This poetry author, Mary Oliver is describing a dreadful scene that is in the newspaper. After reading the poetry, I would see as a type of natural disaster occurred somewhere in the world. It talked detailed about how camera caught of what happened to the cars, streets, house and massive death. The camera has caught a family who is counting who is missing in the family. The entire poetry is about this heartbroken event until the last three stanza. “ All this I read in the papers, in the sunlight, I read with my cold, sharp eyes.” Author is reading this horrific news while she is sitting under the warm sunlight. The word cold is separated with the comma from sharp eyes. I felt like the word cold is what the author trying to say. It’s sending
Furthermore, there are several occurrences of the harm against women in regards to Mrs. Dempster. She undergoes a stark change in personality after being hit with the snowball, described by the denizens of Deptford as having “gone simple”. One of Mary Dempster’s most shocking acts after the fact is when she is found having sex with a tramp (later revealed to have been done in order to restore his faith). Her husband, Amasa, decides that Mary is too much of a burden to him and ties her to chair, making her unable to leave her home. Despite this, the young Dunny does not think of Mary as a burden, in fact referring to her as his “greatest friend”. He keeps her up to date on the goings-on in Deptford, he prides her on her fearlessness. He knows
In “The Weekend,” George cheats on Lenore with Sarah, and she still chooses to stay with him and work out their issues. The story by Ann Beattie can relate to “The Awakening” by Kate Chopin because Edna cheats on Leonce with Robert and Alcee Arobin. After learning Edna cheats on him, Leonce decides to stay with Edna to work their relationship out. While nothing is wrong with their significant others, they cheat because something in them is unfulfilled. Lenore knows George cheats because he spends much of his time with the other women, but she never acknowledges it, until she talks with Julie one day; “she’s really the best friend I’ve ever had. We understand things—we don’t always have to talk about them. ‘Like her relationship with George,’
1. Mary Hood’s first collection of stories is titled How Far She Went (1984), and her second collection was entitled And Venus is Blue (1986). These stories have been reprinted in textbooks. She also pubished a novella called Seam Busters and then later published another collection of stories entitled A Clear View of the Southern Sky. In 1995, Hood published a novel, Familiar Heat, and later published an extensive essay on Northwest Georgia in The New Georgia Guide (1996).
The book, The Murder of Mary Bean and Other Stories, written by Elizabeth A. De Wolfe, is composed of two parts. Part one, The Death of Berngera Caswell, analysis’s the social history of the mid 1800’s to explore a mill girl’s life. This text makes use of general trends and factual information to support and provide an explanation of the murder of Mary Bean. Part two is composed of two stories, Mary Bean, The Factory Girl and Life of George Hamilton. This text explores the cultural history of the mid 1800’s using fictional newspapers, articles, and novels as support. The Murder of Mary Bean does not only provide the reader with the gruesome detail of one murder, this book issues an understanding of the complications
In this poem Mary Oliver wanted to send a message to her readers about how important imitation is in the process of learning how to write a good-quality work. “You would learn very little in this world if you were not allowed to imitate. And to repeat your imitations until some solid grounding in the skill was achieved and the slight but wonderful difference – that made you you and no one else - could assert itself. Every child is encouraged to imitate. But in the world of writing it is originality that is sought out, while imitation is the sins of sins” ( Oliver 13). Through the poem Mary Oliver writes about the value of imitation as a skill that is necessary, but she also calls
Cindy Sherman is a well known American photographer and film director. She was born in Glen Ridge, New Jersey, but soon after her birth her family moved to Huntington, Long Island. Cindy first became interested in visual arts when she was studying at the Buffalo State College. Sherman at first was more into painting than photography but when she became frustrated with painting she became interested in photography. She chose photography because she wanted to capture her own art rather than copy something and make it into a painting. Alongside Charles Clough, Robert Longo, and Nancy Dwyer they created an art center called Hallwalls. Sherman was also considered to be a part of The Pictures Generation which was an exhibition that was the first formal labeling of groups of artists with their images.
Mary Cassatt was most widely known for her impressionist pieces that depicted mother (or nanny) and child. She was faced with many struggles throughout her life and received much criticism, even after her death in 1926. She found it difficult to receive appropriate recognition for her pieces during her early career. Many were unaccepted by the Salon. Cassatt lived for many years in France after her successful career, which ended abruptly when she went blind. Her talent placed her pieces in many famous museums throughout the world and landed her name among the famous artists of her time. As well as paving the way for powerful women, like herself. She lived during a time of suffragettes searching for equality.
