Comparison and Contrast How Death Effects Lives of Men and Women

The shortness of the sentence, “She stood up” acts as a sudden pause in the story, as though this abrupt action has frozen time. In the next few lines, Bolland uses a miserable tone to reflect on the mother’s mood. To emphasize this sense of misery, she uses the three rhyming words, “emptying”, “killing” and “lighting”, which have the connotations of bitterness and depression. Bolland also uses pathetic fallacy to reflect on the emotions of the mother, stating that the distance “smelled” of rain and lightning. The “distance” that is mentioned here may symbolize how distant she and her lover is now. At this point, the readers would feel a sense of pathos towards this character. Hence, the third stanza is a transitioning phase between her presence of the current situation and her stream of consciousness.

Many people define their lives by the relationships within their family. They are someone’s daughter, someone’s wife, or someone’s mother or father. The loss of a family member, especially due to death, creates a radical readjustment to people’s day to day lives and how they see and feel about themselves. Sometimes the process of grief can last over several years and how it is mentally processed and dealt with is different for everyone. “Mud” by Geoffrey Forsyth, shows an insightful view of a grieving man who had already lost his father and grandmother and is now just coming to terms with the loss of his wife two years prior. The entire story is written in first person point of view which allows for the reader to fully engage themselves in the grief and strife of the narrator’s life. Geoffrey’s story “Mud” begins in the home of the narrator where he encounters these dead family members and has to decide if he is ready to move on from his grief and say goodbye or stay behind and be consumed by it.

The poem that I have selected for this essay is “Talking to Grief” by Denise Levertov. I chose this poem because it talks about grief. It also talks about the place that grief should have in a person’s life. The poem describes grief, and compares it to a “homeless dog.” It also describes how a dog deserves its own place in the house, instead of living under a porch or being homeless. This poem talks about how a person can be aware that grief is present, but that it is not always acknowledged and accepted. We all experience grief in different ways, and for different reasons. Everyone deals with grief in their own personal way. This poem describes a point in a person’s life when they are ready to accept grief as a part of their life

This poem is a free verse poem with twenty lines and an informal rhyme scheme. Although there are a few rhymes within the poem, such as "stair" in the line two, and bare in line seven, it is not a consistent rhyme scheme. There is heavy use of dialect in this poem, such as "ain't", and "I'se". This provides an impression that the mother isn't very well educated and from the south, where racial issues are prevalent. Repetition is also seen in the poem with "I'se still goin", and "I'se still climbing". Imagery can be seen with descriptive words such as "tack", "splinter", "boards", and

Love and Loss John Green once wrote, “you can love someone so much...but you can never love people as much as you can miss them.” The poems “Annabelle Lee,” by Edgar Allen Poe, and “Do not go gentle into that good night,” by Dylan Thomas, both expose the overall theme of the negative effects of love and loss. Thomas and Poe illustrate the effects of how a love binding relationship, broken by loss, leaves a tragic mark on the human experience. The effects of the loss of a loved one cause the characters in these poems to feel extraordinary grief, a sense of loneliness, and a powerful feeling of anger. The experience of loss in a relationship bound by love causes the characters in the poems to feel an extraordinary amount of grief, leaving

It was a “blessing” she stated, that her father died when he did, hence ending his battle with dementia before the disease worsened and “robbed him of his dignity”. Her family agreed on hospice care and the family stayed together physically in the hospice facility for the two days props to his death. Her father had a good death and he was surrounded by family who were not bickering or fighting. No negativity surrounded the passing. The subject felt great comfort throughout this ordeal. Her strong christian faith that she shared with her father is the fundamental aspect that helps her cope as she continues the grief process. “Blessed”, “grateful” and “acceptance” were the words used to describe her experience with her father’s passing. Reading scripture and singing songs of faith are the things that help positively go through her grief. She is a very strong woman. She does miss her father and the sadness that he is gone, but she thinks about their times together and that helps from sadness to turn into fond memories. Even a trip to the grocery store makes her smile.

