Essay on Half-Mown Lawn

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The widow begins by telling us “Sorrow is my own yard” (Reed). She, the widow is comparing the sorrow and grief that she feels with her yard. She takes ownership of her pain in the phrase “my own”. Springtime is usually a time of renewal and growth, but for the widow it is a time of sorrow and pain, deep sadness because her husband is not there with her this year. The new growth of her yard just “closes round me this year”. Something that is closing around you may make you feel trapped, or uncomfortable. This year her yard brings her feeling of pain. The widow’s

Fairy tales tell us that once upon a time a girl met a boy; they fell in love, and lived happily ever after. Reality is not that simple. Long-term relationships force couples to become more acquainted with each other, include themselves in each others’ worlds and eventually develop further connections. However, a relationship can come to an end point and therefore one will try to come back in the other’s life. This type of relationship is remarked in Fran Kimmel’s short story “Laundry Day”. The author suggests that getting rid of unhealthy relationship leads to happiness, the author uses the protagonist’s transformation, contrasting characters and symbols.

In the story,”Tall full-leaved trees grew here and there across the lawn.”(Creech 253) When Sal notices this, it’s greatness reveals. She can see the beauty and peace that her mother rests in, so Sal knows she’s at peace. This has importance in order for Sal to move on with her life. The story tells the reader, “I knew by myself, and for myself that she was never coming back…”(Creech 254) When Sal realizes that her mom never will come back, she can accept the fact and move on. The story says,”she isn’t actually gone at all, she’s singing in the trees.” (Creech 254) Sal accepts that she died, but also knows that her mom will connect with her through the trees. Now, Sal can move on with her mother’s spirit. In conclusion, when Sal sees her mother’s grave, she can eventually move on and accept. This setting has importance because she can move on from this trip’s

In the beginning of the short story, as Brother reflects on Doodle’s life, the author uses personification and foreshadowing to create a mood of remorse. As he gazes out of the window into his backyard, Brother states that “the graveyard flowers were blooming. ...speaking softly the names of our dead” (Hurst 1). The flowers provide flashbacks of the past, and foreshadow a loss of life. The loneliness felt by Brother causes readers to consider how they would feel if their loved one was gone. As Brother observes the seasons, it is noted that “summer was dead but autumn had not yet been born” (Hurst 1). The personifications of the seasons as stages in the cycle of life and death creates an unsure and uncertain mood. The shift between seasons creates an idea of change and uncertainty of events to come. Hurst creates a mood of remorse through

Alice begins her story with Dee’s mother describing her precious yard. The way the narrator describes this bond shows that the yard is something that she keeps very close to her house and that she’s proud. To Dee’s mother the yard, sort of represents a little quite place that she can think and put her thoughts together. She treats it like a child and makes sure

Posted on the New York TImes a young author who goes by Michael Pollon, who decided to share th world about the interest facts about lawns. Even though people step on grass, mow the lawn, or decoreate, he was curious in why people do it. In the article he stated the imporantance different lawns, and how each lawn can represents a family. Such as when the front yard grass is looking well taking care off, you assume that the family is well organized and even though succesful at that. Also when the grass is looking patched with different and the lenght of the grass is different in sizes aand looks like it does not seems to be getting a lot of attention, the home owner is not sucesfful and has a quite messy living. Pollon using a lot of references to back him in his article. Michael brings insight on the Great Gatsby by talking about scene that has to do with lawn care and how imporant Gatsby saw that

To begin with, foreshadowing is one of the many literary elements in this short story. For instance, the child was born in a caul with many problems. The narrator explains how the child is a great ordeal to everyone. A casket is built as a result of the non belief in the child's life. James Hurst vividly describes this sinister scenery of death by saying “The flower garden was stained with rotting brown magnolia petals and ironweeds grew rank amid the purple phlox” (Hurst 462). With his disabilities no character in the short story is expecting the child to live long. By saying all of this, and giving all of this information, Hurst is practically just telling the reader that the

In “The Mower Against Gardens,” Andrew Marvell uses a conceit to liken the plants in an English garden to the women of a brothel, exemplifying the theme of man’s perversion of nature. Three main metaphors are used, the first being mankind as the brothel owner. The second metaphor is the flowers as prostitutes, and the final metaphor is the flowers’ offspring as abandoned children.

One way that authors attempt to get their readers to think about the environment is by drawing attention to the fact that people harm it. For example, in “The Dark Side of the Perfectly Manicured American Lawn: Is It Giving You Cancer?” the author talks about the common herbicide 2,4-D and writes, “At first, its impact on humans seems mild—skin and eye irritation, nausea, vomiting, dizziness, stiffness in the arms and legs,” (Jenkins, 2016). In the event that these symptoms aren’t off-putting enough, the author then claims that 2,4-D can actually cause cancer in humans because it stimulates extremely rapid cell growth (Jenkins, 2016). I don’t know about you, but I think that trading your health for an attractive yard sounds like a very poor

Betrayal and loneliness are two of the hardest emotions to encounter in life. Nevertheless, at some point everyone will experience and be forced to deal with them. This is made even harder when they are caused by someone you love and trust.  In Meredith Hall’s “Killing Chickens”, she uses various literary devices such as metaphor, simile, and imagery as she processes her husband’s affair and describes having to kill chickens. Hall’s literary nonfiction is based on the happenings of a specific day that was truly hard to handle after being deceived by ones she loved:

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

While writing your outline make sure that all of your steps and/or points are in chronological order. This will help your reader to track where you are. Also make sure that you stay on topic with what your are talking about.

Figuratively, in stanza three, the poem symbolizes the three stages of life: childhood represented by “Children strove” (l. 9), youth represented by “the Fields of Gazing Grains” (l. 11) and the end of the life represented by “the Setting Sun” (l. 12). On the way of her journey, the speaker views children struggling to win in the race in School. She also sees cereal grasses collectively in the field, and at last the speaker perceives with her eyes that the sun is setting on the way of her journey. This stanza gives us a clue of her passing by this world; however the speaker is not able to figure out that she is dead. She simply thinks the sun is setting on a regular basis.

It was “A Swelling of the Ground--” and “ The roof was barely visible—“. The turning point of the poem was a flashback, when she says, “ Since then—‘tis Centuries—and yet/Feels shorter than the Day/I first surmised the Horses’ Heads/Were toward Eternity—“(21-24). This flashback lets the reader know that she is looking back on that day almost as if she is sad. Centuries have passed, yet that day seems longer than any time that has passed.