Suffering is centrepiece in Tim Winton’s modern Australian classic, Cloudstreet. The novel depicts

Gwen Harwood’s poetry endures to engage readers through its poetic treatment of loss and consolation. Gwen Harwood’s seemingly ironic simultaneous examination of the personal and the universal is regarded as holding sufficient textual integrity that it has come to resonate with a broad audience and a number of critical perspectives. This is clearly evident within her poems ‘At Mornington’ and ‘A Valediction’, these specific texts have a main focus on motif that once innocence is lost it cannot be reclaimed, and it is only through appreciating the value of what we have lost that we can experience comfort and achieve growth.

Antwone "Fish" Fisher is a complex individual who has been through a great deal of psychological and sociological conflicts in his short life. His mother was arrested and then abandons him, he was abused physically and emotional, and then lived on the streets. In short, nearly everything bad that can possible happen to a person has happened to young Antwone Fisher before he has reached adulthood. In his autobiographical book Finding Fish (2001), Fisher explains how the torment that he experienced in his youth shaped the man that he would become in adulthood. Although this story tells about one young man's difficulties in life and how he had to overcome obstacles in order to be a functional and positive member of society, it is really a story about the larger human condition and how every person becomes affected by their experiences.

“Tree Grave” is a poem published by Oodgeroo Noonuccal in 1964. The poem gives an Indigenous Australian perspective on the demise of one of their kin. Noonuccal comments on the adversity the Indigenous Australians face through the use of traditional aboriginal word choice, poetic techniques and her ability to manipulate tone and mood. Through the use of this she is able to effectively communicate her message of adversity.

The grief comes from lost love must be recovered by love. In crow lake, the author Mary Lawson portrays a young successful scholar, 26-year-old Kate Morrison, always is bothered by her anguished past. The innermost struggle not only leads she can’t directly face the problem existing between her and her older brother Matt for years but also becomes an obstacle of the further relationship with Daniel, the men she loves. But all the problems are concealed elaborately before the invitation letter received. While the peaceful life is broken by the invitation coming from Matt’s son, her nephew Simon, Kate suddenly has to face all the problems she doesn’t want to face

Suffering is an experience that many face when subjected to pain. Regardless of if the hardship is psychological or primarily physical, the whole body suffers. In the aspect of literature, the involvement of suffering is shown in a broad perspective of how human existence is viewed. Specifically, in the works of Othello by William Shakespeare, and 1984 by George Orwell, suffering is portrayed to to further motivate the plot and point out the flaws in society, and its characters.

Have you ever felt that your grief could be alive? In Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “The Raven”, the Narrator is suffering from the grief of the passing of his beloved Lenore. Attempting to palliate with reading, a raven flies into his study; The narrator first feels as though the raven is a good sign and asks questions about his Lenore, only to receive the response “Nevermore”(48) which aggravates him. Furthermore, he apprises the raven to leave, but it stays forever. Poe’s poem represents grief and mourning as a living, breathing thing delineated as a raven.

“The only way out of the labyrinth of suffering is to forgive”(Green, 213). This seemingly simple sentence from the end of John Green’s novel Looking for Alaska is not as simple as it seems, for it is what identifies the most important theme in the book. The best way to show how this quote truly expresses the greater meaning behind our story, we have to compare the journeys of our two main characters Alaska and Pudge, or more so, their individual endings.

This arising tone of regret and distance is also formed by the speaker’s depiction of his father having “cracked hands that ached,” (1. 3) which further signifies the father’s struggle with the severe coldness. The concept of self-sacrifice is apparent in this portrayal of his father’s disregard to his own pain in order to provide warmth and light for his family’s home. The stirring of “banked fires blaze” (1. 5) within the house,

The poem that I have selected for this essay is “Talking to Grief” by Denise Levertov. I chose this poem because it talks about grief. It also talks about the place that grief should have in a person’s life. The poem describes grief, and compares it to a “homeless dog.” It also describes how a dog deserves its own place in the house, instead of living under a porch or being homeless. This poem talks about how a person can be aware that grief is present, but that it is not always acknowledged and accepted. We all experience grief in different ways, and for different reasons. Everyone deals with grief in their own personal way. This poem describes a point in a person’s life when they are ready to accept grief as a part of their life

Across Beloved, In Cold Blood and “A Very Old Man With Enormous Wings”, sufferings are at the heart of their values. It is under the seemingly ironic consequences that provoke to our sense of understanding the true lessons behind these sufferings. These sufferings, underlying the context of society and upbringings, teach us of how sufferings can strengthen us, opening our mind to brand new in depth perception of reality and love, yet may mislead us to commit horrific, immoral act or sometimes just ultimately pointlessness. In Beloved, more or less, every character suffered, not only in their past but for some, it is the present.

It’s human nature to detest suffering. It not only gets in the way of our happiness, but also leaves a timeless scar in our lives. For some, It can be the obstacle that keeps them from ever reaching their goals, forcing them to believe they’re not good enough. For others, it is the driving force behind their success. Suffering is indeed very powerful.

but once she is taken from him he is just left with the sea (Poe 9). The ocean is seen by many as a vast, empty, and unending space and that I show the speaker feels without his

father did not die a ‘complete’ death and that haunts him. This pain is shown in a unique way

When Elizabeth Bishop writes of her experience catching a fish, she describes its intricate details, essentially producing an ugly appearance of the fish. However, as her description continues, she ponders the beauty of the fish on the inside. This correlates with how people tend to make a quick judgment based on someone’s appearance without taking the time to think about what their personality or characteristics include. Or even to think about what that person has been through that has caused them to look that way. Evidently, as the poem continues, Bishop reveals that the fish has been through at least five battles, according to the physical scars left in its jaw. The fish, a symbol for anyone who has dealt with difficulties during their life, will persevere even while the outside world continues its routine.

Ordeal and waves are indeed causing the tempuling marooned in the beach. It is not deniable that this matter triggers blues for the inability to get fish in the sea. The I lyric exposes his sadness for humans’ failure in striving the sea, which is illustrated with the image of a fallen leaf.