Summary Of Empty Dance Shoes

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In war, soldiers need ways to cope with the death and the dystopian society of which they are a part. The dancing young girl in this chapter can be a metaphor for the ways the men bring themselves back home emotionally. An example is Henry Dobbins with his girlfriend’s stockings, when he wears them he feels connected to her and his home. Every man in the war has their own dancing girl to get them through every day. The chapter “Style”in The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien , which shifts from eerie to unrestful and objective , uses fragmental sentence structure, cryptic repetition, and scenic imagery to decipher the deeper meaning of the girl dancing while everything fell apart around her, that denial can be a saving grace in hard times.

In the third stanza of the poem, Roethke points out to the readers that his father was continuously missing steps while they were waltzing. “At every step you missed / my right ear scraped a buckle.” (11-12) . This demonstrates that because of the fact that his father missed steps since he was drunk, resulted in the poet being physically hurt. This part of the poem reveals that the father is now becoming abusive. Roethke’s use of the word “death” in the first stanza, right away implies that the poet was frightened by his father. In the second stanza the poet uses the word “romp” which is associated with playing roughly. This also indicates that it was not very safe for the poet to be waltzing with his father. The mother frowning also demonstrates that she does not approve of this activity. The last stanza of the poem reaffirms that there was violence present. Roethke states “You beat time on my head / With a palm caked hard by dirt.” (13-14) . The father’s hand “caked hard by dirt” demonstrates that the father was a hard labor worker but the use of the word “beat” makes this line

Second in the second paragraph there is use of personification. The writer use personification though out the entire poem. He says that the poem can find when it can’t. The writer also says that poem live in the bottom of shoes

The fact that enjambment is used throughout the poem such as in the lines, “like a colour slide or press an ear against its hive” portrays a lack of structure and therefore emphasizes the initial enjoyment one feels when reading a poem before the chore of analyzing it begins. This is also emphasized through the fact that the poem is a free verse poem.

In conclusion, “Dancer”, by Vikie Sears, utilizes the devices in literature to enhance the effectiveness of the story through symbolism, dialogue, and

These material items have become physical representations of the memories Bradstreet created with them so the loss is a tragic psychological event. This quote also represents the struggles that the author had with the non-materialistic Puritan lifestyle. She has put so much emphases on her material possession that she has lost sight of what is truly important, which is God. The content expressed in this poem mirrors the materialistic struggles most Puritans felt with their faith at one point or another.

Amongst the judgmental stares of the audience that has bestowed an image of pathetic vulnerability upon the dancer, the poem’s speaker emerges to provide a portrait of the dancer that is much less lascivious, acknowledging that “Her voice was like the sound of blended flutes / Blown by black players upon a picnic day” (3-4). The sudden juxtaposition of a “picnic day” vis-a-vis a crowded night-club highlights the speakers attempt to remove the sexualized image of the dancer with the intent of identifying her noble power as a member of the black community. The elegance of the dancer, recognized by her soft voice, is affirmed by the speaker’s specific mention of “black players,” displaying black heritage as containing multi-faceted artistic potential. While the poem begins with a dehumanizing portrayal of the dancer, the speaker successfully reformulates the identity of the dancer into a component of a larger black tradition.

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As Papa playfully swings the boy around, the boy thinks "but I hung on like death / such waltzing was not easy." (3-4) The reader feels the rush of adrenaline the boy experiences. He relates the waltzing to the uneasiness that comes with riding a roller coaster or racing in a car. Such activities that can make one's heart beat faster, but cause no real danger. Additionally, Roethke notes "we romped until the pans / slid from the kitchen shelf,"(5-6) allowing the reader to visualize the efforts of Papa and his son as they swing, dance, and play together. The dishware and pans sliding to the floor as Papa clumsily laughs and dances, offers some comic relief to the reader. Furthermore, the bonding experience is displayed as enjoyable to the son when he remembers that his father then "waltzed [him] off to bed / still clinging to [the father's] shirt." (15-16) The reader realizes the son still wants to play and be close with his father even when bedtime has arrived. The images within the poem add to the memorable moment.

“And it was as though I myself was being dispossessed of some painful yet precious thing which I could not bear to lose; something confounding, like a rotted tooth that one would rather suffer indefinitely than endure the short, violent eruption of pain that would mark its removal. And with this sense of dispossession came a pang of vague recognition: this junk, these shabby chairs, these heavy, old-fashioned pressing irons, zinc wash tubs with dented bottoms-all throbbed within me with more meaning than there should have been...” (Ellison 273).

The short story “Why Don’t you Dance?” by Raymond Carver follows the story of a young couple having a strange encounter with an older man who has seemed to have lost someone close to him who also tries to connect with their relationship in an absurd way. The old man sets the mood for the reader by having all his furniture organized outside his house the same way it was inside. The old man and the girl had a dance together, essentially, it was the strangest part of the story. The way the author wrote this short story affects the way the reader comprehends the theme. The author develops the overall theme of the story by using diction, symbolism, structure and absurdity throughout the text.

”Comparing the man’s shoe laces to “intentional scars” is a way she used imagery to develop an idea of the black male. Again in lines 9-12, Olds compares the color red that the man is wearing to the inside of a body exposed. This use of imagery allows the reader to understand the women’s perspective. These lines let the reader know the descriptive details

The first stanza enables readers at first to think about a simple interaction between Tommy and his mother. The writer uses gentle words like “dances” (2) at first may bring bright smiles and happiness following the relationship between the mother and her son to the reader. These words cast a sense of happiness and the playing time. However, the very next line “throws him across the room” (5) depicts the horror story that the child must bear from his mother. Sexton has used the connotations such as “Red Roses” (4) to mean bruises and cuts that Tommy must have to while her mother abuses him by throwing him across the wall and shout at him. Here dancing means punishment Tommy must face for being a bad boy. All the music and sound his mother is playing inside the room reduce the noise produced when throwing Tommy on the wall.

The movie The Field of Lost Shoes, purely based off of the Battle of New Market, is both accurate and inaccurate when displaying soldiers’ lifestyle and their experiences that occurred during the Civil War. The movie is inaccurate in a way that is portrays soldiers having to leave their jobs, when they really did have jobs they had to leave. The movie is accurate in most scenes. Its accuracy proves to be correct in the scenes that women had to step in as nurses and help the wounded, soldiers leaving their loved ones, the horrible conditions that the soldiers had to fight through, and when groups of stable soldiers went to the field’s aftermath to rescue wounded soldiers and their loved ones. Overall, the movie is consistently accurate all the way through to show how the Civil War impacted the American lifestyle.