Myth Story : The Disappearance Of Lorelei

The soul-stirring fog had suddenly massacred the beauty of the ?land? And as she cried the conniving mist did a disappearing act and rain started to fall which turned into a storm. the lake glistened with an invitation and when she knew it was too late she started to run across the bridge only to upset it and leave her hanging on a nail her mind shook because she knew she wouldn't end because she wasn't falling into the lake but into an endless dream of a terrible regret because the lake was not deep but when she went to the land should she stay tere hidden or run back to the world where she thought everyone saw her as,invisible. And when she suddenly fell she realised her gift to the world was not her voice but of something else she

The memories in the poem maintain a cohesiveness and continuity of experience through repeated motifs such as the violets and the ‘whistling’. Memories also give us a recovered sense of life, as shown through the final line of the poem ‘faint scent of violets drifts in air’. This example of sensory imagery also creates a rhythmic drifting sense linked closely to the “stone-curlews call from Kedron Brook”. It echoes images of the speaker’s mind drifting into reflection and aurally creates transience between the present and the past.

A Comparison of 'The Passionate Shepherd to his Love' and 'The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepherd'

I am reading The Lost Hero by Rick Riordan and I am on page 553. This book is about a boy named Jason who is a roman demigod. Just like the book the Lighting Thief, Percy Jackson is a main character in the book. Jason is just now figuring out that he is a demigod and he had to go across the world to save Hera. Hera is married to Zeus and is trapped and Jason and his friends have to save her before the winter solstice. In this paper, I will be Predicting and Evaluating.

Analyzing different mediums can enhance an individual’s overall appreciation and understanding of a particular idea or story. While analysis of a painting can reveal the mood of the artwork, an analysis of a poem can reveal the author’s tone. Much more then that, analysis provides an opportunity to explore each work in an attempt to understand human nature through each author’s perspective. While exploring the painting “Ulysses and the Sirens” by J.W. Waterhouse and the poem “The siren song” by Margaret Atwood, a universal truth presents itself. While the painting focuses on the thematic idea of Odysseus being stubborn while his men care for his safety to get home, the poem holds a different view. In contrast, the thematic statement from the poem discusses the idea that the Siren hates singing and being in a bird suit, but is asking for help but it’s still tempting to hear the song. Although differing in point of view, both the painting and the poem explore an aspect of human nature that are relevant to society today. There are two different authors for the painting and the poem. However, the two are different when compared to each

Waves crashed into the small hull, her tiny voice being drowned out by the sound of it. Between the lighting flashes, she sees the two adults race along the boat, securing belongings that had come loose. Her brother sits near her, frightened and crying, yet somehow comforting as her tiny hands cling to his fur. The rain whipped around them, blown about by fierce winds, and she covered her head to protect against the stinging droplets. Another crack echoed in her ears, but this one was not accompanied by thunder. Water rushed over her feet as the hull bent into strange new shapes around her. Another crash of lightning revealed nothing but the now illuminated night sky, roiling with the dark clouds of the storm. Then the cold overwhelmed her, the current dragging her away from her sibling and under the water. Spinning recklessly, she flailed in the depths until the darkness set in, mercifully quieting

The poem Revelation, by Liz Lochead, is a gripping story about a chance encounter that leads the reader into a deeper understanding of the poem’s underlying theme. The poem focuses on a girl who is visiting a farm and is given the opportunity to see a bull that is kept out of sight. Lochhead manages to grasp the reader’s imagination by the use of word choice, sentence structure, imagery and personification. This allows the reader to visualize the recurring theme of sexual awakening within the poem. Liz Lochhead, creates a deeper understanding of the poem’s theme by her word choice, which helps explain the events leading up to the young girl’s encounter with the bull. She uses the word ‘threshold’, which describes the girl standing at the opening of the barn. The word has connotations of a crossover from innocence to experience. At this point in time the girl is standing at the edge of purity, about to step over to the other side revealing something unknown to her. This describes to the reader that she has reached the stage in her life where she is ready to be exposed to her sexual awakening and the evil that is prominent in the world. The writer then builds on this motif by the way she structures the poem in the lead up to the girl meeting the bull. In stanza one she adds ‘the hot reek of him. Then he was immense’. The use of the caesura adds a dramatic effect to the poem causing the reader to pause, instilling fear. It makes the reader realise that this isn’t just a chance encounter after all, as it has a great impact on the young girl. From this one encounter the girl remembers the bull’s overwhelming smell & body heat.

