The Surprise Party In Jane Kenyon's 'Surprise'

Either the flower climbing to her lips is literal, as she may kiss a flower in memory of Neruda when he is not around, or it can be a representation of relentless, passionate love. After using the metaphor of a flower, the line is

The main protagonist of the story is Clarissa Dalloway, and at the beginning of the story she is going to the town to buy flowers. The first sentence of the book makes it clear that she is going to go buy flowers herself instead of sending a servant. Clarissa is an upper class housewife with many servants. Clarissa is very self-conscious about her role in society, especially London high class society, and embraces the social expectations of a upper class wife. During her walk to the marker she thinks about her friends, her lovers, and all of her dreams. She is disappointed with her life and imagines of having her life

Psychoanalysis can be inscribed in many poems subliminally. Authors tend to use psychoanalysis to solve the concern of a psychological issue or dysfunction problem that they have encountered. It is the conscious awareness of not knowing what the problem is that gives it so much control of our destructive behavior. As human beings, we often repress our deepest fears, emotions and experiences that tend to unfurl in the future beyond our control. Until we can acknowledge and openly admit to ourselves the cause of this, we will continue to disguise the problems unconsciously. It benefits our mental state for a certain length of time, but we ultimately suffer from it in the end. In her poem, Surprise, Jane Kenyon utilizes fear of betrayal, the double and being forced into a regressive state that creates her fear to be intimate.

Relationships can be like a pack of wolves. There is an alpha and an omega, always a type of power structure. Jane Kenyon explores about this in her poem with the different roles the male and female take within in their relationship. She reveals how a power shift come about and the way in which each person in the relationship acts to accommodate it. “Surprise” In her poem “Surprise”, Jane Kenyon uses yonic and phallic symbols, regression, and the double to reveal the power dynamics within the relationship.

Television psychologists and pop culture self-help gurus tell us that marriage is hard work; marriage is compromise; marriage is a choice between being right, and being happy. All of these statements are true. What these experts don’t tell us, however, is that marriage is also about putting on blinders, or looking on the bright side, or one of a hundred other trite phrases to explain the art of self-deception. In marriage, there are times when we may find it necessary to look the other way from our spouse’s faults or indiscretions, in the interest of self-preservation. For if we examine these problems too closely, our darkest, most secret fears may come true. Therefore, it can seem easier to focus on the positive. In her poem “Surprise,” Jane Kenyon uses denial, selective perception, and fear of betrayal to illustrate the self-deception that can occur in marriage.

Another character that is connected to a flower is Mrs. Maudie because just like the Azaleas she keeps positiveness even though she's surrounded by negativity. The author quotes, “Always wanted a smaller house, Jem

The author uses multiple points of views to show miss Strangeworth different feelings on the roses. On page 1 paragraph 3 it states”Miss Strangeworth never gave away any of her roses, although the tourist often asked.” This proves that she would never give them away even if she was bribed. As a result of this it explains that she loves and even as much as if they were her children.On page 3 paragraph 8 it proves her obsessive side”With red and pink and white roses massed along the narrow lawn.” As a result of this quote it is proven that her roses had to be perfect when she steps in front of the

In the short story “Birthday Party”, Katharine Brush uses a few devices to explain the birthday party and the emotions going on. Brush uses alliteration, imagery, and the appeal to emotion in her short story. This short story lets the reader wonder what is going on here. The story shifts from what seems like a pleasant evening date with a young married couple and then all of the sudden, things took a turn for the worst.

Therefore, she protected the flowers as she protected herself from intruders as she remains behind the fence. As Skredsvig utters in the article, "Women's Space, Women's Place: Topoanalysis in Steinbeck's 'The Chrysanthemums”, “Flowers represent many of the qualities ascribed to women in a patriarchy: delicacy, beauty, fragility, innocence…” (Skredsvig, 3). Skredsvig is trying to explain how Elisa is represented by the flowers around her showing her innocence and beauty and she is innocent to the real world. For the real world, Elisa is delicate and fragile like a flower that needs special attention in a new atmosphere because even Elisa is a stranger, as in the world where

For the protagonist in “The Red Dress”, the experience that crystallizes her role in society is her experience at the dance. After being rejected on the dance floor she states that “There was something mysterious the matter with me” she continues by saying “I knew it; I had known it all along. But I had not known for sure; I had hoped to be mistaken”(4). This is the moment that she admits to herself that she does not and will not fit in with the people around her. She admits this with disappointment.

The short story The Stolen Party by Liliana Heker, is about a girl named Rosaura who was invited to a rich girl's birthday party, whose name is Luciana. Throughout the story people may realize that Rosaura is doing maid like things, that’s because she’s there as a maid. The Stolen Party teaches us that a person doesn’t always know who people are until they treat you for what they think one is, because Rosaura thinks she came to the party as a friend, but when she got for helping, she knew she wasn’t there as a friend. Some people think that the theme of this story is things don’t always turn out the way you want it to. But others think the real theme is people may turn out different than they expect.

Alison Bechdel’s Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic illustrates the plight of a lesbian growing up in a household filled with secrets in every nook and cranny. The subtitle, A Family Tragicomic, reveals the tone of the story for the audience by insinuating the existence of adversary in Bechdel’s family dynamics. Through the use of nonlinear chronology, the author reconstructs her childhood and early adulthood around the roles of her parents, Helen and Bruce, and more specifically, the death of her father. Bruce’s affinity for interior design results in him spending ample time on decorating the family home, to the point that it serves as a symbol of Bruce’s repressed desires and in turn, Alison’s liberated desires.

The flowers referenced in the novel always represent a woman, the ones who made them and

In the student sample, he wrote that John Steinbeck uses “the flower as the title for both realistic and symbolic purposes” (230). In my summary I use the symbol to be Elisa as a woman. I also use the flowers to represent the symbolism for the children she did not have. The student wrote “the chrysanthemums advance the plot because they are the basis for the story’s central action” (230). In my summary I did not even mention the plot, I only wrote examples of the symbol of the story. I wrote that the Chrysanthemums symbolize of an unhappy wife, I wasn’t even near of the student’s version. The student and I did write that Elisa did not had children, and did not had a passionate relationship. The student wrote that the flowers, symbolizes her

Virginia Woolf uses flowers to approach a different path of revealing characters’ way of showing their own feelings, thoughts, and affections without blatantly having to display their emotions to the open. The symbolization of flowers has become a way of expressing feelings for the characters. Through these flowers, there are so many emotions, whether it is being happy, sad, love, excited, and anything else in between all that. With this, a connection between humans and nature is introduced, and it creates a language between the two. Clarissa from Mrs. Dalloway is a prominent character that is affected by this technique