Thomas Hardy 's Under The Waterfall

Though written in a very light and simple manner, the poem comes across as something very profound, laden with meaning through its incongruities. The persona, wanting to see something, often goes to the well and looks down at the water to see it. This certain search below the water's surface can be compared to man's search beneath the human experience for meaning, for certainty.

He uses poetic devices including alliteration and metaphor when he talks about her shine he is talking about the woman’s beauty. In the beginning he notices her beauty and then it forms into a relationship. Toward the end it saddens when he expresses aging as a dark process, but it lightens again as he says he accepts it as a beautiful process. This means that even though she has aged he still loves her and believes she is still beautiful. This poem starts with the author noticing the woman's beauty and the forming a relationship, getting married, and finally even through age stating her beauty. This poem is very comparable to “Love is More Thicker Than Forget” as both of their meanings can relate to love as a force that can last through anything even old age and

Edna St. Vincent Millay’s sonnet, “What lips my lips have kissed and where and why,” is about being, physically or mentally jaded, and thinking back to the torrid love of one’s youth. The “ghosts” that haunt her are the many lovers of her past; she’s specifically trying to remember them all. She recalls the passion she experienced and how there was a certain feeling within herself. Millay shows this through her vivid imagery, use of the rain as a literary device and by paralleling herself with a lonely tree.

The imagery in the poem, specifically natural imagery, helps use the reader’s senses to develop a vivid depiction of the speaker’s connection to nature and dissatisfaction with the surrounding reality. The speaker’s continued use of the “moon” reflects her attribution of feminine identity and idolistic character to the moon. As opposed to referencing herself and her personal insomnia, she uses the imagery of the moon “beyond sleep” to convey her internal struggles with insomnia and her reality. Throughout the poem, the speaker also refers to shining, reflective surfaces, such as “a body of water or a mirror”, to describe the inverted reality in which the speaker experiences reciprocated love. Reflective surfaces often invert the image that is projected into them, seemingly distorting the true nature and reality of the projected image. The speaker’s reference to this reflective imagery highlights her desire to escape the burden of a patriarchal society and assume an independent and free feminine identity. Specifically, the use of natural imagery from the references to the “moon” and “a body of water” convey the speaker’s desire to take refuge within the Earth or in the feminine identity of the Earth, Mother Earth. Feminine identities are often related and associated with aspects of nature due to the natural cycle of the menstrual period and the natural process of procreation. The speaker takes advantage of these connotations to suggest Earth and natural imagery as an escape from the man-made terrors of male dominated society. In the second stanza, the speaker uses extensive imagery to develop metaphors conveying the speaker’s experience of jealousy of the moon

The appreciation of nature is illustrated through imagery ‘and now the country bursts open on the sea-across a calico beach unfurling’. The use of personification in the phrase ‘and the water sways’ is symbolic for life and nature, giving that water has human qualities. In contrast, ‘silver basin’ is a representation of a material creation and blends in with natural world. The poem is dominated by light and pure images of ‘sunlight rotating’ which emphasizes the emotional concept of this journey. The use of first person ‘I see from where I’m bent one of those bright crockery days that belong to so much I remember’ shapes the diverse range of imagery and mood within the poem. The poet appears to be emotional about his past considering his thoughts are stimulated by different landscapes through physical journey.

“The Violets” by Gwen Harwood is a lyrical poem that deals with a woman who is going through a dark period in her life and she looks to her childhood memories, in particular, her parents for sustenance and support. The poem consists of many themes one of which include memory of childhood, the persona of the poem is going through a rough patch in her life and uses her childhood memories The persona concludes, in the present, that neither time nor death can take away our precious memories or those people or places that belong in those memories. Throughout the poem, the tense shifts between past and present as the speaker reaches back in time to a childhood memory, in order to make sense of the present. Another theme that was highlighted was the importance of memories, this is an important theme because due to the retained power of rejuvenation and reflection that memories hold. The violets is a lyrical poem and it

William Blake was a complicated writer as well as a complicated person. As a kid, he never attended school because his parents thought he was abnormal. William spent a lot of time talking about his dreams of Christ coming to him in the night. He learned how to read as well as write at home, but William wanted to go to an actual school. His parents decided to send him to an art school where he learned how to paint. William’s parents couldn’t afford school so he apprenticed an engraver for seven years. Working in churches doing engravings gave William the inspiration he later used in life to write all of his poems. If you read William Blake's work you will understand that most, if not all of his work is about Christ, as well as what Christ can do for us. You will notice in my comparison of his works ¨The Lamb¨ and ¨The Tyger¨ both closely relate to Christ along with what the heavens are about.

