The Tide Rises By Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Ernest Hemingway is an American twentieth century novelist who served in World War I. During World War I, he served as an ambulance driver for the Italian army. He wrote the novel The Sun Also Rises in Paris in the 1920s. Hemingway argues that the Lost Generation suffered immensely after World War I because of severe problems with masculinity, alcohol, and love.

In the classic novel The Sun Also Rises, author Earnest Hemmingway carefully follows the lives of several Americans, impacted by times of World War I. The cohort of people highlighted in this time period is often referred to as the "Lost Generation." The war was commonly known as the Great War, and shaped the way people lived in that particular time period. Known for its fast times and lack of morals, the war set a new standards for the people of its time, and changed many people's beliefs in traditional values of love, morals, and religion. Throughout the novel, the results of the war affected the characters in every aspect of their lives.

The writers of the romantic era focused on one’s inward self and nature. In the poem “The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls,” Longfellow talks about one’s personal journey through the complicated process of death. It contrasts this process with what the world does when you die which is to keep moving forward, and how "The little waves, with their soft, white hands, Efface the footprints in the sands," erasing you from the memories of others (Longfellow). Longfellow created this guide after his life was shaken when his wife died suddenly during a miscarriage ("Henry Wadsworth Longfellow"). Longfellow, through his writings, teaches others what took him a long time to understand concerning dealings with death. This follows the common themes of the Romanticism period which dealt mostly with personal experiences and what the authors did or felt in

After a thorough reading and in-depth analyzation of Ernest Hemingway’s riveting novel The Sun Also Rises, the character of Brett Ashley may be seen in a number of different ways. While some critics such as Mimi Reisel Gladstein view Brett as a Circe or bitch-goddess, others such as Carol H. Smith see Brett as a woman who has been emotionally broken by the world around her. I tend lean towards the latter of these views, simply because of the many tragedies that transpired. Brett Ashley is a heroine who, despite being wounded by love and war, continues to pursue true love.

Given that death eventually comes to every one of us, how can someone fight death? Dylan Thomas’s “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” lays out his case. The opening lines are a wonderful beginning to what, on the surface, seems to be a poem about the transition from day to night. But, upon closer reading, the poem is a much more complex piece on grief and death. Thomas uses light and dark imagery, diction, and anaphora to demonstrate the author’s thoughts on death and the questions he raises on its inevitability.

The Sun Also Rises, written by Ernest Hemingway, is a novel about a group of young expatriates, living in Paris after World War I and going on a trip to Spain filled with drinking, bullfighting, and much more. The protagonist, Jake Barnes, an impotent American WWI veteran and bullfighting aficionado, spends much of his time watching and sometimes helping Brett, the woman he loves, go off with other men. Most of the book takes place in urban areas like Paris and Pamplona is filled with drunken fights and arguments. Many of the characters are hesitant to address and solve their issues with each other and their values, but when Bill and Jake go on a fishing trip, Hemingway’s imagery of the Spanish countryside creates a more peaceful setting

In the first three stanzas, Millay is eager to describe the actions that will not occur after death by mentioning events such as “Spring will not all, nor autumn falter” (Millay 9) and “Still will the tamaracks be raining” (Millay 5). This perception of what happens to the remnant natural processes demonstrates how the signification of death is perceived as negligible. The context of death expeditiously deviates from inconsequential to essential amid the fourth and fifth stanzas. In fourth stanza Millay begins explaining that “Nothing will know that you are dead” (Millay 14), but then the notion promptly shifts to how nature will still notice the individual’s absence even if the nature remains after the individual has died. Millay suggests that perhaps the “may-weed and the pig-weed” (Millay 13) will notice because there is no longer someone picking the weeds.

