Annie Toomer's Blood-Burning Moon

In this poem, women are tired and outraged of the limits of their occupation. The poem shows this by the tone of the first line “women are burning”. This shows that women all over America are fed up and angry for being stuck at the house. I believe that burning gives a negative connotation. So when I hear burning this makes me think that the person is angered and outraged. These women are outraged because they are limited to only housework.The poem also states that “she says, once I was the roast duck on your platter with parsley but now I’m spam”. This quote makes me feel that this woman is being treated poorly. I also believe that this woman feels unappreciated and abandoned by their husband who once paid

Ruby Moon is set in Flamming tree grove, about a couple Ray and Sylvie who’s child Ruby goes missing. The worried parents continue to spend all their days and nights trying to piece together any information they can find about their missing daughter Ruby. As they review everything they know about the case the story turns into a detective inquest, they question all the eccentric characters on the street to try and seek clues as to what actually happened to their daughter Ruby. The characters include a Parrot-owning Christian, a wanna be clown, an ex-solider, a seductive temptress, a former babysitter and a mad scientist. Each one of these characters is a potential suspect in the murder or disappearance of Ruby Moon.

Hurst took similes and used them to better describe the mood. One simile is used to compare the atmosphere to something very sad. It is stated, “We were down at Old Woman Swamp and it was spring and the sick-sweet smell of bay flowers hung everywhere like a mournful song” (Hurst 261). By comparing the smell of the bay flowers to a mournful song, it shows that even the atmosphere of the

The Jacket “The Jacket”was made by Gary Soto Anxiety,the condition of worrying and doubting yourself and everything that has happened. It is a mental challenge thing were you worry about everything work,schools,other peoples thoughts of you,worrying of the outcome of everything. It is a feeling that leads to a feeling that you are not good enough. In the short story “The Jacket” by Gary Soto the main character comes The symbolism in The Jacket supports the overarching theme:Anxiety towards one's appearances can cause anguish. He does not think much of himself he describes himself as a weak little tree thinking little of himself.

As Desmond Tutu once said, “Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness.” In “Hunger Moon” by Jane Cooper, the speaker is showing that everyone during the Hunger Moon has hope and wants to make through it. The Hunger Moon was the name of the last moon in February when there was a lot of snow. The Hunger Moon rises and sets like any other type of moon, has a negative connotation, but when it ends it brings happiness.

The Pear tree symbolizes her initiation into womanhood whilst sitting under the tree. This was the feeling of initial inclination towards love and the sentiments of sexual yearning and affection.

Betsy Byars is an american author of children´s books. Her novel summer of the swans won the 1971 Newbery medal. Due to the popularity of her books with children , she has also been listed as one of the educational paper back association`s top 100 authors . In the memoir The Moon & I Betsy byars uses imagery in order for us readers to see that the girl is excited for school and being in miss Harriet`s room.

Paper Moon is 1973 comedy-drama written and directed by an American film maker Peter Bogdanovich and was released by Paramount Pictures. The movie talks about the depression and poverty among the American people. Peter Bogdanovich uses a little girl Tatum O, Neal as his main character to reflect on the poverty of Kansas and Missouri in the year 1936. It is a joyful movie from the beginning to the end as it is considered the most charming movie. It is a significant movie because it touches on the real life situations.

An example of beauty is seen through the depiction of Amber Rooms and the mirror halls; the representation of this beauty evokes the reader to enable an understanding of James comparison with something of true beauty compared to something plain and lifeless. An example of a fragile resemblance to life is an innocent, vulnerable plant such as the Japanese maple, needs beauty in order for the plant to flourish. James reflects on a vulnerable plant in his poem ‘so much sweet beauty as when fine rain falls on that small tree’. James expresses his chemotherapy battle through words, which becomes a key element in creating emotion for the poem. An example is in the forth stanza ’come a autumn and its leaves will turn to flame, what must I do’, this small extract from the poem builds a relationship with his chemotherapy and a tree given to him by his daughter, the tree resembles life and the element flourishing over time through struggle or neglect and even resemble success. The tree can be referred to as a reflection of James’ life where he had struggles, might have neglected people close to him, but most of all there was success under all the struggles he

In "Strange Fruit," Lewis Allan uses juxtaposition and metaphors to convey a disturbing tone. In the words of Lewis Allen lynchings are the "scent of magnolia's, sweet and fresh / then the sudden smell of burning flesh" (lines 7-8). Juxtaposing the beauty of the South, to the hatred that is experienced there makes the reader feel overwhelmed. The comparison of two drastic differences that are being lived out shows the dark side of reality. Allen also expressed that the "strange fruit (was) hanging from the poplar trees" (4).

Feeling no regret at all, she then began flirting with the man back who was giving her the attention she always dreamed of. Being interested in the stranger, “Her breast swelled passionately “[…]” Kneeling there, her hand went out toward his legs in the greasy black trousers. Her hesitant fingers almost touched the cloth” (Steinbeck 18). The man then realized what she was doing, but did not react; instead he acted as professional as well as he could. After his departure, she then felt a depression knowing that she might have lost her one chance of happiness. As her husband is taking her out to dinner later on in the night, she asks Henry questions about his hobbies of watching fights and realized that she never had anyone as interested of her gardening skills as much as the departed man did. She felt that at this moment, her dream was then put on hold once more, so her shadow of loneliness and emptiness took over. Her shadow was revealed towards the man who gave the attention she wanted from her husband. She no longer hid or neglect her shadows because she realize what made her happy and went for it in order to fill her

The metaphor of the mountain means that all parts of life age and grow old. The cutting down of trees symbolize getting bald. The metaphor also means that you can retain your knowledge and wisdom when you get older. The mountain can still retain its beauty even though the trees were cut down.

After seeing Louisa for a couple of times she told him a few interesting things. For example, the fact that the murderer rode off on a green bike was true. She knew that the murderer was a man who was a member of the Grasshoppers’ cycling club. He also studied anatomy and had a strange kind of money bag made of human skin.

“I Saw in Louisiana a Live-Oak Growing” is a free verse poem written by Walt Whitman. The poem is about a memory the persona has regarding a solitary oak tree in Louisiana. The persona speaks quite highly of the oak tree and, in a sense, almost envies the oak tree because the oak tree is able to be alone. Essentially, the persona in the poem is lonely and wishes they could be more like the oak tree they are so fond of. This poem examines the topic of loneliness and displays the persona’s viewpoint on loneliness, which is that loneliness is painful and intolerable.

The speaker starts to use phrases such as “domestic and weak” (line 13) and “small and cozy” (line 12) which starts to give the impression that the tree is likely symbolic of a woman that is being suppressed by a gardener, or man, in her life. This set of lines begins to show how men tend to take a woman’s true identity and shape them into what makes them happy, rather than letting them grow. It also shows how society tends to think of women as being small, cozy, domestic, weak, etc. instead of letting them make their own identities and create their own lives. Men, in the time that this was written, had a very strong idea that they had to be the breadwinners of the household and make the woman be entirely dependent on the man. This is just like what has happened to the bonsai; now that it has been stripped of it’s identity if it were to go out and try to fend for itself being nine inches high; it would not have a chance of surviving.