John Keats On The Sea

In the second stanza, he says “Darkness settles on roofs and walls”. Then, he expresses the idea of nature washing away the mark of man in lines 8-9 when the speaker of the poem states “The little waves, with their soft, white hands, Efface the footprints in the sands”. Then, the first line of the third stanza opens with “The morning breaks”. In this section, darkness fell upon the speaker, and he watched as the waves washed away the footprints of the traveler in the sand. Then morning breaks, which implies that life will continue after the death of a person. Another example of imagery in this poem is when he says “The twilight darkens, the curlew calls”. This does nothing more than to give the reader an even more exact image of what is going on, which allows the reader to be able to connect better with the

The film The Sea Inside shares the heart warming real life story of a man named Ramon Sampedro. At the young age of twenty-six he suffered an accident while diving into shallow waters of the ocean that left him a quadriplegic. Now at the age of fifty-four, Ramon must depend on his family to survive. His older brother Jose, Jose’s wife, Manuela and their son Javi do their best to take care of Ramon and make him feel loved. Although Ramon is extremely grateful to his family and friends for their help all these years, he has come to see his life as aggravating and unsatisfying. He wishes to die with the little dignity he has left in his life. However, Ramon’s family is dead set against the thought of assisted suicide and the

As one of the greatest writers in history, Ernest Hemingway is known for writing many novels and novellas with important messages. Hemingway was also known for his courage and bravery during his lifetime. He was a soldier in the First World War, the Spanish Civil War, and the Second World War. One of his most famous books, The Old Man and the Sea, won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 1954 and is based on the true story of an elderly Cuban fisherman. There are many lessons that are in the book, but perhaps the most important that Hemingway wants to convey is to never give up and be persistent in reaching your goals, even if things seem hard. He conveys this message over the book with various characters and one important quote, “A man can

   Throughout her novel, The Awakening, Kate Chopin uses symbolism and imagery to portray the main character's emergence into a state of spiritual awareness. The image that appears the most throughout the novel is that of the sea. “Chopin uses the sea to symbolize freedom, freedom from others and freedom to be one's self” (Martin 58). The protagonist, Edna Pontellier, wants that freedom, and with images of the sea, Chopin shows Edna's awakening desire to be free and her ultimate achievement of that freedom.

Nature is first described in a peaceful and confident mood as something majestic, with the sun as the powerful being which controls this nature. However, by the end of the first stanza, “The hawk comes”. This phrase is said as if the narrator is afraid of the hawk and its presence is going to change the mood of the rest of the poem. The next stanza suddenly uses sharp diction, such as “scythes”, “honed”, and “steel-edge”, to illustrate the hawk’s stunning motions and the powerful aura of the hawk that is felt just from its existence, causing the mood of the poem to slowly transition to fearful, yet respectable. The narrator adores this change the hawk is causing on nature, and describes the scene with the hawk in awe, showing how the poet finds the changing of nature attractive.

This contrast serves to communicate the scattered nature of our consciousness with the unity, elegance and fluidity of our subconscious. Furthermore, these drawn out sounds serve to also further the imagery of the tide’s “uninterrupted sweep” which is particularly effective in conveying the image of the wave rushing to envelope the shore, the word “uninterrupted” conveying this sense that the wave of inspiration is all smooth and relentless. This imagery is furthered by the 3 line-long segment, uninterrupted by punctuation. Yet, the central point made in these four lines is when the speaker states that “(he) heard” the waves. The description of the sea gives you a mental image, but Longfellow stresses upon the fact that the speaker only hears the tide, as this can be seen reflected in the title of the poem “The Sound of the Sea”. Hearing is an auditory action that allows one to be aware of the presence of the object through the sound, but not visually or physically grasp it. This suggests that inspiration is similar, in the sense that one can be aware of it but cannot consciously grasp, control or dominate it.

The appreciation of nature is illustrated through imagery ‘and now the country bursts open on the sea-across a calico beach unfurling’. The use of personification in the phrase ‘and the water sways’ is symbolic for life and nature, giving that water has human qualities. In contrast, ‘silver basin’ is a representation of a material creation and blends in with natural world. The poem is dominated by light and pure images of ‘sunlight rotating’ which emphasizes the emotional concept of this journey. The use of first person ‘I see from where I’m bent one of those bright crockery days that belong to so much I remember’ shapes the diverse range of imagery and mood within the poem. The poet appears to be emotional about his past considering his thoughts are stimulated by different landscapes through physical journey.

The study of any poem often begins with its imagery. Being the centralized idea behind the power of poetry, imagery isn’t always there to just give a mental picture when reading the poem, but has other purposes. Imagery can speak to the five senses using figurative language as well as help create a specific emotion that the author is trying to infuse within the poem. It helps convey a complete human experience a very minimal amount of words. In this group of poems the author uses imagery to show that humanity is characterized as lost, sorrowful and regretful, but nature is untainted by being free of mistakes and flaws and by taking time to take in its attributes it can help humans have a sense of peace, purity, and joy, as well as a sense of

Poetry is used to express several different mediums through: structure, tone, imagery and rhyme schemes. John Keats’s ode “To Autumn” and Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s poem “Kubla Khan” or, a Vision in a Dream” will be critically analyzed, compared and contrasted to each throughout this paper to further dissected the meaning of each poem.

