Her feelings towards losing all of her stuff is she doesn’t really care that much because of her religion. In the poem it says “ I blest his name that gave and took, that laid my goods now in the dust” (bradstreet, 29) which basically means that she thinks that God gave her those goods and he has taken them away from her. She believes that since her house burned down that God is the person that can took her goods away. In the beginning of the poem she did care and was upset that her house and everything she owned burned down but once the poem went on she began to think about all that she has lost and begins to not care about her things burning down. She said towards the end that since her house burned down she wouldn’t need the goods and
In this poem, women are tired and outraged of the limits of their occupation. The poem shows this by the tone of the first line “women are burning”. This shows that women all over America are fed up and angry for being stuck at the house. I believe that burning gives a negative connotation. So when I hear burning this makes me think that the person is angered and outraged. These women are outraged because they are limited to only housework.The poem also states that “she says, once I was the roast duck on your platter with parsley but now I’m spam”. This quote makes me feel that this woman is being treated poorly. I also believe that this woman feels unappreciated and abandoned by their husband who once paid
As Wendy Martin says “the poem leaves the reader with painful impression of a woman in her mid-fifties, who having lost her domestic comforts is left to struggle with despair. Although her loss is mitigated by the promise of the greater rewards of heaven, the experience is deeply tragic.” (75)
Once I was able to associate these words to emotions and issues present in everyday life, the poem started to make me feel sad. I began thinking about all of the emotions and feelings that everyone hides as they go about life. For example, how the waitress I see once a week may have an eating disorder, or how the singer I look up to just lost her son, or the businessman who got laid off today. Everyone has their own personal battle that they carry everywhere, at any given moment. This explains why the setting is so plain, since the internal struggles people face affect them even at a bus stop. While each person waits, the waitress may be thinking about how much skinnier the person next to her is. The singer could be remembering when she held her baby. And the business man could be planning how to break the news to his wife. No matter how small, everyone experiences a type of trauma or bad experience, and this poem seemed to show what happens when these emotions become bottled up. No one can help each other because they are so stuck within their own issues. The difficulty helping others reminded me of the idea of having to take care of yourself before being able to take care of others.
This explains her sanity was gone and she was unhappy with herself. Eventually the character isolates herself in a room, away from her family as she examined the outside world through her window. The irony in that scene is that she was trapped behind the outside world, just as she was trapped within herself. As she spent her days in the white room, she began to develop different routines but none of them satisfied her. She was unhappy with herself until she tried once more to transform herself once again as a wife and mother. During her last attempt of being a housewife she took the time to knit two sweaters for her husband and son. The sweaters were both dull and gray as in lifeless, which is ironic towards the way the character perceived herself or surroundings.
The word sadness immediately stands out in the title indicating opposite feelings normally associated with wedding dresses. To continue, the words “sad story” are repeated in lines 27 and 28 (Galvin). Galvin also repeats the word closet in line 4, 11, 14, 20, and 29; alone and forgotten in the darkness of a closet emphasizes the unique perspective of abandonment as opposed to a treasured item. From there, Galvin repetitively makes additional word choices that emphasize the sad, lonely, and abandoned feelings used wedding dresses experience. Galvin makes word choices such as starless, hopeless, darkness, hollow, dump, gone, and disappear. These words all connotate a dark, lonely, and abandoned feeling. Moreover, Galvin incorporates the words yellow, smoke, and flames. Packed away wedding dresses turn an ugly yellow while the lucky wedding dresses go up in smoke and flames; neither scenario are connected to the traditional view of a keepsake. To further the unique tone Galvin associates with wedding dresses, he integrates words such as weeping, longing, and waiting. The connotation of Galvin’s word choices elicit a deep yearning for a better outcome that will unfortunately never come for his abandoned wedding
I will start with the world, “heartsick” because this word relates to the feelings that the granddaughter felt for the yarning of the comforts of her home. The sorrows drowned out by the panels of the quilt her grandmother made her. The comfort of her home away form home for those nights she felt sad and wanted to be home. The granddaughter could easily drown her fears and tears into this quilt and be reminded of the strength and the bond she has with her Grandmother. “Heartsick” was an powerful word to use to understand how the granddaughter must have felt on those miserable days. But, to tie it in to the quilt like she did was like she quilted the words together to show how and what it meant to be alone and struggled and how the granddaughter coped with her emotions. I believe that the word loose, this word was placed all the way at the end of the poem. I feel like this word speaks loudly throughout this poem significance. This poem is about the granddaughter being blown “loose” by the natural forces that cary us. In this case she is blowing “loose” of her home and her centric ideas. To explore and be “loose” in the world to experience it through her eyes to develop her own point of view by simply enacting her own beliefs and adopting others. I felt compelled to react to the word, “slant”. “Slant”, has a great meaning in this poem for it is used in the beginning of the poem. Slant can mean a
Bradstreet's attitude changes over the poem as she realizes that she should look at losing all of her things could be more than just a negative outcome.
