Mrs. Danvers's Poem

“I decided that it was not wisdom that enabled poets to write their poetry, but a kind of instinct or inspiration, such as you find in seers and prophets who deliver all their sublime messages without knowing in the least what they mean” (Socrates). What does it mean to be

They were running up the road to a barn and I followed them to a little grassy patch. They all went to a shady spot under a tree and laid down under the trees shade. I slowly walked up to them they looked hungry and lost so I went to find some hay, luckily there was a patch of hay nearby. So she went and pulled a patch out of the ground and went back to the horses. The horses were still there laying under the cool shade. I slowly came to the first one. It was small with a white dot around its eye and other white dots on its sides. I started to put the hay down the horse got up and started

Spring is the season of growth, revival and beginnings. In the poems “Spring and All” by William Carlos Williams and “For Jane Meyers” by Louise Gluck, the poets talk about this very season. In fact, the two poems are contradictory, in that, Williams writes about the bleakness of winter and the awakening of spring. On the other hand, Gluck’s romantic poetry associates the natural renewal of spring with bereavement and death. Both poets use abundant imagery, symbolism, metaphors, different tones, and similes, to affirm their contending attitudes towards the season. Consequently, although the poems are about the same subject, the demeanor of the poets are varied.

The narrator is always trying to fit into ‘coats’ that are “too big” and “too long” that Rebecca has left. Everyone around her is subconsciously comparing her to Rebecca and the narrator feels very uncomfortable around most people. In some way it is almost like Daphne du Maurier takes the conventions of a romance-genre and twists them so although Maxim apparently ‘saves’ the narrator from Mrs Van Hopper in fact he destroys her life. His world is full of pain and torture and now she has to go through that too. Another way in which Rebecca subverts the conventions of the romance-genre is by incorporating a murder into the plot. The narrator thinks Maxim to be dark and mysterious, which he is, because he has been hiding the fact that he killed his first wife and apparently his child. Daphne du Maurier has written a romance novel that actually subverts the conventions of a romance in many ways.

Then the time finally came for her to leave England, she made the decision to continue with her education at Yale law school. This move to a different culture and away from Jones was one that sent her spiraling. The voices, evil thoughts, and hallucinations became worse than ever before. Once she arrived at Yale trouble was already knocking at her doorstep, it was there that she had her first psychotic break in front of other people. She began too say wild things while studying with two of her classmates in the library, “let’s all go out on the roof. It’s OK. It’s safe.” (136) This behavior was enough to scare her classmates out of associating with her.

Historical Information about the period of Publication: Characteristics of the genre: Romanticism saw a shift from faith in reason to faith in the senses, Favell, Maxim, and the heroine accompany Julyan to London; the heroine is certain that Baker will reveal that Rebecca was pregnant, thus revealing Maxim's vengeful motive for murder. But instead, it turns out that Rebecca was dying of cancer, and that furthermore she was infertile; she had lied to Maxim about her pregnancy. Her terminal illness now supplies a motive for Rebecca's supposed suicide, and Maxim is saved. He and the heroine drive all night back to Manderley, stopping only once, when Maxim calls home and learns that Mrs. Danvers has disappeared. As they crest the ridge near the mansion, they look down and find it in flames.

The novel, Jasper Jones by Craig Silvey is a classic one of a young boy coming of age and learning unspeakable truth about his girlfriend’s father. It is written in first person narration from Charlie Bucktin’s perspective. The plot’s anchor is the death of an innocent girl,

Belittlement In the poem "Dandelion," by Julie Lechevsky, a child narrates her view on how dandelions have more importance in the world than what is distinguished of them. In the first stanza, the narrator says that “[her] science teacher” was speaking, which implies that she is still in school and has a more youthful view on life. Additionally, the author contrasts the dandelion to be "unlike the Venus fly-trap" and different from the "Calopogon pulchellus," where the word pulchellus derives from the Latin word pulcher, meaning beautiful (4, 5). The child's thoughts on dandelions relate back to her personal life where she dictates "[they go] on television/ between the poison squirt bottles" and "But that's how life/ parachutes/ to my home"

When she goes in her room alone, she unveils her true emotions. The setting shows comfort and indicates that she feels safe. The "open window" symbolises her new beginning and she fills her mind with fantasies of freedom. "She would have no one follow her" indicates that she had only her room to retreat to and it is from this place that she is able to look out at the world. The metaphor "delicious breath of rain", the "peddler", "a distant song" and the sparrows are all symbolical of spring which represents new hope for a better life for Mrs Mallard.

Kate Chopin’s The Story of an Hour is a brilliant short story of irony and emotion. The story demonstrates conflicts that take us through the character’s emotions as she finds out about the death of her husband. Without the well written series of conflicts and events this story, the reader

She noticed the "there were patches of blue sky showing here and there through the clouds". The other characters in the story have one impression of Mrs. Mallard; she seems to have reacted to the terrible news as one would expect, but the reader is aware that a distinct change has come over her.

Margery was sitting alone in her deck chair overlooking the pebbled beaches of Westward Ho! Where she moved after her and her husband retired. She was reading Romeo and Juliet to herself for comfort, and she thought back to the time she read the book to the love of her life. She reminisced about her time in the RAF hospital during World War two. It all started on a cold, dark and gloomy night, where all you could see in the sky was planes being blown up over the Northfork coastline . Margery was looking up at the sky imagining everything that was going on. She suddenly heard a siren going off, and instantly knew what it meant, a plane had gone down and there was men who needed help. Margery rushed to the front to help out in anyway possible, she was there and that was when she saw him lying there on a stretcher being rushed into surgery, he was screaming in agony because the pain was too much for him to bear. Margery knew that the screaming was a good thing because it meant that his burns were not that deep and he could be saved. Margery rushed into the infirmary to help care for the rest of the men that were taken down in the bombings by the Luftwaffe, a swarm of the Messerschmitt 109 after their bombing raid over London. She knew it was going to be a

The setting takes place inside the House of Mrs. Mallard. She hears the news of her husband’s death and goes and locks herself inside her room. “When the storm of grief had spend itself, she went away to her room alone.

Poetry Explication Poetry has the ability to expand minds and put its reader in touch with the world around them. Emily Dickinson attempts to convey the power of poetry in her poem I Dwell in Possibility. She pours her passionate feelings about poetry into this poem and drives her point home with a comparison to prose. Using language, structure, and symbolism, Emily Dickinson’s I Dwell in Possibility effectively articulates how poetry can broaden horizons and provide an escape from the mundane.

The use of imagery is displayed heavily throughout the story to reflect the feelings of Mrs. Mallard following the news of her husband’s abrupt death. The setting outside her window is very descriptive and allows the audience to connect this imagery to the future that Mrs. Mallard is now seeing opening for her. As she is looking out of the window in her bedroom, she sees “trees that were all aquiver with new spring life” as well as sparrows “twittering in the eaves” (Chopin). This represents the joy and realization of a new life for Mrs. Mallard. She can now start over as a free woman instead of living as a man’s property trapped inside the house; this is where the woman’s place was during this period while only