Light In August: Joe Christmas And Miss Burden

The beginning of the play takes place in Spring, which is a common symbol for young adulthood. This can be seen with the characters George and Emily, who at the start of the play are timid and awkward around each other in addition to not being fully matured. As the seasons start to develop, so do George and Emily. Summer, which is widely used to represent romance and love, is coincidentally the season where George proposes to Emily and the season of their wedding, with

For centuries, seasons have been understood to stand for the same set of meanings. Seasons are easily understood by the reader, and are easy for the writer to use; as Foster states, “Seasons can work magic on us, and writers can work magic with seasons” (Foster 192). The different seasons are a huge part of our lives; we live through each one every year, and we know how each of them impacts our lives. This closeness between people and nature allows us to be greatly impacted by the use of seasons in literature. In addition, Foster lays out the basic meanings of each season for us: autumn is harvest, decline, tiredness; winter is anger, hatred, cold, old age; summer is passion, love, happiness, beauty; and spring is childhood and youth. On the

     Soon, Janie's grandma married Janie to Logan Killicks. Despite Janie's disagreement, Janie's grandma had her way. Janie was off to Killicks' house under the assumption that love would come after marriage. 'So Janie waited a bloom time, and a green time and an orange time. But when the pollen again gilded the sun and sifted down the world she begun to stand the gate and expect things. What things? She didn't know.';(Hurston says, 23) Certainly, the marriage didn't go well, but to fully understand the meaning of the quote, it needs to be broken down to several parts: The bloom time meant the spring, which also served as the symbol as the beginning of the love. The green time meant the summer, which also served as the symbol of love during marriage. The orange time meant fall, which also served as the symbol of love at the end of marriage. In sum, Janie waited for love from Logan, and so she waited for the bloom time and the green time, but they never came. Janie then expected divorce but she did not know what to do, so she was confused.

The short story, “Doe Season” written by David Michael Kaplan is about a young girl’s loss of innocence and hesitation towards womanhood. In this story, the protagonist, an eight year old girl joins in on a hunting trip with her father and some friends. During this trip, Andy learns that being one of the boys may not be what she aspires after all. A few literary elements Kaplan uses helps readers better understand the story while reading such as, the characters, setting, and symbolism.

Throughout ‘At Mornington’, Harwood uses descriptions, “night fell”, and similes, “the piece of this day will shine like light” when referring to the power of memory. During ‘The Violets’, Harwood uses imagery such as “ambiguous light” and metaphors such as “unreturning light” and “blurring darkness” to portray time’s ability to pass, and the way that you cannot regain time that is lost. During ‘The Violets’, Harwood also uses the metaphor of the “melting west” to represent a closing day, capturing the vivid colours of the natural phenomenon through the use of evocative imagery. Indeed, the second poem of the diptych of ‘Father and Child’ is ‘Nightfall’. These references to darkness, light and the closing of days can all be seen as symbolic of life, death and the transience of time, as when one day ends and night falls, the transience of that moment will be held in one’s memory regardless of the moment never being able to be relived.

The imagery in the poem, specifically natural imagery, helps use the reader’s senses to develop a vivid depiction of the speaker’s connection to nature and dissatisfaction with the surrounding reality. The speaker’s continued use of the “moon” reflects her attribution of feminine identity and idolistic character to the moon. As opposed to referencing herself and her personal insomnia, she uses the imagery of the moon “beyond sleep” to convey her internal struggles with insomnia and her reality. Throughout the poem, the speaker also refers to shining, reflective surfaces, such as “a body of water or a mirror”, to describe the inverted reality in which the speaker experiences reciprocated love. Reflective surfaces often invert the image that is projected into them, seemingly distorting the true nature and reality of the projected image. The speaker’s reference to this reflective imagery highlights her desire to escape the burden of a patriarchal society and assume an independent and free feminine identity. Specifically, the use of natural imagery from the references to the “moon” and “a body of water” convey the speaker’s desire to take refuge within the Earth or in the feminine identity of the Earth, Mother Earth. Feminine identities are often related and associated with aspects of nature due to the natural cycle of the menstrual period and the natural process of procreation. The speaker takes advantage of these connotations to suggest Earth and natural imagery as an escape from the man-made terrors of male dominated society. In the second stanza, the speaker uses extensive imagery to develop metaphors conveying the speaker’s experience of jealousy of the moon

In the story All the Broken Pieces written by Ann E Burg, a character named Matt makes a comparison about him and his little brother being compared as fall and summer. Matt’s comparison is firstly being compared by him being dark and drowsy, while he secondly compares tommy, his brother, to summer a happy joyful time of the year

Carver presents symbolism throughout his story to represent a darker side of the human heart when it is wounded. “Don’t, she said. You’re hurting the baby, she said. I’m not hurting the baby, he said.” The baby represents the relationship of the man and woman. There is not an actual baby that is being hurt, but their relationship together. Once the “issue was decided” towards the end, it represents how the man and woman’s relationship was no more. In addition, snow is brought up in the beginning to start the mood of the relationship. “...The snow was melting into dirty water.” The snow represents the pure white relationship they had in the beginning. Once the snow melted into dirty water, that shows that their relationship is tainted, fading away, and can never be the same. This also leads into the light that is set towards the house. “The kitchen window gave no light.” The window showing both the darkness of the outside and the inside of the house, represents how darkness is taking over the relationship, and how there is no more light to shine on their love for each other. All three of these symbols connect back to how the man and woman have a codependent relationship.

