Compare how difficult relationships are portrayed by Simon Armitage in 'Harmonium' and James Fenton in 'In Paris with You'

Paul Newman once said, “People stay married because they want to, not because the doors are locked” (74). There is no such thing as the perfect relationship, however, being involved in a healthy relationship is essential for a person to feel valued, safe, and happy. Unfortunately, in the situation of Kelly Sundberg’s personal essay “It Will Look Like a Sunset,” and Kate Chopin’s short story “The Story of An Hour,” include extreme examples of unhealthy relationships. The essay “It Will Look Like a Sunset,” shares painful experiences of Sundberg’s physical and emotional abusive relationship with her husband Caleb, while “The Story of an Hour,” shares a rare reaction of a married woman, Louise Mallard, who explores her emotions cautiously when hearing about the death of her husband. Each woman faces their own prison created by their husbands. The two marriages represent the figurative meaning of doors being locked in a marriage. Both pieces of literature convey the theme of confinement by using the literary devices of foreshadowing, imagery, and conflict.

One of the most evident and understandable themes in ‘Romeo and Juliet’ is love. Shakespeare illustrates love in many different ways. The purpose of this essay will firstly discuss the difference between love and anti-romantic love. Secondly, it will portray an example of romantic and anti-romantic love through the use of certain characters. Thirdly, it will explain what is meant by the term binary opposition, and lastly, it will portray examples of a binary opposition taken from the play.

Because love is universally perceived, everyone can relate to the author. The reader experiences a great deal of empathy and slight distress when Nicole, as well as Teague, goes through the experience and effects of her cancer. “Love wasn’t something I felt anymore,” Teague expresses, “It was something I did,” (281). This statement authenticates that he had the truest love for her. He validates this even more so by comforting and providing for Nicole through selfless actions during her sickness whereas others would have given up if the relationship did not attribute to real love. He proved his romantic love, a once inner feeling, through deeds that were physical and clearly apparent. A similar, yet different love, was further

The third and fourth stanzas offer the poems greatest paradoxes. The author speaks of the lovers being "At this unique distance from isolation" which is to say they are in the one place where they can truly be themselves, in their natural habitat, doing that which is only natural to human instinct. Despite these circumstances, however, the two are at a loss: "It becomes still more difficult to find / Words at once true and kind, / Or not untrue and not unkind." It is through this final stanza that the author conveys the ultimate paradox of human relationships: Relationships are not built upon true love for one another; rather they are built upon the absence of hatred.

In “Two Friends,” on the other hand, Morissot and Sauvage’s relationship was based off of their friendship. For example, they would often spend half of the day keeping each other company. The word

The poem’s structure as a sonnet allows the speaker’s feelings of distrust and heartache to gradually manifest themselves as the poem’s plot progresses. Each quatrain develops and intensifies the speaker’s misery, giving the reader a deeper insight into his convoluted emotions. In the first quatrain, the speaker advises his former partner to not be surprised when she “see[s] him holding [his] louring head so low” (2). His refusal to look at her not only highlights his unhappiness but also establishes the gloomy tone of the poem. The speaker then uses the second and third quatrains to justify his remoteness; he explains how he feels betrayed by her and reveals how his distrust has led him

Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” and Nathaniel Hawthorne’s “The Birthmark” examine the complex relationship between a husband and wife. The two works take two different approaches to convey the same message: Marriage is not a fairytale, it requires sacrifice and unselfish behavior in order to work. Relationships are difficult to begin and harder to maintain. Mr. and Mrs. Mallard and Aylmer and Georgiana are two relationships that shatter the surreal perception of marriage and expose readers to the raw truth, marriage is not a fairytale.

It is my intention to compare the book, Dangerous Liaisons by Choderlos de Laclos, to its modern movie version, Cruel Intentions starring Sarah Michelle Gellar. I intend to examine how the original French text was modified in reference to plot, character, morals/values, and themes. I also plan to discuss how these transformations change the meaning of the story and reflect different cultural/historical contexts. There are some major differences between these two works, if only because of when they were written.

