Summary Of The Century Quilt

In the two forms of art, imagery is used to provide an audience with an insight to multiple senses. Carla Starrett illustrates, “Both poems and lyrics

In the story “Everyday Use”, by Alice Walker, the story is told from the perspective of the Mama and the story involves two daughters.The oldest daughter changes her name and doesn't appreciate her culture, Dee and Maggie both want the family quilt. Dee wants the quilt, but the mom doesn't want to give the quilt to her, she wants to give the quilt to Maggie. Maggie wants to hold on to her heritage and Dee doesn't understand her heritage, her mom knows that Dee won't hold on to the family heritage.In the poem “My Mother Pieced Quilts” memories revolve around the poem.The poem is mainly about the mother's talent of weaving and how she weaves memories out of old fabric she finds that doesn't work anymore.In both of these stories,

To start off, she use the technique of imagery extremely well. Dillard was able to successfully convey her through this technique by being able to paint a clear picture of what is going on throughout the entire story. Dillard states, “He chased us silently over picket fences through thorny hedges, between houses around garbage cans, and around streets.” As seen in the story, the use of imagery showed the environment and struggles she went through. Dillard also states, “A perfect ice ball, from perfectly white snow, perfectly spherical, and squeezed perfectly translucent…” This imagery again describes exactly how everything looked and felt during that moment. The use of imagery is very critical in this story

11. A poet can work its magic on the reader by “choice of images, music of the language, idea content, and cleverness of wordplay” (Foster 17).

Imagery is used consistently right through the poem to evoke sensory experiences and to endorse the theme. For instance: ‘A stark white ring-barked forest’-‘the sapphire misted mountains’-‘the hot gold lush of noon’ and many more. All of these appeal to the readers senses and places brilliant visual image(s) in our minds by illuminating the various features of the country, from the perspective of the poems persona. This is attained using; adjectives, ‘the sapphire-misted mountains¬¬¬’, which gives us a picture of mountains with a bluish haze embracing it, this image would thus give an impression of a composed environment and evoke a sense of tranquillity. Additionally by using ‘sapphire’ to illustrate the mist surrounding the mountains we get a sense of Australia’s uniqueness as sapphire is a rare gem. Imagery is also displayed through a metaphor used to appeal to the sense of hearing. For example: ‘the drumming of an army, the steady soaking rain’. Here Mackellar depicts the rain as an army and allows us not only to visualize but get a sense of the sound of the rain, which is presented through the adjective ‘drumming’. This line also presents to us the intensity of the rain again through the adjectives ‘drumming, steady and soaking’.

As they get older, many people start to experience a sense of demoralization and little self-worth. Nikki Giovanni reflects her dismay in the poem “Quilts” by comparing herself to an old piece of cloth as she transitions from hopeless to hopeful throughout her acceptance of aging.

In the poem “The Century Quilt” by Marilyn Nelson Waniek the “Century Quilt” is a nostalgic necessity of the narrator. The upbringing of nostalgia throughout the poem is the telling of an Odyssey, a journey home though not physical but emotional. Through the constant use of pragmatic imagery that is erupting with allusions to the past and the unusual use of form that gives the poem a platform to project itself Waniek is able to produce a stunning display of emotion and nostalgia that displays the complex meanings of the quilt and the vital importance of it to the narrator.

describing the characters and objects throughout the poem and in creating the atmosphere of the

Stretched out they lay armed/ ready / shouting / celebrating knotted with love the quilts sing on. The quilts are there to tell a story no matter where it lays. “Oh mother you plunged me sobbing and laughing, into our past.” They know that the memories will be with them forever. “How the thread darted in and out galloping along the frayed edges, tucking them in as you did us at night.” The quilt means a lot to the family, they care for it as much as they care for the rest of their family. “They were just meant as covers in the winter as weapons against pounding January winds.” At first they weren’t meant to be anything other than a blanket to keep them warm but over the years of

This poem by Charlotte Mew tells a story in which a farmer marries a very young girl who could not be less ready to marry. The maid in this poem is abused throughout the poem by her so called husband who does not treat her even as a human. Her marriage arranged at a young age the girl is forced into adult duties and actions much too early. This cause many issues to her mental health and her trust towards other humans. The farmer, as the narrator, uses several similes throughout the poem comparing the maid to a rabbit. This shows how he views her and why he treats her like he does in the poem. The six uneven stanzas allows Mew to express her intentions not limited to another's style. This allows for amazing line placement throughout the poem, and the only form she follows throughout the poem is iambic tetrameter. There is no rhyme scheme allowing Mew to have freedom like the girl so much desires. In “The Farmer’s Bride”, Charlotte Mew uses irregular rhyme and form with iambic tetrameter, as well as thorough imagery and comparison to show the broken marriage in this poem.

Another piece of the literature that has similar attributes to the is the poem “My Mother Pieced Quilts.” The poem uses a mother’s handmade quilt to access and explore the poet’s childhood memories. Like how a quilt is made, the poem pieces together memories in order to show the reader a complete image between the speaker’s childhood and the mother’s strong influence. The speaker shows how her mother’s influential ways shaped into the person the speaker is today. For example, “But it was just that every morning I awoke to these October ripened canvases passed my hand across their cloth faces and began to wonder how you pieced all these together.” This quote shows the interest that the speaker has towards her mother’s quilt, she then explains in great detail how her mother threads pieces of fabrics together, obviously admiring her mother’s works. This reason shows how a person’s identity is influenced by his or her environment.

symbolic richness, but at the same time the poem supplies the reader with a wide

Colour imagery is used in the beginning of the poem as the speaker describes his

The quilt are a huge sysmbol for the stories theme. The mother believes by giving Maggie the quilts she will appreciate and value them much more than Dee. Dee only wants to display them once she returns to college. Dee just wants have the quilt as a trophy where it will lose its value. Although, their mother believes the quilt represents family and traditions. The quilt will be appreciated and actually used by Maggie whom knows how it came together. If anything happens to the quilt Maggie can sue it back together because she knows the history behind the quilt. The mother is proud of her daughter ,Dee, but she feels Dee has forgot where she has came from. (More interested in portraying instead of living). The mother is the one who knows her

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