / With fruit the vines”. Keats defends Autumn reminding it that it “hast thy music too” and of its role, however dull, in maintaining…

era of rest and harvest. After great creativity(?) and hard labor, autumn decides to have a break and remain motionless. The poet manifests the idea of composure and relaxation of autumn by including terms such as; “Drows’d” (Keats 17), “sitting” (Keats 14), “sound asleep” (Keats 16), and “steady” (Keats 20). The third stanza is about the near end of autumn and the merging with winter. The lines, “While barred clouds bloom the soft-dying day,” (Keats 25) “in a wailful choir the small gnats…

song ? (Ballet, CEP, 169) In this set of illustrations, in the first example, the auditory sensation of the voice of the Muse is received not by the ears of the poet, but by his organ of sight, thus effecting a unique tonal vision, in second illustration, the sound of music is attributed a perceptible liquidity of water as it flows above the associated phenomena of love. In the third citation, the full impact of the freed voice is felt by the ear of the persona as the personified strong sound…