In the novel, Of Love and Dust, Ernest Gaines discuss means of love in the story which help give readers a look into the interracial relationships between some of the characters in the novel. There is conflict between the couples who are encountered by the reader which hints at love between a white man (Sidney Bonbon) and black woman (Pauline Guerin), as well as a black man (Marcus Payne) with a white woman (Louise Bonbon). Although the love between Sidney Bonbon, the overseer of the plantation, and Pauline Guerin, who happens to be Bonbons mistress, is not clear in the beginning of the novel, it becomes more obvious as Gaines strike up a love interest in
At this point in the poem, the speaker’s attitude toward loss is rather blasé due to the fact that the items she has misplaced holds no emotional attachment and can be replaced.
She is saying how she wants to be with her husband again and that she needs him back in her life. While wondering why a God would cause her so much pain and grief with the Suitors and her missing
First, there is a tone of innocence in the first stanza (Randall 51). The young child tries to convince her mother to let her go by saying that “other children will go with me” (Randall 10) and that the march is making “our country free” (Randall 12). The mother gives off a tone of concern for her child’s safety. Her mother tells her that she cannot go to the march because there are “dogs that are fierce and wild” (Randall 6) and “clubs and hoses” (Randall 7). These things were used on protesters and marchers to control the crowds when they grew too large and had gotten out of hand. Next, there is the tone of joy in the fifth stanza. Her mother takes pride and joy in preparing her daughter to go to church. She is also joyful that her daughter is going to church instead of going to the march (Randall 21-22). But, if you notice, in the sixth stanza that tone of joy immediately converts into grief and loneliness. The move from the fifth to the sixth stanza is when the explosion occurs (Randall 25). The mother doesn’t know what to do. The mother’s tone in the last two lines of the poem gives the reader a feeling of grief and guilt. She clawed through bits of glass and brick, and then lifted out her child’s shoe. From this finding, the mother knows that she has lost her daughter
Secondly, the author uses word choice to show the speakers overall sorrow. Throughout the whole poem there are word scattered everywhere that describe the general emotion of sorrow, some of those word being “restless” (19), “torment”, and “troubled” (4). These words instantly give the connotation of feelings like despair and sadness. The speaker also uses literary elements such as simile to express sorrow, like when she says “These troubles of the heart/ are like unwashed clothes” (27, 28). Everyday people usually do not pay much mind to unwashed clothes, and usually look at it as something unimportant or irrelevant. When the speaker compares her internal troubles to something that holds little importance to everyday life and is also seen as unpleasant, the readers really get a look into the sorrow and sadness that the speaker is truly feeling. The speaker also uses word choice to help show the readers the true intensity of what she is going through.
To start off, the first stanza in her song represents a sense of how unavoidable change is and how the confusion of the bond combined with the stress of the blame game can lead to a doomed
Most people would not associate a joyous event and death. For instance, when someone is on a roller coaster, they hang on tight out of fear. The second stanza gives the details of how the father was knocking over pans and shelves. No fun event would require continuous destruction to the house. The reader also sees the mother in a seemingly helpless state as the father continues to damage the house. She seems to be in a state of dismay as her husband carries on his behavior. Her frown shows that his actions sadden her but she is powerless to stop him. One would think that a smile would be more appropriate. This supports the abuse aspect because she would not be frowning if it was a joyous exchange between the son and father.
She is realizing that she will have freedom through her husband death and whispers over and over, “free, free, free!” Her unhappiness is not with her husband, it is her rankings in society and becoming a widow is her only chance she has to gain the power, money, respect, and most of all freedom.