      In Kate Chopin's novel, The Awakening, the female protagonist, Edna Pontellier, learns about the world. Unfortunately for Edna, the world is defined in terms of love and marriage. This female awakening is really  "an awakening to limitations" (Bloom 43). If read as a suicide, then Edna’s last swim is a consequence of her awakening to the limitations of her femaleness in a male-dominant society. But on a metaphysical level, The Awakening's final scene can be seen as Edna's ultimate gesture in trying to grasp the essence of her being.  This essay will show that Edna's spiritual journey both begins and ends in the sea..

A dark light is shed on nature, with the use of words such as “soiled” to depict the clouds in the sky (3). Normally, one would appreciate nature for its beauty and ability to create peace in its observers, but clearly the speaker feels resentment and disgust towards the environment. What happened to create this negative feeling towards a seemingly harmless and normally appreciated thing? The wind is described like a bird, flying and “beat(ing) around in its cage of trees,” wanting to be set free (2). The personification of the wind gives the normally less powerful force more shape and life, as though it is capable of great destruction. Similarly, the “starlings peck at the ice,” trying to break through (3). There is a theme of breaking free from confinement in these two lines, which is an interesting concept when the reader is introduced to the wife in the second stanza. She “stays home and stares from the window” at the outside world, which is clearly a depressing scene due to the harshness of the winter

“Seahorses” is a non-rhyming poem with seven ten-line stanzas, which all prominently exhibit the poem’s four main literary devices: imagery, diction, symbolism and rhythm. Leithauser’s eloquent diction and well-placed line and stanza breaks help to construct a relaxing, peaceful rhythm that creates the elegant feeling of a seahorse slowly swimming through the azure waters of the ocean. To add a layer of vivid images to this already enthralling literary canvas, Leithauser uses descriptive vocabulary, such as sparsity, menagerie and nonsynchronous, to describe the situation and help the poem appeal to each of the reader’s five senses. The most subtle, yet possibly most impactful literary device displayed in the poem is symbolism. Leithauser utilizes symbolism throughout the poem to give the poem greater depth and extract deeper meaning from a topic usually thought of as simple and childish. Appearing predominantly in the final two stanzas, but present throughout the poem, Brad Leithauser uses the idea of the seahorse to represent imagination, and the “release” that it can present from our every-day troubles. This message is embodied by the poem’s final sentence which states, “If there’s to be any egress for you and me from the straitening domain of the plausible, what

These lines, which describe the motion and sound of the storm, are thematically creating conflict between the author and nature. In the follow phrases, “Leaves…hissed/ Blindly struck at my knee…/…sinister in the tone”, gives a negative tone to the metaphorical storm within the poem. Their rhythmic pattern aligns with that of the last lines of the poem starting with “Word”, which are describing his loneliness. “Word I was in the house alone//Word I was in my life alone, /Word I had no one left buy God”, continue this pattern of very metrical lines of three (13, 15-16. Theses two sections of lines are not only metrically similar, but thematically. They are no longer questioning the trials of his loss of love, as he is no longer questioning. The two sections are described through sound, which is a motif throughout the poem. The storm’s description with sound connects with the other passage of same foot pattern as the narrator believes that someone has spread word of his loneliness, could this be the nature? These sections are also following the same end rhyme scheme “hissed/…missed/…tone” and “alone/…alone/…God”(9-11, 13,15-16). The meanings may reflect each other in these passages, the sense of nature being the one acknowledging the narrator’s loneliness with the storm. It is not clear who knows of his loneliness in the poem, but from the similarities in theme and meter it can be assumed that the storm is spreading word of his

     In the timeless novel The Old Man and the Sea, the hero is undoubtedly the old man, Santiago, whom us as readers become very acquainted with. Santiago is a hard-worker and perseveres through every problem nature brings to him. He is in the midst of a horrendous fishing drought, during which the townspeople laugh and ridicule him. Santiago just lets the criticism pass him by because he is confident that the fish of his lifetime is coming soon. In a sense, Santiago represents the ideas of honor and pride. He is also a hero to a young boy named Manolin who conveys the image that the old man is whom he would rather live

When I was a little girl at early of my age, I spent a wonderful time with my grandma near a sea in my hometown during the last two months of her life. That was the first time we saw the smile back to her face since we got the news that she got intestine cancer. Back to that time I was deeply impressed by how being around the sea was capable to change people’s emotion in such a positive way. The poet, Pablo Neruda, in his poem “The Sea” illustrates how the sea teaches a trapped man a lesson on how to be released from struggling to find freedom and happiness. The three crucial poem-writing elements, sound, structure, and figurative language make the power of sea more vivid just like a picture we could see and have physical feelings about. And when we try to get a deeper understanding of the poem, it is the sound that we hear first.