Eudora Welty's Use Of Poetic Language

In this passage from her autobiography, “One Writer’s Beginnings”, Eudora Welty recalls early experiences of reading and books that had later impact on her craft as a writer of fiction. Welty’s language conveys the intensity and values of these experiences with the use of imagery, with the use of diction, and the use of details.

They were running up the road to a barn and I followed them to a little grassy patch. They all went to a shady spot under a tree and laid down under the trees shade. I slowly walked up to them they looked hungry and lost so I went to find some hay, luckily there was a patch of hay nearby. So she went and pulled a patch out of the ground and went back to the horses. The horses were still there laying under the cool shade. I slowly came to the first one. It was small with a white dot around its eye and other white dots on its sides. I started to put the hay down the horse got up and started

In this passage, Welty compared the librarian to witches and dragons. She wrote “I never knew anyone who’d grown up in Jackson without being afraid of Mrs. Calloway.” The only person that was brave enough to face the librarian, besides her mother, was Welty herself. After she went on to write about how she still went to the library and was willing to do anything to read, even if it meant facing the terrifying librarian, the audience is able to

The inevitable had happened; I, as a small child, was demanded to read. A little antisocial human being launched into a world of, at first, difficult words and lengthy phrases. While words and literacy were forced into my mind, I had reluctantly begun the adventure to enjoy and accept the art of literature. Later however, my hopes and dreams were crushed to pieces by a gruesome teacher with an interesting form of a so called “grading policy.”

Eudora Welty’s sheltered, adolescent life, coupled with her parent’s emphasis on education and reading, helped to shape her as the writer she was by making her stylistic approaches daring and intelligent while keeping a southern tone and state of mind.

Tone is the outlook the writer intends the audience to observe. This tone is more than just a temporary mood or slight feeling. It is a constant tone conveyed to the audience throughout the story. Nonetheless, there can be changes in tones, with a constant theme. It is the perception the author, Eudora Welty, inks into existence so in turn the audience can mentally derive an attitude toward the storyline and each character. For example, a Caucasian gentleman reading this short story in the 1960’s might see an attack on the masculinity of the hunter. On the other hand, an afro-American female activist of 2010 might find it appalling to see the Phoenix Jackson treated so harshly. Tones range in many ways, from exotic to solemn or from grave to jolly. As you read this summary of details, there will be examples and explanations of the foremost theme and a variety of minor tones for the audience to reflect by Welty.

In “I Know Why The Caged Bird Cannot Read” by Francine Prose, the author tries to prompt the audience that the level of literature in schools needs to change. The piece highlights on how school literature should have more value and diversity than it currently does. Prose explores her point by comparing the reading lists from various cities around the United States and chastises the similarities of choices of literature for young adults. Using rhetorical questions, Prose calls for a change for literature to be chosen by value and lessons instead of popularity.

Welty moves through events at a workman-like pace never allowing the emotional tension to rise too high, not allowing herself to dwell too much. Since she lived a sheltered life, when confronted with the harsh realities of life, Welty tries to lessen the pain and tension to ease the realization, a characteristic that becomes evident in her writing.

Feminism can be defined as a social idea that men and women should both have equal rights. The topic of feminism has been debated for many years. Throughout the early 1900's, the Women's Rights Movement was one of the largest social movements in the United States. Eudora Welty was born in 1909, right around the time where women's rights were being debated the most. Welty grew up in Mississippi, a common setting in many of her short stories. She was a smart girl who enjoyed reading and writing. Welty was also an artistic soul who enjoyed painting, photography and drawing. Eudora Welty started her career as a writer early on in her life. After attending college to receive a degree in literature, she worked for various newspapers and radio

Welty hasn’t published any new volumes of short stories since “The Bride of Innisfallen” in 1955 and it renewed her interest in fiction. In the early 1970’s to 80’s she wrote many novels and short stories. Her most complex stories in “The Golden Apples” won critical acclaim, and she received a number of prizes and awards throughout the following decade. She won the William Dean Howell’s Medal of Academy of Arts. Welty also won the letters for her novel “The Ponder Heart”. In the 1970’s she published two novels, “Losing Battles” and “The Optimist’s Daughter”, which was much more critically successful and won a Pulitzer Prize. Her autobiographical book “One Writer’s Beginnings” is a remarkably useful account of her origins and development as a writer.

The author compares her love for “devouring” books with her mother’s mutual literary “insatiability”. Welty recollects the influence of books on the both of them to demonstrate the important effect reading had on her life even through her mother. Later in the paragraph another bit of narration in the form of an anecdote is present. Welty begins by alluding to her idol Mary Pickford and then discusses her mother reading a magazine with focus while playing with Welty’s siblings. The fact that Welty retained these memories is a testament to the position such events occupied for her as a child; books and reading maintained a vital spot in her

In the 1600s, critics saw the increased production of books as a threat to society, because they feared that people would not be able to keep up and process the information at the same rate as it became available. Others feared that new books would outshine the classics, and as a result the society would plunge into a primitive state with masses of uncultured people. Ann Blair offers quite the opposite perspective in her article titled “Reading Strategies for Coping with Information Overload ca. 1550–1700,” where she demonstrates that the plethora of books, rather than numbing the minds, in reality cultivated new learning methods while making reading a more personal and intellectually stimulating experience.

Books have many life lessons that are useful, themes that are valuable, and morals that should be kept. First off, “Libraries, to me, are safe spaces, and if young readers can’t explore the themes in my book there, where can they?” (Strum, “Banning Books¨ ). Libraries are supposed to be a place

This has brought controversy to many for the fact that on one side books can be full of information and from the other side it can create the wrong image towards another person. In the kids book “The LIbrarian from the Black Lagoon” written by Mike Thaler a librarian is described as a kid laminator “they say she laminates you if you talk in the library” (5). or when they say “She also has rubber stamps on the soles of her shoes. And whenever she steps...it says OVERDUE” (7).

The ones at the bottom want for the top, And the ones at the top kick their lessers; But those who stayed away, they laugh and scoff. For they alone can see the true message.