Literary Analysis Of Reginald Gibbons's 'Wood'

"Children of the Forest" is a narrative written by Kevin Duffy. This book is a written testament of an anthropologist's everyday dealings with an African tribe by the name of the Mbuti Pygmies. My purpose in this paper is to inform the reader of Kevin Duffy's findings while in the Ituri rainforest. Kevin Duffy is one of the first and only scientists to have ever been in close contact with the Mbuti. If an Mbuti tribesman does not want to be found, they simply won't be. The forest in which the Mbuti reside in are simply too dense and dangerous for humans not familiar with the area to enter.

A new sentence leads into the second stanza to introduce a new idea; it shifts the attention of the poem from the imagery of the redwood growing against the house to the shortness of the

The diction in the excerpt is an essential component to the dramatization of the plot’s central incident. Jewett uses rich language to intensify the simple nature of the main character Sylvia’s journey up a “great pine-tree.” For example, in describing the tree, the narrator uses personification as he mentions the “huge tree asleep yet in the paling moonlight.” The use of personification harkens back to those universal moments in childhood in which everything alive had human feelings, and creates an emotional attachment between the reader and the tree. Jewett also uses other figurative language, like similes, to relate the grandeur of the tree to the audience. She writes, “It [the tree] was like a great main-mast to the voyaging earth…” In comparing the tree to the great mast of a ship, the author invokes feelings of awe at its size.

Within the first few lines of The Glass Roses, the setting is established as a cold and inhospitable environment. The bitter Canadian landscape is often battered by howling winds and enveloped by a thick layer of snow. This harsh physical landscape closely mirrors Stephen’s perception of the icy-cold stoics he works with. These men, who are all well-versed lumbermen, have “humped backs and ox-like shoulders”, the “huskiest and most solemn” of which is Stephen’s own father. These characteristics starkly contrast Stephen’s own “willowy fifteen-year-old body”. “Sometimes he wondered if he suffered from a wasting disease. He almost hoped that this was so, for then his weakness would be thought less shameful”. At the outset of this short story,

In Allen Johnson’s “The Forest, The Trees, and The One Thing”, he expresses that in order to understand sociology we need to be able to understand the relationship between biography and history. To explain this, Johnson uses five rules to sociology called the sociological imagination. These rules explain how an individual relates to social systems.

Catastrophic events such as war tear down nations, cities and families in an unimaginable fashion while also causing sorrow, suffering and misery throughout its course. In A.S. Byatt's short story, The Thing in the Forest, we can get a feeling of the crisis people were going through in England during World War 2.

The Wild Trees is a book by Richard Preston about a small group of botanists that are curious about what the canopy of the redwood holds. The redwood tree comes from the sequoia family and is the largest single organism in the world. A group of people that include Michael Taylor, Steve Sillett, and Marie Antoine. Michael Taylor came from a wealthy family. His father did not want Michael to grow up spoiled. He tried to raise him as a middle class child who did not get whatever he wanted. Eventually when Michael went to college he did not pass his classes and decided to change his major. Michaels father was not very happy about this and gave him one last chance. Eventually when the time came again, Michael did not complete his classes for the

Up until the 1950s, trees were cut down by hand and only the trees that were wanted were felled. When machinery was introduced, whole forests were now being cut down, causing hectares of devastation. Many poetic techniques have been used in Rip Rip Woodchip. In verse 1 and 2, colloquial language has been used many times with the words such as ‘gotta’ and ‘gonna’.

Uptons Sinclairs The Jungle from 1906 is a fictional book from the progressive era. Even though The Jungle is a fictional novel, it described conditions that were real during the progressive era, such as working class poverty and harsh working conditions. The novel was written as a way to exploit the real lives of working citizens at home and at work.

As evident by the title of this poem, imagery is a strong technique used in this poem as the author describes with great detail his journey through a sawmill town. This technique is used most in the following phrases: “...down a tilting road, into a distant valley.” And “The sawmill towns, bare hamlets built of boards with perhaps a store”. This has the effect of creating an image in the reader’s mind and making the poem even more real.

Imagery was also used in the poem.  I found that the yellow in the first line represented that the future the writer was facing was bright and warm regardless of his choice.  The undergrowth was, as undergrowth in any forest, damp and dank smelling, but not necessarily unpleasant, just something that the writer would have to face.  The image of traveling through a forest also brings to mind thoughts of birds in flight, chirping and singing.  Squirrels dashing through trees, rustling leaves and dropping the occasional acorn or nut also create an image of sight and sound.  The sun reflecting through the trees, casting shadows and creating pockets of warm and cool air and the occasional breeze stirring through the trees are also brought to mind by this poem.  The end of the poem brings to me

In stanza one, Judith Wright utilizes personification “rivers hindered him” and “thorn branches caught at his eyes to make him blind” coupled with metaphor “the sky turned into an unlucky opal” to emphasise nature’s hindrance of the blacksmith boy, if the poem is to be deemed as a metaphorical representation of

The story, “Birnam Wood” by T. Coraghessan Boyle, is about a young man named Keith who was a part-time substitute teacher who filled in whenever he received a call. Not having a steady job meant that Keith and his unemployed girlfriend Nora could only afford to live in small rundown shacks. Keith describes the first place they lived in as, “a shack, a converted chicken coop from a time long gone.” (156) One day the two of them go to look at another seasonal rental, only this one was smaller and neither of them like it. Keith says that this was “awkward” for him, he felt that he was the “provider” and was beginning to resent Nora for not working. The following day a friend of theirs, Artie, calls to tell them about a place they could possibly stay. Keith and Nora eventually house-sit a much nicer place for the rest of the season, and Nora finally obtains a part-time job working at a local bar as a hostess. One evening, Keith stays at the bar and begins talking to Steve (another patron at the bar). When Steve shows interest in Nora, Keith dismisses it, and other things are said and eventually personal information is exchanged. At the end of the night Steve shows up in the house with a bottle of tequila to see Nora. After trying to get Steve to leave, Nora (who appears to be upset and confused about why this man is in their house looking for her) essentially allows Steve to stay. At the end of the story Keith is left standing outside “peeping” into a window of a nearby

Poets often use their writing as a source to convey their messages and to express their feelings on certain issues. They use different strategies to direct the reader’s attention to specific words or phrases. Sometimes, these strategies are used by several poets making their writing similar to others. This essay will compare and contrast two poems of different time periods. The poem “Eating Walnuts” was written by Jennifer Keith in 2015 and “The Man He Killed” by Thomas Hardy was written in 1902.

Sembene Ousmane’s novel, “Gods Bits of Wood,” gives a highly detailed story of the railway strike of 1947-48 in French West Africa. It contains conflicts of political, emotional and moral nature. Ultimately, Sembene’s novel is one of empowerment. It brings to light the tension between colonial officials and the African community among the railway men as well as the struggle of the African community to free itself from being subjected to colonial power. Frederick Cooper’s article, “Our Strike: Equality, Anticolonial politics and the 1947-48 Railway Strike in French West Africa,” helps reveal the strike’s true meaning and agenda by analyzing the conflicts present in Sembene’s novel. In fact, it paints a very different picture of the railway