I weave in and out of the last of the summer apple trees, beside the deep pool, the weeping willows cry out as the wind rattles their bones. The howling tempestuous wind carries me into a clearing where a little girl, with her hair like an inferno splayed around her head like a delicate band, lies asleep in the silvery moonlight. I fly right up to her and land on her chest, where a scarlet black rose lies dead upon her breast. I wake up. I don’t know where I am.

In The Song of Wondering Aengus he was fishing outside one night. And he caught a Silver Trout and when he laid it on the floor. He went to blow on the fire flame but when something rustled on the floor. It called his name (Aengus) ,it had become a glimmering girl. Who called his name and then ran.

As a Siren she would conceal under a rock during the day, but during the night she would sit upon a rock where the moon would met her angelic face and everyone could see her. At night she is seen combing her golden hair singing her enchanting song. As she sang her song, she lured boats and their men into a sorrowful death. The sailors death was caused by a shipwrecked from staring at the luxurious Lorelei, instead of directing their

As the night progressed, Donella socialized with her fellow fairies and helped herself to the buffet featuring a fish that she, herself, had caught. And as midnight approached the fairies began to dance in the light on the moon and sing in

The passionate Shepherd to his love is a pastoral poem that focuses on the Shepherd who tries to win the love of his crush ( the Nymph ) by telling her of all the joys and pleasures of nature, the Shepherd also tries to win the Nymph’s love by offering her materialistic items. The Shepherd tells the Nymph that if she comes to be with him then he will do all these wonderful things in nature with her like: “we will sit upon the rocks, seeing Shepherds feed their flocks,”( line 6) “and I will make thee bed of roses. And a thousand fragrant roses.”( line 9) Along with offering the Nymph a bunch of things from nature he also offers her a bunch of materialistic items such as a buckle made of gold,( line sixteen) and a gown made of wool.(line thirteen) The Nymphs turned down the Shepherd’s love, because she says that the items that the Shepherd is offering to her have no long-lasting value. Because all the things that the Shepherd offers to the Nymph are not long lasting their love will not be long lasting either; all of the Shepherds offerings are things in nature that do not have long-lasting value to them; so the Nphm believes that their love will be no different.

Young women in groups of five or six come to the riverbank, some standing in a circle and others holding hands, and being calling their lovers. Melodious singing rapidly fills the vast night. Young women are everywhere, still with their parasols up and also holding a handkerchief or a fan….

She keeps souls in a skull she wears around her neck. Her name is Lorelei, a river nymph who has lurked near the rocks in the Rhine for centuries. You may have heard of her, even. Many a sad song bears her name in the title. She cannot help herself, though. She takes no joy in this grim, grotesque task of hers. It is simply the way of the river nymphs. Quietly, she lounges on a flat rock jutting out from the Rhine. She absentmindedly drums her fingers against the skull's smooth cranium. It belonged to a man, once. His name was Bernard, her first victim. He was a big, bear of a man, and easily as brave. Unfortunately, he was no match for the fateful Lorelei. She sighs lightly. That day passed long ago, when she was still just a young nymph.

Pastoral poetry is a lyric poem that idealizes nature while criticizing urban life.These two pastoral poems are example of the contrast between the easygoing countryside and the hustle bustle of a city. In the famous pastoral poetry, “The Passionate Shepherd to his love,” the Shepherd happily describes the beautiful natural image of a perfect life. He wholeheartedly believes that love is always joyful and nothing can ruin the serenity. This poem is criticized for its deluded perspective by the Nymph in a taunting way. She mocks his fantasy life that has everlasting flowers, melodious birds and finest wool gown. The Nymph’s view on her ideal love is infinite, nonmaterialistic and realistic which contradicts the Shepherd’s view on ideal love—youthful, acquisitive, and blinding; these incompatible views tear a relationship into pieces especially when the problem is addressed in a cynical tone.