In the article, “Why Do Men Die Earlier” it forms a good statement, and research about why men die earlier than women. I agree with the author that men die at a younger age than women, because I think men do more physical work than women, but sometimes women do more.

Furthermore, the first six lines of the poem illustrates how hard the mother’s life was. “It’s had tacks in it, and splinters, and boards torn up, and places with no carpet on the floor- bare” (Hughes). The mother is talking about her life in this lines and how rough it was, her life has been hard, she had challenges and obstruction in life. She has faced lots of challenges in life and that is why she advises her son, she uses her life as an example in order to let her son know that life is not always going to be easy as she compares her life to a staircase and talks about the obstacles she had to go through as she continued to climb the stairs everyday so that her life could become better. She says, “I’se been a-climbin’ on, and reaching’ Landin’s, and turning’ corners, and sometimes going’ in the dark where there ain’t been no light” (Hughes).

Why are men’s mortality rates higher than women’s? The mortality rate for men is much higher than that of women’s due to heart disease, accidents and cerebrovascular diseases. Mortality is known as the measure of the number of deaths in a particular population, in this case men’s. Cardiovascular disease consists of conditions that involve narrowed or blocked blood vessels. Having narrowed or blocked blood vessels can lead to a heart attack, chest pain or a stroke. Heart disease in men can be caused by factors the main one being smoking. 22% of men are known to smoke and do so twice as much as women do. Activities such as smoking greatly influence men’s mortality rates. Men are more prone to being involved in accidents, because

"A Valediction: Forbidding Mourning" is a poem in which the speaker is forced to live away from his lover or wife. Before he leaves, he tells her that his departure should be a moment of sorrow and mourning. The poem is stuffed with many literary devices to exemplify how the speaker and his wife feel. The speaker connects one technique to another to open up about their love and how the two are connected not only physically but also spiritually and that they will never be separated. The poem is simple, and its meaning is direct.

The shared concern among medical professionals about the potential for higher mortality rates among men over fifty due to smoking has prompted medical professionals to encourage more lung cancer screening. Screening is recommended for all men and women under the age of 80 who are present smokers or were smokers in the past. De Koning et al. (2014) identify three sub-categories for current and past smokers between 55 and 80 years old. One category covered those with 25 years since stopping, or 20 or less pack-years. In addition, also categorized were those with 15 years since quitting, and those still smoking. The latter had over 30 pack-years’ worth of smoking tobacco and were at the most risk of lung cancer and mortality. More lung deaths can be avoided through routine screening examinations with a minimum frequency of one per year (De Koning et al., 2014). Even those who quit smoking more than 25 years ago were still at risk of developing lung cancer, therefore it is still productive for these seemingly helthy ex-smokers to undergo screening. While this has helped identify lung cancer in its early stages, thus making it treatable and more easily curable, the greatest benefit in reduced fatality goes to those who quit smoking within 15 years of the De Koning et al. (2014) study.

Robert Frost's "Home Burial" is a tragic poem about a young life cut short and the breakdown of a marriage and family. The poem is considered to be greatly inspired and "spurred by the Frosts' loss of their first child to cholera at age 3" (Romano 2). The complex relationship between husband and wife after their child's death is explored in detail and is displayed truthfully. Among many others, the range of emotions exhibited includes grief, isolation, acceptance, and rejection. The differences in the characters emotions and reactions are evident. The husband and wife in Robert Frost's "Home Burial" react to their son's death in stereotypical fashion and interact with each other with difficulty and resistance.

In “Home Burial,” Robert Frost uses language and imagery to show how differently a man and a women deal with grief. The poem not only describes the grief the two feel for the loss of their child but also the impending death of a marriage. Frost shows this by using a dramatic style set in New England.

Firstly, I will discuss the theme of death of a loved one with the poem "A mother in a refugee camp", which talks about the death of her own son

Robert Frost’s poem "Home Burial" speaks of the tragedies in a couple's life. The theme of "Home Burial” is centered around the death of a child. During the time period in which this poem took place it seems that men did not show their feelings well. "Home Burial" demonstrates how one tragedy can cause another to occur.