Baudelaire: A Day At Briny Beach

“There was music from my neighbor's house through the summer nights. In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths among the whisperings and he champagne and the stars. At high tide in the afternoon I watched his guests diving from the tower of his raft, or taking the sun on the hot sand of his beach while his motor-boats slid the waters of the Sound, drawing aquaplanes over cataracts of foam. On week-ends his Rolls-Royce became an omnibus, bearing parties to and from the city between nine in the morning and long past midnight, while his station wagon scampered like a brisk yellow bug to meet all trains. And on Mondays eight servants, including an extra gardener, toiled all day with

William Golding effectively creates a vivid picture in the mind of the reader in this excerpt from Lord of the Flies. Golding uses calming and descriptive words to carefully shape the image of the scene, which in turn draws the audience in. He effectively describes particular sections of the setting, enhancing the overall picture in the reader’s mind. In the last section of the excerpt, Golding describes the sunset and writes: “Darkness poured out, submerging the ways between the trees till they were dim and strange as the bottom of the sea.” He choses to talk about particular aspects of the island by carefully paying attention to specific details and describing them vividly. Additionally, the very carefully selected words help create

Bruce Dawe is a highly revered and respected Australian who is regarded as one of the nation’s most influential poets. His poem “The Beach” is regarded has one of his best pieces of work and describes the goings on at one of Australia’s most iconic landmarks. His poem laments how important the beach is to the Australian population as he describes a number of different people from different walks of life enjoying it. Through the clever use of poetics devices and technique Dawe has crafted a poem to beautifully represent the Australian beach.

The married couple were casually conversing in their household as their two daughters, “were playing blocks on the parlor rug in the light of the green hurricane lamps” (Bradbury 1). The laughter of their two daughters in their background embraced a home filled with life and love. With such an absurd question the husband asked, the two remained calm. Bradbury was able to describe a setting and a background at peace and relaxation to the characters despite the situation presented.

"There was no breeze. The sea was as flat as a plate-glass window. We were drawing near the island then. What I felt was a--a mental chill; a sort of sudden dread."

There is a towing company in central florida that does something similar on the beach boardwalks, they put the signs up facing AWAY from the lot so you can't see them until you actually get out of your car and go to the beach, and they will have an employee in plain clothes and a binocolar calling the towing truck so by the time you go to move your car, it's already loaded up and there's "nothing they can do" so you have to pay hundreds of dollars to get your car back. It's basically extortion, its terrible.

“It’s not everyday we get company around here,” I reminded myself, “we haven’t shown our chateau in ages.” As we walked down the elegant staircase, each step creaked one by one. My hand-held lamp with the bright, burning fire was in clutch as we walked around the dusty furniture until we saw some of my men. They were silent, but you could see the fear in their eyes - almost like the fear in Rainsford’s. One had the guts to come up, and offer another light looking for a way to impress me with his concern, but I quickly declined.

"There was no breeze. The sea was as flat as a plate-glass window. We were drawing near the island then. What I felt was a-a mental chill; a sort of sudden dread." (Connell 2).

The novel On the Beach by Nevil Shute is a post-apocalyptic novel, just like The Road. A war destroys the uppermost parts of earth, and radioactive particles are drifting south at a steady rate. It is thought that in less than one year, the particles will reach the people living in southern Australia. In a city called Melbourne, a man named Peter Holmes, a Lieutenant in the Australian naval forces, is given the position of liaison officer on the U.S.S Scorpion. The U.S.S Scorpion is an American war submarine, built with nuclear bombs and harbours a small a crew, including a man named Dwight Towers.

Dover Beach intrigued me as soon as I read the title. I have a great love of beaches, so I feel a connection with the speaker as he or she stands on the cliffs of Dover, looking out at the sea and reflecting on life. Arnold successfully captures the mystical beauty of the ocean as it echoes human existence and the struggles of life. The moods of the speaker throughout the poem change dramatically as do the moods of the sea. The irregular, unordered rhyme is representative of these inharmonious moods and struggles. In this case, the speaker seems to be struggling with the relationship with his or her partner.

What does the language and structure of the opening sequence of ‘On Chesil Beach’, reveal about the two protagonists characters.

This photograph was taken on Waikiki Beach in Honolulu, Hawaii in 2015. It was taken during sunset and as the tide had gone out, revealing a wider coastline. The world-famous beach is manmade and since 1951, over 80,000 cubic meters of sand has been imported to replace sand lost through erosion from heavy rainfall, sea swells, wind and tropical storms.

I walked along the beach. As I was walking I could feel the fresh smell of the beach like it was an air freshener but it also smelled that gave me a tingle in my nose. As I kept walking along the beach I could feel the light breeze coming against me. This fresh air felt warm as I felt like I was sleeping in a comfortable bed. I kept walking in the beach, as I did it felt like an escape to all my problems and also my stress. Beach felt like a solution to all my problems and could be open with anything.

The place where I feel most comfortable is a place where I am calm. A place that is peaceful in its own ways. It is the place to go to get away from all my troubles. It is the one place where I could sit forever, and never get tired of just staring into the deepest blue I have ever seen. It is the place where I can sit and think the best. A place where nothing matters but what is in that little moment. The one place capable of sending my senses into an overload. This place is the ocean.

There are some travelers who see a “paradise” as their final destination; however, it may end up to be exactly opposite of what a paradise should be. This can be seen in Alex Garland’s The Beach. The novel is about several backpackers, Richard, Francoise, and Etienne, who come together and travel to an island community, their paradise, within Thailand. Ultimately, the story portrays the idea of a utopia-like society taking a turn for the worst and becoming a dystopia, something that the backpackers would not have expected. Throughout the story, the theme of a utopia turning into a dystopia could be seen through symbolism such as the “cancer” of traveling and the destruction that it brings.