Mary Ball Washington was not a pleasant woman, and though Washington was exactingly correct in fulfilling his obligations to her throughout her life, he never felt much filial warmth. An early example of the color that Chernow is able to add to his chronicle is in the recounting of a telling exchange of letters between Washington and his mother, in early May of 1755. At the time, Washington was serving on General Braddock’s staff at the frontier town of Winchester. He wrote to her, proud of his appointment and she, nonplussed, asked him to bring her some butter. Throughout her life, she played the martyr and never bothered to acknowledge her son’s accomplishments, instead even going so far as to accuse him of leaving her destitute. He didn’t,
This work will treat about the short story "The Revolt of Mother", written by Mary Eleanor Wilkins Freeman and it will be based on the feminist criticism. By this criticism, this short story from Freeman is a kind of innovation in literature made by women. Feminist Criticism has been developed with the rising of the feminist movement in sixties, and particularly in literature, since the publication, in the United States, of the doctoral thesis "Sexual Politics" by Kate Millet, in 1970. This slope of the literary criticism has been questioning the patriarchal academic practice.
Love isn’t supposed to be cold, but it is in most places during the winter. In this poem winter symbolizes the kind of love that the speaker is used to. The love that he has gotten all his life has been cold and distant. He spoke of this right at the beginning of the poem, “Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack
Here she celebrates in a way her freedom and identifies with the struggle of other women. According to Mary Jane Androne Ramatoulaye uses her “range of emotions and opinions to express her evolving consciousness of women’s roles in her culture” (38). She also not only stands up for herself, she speaks on behalf of her girls and other women. When Dieng, her love interest from childhood refer to women as “mortar shells” Ramatoulaye quickly rises to the defense saying “But we are not incendiaries; rather we are stimulants! And I pressed on “In many fields and without skirmishes, we have taken advantage of the notable achievements that have reached us from elsewhere, the gains wrested from the lessons of history. We have a right, just as you have,
Frost begins the poem by describing a young boy cutting some wood using a "buzz-saw." The setting is Vermont and the time is late afternoon. The sun is setting and the boy's sister calls he and the other workers to come for "Supper." As the boy hears its dinnertime, he gets excited and cuts his hand on accident. Immediately realizing that the doctor might amputate his hand, he asks his sister to make sure that it does not happen. By the time the doctor arrives, it is too late and the boy's hand is already lost. When the doctor gives him anaesthetic, he falls asleep and never wakes up again. The last sentence of the poem, "since they (the boys family and the doctor) were not the one dead, turned to their affairs" shows how although the boys death is tragic, people move on with their life in a way conveying the idea that people only care for themselves.
After reading the slavery accounts of Olaudah Equiano 's "The Life of Olaudah Equiano" and Harriet Jacobs ' "Incidents In the Life of a Slave Girl", you gain knowledge of what slaves endured during their times of slavery. To build their audience aware of what life of a slave was like, both authors gives their interpretation from two different perspectives and by two different eras of slavery.
Frost establishes at the outset his speaker's discursive indirection. He combines the indefinite pronoun "something" with the loose expletive construction "there is" to evoke a ruminative vagueness even before raising the central subject of walls. A more straightforward character (like the Yankee farmer) might condense this opening line to three direct words: "Something dislikes walls." But Frost employs informal, indulgently convoluted language to provide a linguistic texture for the dramatic conflict that develops later in the poem. By using syntactical inversion ("something there is . . .") to introduce a rambling, undisciplined series of relative clauses and compound verb phrases ("that doesn't love . . . that sends . . . and spills . . . and makes . . ."), he evinces his persona's unorthodox, unrestrained imagination. Not only does this speaker believe in a strange force, a seemingly intelligent, natural or supernatural "something" that "sends the frozen-ground-swell" to ravage the wall, but his speech is also charged with a deep sensitivity to it. The three active verbs ("sends," "spills," "makes") that impel the second, third, and fourth lines forward are completed by direct objects that suggest his close observation of the destructive process.
Hayden’s use of the metaphors cold and warm develops the idea of the importance of the father's love in his child’s life. Hayden first introduces the metaphor cold in line two as the father ”put his clothes on in the blueblack cold” (2). Hayden then revisits the same metaphor in the second stanza; “I’d wake and hear the cold splintering” (6) and in the final stanza by writing that the child’s father” had driven away the cold” (11). The word cold is commonly associated with the feeling of emptiness and loneliness.The father in the poem metaphorically drove away the emptiness felt by his child by driving away the cold. Contrasting the metaphor of cold, Hayden uses the word warm to replace the cold felt by the child before the father’s loving actions. Hayden