In the next four lines of the poem, the speaker talks about how he feels as he imagines his childhood. Even though he is in front of this woman who is singing and playing music, “in spite of” himself, his present state, this “insidious mastery of song betrays” the speaker back “till” he “weeps” to go back to his childhood. The guileful dominance of the song the woman is singing beguiles him to think about his past experience. His heart “weeps to belong to the old Sunday evenings at home.” He really misses the time when he was little, and he used to hear his mother playing piano every Sunday evening. He wants to go back to his childhood and belong to that time again.

Out of all the characters in the play Thomasina is perhaps the most beautiful. She is innocent, driven by academic zeal, and a genius of epic proportions. What is truly the most beautiful trait about her is that unlike Mrs. Chater and Lady Croom, it is “an insult in a gazebo,” (6) that she desires but true love. The final waltz that Septimus and Thomasina share could not be any more romantic as “Septimus holding Thomasina, kisses her on the mouth. The waltz lesson pauses. She looks at him. He kisses her again, in earnest. She puts her arms around him.” (95) The affection the two feel for each other is a huge part of any person’s definition of paradise: two people truly in love with each other uncorrupted by the society around them. Yet even in this seemingly paradisiacal situation, Thomasina still tragically dies.

The theme of young love in Location is revealed through multiple literary devices. To start off in the first verse it says “At times I wonder why I fool with you/ But this is new to me this is new to you” this is an example of symbolism saying that they are both young and haven’t really done this sort of thing, it also states that she’s toying or “fooling” with him. Secondly

This is all about a young girl that was at a ‘party, early Sunday morning’ she was there with a boy who forced her her ‘to the quit bricks of Birkenhead docks’ This is a place ‘far’ away from the traffic of the city and ‘far’ away from anyone who could see them. In this poem, it is repeated far two times. This makes it more sinister and clearer how alone they are. In the next part, we have again, repetition as it says ‘he’ 3 times at the beginning of the sentence. It’s all about him being in charge. All about this part of the poem shows that he doesn't love her as he is calling her a ‘little slag’ and makes her drunk. But ‘ she had met him at a party and danced with him all night ‘ shows that she is fascinated and probably likes it that someone has only eyes for her but also it’s also pretty obvious that he tries to impress her. He doesn't let her go and is giving all his attention to her. She is already ‘’in love’’ as she is impressed and just under his spell. In this poem, we will find a few similes like ‘With his eyes blue as iodine’ this is all about his two faced personality as iodine is beautiful but toxic. He is trying to get her far away from the crowded city. He is in charge and isn't even asking if she wants to go there he is just saying ‘i will show you…’ He knows what he is doing and isn't even thinking about how wrong this is. She is wearing her White high shoes. In some countries they people still think that they

Throughout the poem, Rossetti utilizes imagery to demonstrate the superficial relationship between two lovers and likens it to the two gazing into a pool. In the beginning, the narrator says that both were “not hand in hand, yet heart in heart, I think” (3). By using the two physical people as a metaphor for the relationship between them, the speaker describes it as “heart in heart” yet not “hand and hand”, which demonstrates the lack of absolute commitment in their relationship. The “I think” at the end also serves a diction purpose, added into the line to question if the two ever were “heart in heart”, again reflective of the

With each letter in Les Liaisons dangereuses, Choderlos de Laclos advances a great many games of chess being played simultaneously. In each, the pieces—women of the eighteenth-century Parisian aristocracy—are tossed about mercilessly but with great precision on the part of the author. One is a pawn: a convent girl pulled out of a world of simplicity and offered as an entree to a public impossible to sate; another is a queen: a calculating monument to debauchery with fissures from a struggle with true love. By examining their similarities and differences, Laclos explores women’s constitutions in a world that promises ruin for even the most formidable among them. Presenting the reader glimpses of femininity from a young innocent’s daunting debut to a faithful woman’s conflicted quest for heavenly virtue to another’s ruthless pursuit of vengeance and earthly pleasures, he insinuates the harrowing journey undertaken by every girl as she is forced to make a name for herself as a woman amongst the tumult of a community that machinates at every turn her downfall at the hands of the opposite sex. In his careful presentation of the novel’s female characters, Laclos condemns this unrelenting subjugation of women by making clear that every woman’s fate in such a society is a definitive and resounding checkmate.

Present for the man itself and absent for the mistress is not talking back. Also, Love and lust. In the first part of the poem, it entails the feelings of the man toward his mistress but as the poem went over, it proves that the main concern of the man is his sexual arousal.