Compare And Contrast Suburban And Homecoming

Equally essential as the narrative in poetic writing is the overall effect of language structure and description. Although there is no distinct rhythm or rhyme to this poem, it is through language and structure that the text is made inviting. In the blank verse, “Why are you still seventeen.../ dragging a shadow you’ve found?” (1), this metaphor for a borrowed lifestyle facilitates a feeling of lost identity and nostalgia for the past. By incorporating such language, and by choosing a self-proclaimed rhetorical question, the speaker adds to the effect of personal obscurity. An immense component of the entire poem are the combined stanzas: “that's not the road you want,/ though you have it to yourself.” This emulates the feeling of regret. In continuation of the metaphorical self-evaluation of the poem, it supports the idea

Robert Frost and William Shakespeare have been celebrated by many people because of their ability to express themselves through the written word. Here we are years after their deaths analyzing these fascinating poems about life and death. It’s clear they had similar thoughts about this subject at the time of these writings, even though their characters could not have been more opposite. For both poets, life is too

Upon returning home the soldiers meet a field of new troubles that come with acclimation to society after fighting. Many soldiers come home with skills that are not applicable to their lives and generally a much deeper understanding of what they believe the world consists of. This leads to much disillusion with the world they come back to. In both Ernest Hemingway and Tim O’Brien’s stories, soldiers meet with disillusionment and disconnect from society. The soldiers react in different ways to this feeling; the authors use diction, sentence structure, and figurative language to demonstrate their troubles with acclimation.

The objects people keep in their homes can tell a story about who they are or were. Each item possessed by the residents of a house is evidence of how these people may have lived. Ted Kooser’s poem “Abandoned Farmhouse” takes the reader on a walkthrough of the remains of a farmhouse where a poor family once lived. In “Abandoned Farmhouse,” Kooser selects seemingly insignificant relics left behind by each family member to illustrate who these people were and how they lived. The picture he paints is a bleak one and reflects the impoverished life which the residents lived within this now lonely and desolate building.

“Soldier’s Home” is a story by Ernest Hemingway that symbolizes how a World War 1 veteran is faced with many difficulties when transitioning into society after war. Real life finds its way into Hemingway’s writing often mirroring some of his own challenges giving the reader a sense of familiarity. Most notably, Hemingway’s description of getting used to a life without the backdrop of war in “Soldier’s Home” shows credibility, most likely from his own experience of returning home from the battlefield.

In Ernest Hemingway’s short story “A Soldier’s Home”, Krebs, a soldier, returns to his hometown from fighting in World War I. As indicated throughout the story, “home” for Krebs is not unlike the war front: confusing, complicated, and restless. Hemingway uses the setting in Kansas, during World War I, to convey Krebs post-war life in comparison to his pre-war.

This is an essay on the short story “Soldier’s Home” by Hemingway. Will the life of a soldier ever be the same after returning from war? Many generations of young adults have gone from their homes with tranquil settings to experience war and come home to a different world. Many have witnessed the devastations and atrocities that occur with war. Harold Krebs, a young man from a small town with a loving family is no different from those before him and those to follow. The anguish of what war is however cannot dispel the thoughts and memories of what many young men come home to face in the real world. Many have trouble coping in the new world known as home.

The poem Homecoming deals with the horror of war, focusing specifically on the Vietnam War like in Weapons Training. Dawe manages to capture the frustration of those who witness the senseless carnage as well as the dehumanisation of war, that it is to no avail, and ultimately a waste of human life. The slight sadness in Dawe’s tone compels our agreement with this message. Choices of words such as “sorrowful”, “frozen sunset”, “whining like howls”, “tremble like leaves tree”, relate to what people think to relate to sadness, and this influences the readers thoughts of this downcast tone that suits the theme that war bestows nothing but dread onto the human population.

What is the difference between coming home and homecoming? Which one is more relevant to today’s society? The answer to these questions is that coming home is simply an occurrence, whereas a homecoming is a definitive event. We learn from the Odyssey that veterans can experience both of these scenarios in differing contexts. However, in the modern era, coming home and homecoming have become very similar affairs that are blurred together until they are one and the same. This creates the aura of abnormality in the everyday life of the soldier after exiting combat. This strangeness, in turn, can cause a myriad of small struggles or nuances that plague not only the warrior but also those around them. Then throughout the whole process, there is

In Suburban Nation the authors recognize three points in culture change: Social Marketing, Removal of existents barriers to change, and Enactment of new regulations.

From a personal, yet natural perspective, Tretheway chose to form the portrait of the Gulfport district over the years by mixing poets, prose, handwritten letters and a few childhood photographs. Without a doubt, poems, coupe with prose, have successfully flesh out this tragic anecdote, though requiring individual interpretations and a deep understanding of the author’s perception. In this sense, my own analysis allows me to pick three poems, which altogether hold an ultimately general theme: the powerful return of Gulf Coast society – through memorization, reflection and above all, recovery.

Soldier’s Home is a story about the experiences of a soldier returning from war. The narrative starts with a description of an image or photograph of Harold Krebs. Krebs is the main character of this story. He was a young man who was attending the Methodist College in Kansas before he had to enlist in the Marines to find in the war (Hemingway 111-116). The opening picture is an increasingly significant source of contrast between the young man who went to war and the one who comes back who has become silent and alienated after coming home. Krebs comes back in 1919 even though the war ended in 1918. His return is not marked by celebrations and parades that were often given to the young soldiers who had managed to come home early. Rather, Krebs finds out that the people are not overly excited about his news of the war unless he lies and exaggerates about his role during the war (Hemingway 111-116).

Kevin started the discussion with his connection of passages that have to do with the idea of homecoming. I think that homecoming plays a significant part of war, whether it be a soldier or group of soldiers leaving the front line for good, or simply coming home for a short time. It's such a crucial and important part of the war narrative and Kevin's quotes really put an emphasis on that. He discusses the great importance of the idea and the actual act of coming home, and

In life, people often times find themselves wandering off and ignoring their priorities. To quote Gandhi “Action expresses priorities.” People don’t understand that one of their main priorities is their family. In “ The Homecoming” and “Rip Van Winkle” had both lived their lives ignoring the priorities that they had.

After soldiers return home from war, do they continue to take their experience so casually and delicately? Do they ever end up dealing with any emotional or psychological trauma? These are questions that people do not take into consideration when they see others that have returned from war. This is what occurs to the protagonists in the short stories, “A Perfect Day for Bananafish” by J.D. Salinger, and “Home” by George Saunders. Throughout these short stories, we see how Seymour from “A Perfect Day for Bananafish”, and Mikey from “Home”, are both war veterans who have returned to their homes after fighting in the war. We see the effects that the war has left on them in multiple ways, and how it impacts their lives. Both short stories “A Perfect Day for Bananafish” and “Home” demonstrate the criticism against the materialistic world, the barriers to effective communication and the elusive search for childhood and home.