William Stafford’s poem, “Traveling through the Dark”, opens with the narrator of the poem finding a dead deer on the side of the road. The reader is drawn into the poem as the narrator decides what to do about the deer. As the narrator drags the deer off the road the narrator and reader learn that the deer was pregnant. The narrator hesitates and finally comes to the conclusion of pushing the deer over the edge into the river. This poem makes the reader question what they would do in a situation if they encountered death when no one was watching.

I believe that many poems can have similar meanings, even if they seem to be totally different. For example, let's say there were two poems, one was about God, and the other was about nature, they were written at two different times in history, and they were both written by two different authors. However, they both have something in common. You can always find God in nature and you can always find nature in God. Recently, I read three poems, Fears by John Keats, Humor by John Keats and Urn, by John Keats. They all have the same author and they all have different themes, but I believe they all have one message in common.

At the core of Dilsey Gibson’s character is her capacity for faith, and the unwavering stability that lends to her life. She is in the employ of a family for whom she has worked for countless generations, and whom she now sees growing progressively more unstable with each passing day. As she leaves the center of her spiritual faith, the Church, she undergoes a revelation in which she is able to finally understand the ultimate fate of the Compsons, and thus of herself and her own family.

The sun also rises is a book that takes a very peculiar view on gender roles in the society. It takes place right after World War I, in a time where all the veterans of the war come back to the real world and figure out that they have lost all masculinity and become very insecure. One of the main characters of the book has relationship problems due to a war wound and the woman he loves actually ends up being the most masculine person in the novel. Although Ernest Hemingway presents Brett as a very independent, masculine, and selfish woman, there are some indirect notions throughout the book that the reader picks up on that shows her as a character that really does have feelings for Jake but she is too full of herself to show them. The novel’s repetitiveness of going to bars, drinking and dancing every single night, reveals the meaningless lives they all seem to live.

In William Faulkner’s “The Sound and the Fury” themes such as culture and names are displayed through the perspective of the formerly respectable Compson family. Led by Mr. and Mrs. Compson. Faulkner uses this novel to criticize the importance of reputations to southern families and to criticize the culture of Post Bellum society. Criticizing society was something relatively new at this time, resulting in this novel becoming a leader in the movement, ushering in a new style of writing. Protagonists: Benjamin, Caddy, and Quentin all feel the effects of the issues of reputation and ideologies of society that culture in the south attempts to force them to uphold.

The novel Wuthering Heights by Emily Brontë contains many theme and one of them is violence. As an example of that, I will use two excerpts of Wuthering Heights, the first one from Chapter 4, “’See here wife! […] though hardness, not gentleness, made him give little trouble” (Brontë, P. 25 – 27), the second one from Chapter 20, “‘Hallo, Nelly!’ cried Mr Hethcliff, when he saw me. […] und what wer gooid enough fur him’s gooid enough fur yah, Aw’s rather think!’“ (Brontë, P. 150 – 152). Both times, the protagonist Heathcliff plays an important role in the presented violence. However, it is a contrasting role in each of the passages. Additional to that, the theme of violence in the two extracts is executed primarily in the form of verbal

William Yeats and Seamus Heaney are both considered as the best Irish poets. Although, they are both Irish, however, they did not always agree on the same topics. In the poem “ The song of wandering Aengus” written by W.B Yeats which was a one of a kind poem that shared the same theme as the poem“Digging” which was written by Heaney. Regardless of the common theme, these two poems are different for the reason that Yeats’s poem refers more to cultural identity whereas Heaney’s poem talks more about family identity, mostly about his father.

Brontë’s novel depicts the addictive yet destructive relationship between orphaned Heathcliff and Catherine. Wuthering Heights repeats cycles of relationships from the 1st generation of the Linton’s, Earnshaw’s, and Heathcliff’s transferred on to their children, the 2nd generation- Linton, Hareton, and the 2nd Catherine. Amongst this cycle, amorous and vengeful relationships are amid the family. However, the 2nd generation is able to accomplish the goal set by Heathcliff and the first Catherine finally putting an end to the cruelty introduced by their parental figures.