Analysis Of A Certain Lady By Dorothy Parker

Since the beginning of human existence love has earned a meaning of pure bliss and wild passion between two people that cannot be broken. Through out time the meaning of love has had its slight shifts but for the most part, maintains a positive value. In the poem “Love Should Grow Up Like a Wild Iris in the Fields,” the author, Susan Griffin expresses that this long lost concept of love is often concealed by the madness of everyday life and reality. In the poem, Griffin uses many literary elements to help convey the importance of true love. The usage of imagery, symbolism, and other literary techniques really help communicate Griffins’ meaning

Dorothy Parker was an American poet, short story writer, critic, satirist. Parker is the daughter of J. Henry and Elizabeth Rothschild on August 22, 1893 at their summer home in West End, New Jersey and died on June 7, 1969 in New York City. She had an unhappy childhood, both her mother and step-mother died when she was young; her uncle, Martin Rothschild, went down on the Titanic in 1912; and her father died the following year (Poet). Her formal education ended when she was just fourteen and from that point she began her career in literature. In 1917 Parker married a stockbroker, Edwin P. Parker, however, the marriage was tempestuous, and the couple divorced in 1928 (Poet). Her failed marriage led here to write “A Certain Lady” based on the absurd standards of women during that the early 1900’s. Parker later published her poem on August 7, 1924 in the magazine Life (Poett). In order to make her point clear to the reader Parker relies on the use of irony, word choice, rhyme and meter, and imagery.

Courage is a cardinal virtue every human being needs. Courage is doing something frightening you are for the right being even if you are alone in your belief. Many regular humans have used courage also. For example Dr. Martin Luther King jr. stood up for all African Americans, even though almost everyone did not agree with him. He eventually helped end segregation by raising awareness. Sadly, Dr. Martin Luther King jr. was killed just for his beliefs. Today we celebrate a holiday for his great bravery. Bravery is a synonym of courage.

Love is not always an easy adventure to take part in. As a result, thousands of poems and sonnets have been written about love bonds that are either praised and happily blessed or love bonds that undergo struggle and pain to cling on to their forbidden love. Gwendolyn Brooks sonnet "A Lovely Love," explores the emotions and thoughts between two lovers who are striving for their natural human right to love while delicately revealing society 's crime in vilifying a couples right to love. Gwendolyn Brooks uses several examples of imagery and metaphors to convey a dark and hopeless mood that emphasizes the hardships that the two lovers must endure to prevail their love that society has condemned.

In literature and art there can be many origins for the inspiration of the writer or artist this inspiration can sometimes be biblical, mythical and historical. In fact, Greek mythology has been the inspiration for much literature and art for its unique stories and tales. Some of the most memorable works influenced by greek mythology is the painting Penelope and The Suitors by John William Waterhouse and the poem ¨Penelope¨ by Dorothy Parker. Both Penelope and The Suitors ¨Penelope¨ by utilize the myth of Odysseus and Penelope. This mythology portrays the sorrow of penelope as she waits for her husband's return from ten years of war and ten years lost at sea. The mythology illustrates her undying love and faithfulness to Odysseus.

Poetry is oftentimes associated with the subjects of love and romance. Poets throughout the ages have used this medium to express their deepest emotions in the most eloquent of ways. Whether the poet is a man or woman is irrelevant. Poets of both genders have succeeded in expressing a heartfelt love to another with a poetic language that speaks volumes in a relatively short amount of text. Two poets from two separate eras each wrote a poem with just such a theme. Anne Bradstreet in “To My Dear and Loving Husband” and Edgar Allan Poe in “Annabel Lee” created magic by writing these poems that express a love for another that transcends time and place.