Similarly in nightfall, Gwen prefigures a monumental moment of her life, the death of her father. The title of the poem “nightfall”, is the binary opposite to “Daybreak” and therefore assembles a thought in the readers mind of the opposite of coming alive, end of time, death. Gwen’s understanding of the inevitability of death is highlighted when she says “Now the season that seemed incredible is come”. This quote in combination with the constant links to nature, in particular “fruits” is symbolic of the season autumn, the falling of ripe fruit and can therefore be interpreted as the end of her father’s time on earth,

The beginning of the story opens up at the beginning of the spring season. Nature and human beings alike are waking up from their slumber. Everybody is excited for warm tolerable weather. The celebration of spring gives a dreamy feel to the opening lines of the story. This leaves a dreamy feel that invokes elements from a love story. Much to the reader surprise the story is not about a romance at all, but of pilgrimage. Excited for beautiful weather everyone seems to be playing out a venture to distant lands for spiritual indulgence.

Furthermore, Ann’s uncertainty flourishes when “night [comes] early” (5) and the “slow dimming of the light [clutches] her with an illogical sense of abandonment” (5). The illusion of loneliness becomes reality as night approaches and John remains absent. As the light progressively disappears, Ann begins to feel abandoned and uncertain of the truth behind John’s promise. In addition, we notice the significance of light in Ann and John’s relationship when Steven arrives and Ann “[lets] him in and [lights] the lamp” (6). Lighting the lamp for Steven elucidates Ann’s slight sense of reassurance that John will return. During her moment of uncertainty, Ann believes that if Steven is able to travel and persist through the storm then John will be capable as well. However, this feeling is momentary as “the lamp between [her and Steven] [flickers]” (7). The flickering light augments a feeling of weariness in her fidelity as well as wavering feelings towards Steven. Ann is unsure of her feelings towards John and begins to question if they should instead be directed to Steven

John had just gotten home from work and is eating dinner. The conversation between them is vague and full of tension and it is noticeable that there is a wall between them. John points out the tension but not directly and decides that they need to do something about it. “John: ‘You ought to bring some flowers in the house’, Elizabeth: ‘Oh! I forgot! I will tomorrow.’, John: ‘It’s winter in here yet. On Sunday let you come with me, and we’ll walk the farm together; I never see such a load of flowers on the earth.’” John is discreetly saying that they need to bring love back into their relationship by comparing their relationship to their house and how their house feels

As Foster says “Happiness and dissatisfaction have their seasons.” In “ The Great Gatsby,” Fitzgerald also uses this in his book. He associates summer with laughter and happiness. During the summer he says “all over the garden with, while happy, vacuous bursts of laughter rose toward the summer sky.” The way Fitzgerald expresses his emotions through the season, summer, he explains how the happiness is portrayed in the heat of the summer with the two twin girls in the story. Also in Fitzgerald’s book he symbolizes winter as sadness. He explains one winter night when a soldier has to leave to go overseas. Readers can conclude that Fitzgerald added in the season so they could visualize the sadness that is happening in the book. The book “ The Crucible,” by Arthur Miller, also uses the feelings of John Proctor’s wife. He states his wife has been sick as winter. Miller is using winter as a symbol of sadness and death just as Fitzgerald did. Lastly in Irving, Washington book he mentions when Tom meets the devil it is in Late December. All of these authors incorporate the seasons and how they relate to the characters'

Cameron Boyce is just sixteen years old but his popularity would make anyone doubt his age. This teenager is an actor as well as a dancer from America and he has captivated lots of hearts with his chocolaty look and cute face. He is an expert in break dancing and he is an active dancer in “X Mob”, the break dancing company. When he was a kid of nine years, he entered the world of television by getting featured in Panic! At the Disco and this music video was loved by millions of viewers.

A child’s future is usually determined by how their parent’s raise them. Their characteristics reflect how life at home was like, if it had an impeccable effect or destroyed the child’s entire outlook on life. Usually, authors of any type of literature use their experiences in life to help inspire their writing and develop emotion to their works. Poetry is a type of literary work in which there is an intensity given to the expression of feelings and ideas by the use of distinct styles and rhythm. These distinct styles include different types of poems such as sonnets, villanelles, free verse, imagist poems, and many more. And these distinct styles are accentuated with the use of literary devices such as metaphors, similes, imagery, personification, rhyme, meter, and more. As a whole, a poem depicts emotions the author and reader’s can relate to. In the poem’s “Those Winter Sundays,” by Robert Hayden, and “My Papa’s Waltz,” by Theodore Roethke, we read about two different parent and child relationships. These two poems help portray the flaws and strength’s parents exhibit and how their children follow their actions and use it as a take away in their grown up lives.