Grandchild Simon Bradstreet

Different stages in the story symbolize adolescent’s growth into adulthood. In Stage 1, everything is new and exciting; this symbolizes youth, preferably babies and toddlers. During Stage 2, the kid years, the girls are getting used to everything around them but having a hard time adjusting. With Stage 3 they start to formulate their own opinions and become more independent, like young teens. Stage 4, they are starting to become more comfortable with their surroundings and are growing in their self-confidence, much like late teens and young adults.

Around the world there appears to be a common misconception that young adults experiencing the transition of puberty are overly dramatic. Making the transformation from an undeveloped child to a developed young adult can be an extremely confusing and complex time and this sentiment is expressed throughout this poem. A metaphor is described by Sharon Hamilton as when “a word or phrase that in literal use designates one kind of thing is applied to a conspicuously different object, concept, or experience, without asserting an explicit comparison” (35). Sharon Old utilizes this literary device, effectively in her metaphor of mathematics in comparison to a young child discovering adulthood in “The Only Girl at the

The first example of the children losing their innocence is when they are describing the transition from elementary school to junior high school. Each has found that instead of one teacher, they in fact had many teachers. Additionally, the girls they were once friends with, now different in size and grace, ignored them. This becomes apparent that things have change as a result of age.

Elizabeth Bishop’s poem First Death in Nova Scotia follows a small girl who is introduced to the concept of death for the first time through her cousin, Arthur. Even though the narrator is just a child who is experiencing death for this first time, she is extremely perceptive of her surroundings. The details and language the girl uses to describe the situation illustrates the difficulty the girl is having coming to terms with the idea of death, while also confusing her throughout the poem. The important concepts of death, grief, and loss of innocence are conveyed by Bishop through the encounter the girl is having with death. Bishop’s theme in the poem seems to be that death can be extremely sorrowful yet hard to understand and as such, people deal with these feelings in different ways, even children. The narrator, being a small child, naturally uses distractions in her surroundings and her figurative language to start to understand death at the end of the poem.

As mentioned before, Bradstreet gave birth to eight children during her lifetime. Women in New England spent a great deal of their adult life pregnant. Due to the high rate of death during childbirth, a women’s life expectancy only reached the age of 62. Bradstreet often likely feared her own death during each one of her deliveries. This fear is expressed in her poem titled “Before the Birth of One of Her Children.” She begins this poem reflecting on life, and the reality of death for all human beings, writing, “All things within this fading world hath end” (Bradstreet 225). Bradstreet continues on to say, “The sentence past is most irrevocable, a common thing, yet, oh, inevitable.” By the “common thing” she could be referring to the risks

As the trip progresses, the children reveal themselves as funny, spoiled brats. O'Connor's desire to illustrate the lost respect for the family and elders among the young is quite apparent in her illustrations of the children. One evidently notices another foreshadowing image when the family

The age gap between generations can alter the perspectives in which one understands certain situations. In Alice Monro’s short fictional story Friend of My Youth the female characters have an important role in displaying the central theme of the story. It also presents different perspectives on life and its outcomes. The point of view displayed in the story is first person, specifically the daughter’s perspective. This tactic chosen by Monro gives a unique standpoint within the story, and portrays the conflict of interest between the narrator and the mother. It also converts to third person to create character development midway through the story; there is another conflict

Bradstreet´s, “Before the Birth of One of Her Children” is a letter written to her husband expressing true concern of her probability to pass away during labor. Birth rate during the seventeenth century in England ranged from five to eight children per women. The limitations in health care during that period increased the probability of maternal death to one per eight births. Uncertain whether she would withstand her upcoming labor, Bradstreet is motivated to show her concerns and at the same time deliver a farewell message to her husband. As a result, the author achieves to surprise the lector by her ability to convey a direct message in this melancholic memorandum. Bradstreet expresses her acceptance of death as she points out three personal principles: believe that all things in life will end, ask that virtues remain while forgiving flaws, and embrace the idea that loved ones will eventually overcome a painful loss and proceed with their lives.

Paragraph 1 The author (Ray Bradbury) uses similes to show how the children are jealous of Margot's different experiences. In the story Margot writes a poem that says “I think the sun is a flower, That blooms for just one hour” (Bradbury, 1954). The other children argue that she did not write this “aw you didn't write that!” one of the boys say.

The girl’s innocence derives from her young, naïve outlook on life. No matter how many times she is asked about her siblings, she responds, “We are seven.” This baffles the man because he cannot grasp the concept she is explaining; that regardless of their absence on earth, they are still a very large part of her everyday life. “‘My stockings there I often knit,/ My ‘kerchief there I hem;/ And there upon the ground I sit--/ I sit and sing to them/… I take my little porringer,/ And eat my supper there,’” she notes. Clearly, she stays very active with the two.

In The poem “In memory of My Dear grandchild” By Anne Bradstreet , I feel that it shows that Bradstreet was saddened and struggling with the loss of her grandchild, but found peace with her granddaughters death through religion. She is basically saying that it is not her place to question gods will in regards to fate or what is supposed to happen in our lives. “farewell, dear babe, my heart’s too much content” “blest babe, why should I once bewail thy fate” “by His hand alone that

The story is mainly comprised of comparisons, metaphors and similes that tie into the ironic situations Baby finds herself in. Comparisons and contrasts are used to illustrate the different influences in Baby’s life.

After the children have played in the sun for two hours, they had realized that Margot was right. This supports my point because it gives specific information on how the children act when the teacher isn’t watching them. When the children acted out finally, the boy William, had pushed her and she didn’t move. They all crept away from her because it was a little creepy. This also supports my claim because the children are so swept up in their own jealousy that they bully her. This shows that children can and will be the next generations of

Linda Pastan made this poem include various forms of figurative language to hide the literal message that it's trying to portray. Figurative language is using figures of speech to make the text be more powerful, persuasive, and meaningful. Figures of speech such as, similes and metaphors, go beyond the literal meanings to give the readers a new way of looking at the text. It can come in multiple ways with different literacy and rhetorical devices such as: alliteration, imageries, onomatopoeias, and etc. With the usage of the literary devices Pastan has used, it introduced the relationship between the mother and the daughter. It shows the memories of how the mother helped her daughter grow from a little girl to a young adult getting ready to go her own way in life.

The theme of parental mourning has been a universal one throughout the centuries. In the literature on bereavement, writers repeat certain themes, thoughts, and reflections; they talk of the powerful and often conflicting emotions involved in "the pain of grief and the