She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways speaks of a woman named Lucy. It is not clear who Lucy was to the speaker, or why she had an effect on him. In She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways, the tone and the mood of the story are almost opposite. In She Dwelt among the Untrodden Ways, the speaker talks about Lucy on a passionate level. The speaker describes Lucy as having a hidden beauty that not many others notice. He states that she is “fair as a star, when only one is shining in the sky.” (line 7-8). With the way the speaker kindly describes Lucy, the reader can detect a tone of admiration and happiness towards her. Lucy seems to be a person that the speaker strongly cares for. Lucy is described as a lady who lives in solitude; she is unknown to the people in that area. (line 9). This creates the viewpoint that …show more content…
The speaker discusses the fact that no one else may notice that Lucy has died, but it affects him greatly. Lucy did not even have an effect on very many people while she was alive. It is unclear how the author feels about Lucy until the last line of the poem when he states “and oh, the difference to me.” The reader feels a sense of sadness when reading this because of how Lucy is described to almost seem like a nobody to everyone except the speaker, but then she dies. Without knowing who Lucy is, it is safe to assume that she could possibly be the author’s best friend, or his lover. Looking at Lucy as the speaker’s best friend, or lover, makes it harder to see that character of the story die. It is sad not knowing if Lucy knew how the author felt, or if she died alone. Now that Lucy has died, the author may even die alone. Lucy dying makes the reader’s mood sad. The tone and the mood of the story are different because the author feels admiration and happiness, but the reader feels sadness. The author does a great job of setting the mood for the readers while still keeping his tone to seem happy about speaking of
The poem explains her hardships. Reading poetry is different from reading prose because you really have to dig deeper and study harder. A poem is not always straight forward like many other writings. You have to use context clues and understand imagery, tone, and sense. Summarizing a poem becomes difficult if you do not re-read several times. I learned that figurative language and lifestyle really tells a great story. Language especially helps you understand what is going on between the lines. Overall, family is always there at the end of the day. Sometimes situations get tough, but there is always a light at the end of the
This was a large difference from the more joyful tone at the beginning of the story. Unlike the character changes in “Abuelito Who”, the character changes in “The Old Grandfather” were for the best. At the beginning of the folk tale, the parents were cruel to the grandfather and mistreated him in several ways, but when they saw their son repeating their cruel actions and intending those actions for them in the future, they soon realized the mistake they had made and became “ashamed because they treated the grandfather so meanly”. Both poem and folktale have more than a single mood throughout the text; In the poem “Abuelito Who”, the mood starts off as joyful and loving, but as the poem continues, things turn negative and somber as what has happened to the speaker’s grandfather is described, but not fully revealed.
The story also focuses in on Ruth Younger the wife of Walter Lee, it shows the place she holds in the house and the position she holds to her husband. Walter looks at Ruth as though he is her superior; he only goes to her for help when he wants to sweet talk his mama into giving him the money. Mama on the other hand holds power over her son and doesn’t allow him to treat her or any women like the way he tries to with Ruth. Women in this story show progress in women equality, but when reading you can tell there isn’t much hope and support in their fight. For example Beneatha is going to college to become a doctor and she is often doubted in succeeding all due to the fact that she is black African American woman, her going to college in general was odd in most people’s eyes at the time “a waste of money” they would say, at least that’s what her brother would say. Another example where Beneatha is degraded is when she’s with her boyfriend George Murchison whom merely just looks at her as arm
Each literary work portrays something different, leaving a unique impression on all who read that piece of writing. Some poems or stories make one feel happy, while others are more solemn. This has very much to do with what the author is talking about in his or her writing, leaving a bit of their heart and soul in the work. F. Scott Fitzgerald, when writing The Great Gatsby, wrote about the real world, yet he didn’t paint a rosy picture for the reader. The same can be said about T.S. Eliot, whose poem “The Lovesong of J. Alfred Prufrock,” presents his interpretation of hell. Both pieces of writing have many similarities, but the most similar of them all is the tone of each one.
In "Annabel Lee", a young man is mourning the death of a beautiful young lady. Even though the woman had died quite some time ago, the man is still in melancholy. He misses her terribly and constantly thinks of how she was she was tragically taken from him by the angels who were jealous of their love, and by her family who didn't think the he himself was capable of bringing her to her final resting place. He loved Annabel Lee more than anyother human can love another. The following quote tells the reader how much he loves her and shows that he would do anything for her, even if that means sleeping by her tomb, each and every night. "And so, all the night-tide, I lie down by the side of my darling, my life and my bride, in her sepulchre there by the sea, in her tomb by the side of the sea."
The tone of a piece of literature is directly dependent upon the word choice with which it is written. Word choice factors into the development of an important idea in the text and how that idea is developed throughout the text. The type of word choice used impacts the way with which both the tone and important ideas are developed in writing. The tone of a piece of literature changes with the word choice of the writer of the piece. If the word choice of the writer conveys a certain feeling or emotion, whether it is happy or sad, the tone will be directly impacted by this and changed accordingly.
