The Blue Estuaries Summary

The tone of the passage begins as a calm environment. The girl was surprised by a particular book on the bookshelf. The novel appeared to have a serene look to it. The “swans gliding on the blueblack lake… the swans posed on the placid lake” (2,11) . The words gliding and placid evoke a calm and soothing emotion to the readers. The tone shifts as more cation occurs as the reader beings to read the poems. The girl is intrigued by the poems. She says, “I leaned closer to the print until I could almost feel the blue waters drawn into the tip of my pen” (27-33). The girl leaning closer shows how interested she is by the poem and how she is in need of more. The reader can see how much she likes the poem by how close she gets to the print. “Until I could almost feel the blue waters...”(28-29) shows that she could not get

Julia Alvarez conveys the speaker’s discoveries through her use of imagery in “On Not Shoplifting Louise Bogan’s ‘The Blue Estuaries’”. Throughout the poem, Alvarez uses vivid imagery to describe the swans on the lake that are on the cover of the book. As a result of these descriptions, the speaker discovers a poet, her book, and ultimately not to steal the book. The speaker begins the poem by stating that the book surprised them on the shelf at the bookstore.

/ My breath came quickly, thinking it over―/I had no money, no one was looking.”(Lines 38-40) This depicts and captures the thoughts and actions of the speaker, she is scared, she was aware that stealing the book is a crime but she did not have money. The speaker is so interested in Louise Bogan’s book that she’d be desperate enough and willing to the steal the book. The tone has shifted and is now anxious and intense. The speaker is feeling guilty and unsure. Moreover, she discovers the fear inside her but also begins to see how much the poems had affected who she was. The speaker was actually considering taking the book and not paying for it, she was not thinking clearly, which demonstrates that the reading material had affected her. Louise Bogan’s The Blue Estuaries had prompted her to discover a part of herself and how far she would go to get the

Hypersalinity Laguna Madre is like a temporary creek whereas a Typical Estuary is a permanent (constant) river flow.

However, the readers possibly feel depressed as it suggests the mother has killed the baby. The other image of this poem is “its roads sunken in like a grey washboard”. It suggests me to think about the loss through her flat stomach. It challenged me to think about the mother’s feeling, she is possibly regretted, as she would not be able to keep her child in her womb. Furthermore, “the ground cracks evilly”. Evilly is a strong adverb, which suggests the moral dilemma of choosing to kill her child. This also forcing herself to confront the truth of what she has done, knowing that explaining it away amounts to “loss without death” This provides the personal, reflective, and possibly regretful tone of the poem as they are linked to the idea that the mother chooses to kill her baby. The idea of the “you coward” also provides the guilt emotion of the woman that has experienced when she looses her child. It provides me to think about the narrator's attempt to show what is the character’s thinking. The mother feels possibly guilty about killing her baby. Even though, she knows it is a sin, she still decided to do

She says that the "child" had been by her side until "snatched from thence by friends, less wise than true" (line 3). Basically she is saying a trusted person “snatched” her work from her without permission to take them to England to be printed. Had it not been for her brother-in-law taking her work back to England and getting them printed they may have never been known. The intimacy and feeling she shares with her work is like that of a mother and child and that bond was infringed upon when her work was "exposed to public view" (line 4). The intrusion of her brother-in-law getting her work printed is the cause of feeling that follow. Ironically the next thing she talks is the shame she has been thrust upon her by not being able to perfect the work before it was published. This is illustrated in line five where she writes, “Made thee in rags,” as to say her work is like a child dressed in rags.

In the second stanza the poet tells how it has been nineteen years since he first visited Coole Park. All at once the swans "All suddenly mount" (line 10) and leave rings in the water. These rings are important because they symbolize the rings found in the trunk of

The most important pieces of punctuation are the periods at the end of select lines. Periods are used to end thoughts, while commas at the end are used to indicate slight change in the thought. Using periods as dividers, the poem is divided into seven sections, all different but reinforce the ideas of insecurity, desire, isolation, and neglect. The first section, which is only line one, explains the narrator’s rejection of herself, which easily transitions to sections two and three. These two sections describe what she wants to be, first with the narrator becoming them, and then her comparing herself to them. Sections two and three explain the effect others have on insecurity because they represent the idealized version of her. Section four details her isolation, neglect, and invisibility to them. The setting of night, which represents darkness, offers a half-baked explanation to the narrator’s invisibility, however, the fact there is starlight shows that the trees and flowers are purposefully ignoring her. With this invisibility, her feelings snowball into neglect and isolation. Section five is similar to sections two and three; it is a repeat of her comparison to the trees and flowers. Section six is a reinforcement of her insecurities, and her out of placeness. Section seven is a detailed continuation of six, but the ending of section seven represents her insecurities and her neglect. Word pairings such as “useful... finally” (l.19) and “touch me for one...have time for me” (l.20) clearly demonstrate her hope that if she changes, she will be accepted by them. Plath’s usage of end punctuation creates an easy flowing cycle of insecurity; the insecurity is made known, the justification behind it is shown; it is then reiterated; and the narrator finally finds peace in the fantasy of being like the trees and the flowers. The constant

