Anyone Lived In A Pretty How Town

The poem, "The Bells," by Edgar Allan Poe, reveals the theme of changing seasons through word choice, symbolism, and poetic elements, like onomatopoeia, alliteration, and metaphors. Each stanza represents a different season with different meanings. The first stanza represents spring; a jolly, happy season. This stanza includes multiple samples of onomatopoeia and words that indicate mood. Lines that indicate this include lines 1, 3, 8, 11, and 14. These lines say, "Hear the sledges with the bells... what a world of merriment their melody foretells... With a crystalline delight... To the tintinnabulation that so musically wells... From the jingling and the tinkling of the bells." The words, "sledges," "merriment," "crystalline delight," and "melody" all mean happiness. The calm and joyful sound of the bells that are "jingling and tinkling" indicates the joyfulness and calmness of the beginning. Spring is a joyful season, with blossoming flowers and being able to enjoy the sun after winter. Then, the second stanza mostly relates to summer, an also happy and enjoyable season. The second stanza represents an also jolly and harmonizing mood. Lines 15, 17, 19, and 35 show characteristics of onomatopoeia and symbolism. The lines show, "Hear the mellow wedding bells... what a world of happiness their harmony foretells... how they ring out their delight... to the rhyming and the chiming of the bells!" This indicates the "mellow wedding bells," an iconic example of symbolism. The wedding bells show a time of happiness, as it's usually a memorable and joyful event for many. Then, the "world of happiness their harmony foretells" and how they "ring out their delight" shows examples of onomatopoeia, which lets the reader realize that it's a harmonizing and peaceful sound. This stanza resembles the season of summer; a time to relax and have memories and fun. Then, as the poem progresses, it reaches a more dark state. The third stanza represents a sad and somewhat scary mood. Examples of alliteration and onomatopoeia are present throughout this stanza, like on paragraph 38, 40, 45, 58-59, and 69 have numerous examples of this. The lines indicate, "What a tale of terror, now, their turbulency tells... how they scream out

Mourning and mortality is a constant concern that transcends time. Slessor’s poetic treatment of these ideas continue to engage readers as it evokes a sense of awareness. This is evident in Kenneth Slessor 's poem Five Bells as the persona 's grief for his deceased friend, Joe Lynch causes him to realise the significance of time and the strength of spiritual attachments. This further leads him to question the purpose of human life.

This poem talks about nature and death. William Cullen Bryant shares that nature can make death less painful. He says that when we start to think about death, we should go outside, and look around and listen to the natural earth sounds. This is supposed to remind us that when we die, we will mix back into the earth. The poem tells us that when we die, we will not be alone. We will be with every other person that has ever been buried, In the ground, which in this poem is called the “great tomb of man”. It also tells us that even those that are still living will soon die and join in the great tomb of man. This poem is meant to comfort those that are afraid of dying and death in general. At the end of the poem, we are told to think of death as

F. Scott Fitzgerald, writer of the novel The Great Gatsby, and E.E. Cummings, writer of the poem “anyone lived in a pretty how town”, convey a similar theme in their works through the use of tone, imagery, and symbolism. Both selections are about love and reveal that death is real.

In one of his more popular works, “Anyone Lived In A Pretty How Town”, Cummings gives his insight into a world where he believes love to be sparse. Cummings clever use of word choice and lyrical refrains in “Anyone Lived In A Pretty How Town” express the theme that love is so rare in societies where people stay busy with their own lives. From the very first line of the poem, which in this case is also the title, Cummings phrases his words in ways that leave them up for multiple interpretations.

At one point or another in one’s lifetime, people let go one thing to try and move on to something bigger and better, whether it’s a new job or new way of life. In its entirety, modernism is similar. It can be defined as moving away from the traditional creations and activities towards news tasks formed by the individualism and freedom within a man or woman. For instance, in the poem “One Art” by Elizabeth Bishop, the speaker eventually moves on from his previous set of ideas to something new. Similarly, in “anyone lived in a pretty how town” by E.E. Cummings, the main character doesn’t feel comfortable with the repetitious structure of the society he’s placed in. This leads the main character to form his own opinion, uncommon to his society,

“Anyone lived in a pretty how town” of E. E. Cummings is about an infamous man in a particular town. Writing the poem, Cummings’ purpose is to convey to the public a cruel fact, that people become less aware of each other in this society.

