Art Analysis: Beata Beatrix By Dante Gabriel Rossetti

James Hurst, the author of “The Scarlet Ibis”, uses death and birds as symbols to show how Doodle is fragile and could die at any moment. Red is a color that is often associated with evil and other times it represents love. Birds also represent death and fragility, but they also mean freedom and change. This shows how Doodle’s and Brother’s paradoxical relationship changes from Brother being evil and selfish, to him being an extremely helpful and caring brother.

There are also several doves at the bottom of the painting, presumably indicating purity and perhaps symbols of love as well. (Wall Text 2012)

Oliver explains how she found herself thinking of summer fields and felt like lounging on the sand before the owl’s dark wings opened over her. This symbolizes that before death, one is in temporary bliss until their time has come to an end. Oliver pictures herself free and content, staring into the cities of roses before death comes knocking on her door. This shows that death is an “immobilizing happiness” before it rips you from the world for good.

In addition to this, belonging to a family is a key concept in this novel. The novel opens with an alluring introduction to the family; a blissful atmosphere is created through the picturesque icons of their family life. The composer uses small photograph like icons to allude towards the widely acknowledged contentment that is readily associated with the memories in a picture album. Tan introduces the motif of the paper crane which he carries through the length of his novel as a symbol of affection and belonging between the family members. The next pages signify the break in contentment as the man begins his journey and a salient image of the couple with their hands grasping the other’s parallels the anxiety and despair in their downcast facial expressions. Although the gloomy atmosphere, the light sepia tones in the picture allow an insight into the tender and loving relationship that the family members share. Upon the man’s departure the paper crane motif returns and he hands it to his daughter as a token of his undying love for her. His migratory experience is studded by the comfort and ease that he obtains from a picture of his family. In paralleled scenes on the boat and the new apartment, the

a) Candle - The candle could represent a symbol of hope. Rev. Parris lit the candle while he was praying next to Betty, the candle seems to be going down which could represent how Rev. Parris could have been praying all night, hoping that Betty will get better.

Barna da Siena’s Mystic Marriage of Saint Catherine and Other Scenes from 1340 is vastly different in content, composition, and a number of other attributes from Fra Carnevale’s 1467 painting Presentation of the Virgin in the Temple. It is clear between the roughly hundred years between when the two were painted that advancements in realistic painting soared and a further appreciation for realism and humanism developed. The need to portray more than just the holy subjects, and to show how far painting had evolved is evident in the differences between Barna and Fra Carnevale’s works. Although, the emotion behind Barna’s work, and its significance are, in my eyes, far greater than that of Fra Carnevale’s.

Similarly, as “Stop all of the Clocks” develops the narrator metaphorically and onomatopoeically highlights that everything in life must acknowledge the death and experience it with him. Outward signs of cotton gloves and bows with doves is a metaphor for the person’s acknowledgement of death. The importance of the deceased love extends to every facet of the narrator’s life because they belonged in every moment that the narrator lived. In this moment of grief, the narrator feels betrayed because they invested in a love which was not eternal.

Symbols of birds are first used to indicate wickedness when Nel and Helene enter Rochelle’s house for Cecile’s funeral, “...all to miss seeing her grandmother and seeing instead that painted canary who never

Our dreams are commonly known as the subconscious manifestations of our inner desires. Creative writing, like dreams, can represent an outlet, a method of pseudo-fulfillment for those unrealized wishes or fears. In the case of much fiction, especially poetry, these hidden triumphs are often so subtle that the reader may not recognize the achievement or the repressed emotion to which it relates.

Christina Rossetti's Poetry: Controlled and Passionate Rossetti's poetry has been described as both controlled and passionate. Making clear what you understand by the terms discuss which of these two views you have more sympathy with and why. Refer closely to at least three of the set poems.

Around the year 1855 Franz Liszt began working on the composition for one of his most praised works, The Dante Symphony. The Dante Symphony is based of Dante's Divina Commedia, which was introduced to Liszt by his mistress Marie D'Agoult. The Symphony is composed of two movements depicting Dante's Inferno and Purgatorio. At first Liszt wanted to depict the three movements of Dante's Divina Commedia but "an effective representation of Paradise in music, Wagner insisted was impossible, and he counseled Liszt to abandon plans for an elaborate choral finale" (Grey, pg.56). However, towards the end of the sonata Liszt gives a glimpse of Paradise from afar, setting it further from our reach, showing that Paradise is beyond comprehensible and how

The camera cuts to a close-up shot showing viewers Scottie’s facial expression, which indicates distress and agony. The tone of the frame begins to change colors. It begins with a cool color and then alternates between colors of opposite temperatures. As Scottie opens his eyes, the camera cuts to an identical bouquet of flowers, which is one of the defining objects that both Madeline and Carlotta had. Now that the two are both dead, the reappearance of the flower, which serves as an indication of either Carlotta’s or Madeline’s presence, bears an uncanny aura as Scottie and the viewers are well aware of their deaths. As seen in his facial expression right before the camera cuts to the image of the flower, the image haunts him by suggesting the imminent return of the two dead souls. The screen continues to alternate its colors as the flower decomposes until we see Carlotta standing beside Elster. At first, we only see the silhouette of a man and a woman but as the color of the frame switches, Elster can be seen more clearly with a woman beside him. After the camera cuts to a close up of Carlotta’s necklace, the woman beside Elster can be confirmed to be

The woman and man caught in their passionate embrace are set above the wartime images. It seems that symbolically the man and woman are above the war, that their love transcends the tragedy and the tumult that surrounds them, if only because they are fighting their own romantic war. Below them is a burning city. The couple on the carriage fleeing the city looks to be the same couple that is staring into each other’s eyes. This further suggests that they were apart of the events in the war, but were still caught in the throws of their own love life. The girl that rushes from her

The Awakening by Kate Chopin is a novel full of symbolism which reveals much of the deeper meaning in the story. Within each narrative segment there is often a symbol that helps to add meaning to the text, and the understanding of these symbols is essential to a full appreciation of the story. These symbolic elements help the reader to make a connection between Edna’s world and her eventual awakening. Throughout the novel there are a huge number of symbols but three of the most meaningful symbols used are birds, houses and the ocean.

Beatrice and Giovanni spend all their time together in the garden and it symbolizes a place of isolation and beauty because the flowers are poisonous but beautiful. For example, a shrub catches his eye from the color, which is purple, and its fragrance draws him