This article focuses not only on the use of gold in the poem, but how the “fetishism” was used in the Victorian era. Mendoza concludes that the poem has “confusion of sexual and consumer exchange.” With the phrase, “Come Buy,” Mendoza persuades us that the “various fruits promises and provides pleasure.” Next, the use of gold throughout the poem is used to persuade the audience that “it is material first” which is part of the “nature of the poem.” Throughout the poem, gold is used as something of value such as Laura’s hair which is to “symptomize the violent, polluting effects of the fruit: ‘Her hair grew thin and gray,’” which is a direct quote from Rossetti’s poem, The Goblin Market.

Estuaries are incredibly diverse and rich environments. An estuary allows for diverse populations of fishes and other invertebrates because of the varying salinities and rich food sources (Keefer, Caudill, Peery, & Moser, 2013). If an estuary is long enough there is a gradient as the fresh and salt water begin to mix ("At the river 's end," 2005). This gradient provides protection for some species and breeding grounds for other species. The unique habitat is makes a great nursery for juvenile fishes (Fulford et al., 2014). Anadromous fishes spawn in freshwater and migrate to saltwater until they are sexually mature when they return to freshwater habitats to reproduce (Feyrer et al., 2015). The opposite is said for catadromous fishes which spawn in saltwater and migrate to freshwater until they are sexually mature when they return to saltwater to reproduce (Walsh, Gray, West, & Williams, 2011).

It was “A Swelling of the Ground--” and “ The roof was barely visible—“. The turning point of the poem was a flashback, when she says, “ Since then—‘tis Centuries—and yet/Feels shorter than the Day/I first surmised the Horses’ Heads/Were toward Eternity—“(21-24). This flashback lets the reader know that she is looking back on that day almost as if she is sad. Centuries have passed, yet that day seems longer than any time that has passed.

It is by the help of nature, in particularly the river and the swan, that she finds the strength within herself to challenge her fears, and also how she beats them. The river, as mentioned earlier, gives her a safe spot, where she can be herself. As a result of the river being her safe spot, nature in general is also described in many details throughout the short story, where it often gets described with beautiful adjectives such as: “bleached starling’s egg blue” (line 3) and “tiny glimpses of light and green water glitter” (lines 35-36). By describing nature with descriptions and words like these, the author makes it very obvious that nature is a big part of the main character’s life, or at least she wants it to be a big part, and therefore it becomes a sacred place for her that heals her mentally, and where she finds peace. Just like the river symbolises something bigger than just a normal river, the swan also has a bigger symbolic meaning: it symbolises the freedom that she desperately wants and needs. Therefor her search and longing to see the swan is a metaphor for her longing for a free life, where nothing, not even her own fear, is holding her

In the poem “Stealing” by Carol Ann Duffy the speaker attempts to steal the intangible emotions of others. The speaker does not steal for material gain, rather for emotional gain. The speaker is ambiguous, (henceforth referred to as “he”) and appears to be answering a question. In this dramatic monologue Duffy explores violent and self-destructive behavior in order to impart the speaker’s desolate attitude towards life.

The once beautiful blue water. The countless days of spectacular fishing. The relaxing days spent out on the boat. All these activities that make the Midwest summer months actually feel like summer are quickly diminishing. Our lakes and rivers are progressively being destroyed. Whether it be the whole ecosystem that calls these waters their home, or the people like us who benefit from these waters for recreational activities, there continues to be one aquatic invader that is spoiling these waters. The wide range of carp species are invasive fish that have flourished and taken over these aquatic ecosystems very rapidly. With the recent advancements in the biotechnological field surrounding the use of chemical poisoning, the

Estuaries are very productive systems that have a large ecological and economic value. These unique habitats that estuaries provide are utilised by many biota as well as humans. The importance can be linked to its utilisation. Numerous organisms use estuaries as natural nurseries and complex communities are present. Estuaries are are a valuable resource for the fishing industry and provide spaces for recreational activities. Estuarine habitats such as wetlands provide water filtration and carbon storage. Floodplains and daughters are utilised by the agricultural industry as they provide fertile soil.