The authors of both of these short stories use tone to provide a better understanding of what they wanted us, as readers, to feel while reading. Since Robert’s described the theory of tone as referring to the attitudes or feelings
Teenage suicide seems to be the underlying tone in this short story. Several signs of a distressed teen are illustrated through the character of Lucy. Usually a teen that commits suicide is one who is admired. The first time Lois meets Lucy, she thought of her as an exception. Lucy says the only reason she is at the same camp as Lois is because her mother went there. Lois immediately feels like Lucy is above this camp but since Lucy is good-natured she will make it work. She thinks about the fact that Lucy had a full time maid while her own family only had someone twice a week. Lucy adores her father and tells Lois about the neat patch over his eye. Lois tries to offer something up about her family that may interest Lucy. She tells Lucy that her father plays golf. Lucy just answers by stating that both her father and mother play golf. These ...
Another aspect that can be derived from this poem is Atwood’s father’s obvious intentions to give her an awareness of the many adversities life can obtain. He has made sure she leads a life that doesn’t result from a spoiled childhood. He made her attentive of a hard days work, which is probably one of the best things a father can teach his child. It is absolutely essential that parents in general teach their children the many hardships life may behold. This gives the child a better direction in means of future obligations.
This darkly satiric poem is about cultural imperialism. Dawe uses an extended metaphor: the mother is America and the child represents a younger, developing nation, which is slowly being imbued with American value systems. The figure of a mother becomes synonymous with the United States. Even this most basic of human relationships has been perverted by the consumer culture. The poem begins with the seemingly positive statement of fact 'She loves him ...’. The punctuation however creates a feeling of unease, that all is not as it seems, that there is a subtext that qualifies this apparently natural emotional attachment. From the outset it is established that the child has no real choice, that he must accept the 'beneficence of that motherhood', that the nature of relationships will always be one where the more powerful figure exerts control over the less developed, weaker being. The verb 'beamed' suggests powerful sunlight, the emotional power of the dominant person: the mother. The stanza concludes with a rhetorical question, as if undeniably the child must accept the mother's gift of love. Dawe then moves on to examine the nature of that form of maternal love. The second stanza deals with the way that the mother comforts the child, 'Shoosh ... shoosh ... whenever a vague passing spasm of loss troubles him'. The alliterative description of her 'fat friendly features' suggests comfort and warmth. In this world pain is repressed, real emotion pacified, in order to maintain the illusion that the world is perfect. One must not question the wisdom of the omnipotent mother figure. The phrase 'She loves him...' is repeated. This action of loving is seen as protecting, insulating the child. In much the same way our consumer cultur...
Almost everything it says isn't the direct meaning, its suggested. “I was the time to hear things and talk. These sitters have been tongueless, earless, eyeless conveniences all day long. Mules and other brutes occupied their skin. But now the sun and the bossman were gone….” This is the biggest suggestive meaning in the except because it leads to show you why the people on the porch feel drawn to talk negatively and judge her. They have been nothing but slaves all day. They spend their days working long and hard, being nothing but mules. Expected to keep quiet and do nothing but their work. Therefore, speaking harshly about the woman gives them a sense of power. It makes them feel better about how low on the poll they are by portraying her lower than them. There are multiple other suggestive meanings such as “she turned her face and spoke. They scrambled a noisy “good evenin” and left their mouths sitting open and their ears full of hope.” They talk big game knowing if she gave them the time of day it would be much different. The men talk bad about her to other women knowing they think she's beautiful and would be eager to be at her beckoning
A voice for voiceless which she finds from nowhere. Rarely a "homeless Man under the Bridge" could arouse such an inspiration to make him one of the most widely read poem of recent times. She tries to find the unwritten pages of life of a man who almost delivered a judgment on the masked masses of Britain.
Her tone is so happy through out the whole story because she is so happy to go to China to meet her new family members and also rekindle with old family members. “And I can’t help myself. I also have misty eyes, as if I had seen this a long, long time ago, and had almost forgotten.” (264) She said that as she was arriving to China, showing how happy she was. On the other hand, the main character who is nameless in Cathedral is so bitter through out the whole story. His wife even mentions that he doesn’t have any friends. The only time he didn’t seem like he was in a bad mood was at the end of the story, when drew a cathedral with the blind man, so that the blind man could “see” what a cathedral looked like. Robert tells the man to draw with his eyes closed, then when he was done, he told him to open his eyes and tell him out the picture looked, but he didn’t. “My eyes were still closed. I was in my house. I knew that. But I didn’t feel like I was inside anything” (42) He was different now and had a better attitude towards blind
...nspired to make a change that she knew that nothing could stop her, not even her family. In a way, she seemed to want to prove that she could rise above the rest. She refused to let fear eat at her and inflict in her the weakness that poisoned her family. As a child she was a witness to too much violence and pain and much too often she could feel the hopelessness that many African Americans felt. She was set in her beliefs to make choices freely and help others like herself do so as well.
In the second half of the poem, a new facet of the speaker's attitude is displayed. In line 17, she wants to improve the ugliness of her "child" by giving him new clothes; however, she is too poor to do so, having "nought save homespun cloth" with which to dress her child. In the final stanza, the speaker reveals poverty as her motive for allowing her book to be sent to a publisher (sending her "child" out into the world) in the first place. This makes her attitude seem to contradict her actions.