Personification In To His Coy Mistress

Within To His Coy Mistress we see the manipulation in which the speaker uses for his own benefit through the personification of time, ‘Had we but World enough and Time’ expressing, through the personification of ‘Time’, how he would love the potential lover and wouldn’t mind her initial rejection if time was an endless matter. This attempt of flattery, seen

In Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” allows one to explore many ironic instances throughout the story, the main one in which a woman unpredictably feels free after her husband’s assumed death. Chopin uses Mrs. Mallard’s bizarre story to illustrate the struggles of reaching personal freedom and trying to be true to yourself to reach self-assertion while being a part of something else, like a marriage. In “The Story of an Hour” the main character, Mrs. Mallard, celebrates the death of her husband, yet Chopin uses several ironic situations and certain symbols to criticize the behavior of Mrs. Mallard during the time of her “loving” husband’s assumed death.

While the poems focus on love they also reveal the role of women in a sense of what was and was not acceptable in the ancient days. She emphasizes the importance and power of love through people and actions. The way she sees love is quite different than what most people would think. In other words it is not necessarily affectionate. Her poems tell us how love comes with many consequences, sadness, depression, anger, and even how love is lost.

Subjecting herself to thoughts of uncertainty, Madame Augelier is portrayed as the stereotypical stay-at-home wife, worrying about her ability to satisfy her husband. While content with the gifts she had received she believed herself to be guilty of not loving him enough and called him “poor Francois” as the result of her apparent lack of affection. She underestimates her “strength of affectionate habits and abiding fidelity” which although shows that she is modest, is ultimately shadowed by the reader’s realization that she lives to merely please her husband (Colette 1120). Madame Augelier is predictably the ideal wife in a stereotypical story as even with the absence of her husband she is still under the impression that she must please

Although this is a short poem, there are so many different meanings that can come from the piece. With different literary poetic devices such as similes, imagery, and symbolism different people take away different things from the poem. One of my classmates saw it as an extended metaphor after searching for a deeper connection with the author. After some research on the author, we came to learn that the

The use of connotative words in this piece is the foundation of this poem and it provides an idea of what this poem is going to be about. In the first stanza he describes the woman as “lovely in her bones,” showing that her beauty is more than skin deep comparing her virtues to a goddess of “only gods should speak.” In the second stanza, the reader can see and feel the love between the two people. The woman taught him how to "Turn, and Counter-turn, and Stand," showing that she was the teacher in the relationship and taught him things he thought he never needed to know. The speaker shows how when they are together, she was “the sickle” and he was “the rake” showing that this woman taught him what love is.

In the second and third quatrains, the speaker uses analogies to describe why he wouldn't return to his lover. In each of the analogies, Gascoigne uses an animal longing for their object of desire. In the first second quatrain, it is a mouse that doesn't not fall for the same trap it once escaped from. In the third quatrain, it is the fly that will not be scorched by the same flame twice. In both analogies, the subjects escape from a dangerous conflict, only to want to return to that conflict again, as the desire is one that the subject needs to survive. By using this type of application to show the speaker’s conflict, the speaker better shows and develops their attitude towards the main subject of the poem. The imagery in these analogies helps to create the complex attitude of the speaker because by using the analogy, the reader is able to connect the speaker's feelings to a real life situation. The audience is able to better understand the scenario because the author compared it to an everyday scenario that can be easily pictured. Gascoigne skillfully uses imagery in the form of analogies to convey the complex attitude of the

Margarita Engle, a poet, and novelist, once said, “Marriage without love is just one more twisted form of slavery.” In the eighteenth century, marriage was the exit door of many women from their homes whether they believed in love and filled their hearts with hope, or had no choice, and they were sold to men as if they were cattle. In The Story of an Hour, Kate Chopin shows complex issues such as marriage, independence, symbols, and ironies. After hearing the news that Brently Mallard was dead in a railroad accident, Richards, Mr. Mallard’s friend, went to the house to be next to Mrs. Mallard and to help her at this difficult moment. Contrary to what everyone was worried about, Mrs. Mallard knew that she would lament her husband’s death, but she was full of hope, dreaming of her freedom, appreciating life beyond the window, and a new beginning. Unfortunately, Mrs. Mallard’s dreams faded when she went downstairs and her husband arrived alive, and she could not stand it and died. Focusing on The Story of an Hour, there are three main points related to women in the early eighteenth century, such as oppressive marriages, women’s new perspective and ways of liberation, and women’s submission and obedience that demonstrates how women survived, even though they were not heard.