Dorothy Day was a women began a movement that lasted to this day. During the roaring 20’s she served as a reporter in the New York area where she eventually became pregnant due to her promiscuous life style. After her lover left her after her abortion, she left her life in New York City and went to live on Staten Island. It is their she met Forrester her future significant other. They had a marvelous time, maybe a little to much and Dorothy became pregnant once again. During her time on the island, she became involved with a local church where she began to feel a call. Eventually she moved to the city again to pursue a job, and a place to live. She meets a man named Peter Maurin who changes her life. She begins to have a calling to helping others. She then forms the Catholic Worker new paper where she brings to light social issues. She eventually starts a soup kitchen, and a place for people to stay. Even though she may have died in 1981, her legacy will live on for ever and serve as an inspiration for all

Dorothy Day is a strong woman who knows what she wants to accomplish. Her beliefs changed throughout her life but she ended up converting to Catholicism. Dorothy Day was actively involved with worldly issues and problems. To help get attention to these issues Dorothy created the Catholic Worker movement. On August 6, 1976 she was asked to speak at the World Eucharistic Congress in Philadelphia (Ellsberg). Her speach was addressing the Feast of Transfiguration and the anniversary of the Hiroshima bombing. Evidently the Congress scheduled a mass for appreciating the armed forces, how ironic. This threefold event called for a protest. It is said that Dorothy did not like public speaking because it gave her anxiety, this caused her a great amount of stress (Ellsberg). She began her speech by her story of the Catholic Worker and her conversion. She started giving service to the poor and then decided to convert after. She continued to say that the Church taught her the necessity of Penance. She concluded by giving attention to

In 1943, in the midst of World War II, the Langley Memorial Aeronautical Laboratory in Hampton, VA seeks to hire hundreds of junior physicists and mathematicians to help in the war effort by supporting engineers in performing aeronautical research as part of the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics (the NACA). At the time, mathematicians, who are commonly called “computers,” are almost all women. Further, Jim Crow laws are still in place in the South, which means that Hampton is a segregated place. Langley hires some black female computers, but places them in a segregated office called West Area.

Dorothy Day was a woman of much admiration. Through her work with the poor, particularly with her houses of hospitality, she touched many lives and ultimately set an example for Christians to follow in their own lives.

How can one live an ethical life? Most humans strive to live in a good and kind way; however, deciding right from wrong depends on the person's own moral and ethical code. Ethics, as described by a team at Santa Clara University, ¨refers to well-founded standards of right and wrong that prescribe what humans ought to do, usually in terms of rights, obligations, benefits to society, fairness, or specific virtues.¨ However living an ethical life can mean different things to different people, one ultimate ethical code can not fit every person. James Pasztor writes how ¨we often speak about ethics as if we know what it is, as if it is black and white . . .

Poetry is one of the countless items on the list that is thought of when the subject of love, whether it be legitimate, everlasting, or even fleeting, is brought to the light, but the thing about literature is that it can give off an impression that the events and emotions portrayed are too good to be true, especially when it comes to the topic of love. True love is out in the world for everyone, but very few

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A poem is a piece of writing that partakes of the nature of both speech and song that is nearly always rhythmical, usually metaphorical, and that often exhibits such formal elements as meter, rhyme, and stanza structure. In her poem, “Variations of the Word ‘“love”’,” Margaret Atwood introduces to her audience the word “love” from many different perspectives. Google defines “love” as “an intense feeling of deep affection”, or “having a deep feeling or sexual attachment to (someone).” But “love” is not something that can easily be described. Atwood goes on to present and portray the word through different illustrations, beginning with cliché examples and ending with her own personal scenarios. The author’s tone and metaphorical language effectively conveys her perspective of “love”.

In the various works provided to the class many themes are present in all of them, this paper will be focusing on the authors methods of critiquing social norms. The short story, A Telephone Call by Dorothy Parker paints a harsh reality from the perspective of a highly anxious woman forced into a lifestyle that many would relate to in the 1900s. “My Last Duchess” by Robert Browning exposes the duke and the terrible social norms he reinforces through a poetic format allowing the reader to interpret his strange behavior on their own. Their Eyes Were Watching God, a novel, by Zora Neale Hurston attempts to defy social norms and showcase the positive outcomes of such. Lastly, A Streetcar Named Desire is a play by Tennessee Williams which satirically points out the extremist behaviors that are approved and even rewarded by society. These pieces of literature from different genres still point out the same issues in social norms in regards to the power struggle between men and women and gender roles. Although the perspective changes, as the characters are different or the economy of words is different between the genres the message stays the same.