Miss Gee- Wh Auden

Explain (tell me what image the poem brings to mind)She begins by describing the "death of winter's leaves".

The seasons in the poem also can be seen as symbols of time passing in her life. Saying that in the height of her life she was much in love and knew what love was she says this all with four words “summer sang in me.” And as her life is in decline her lovers left her, this can be told by using “winter” as a symbol because it is the season of death and decline from life and the birds left the tree in winter. The “birds” can be seen as a literal symbol of the lovers that have left her or flown away or it can have the deeper meaning that in the last stages of our life all of our memories leave us tittering to our selves.

Through structure, Dickenson and Wright express their holistic views through both critiquing and celebrating life. Dickenson’s poem, ‘187’, reflects the life of a domesticated woman. The poet directly addresses the audience when she suggests, “Stroke the cool forehead – hot so often”. Through inclusive language, in addition to hyphenation, the audience are made to feel involved, hence understand how the woman is now at peace after having worked laboriously her whole life. The last line of the poem, “Indolent Housewife – in Daisies – lain!”, further enforces that the woman is at peace through the personification of daisies and the exclamation mark emphasising that her life was so hard-working that in death she can finally relax. Wright also employs a similar idea in her poem, ‘Metho-Drinker’. Like Dickenson, Wright utilises personification when she states, “who cried to Nothing and the terrible night”. Through personifying “Nothing” the audience understands that this man’s life was lonely and hopeless, hence through death, he became “safe in the house of Nothing”. A gentle

Lastly, the final simile used, "And cancer, simple as a flower, blooms." compares something beautiful and full of life, with something horrible, an instrument of death. This is a very unusual simile; it is almost an oxymoron. It is almost sickening to think of cancer as a flower, as if something pure has been twisted into something perverse, this, however, is the poet's intention, to make the reader stop and think. In the

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

The poem is set in a hospital as the persona visits a dying relative. It is mostly focused on his walk through the hospital to her ward, and to her bedside. Throughout the poem, the poet explores the themes of death and pain using the emotions and thoughts of the persona.

Opening into the story, Collier uses mood to help the reader focus on the climax. The mood of the story starts out quite dim, dreary, and depressed. The narrator explains how she believes that God wasn’t accommodating and didn’t provide for them in the beginning of the story. Lizabeth says, “But God was chary with miracles those days, and so we waited- and waited.”(Collier 76). Readers learn from this how the narrator was agitated and didn’t believe that it was fair that they were suffering. She believed that God should be merciful and grant them some miracles. However, downstream in the story, Miss Lottie’s marigolds are beautiful and stunning, which is in opposition the mood from the beginning of the story. The whole story doesn’t have a despondent mood. The narrator continues with, “Beyond the dusty brown yard, in front of the sorry gray house, rose suddenly and shockingly a dazzling strip of bright blossoms, clumped together in enormous mounds, warm and passionate and sun golden.”(Collier 79). This advances the idea of a silver lining in a rotten time. Unfortunately, approaching the end of the story, the mood takes a somber and mournful turn again. After Lizabeth gets caught disfiguring the flowers by Miss Lottie, Lizabeth feels shame, regret, and sorrow,

Stanley relates the poem to the reader by reminding them the horrific view and dreadful pain of

As “Stop all the Clocks” advances, Auden uses the technique of personification when he writes “aeroplanes circle moaning overhead,” to help readers feel connected to the sense of deprivation felt by the widow. In like manner, Harwood continues to analyse the idea of loss reaching the middle of “In the Park” where the mother’s ex-lover passes by and the mother tries to boost her confidence by engaging in conversation. This connection fails and “from his neat head unquestionably rises a small balloon.” Here, imagery reveals the man’s thoughts, and his thoughts read “but for the grace of God”- expressing his thanks to God that he no longer associates with the identity deprived mother . “He Is Dead” is capitalised in “Stop All The Clocks” to emphasise the impact of death upon the narrator. He continues expressing the feeling of withdrawal using past tense, mirroring his views of the world around him since the loss of his lover “He was my North, my South” “I thought” “I was wrong” . Correspondingly, as the mother attempts to converse with her ex-lover for a second time towards the conclusion of “In the Park” she realises that her identity is not within reach anymore, it has become astray . Additionally, the narrator uses the technique of imagery once more “They stand a while in flickering light”- to represent the mother’s unstable and dissatisfying life. The mother attempts to

First the explanation of the poem would be the starting ground into really analyzing what this is about. Do Not Go Gentle

The sorrowful and unpredictable realization of denial and loss can slowly tear down even the strongest willed individuals. In the twisting tales of “A Rose for Emily” and “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” the recurring theme of denial continuously reminds the reader that life is precious and to never take anything for granted. William Faulkner’s “A Rose for Emily” focuses on the life and death of Emily Grierson. Although the story begins with her death, the details of her life are revealed through several elements. Emily is ultimately “jilted” by the man she falls in love with, Homer Barron, and poisons him to ensure a lifelong commitment. A similar theme appears within Katherine Anne Porter’s “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall” Ellen Weatherall, is on her deathbed as the story begins. The narrator discusses Granny’s life and the struggles she faced in the past. As Granny lays upon her deathbed, she recalls all the things she has to do and all the chores she has left undone. She also remarks the element of surprise at the fact that death has come upon her. Not only do these two stories repeatedly use elements such as symbolism and foreshadowing the authors create a relatively similar theme that not only delivers a powerful message but is a timeless classic.

The next stanza begins with possibly the most wonderful line in the poem, which speaks to personal survival, joy, and the continuation of life: “You laughed with the spirit of your husband who would toss stars!” (Harjo). Here Harjo uses the metaphor again, this time to compare the widow’s tears to a butterfly, which is both beautiful and fragile. But here, because of the Butterfly Dance, it takes on a special meaning, bringing their daughter into the circle of death and rebirth.

Throughout the poem, W.D. Auden did an exceptional job incorporating the several examples of figures of speech. By including these devices, Auden drew deeper connections to the overall themes of death and love with the readers. For example, “let aeroplanes circle moaning overhead/ scribbling on the sky the message He Is Dead” is an illustration of personification (Auden, 5-6). Auden personifies an airplane to mourn over someone and scribble in the sky. Both human like characteristics suggest that the speaker wishes for everyone to know that his loved one has passed, so that everyone can mourn over the deceased, like the speaker. Another example of this is shown through a series of metaphors in lines 9-12 “…my North, my South, my East, my West,/ My working week and my Sunday rest,/ My noon, my

This is supported in the poem by the description of the moth as a "rigid satin cloth." The satin cloth can be seen like a bridal dress, suggestions of good, but the negativity of "rigid" implies perhaps on the lining of a coffin where a rigid body would lie. In the second part of the octave the speaker describes the scene again. He compares the scene and the assorted characters to "a witch's broth" (line 6), and Carter claims that this part introduces ironies regarding the observer's feelings towards the scene he saw. The speaker views those characters as "assorted characters of death and blight" (line 4). But they are there to "begin the morning right" (line 5) - a positive saying which you wouldn't exact to hear associated with death and blight. This juxtaposing of "blight" and "right" emphasizes the irony. How can the morning be "right" if the scene culminate in death?

Auden in this poem compares human beings to stars. This comparison can be criticised as being very unfair as stars are both literally and metaphorically above humans. This is evident upon reading “…That for all they care, I can go to hell.” The fact that he used objects of such importance allows readers to appreciate