Literary devices are used in the poem. For example, “I have guarded my name as people in other times kept their own clipped hair, believing the soul could be scattered if they were careless” uses personification because soul can’t actually be scattered. Another personification used in the poem is “The ordinary thing, and it would

The statue is an extremely lifelike rendering of a human, with carefully carved clothing, a face full of expression, and even glasses. Somehow, “Father Time” is still, by the denotative understanding, not alive. Also, since he is a statue, by nature, “Father Time” should be immobile, but as is noticeable, he does move. These paradoxes are paralleled in the poem, “Time Is”, because it is obvious that a single person can experience more than one of the given emotions at once. For example, a soldier’s spouse, could, simultaneously experience fear, for their husband or wife’s life, and love, toward the same person. In the poem, it is written that time is “Too Swift for those who Fear”, but also “for those who Love, Time is not” (Lines 2, 5, and 6). Now if someone was fearing and loving, according to the poem, they would not experience time. Yet they still are experiencing time, because for them, time is “Too Swift”. In this way, both “Time Is”, and “Father Time” present impossibilities to their

The catch phrase, “don’t judge a book by its cover,” perfectly describes marriages in the 19th century. As outsiders often saw them, both parties were happy and deeply content, but from the inside, they were filled with resentment and oppression of women by dominating husbands. In Kate Chopin’s, “Story of an Hour,” Mrs. Mallard, a wife and sister, is introduced to the reader briefly as a woman afflicted with heart trouble before she is cautiously told of her husband’s death. In the period of one hour, Mrs. Mallard’s world is turned upside down by the news of her husband’s death followed by the far more devastating realization he is alive. Mrs. Mallard experiences a whirlwind of emotions throughout the hour that highlights the oppression

The predominant image that I got while reading this poem was the one of a hospital. Hospitals are always full of sick and at times terminal patients. In certain situations when a patient is found to be terminal they immediately fall into a state of depression and believe that waiting for their death is the only option they have but many doctors advice otherwise by encouraging them to take trips or do something that they had always wanted to do before they pass away which is how I saw it connecting to the poem and particularly the speaker’s point of view about time. 13. In lines 18-19 the speaker says “show your heart” which is a metaphor of the imagined agreement between him and his mistress of finally agreeing to engage in a sexual relationship.

The last message that the poet leaves us with is: “I throw many marvel such before, has happened here ere now. To His bliss us bring Who bore the Crown of Thorns on brow! AMEN” (2529-25332). This statement may suggest that if not believe in the court and knightly codes and value, believe in religious values. The idea of time, throughout the poem and emphasized join the opening passage to Part II, suggests that time acts as fate.

The theme of infidelity in literature can be approached in many ways … “The Storm” by Kate Chopin takes a more amorous route than most, delving into a love affair between Calixta and Alcee. “Sweat” by Zora Neale Hurston takes a more vengeful path, and focuses on Delia, whose husband, Sykes, is cheating on her. Despite their vastly different approaches, both short stories portray facets of infidelity. Though a heftier portion of the audience may relate to or sympathize with Delia in “Sweat,” “The Storm” also leaves the audience with some mixed feelings about their own former lovers, or the blandness of their current relationship.

Andrew Marvell writes an elaborate poem that not only speaks to his coy mistress but also to the reader. He suggests to his coy mistress that time is inevitably ticking and that he (the speaker) wishes for her to act upon his wish and have a sexual relationship. Marvell simultaneously suggest to the reader that he/she must act upon their desires, to hesitate no longer and ³seize the moment?before time expires. Marvell uses a dramatic sense of imagery and exaggeration in order to relay his message to the reader and to his coy mistress. The very first two lines of the poem suggest that it would be fine for him and his mistress to have a slow and absorbing relationship but there simply isn¹t enough