The Movement Of Virginia Woolf 's Kew Gardens

Throughout her essay, Woolf never once describes to us her immediate surroundings. By describing only what is outside, Woolf isolates herself from the rest of the world, instead of embracing it as Dillard did. She is chiefly concerned with describing where she isn't. Her focus is on the world outside of her window. She describes the field that is being plowed, the black, net-like flock of birds flying together. These images engender a rather unpleasant feeling of dreariness.

2. How does Angelou use sensory details and imagery in paragraphs 24 to introduce Mrs. Flower’s character?

The flow of the novel starts as Woolf finds the opening line of her new novel: "Mrs. Dalloway decided she would buy the flowers herself." The flowers would proof an important metaphor in the book. This thought of buying the flowers herself would link Woolf and Clarissa. Clarissa states the same words to her lover in preparing for Richard's party. And yet the flowers would reappear in Laura Browns life as her husband buys flowers for his own birthday. Flowers that normally represent life and color ironically represent sadness and loneliness in this novel.

To begin, one notable difference between the two authors’ perspective is that Woolf does not include her immediate surroundings. She excludes

Virginia Woolf begins her essay by establishing a setting, and introducing the moth. She uses imagery to depict autumn, as well as describe the moth’s characteristics. According to her essay, it states, “…with

Galway Kinnell’s poem “Saint Francis and the Sow” incorporates motifs from the loveliness found in life. By using innocence as his motive, he then causes the reader to feel a form of guilt. This begins with Kinnell referencing a bud, to him “the bud” can represent “all things”, but at first glance one may expect him to be using the literal meaning of a flower bud, which in simplest terms is a baby flower. From this meaning, however, one can figure out the figurative side of what Kinnell may be trying to say. These themes of flowers and birth can both represent pureness, beauty, and innocent.

These images prove to the readers that the arrival of the tinker, and his interest in the flowers as well as his talk of love and life of

Some parts of her book are so filled with this extraordinary vocabulary that you cannot miss the beauty of them. One instance of this is “ Having scrambled twice around the ship and received many sound cuffs from the wind, they saw a sailor’s face positively shine golden.” By using words such as “scrambled,” “sound,” “cuffs,”and “shine golden” Woolf adds a sense of almost higher quality to her work. She could have supplied the words ran or walked in replacement of scrambled but instead makes her work more credible by adding these more advanced words. Another big part of word choice was how Mrs Woolf used an incredible amount of description in moments like

Woolf writes about life for women during that time period. She herself being a woman, found it hard to get her work to become public. During that time women are seen as property and that they must follow social norms. Things such as obeying her husband and waiting to be allowed to speak(if she were allowed to speak) were “just how things are done”. In society women are looked down on and seen as things or property rather than people who have feelings,

2. In "The falling flower" by 'Arakida Moritake' (438), the element that stands out most for in the poem is imagery. The poem sparks the person with its set of unusual images. The poet triggers the image of a flower falling from the tree "The falling flower". And that flower flies back to the tree in the form of a butterfly. "I saw drift back to the branch Was a butterfly". Arakida is discussing the birth of a butterfly by his vivid imagery.

Woolf again construct a contrast between fiction and reality by expressing “Imaginatively she is of the highest

In the second stanza, the poem compares his love to a plant that does not bloom. The flowers are hidden deep within the plant. The text is expressing that while most would not appreciate a flower that does not bloom, the love described here goes far beyond that of anyone else’s. Inner beauty is admired. The narrator is not ashamed of his love. Yet, he feels as though he cannot compare her to anything of this world. He is entirely consumed by the spirit within her.

In many of her novels and especially in Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf tends to stray from directly attacking an issue such as social unjust by using symbolism. She often “detested what she called ‘preaching’ in fiction” and instead, strategically “scatters fragments of images for the readers to gather up and to piece together as to form [their] own, maybe individual, understanding of the character” in her stream-of-consciousness

While Woolf makes very good points throughout her essay based many interesting points, one cannot help

of Woolf’s essay. Though her thesis is confined to fiction and does not extend into any