He was married twice officially and divorced twice officially, and lived out his final years in a civil marriage to another woman. Despite the fact that this poem is not written during the Naturalism time period in literature, many themes from naturalism play out in Cummings’ writing. Through this poem, “anyone lived in the pretty how town,”

“Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time”(Victor Hugo). F. Scott Fitzgerald, writer of the novel The Great Gatsby, and E.E Cummings, writer of the poem “anyone lived in a pretty how town,”, convey a similar theme in their works through the use of tone, imagery, diction, symbolism, and motifs.The novel was about how Jay Gatsby had love for a girl named Daisy and Gatsby threw these random parties in which no one was invited to. The poem was about how the years were passing slowly over a period of time and it was the beginning or ending of someone’s life. The main characters were Anyone and Noone and people really did not even care about death. Both selections are about love and reveal that it is wonderful and hurtful at times. Although love is careless in many ways.

In his poem, “anyone lived in a pretty how town,” E. E. Cummings describes the life lived by the average joe, symbolized by protagonist “anyone,” in the average “pretty how town” setting. Cummings asserts that children will be born and raised to all be the “same,” with no individuality, then grow into “busy” adults who “cared for anyone not at all,” and perhaps one day get married, live their lives, and die, still with “nevers,” or an unfulfilled bucket list. It is through the use of repetition, foreshadowing, and figurative language that Cummings conveys a mood of sad inevitability as he explains how this lifestyle repeats itself in cycles and how death will come to everyone, all while they live their lives in a society that might be “pretty,” but which lacks any real sense of community and individuality. Cummings uses repetition to point out how life goes on, and how each generation repeats a cycle.

Throughout the poem, the children uncover the beauties of living in a cramped room in the city. The author also uses figurative language and other literary devices, to create a mood of pure beauty. The theme of this poem is that what may seem tough on the outside, can be beautiful on the inside. The children in the poem were always having fun in what looked like a tough situation. Time and time again, they found something beautiful in their room and made it fun.

The poem is a reality poem about real life. It infers about memories, nature, and the cycle of life and death. Things can only stay beautiful for so long, but the circle of life will continue. The ending seems like the world is over, but in reality it will keep on going.

Throughout the poem, the poet urges his father to refuse death by repeating the phrase, “Rage, rage against the dying of the light.” Within that phrase, the word “rage” is used and that brings an emotional response that comes from within and is usually juxtaposed with the imagery of uncontrollable power, fury, and violence. Another example of imagery and metaphors used, are the phrases “at close of day” and “the dying of the light.” These symbolically show the setting of the sun and the rising of the night which is a natural cycle and can’t be stopped, such as death.

Literary works often have profound influence. The period in which the literature is written has a profound influence on the work itself. Past literature is often found to adequately embody many ageless ideas and situations while the themes also remain relevant to the present. First, Jonathan Swift’s pamphlet, A Modest Proposal, holds a theme of exposing atrocities. In addition, Emily Dickinson’s poem, Because I could not stop for Death, possesses a theme of death. Finally, Franz Kafka’s novella, Metamorphosis, maintains a theme of psychological unease.

“Winter Dreams” follows perfectly along with the characteristics of the Modernist movement, which is one of the many reasons it should be added into the syllabus. F. Scott Fitzgerald explores a common Modernist theme, isolation and uncertainty, within “Winter Dreams” by using a descriptive style. This descriptive style is a contrast to the literary works of Sherwood Anderson, known for his simple prose, and Ernest Hemingway, known for his journalist style. Fitzgerald uses beautiful imagery within his works to create Modernist themes. Within “Winter Dreams”, Fitzgerald combines different techniques to switch back and forth between descriptive imagery and straightforward dialogue and description. Modernism “represents the transformation of traditional