The water is symbolic of romantic love as an overwhelming and transforming force that changes in form and changes the people involved. The wave is large, unpredictable and spans out as far as the eye can see. The movement of an all-encompassing emotion like love is impossible to contain, much like water. It is free flowing and goes on forever. “Love was a game, a perpetual creation (Paz, 2). Love and water are both creations of the divine and humans tend to use and abuse them. However, humans are emotional and social animals who need both love and water to survive. Waves have a way of hitting humans all at once, just like love. It renders humans excited and full of surprise at first “wave of surprise” (Paz, 2) like a crashing delight. It also leaves us always wanting more. We have an unquenchable thirst for love and affection, thus we chase it even in its most sinister forms, like an abusive relationship. The narrator is accepting of the wave 's presence when she appears in his home where he was once hesitant of the idea of her in his life. Love also transforms and can change us, like water changes states. It can become overwhelming and hard to breathe, but it is often all around us and

The Color of Water is a book about a black man’s tribute to his white mother. In this book we journey through James McBride’s life while he figures out who he is. As we go through the book we learn more about james and his family past. Ruth james mother was a jew her father was abusive did not care for the children the way a father should. Ruth’s mother was disabled but loved the kids and took care of them as best as she could. As James gets older he wants to know more about where he came from. He did not know much of his past as a result of his mother not wanting her children knowing about the rough past she came from. As well as wanting to learn about the secretive past his mother had he wanted to find himself and in doing so he had to find where he fit in and felt comfort.

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The Color of Water, James McBride’s autobiography and tribute to his mother, gives the reader a look into his childhood and growing up biracial. James McBride was born to an African-American father and a Polish Jewish immigrant mother in 1957. While James was too young to fully grasp the civil rights and black power events that took place in the 1960s, he recounts experiencing these events vicariously through his older siblings. James McBride does a marvelous job at painting a vivid picture for his readers in The Color of Water. Although McBride utilizes language and rhetorical devices to alter meaning there are passages that require critical examination of language. A critical examination of language contributes to our understanding of a literary text by deepening and expanding our understanding of a work of literature. A critical analysis of The Color of Water will allow us to break this piece of literature into parts and examine its components. In doing so, the reader can offer alternative meanings about each part.

Either the male figure is a character in the past or the poet creates the “we” with her “I”. Tina Braziel’s “Rooted by Thirst” weaves two characters throughout the book, alternating between “we” and “I”, yet by the end of the final poem it is clear that not only is there a “we” but Braziel combines home, nature and the couple into one harmonious group. There is no animosity in her prose towards the relationship unlike “Branches” and “Midnight Blue” which are riddled with the concrete images of loss and sorrow. Gabb allows her readers to take a quick suck of breath when she says “I didn’t recall what fell from my uterus” and then leaves the reader questioning her pain as she proceeds to describe how “the mosquitoes took our blood” in Belize. Pence equally touches on a sickening life memory when she says “Pedophilia she learned in the third grade”, which leaves her reader seeking more information as the poem continues only to learn that the question is never resolved. The cryptic information that they provide plays an integral part in their respective books, yet leave the reader hanging with questions whereas Braziel’s chapbook reads much like a book. As a narrative, it has a sense of a beginning and

Entertainment media, such as television and literature, have often used the archetypal plot tragedy. Tragedy is a plot in which greatness can be crushed and goodness, in turn, defeated. Often, a tragedy presents the challenges of adulthood, rather than a romanticized version of life, proclaiming beauty and youth. In a tragedy, a hero accepts a call to action to go on a journey, and, along the way, fate thwarts their efforts, and they perish or are defeated. Afterwards, the audience experience a feeling of catharsis, or “the releasing of a strong emotion (such as pity or fear)” (Merriam Webster). Director Michael Apted’s Golden Globes winning movie, Gorillas in the Mist, closely followed the plot of a tragedy. Apted uses archetypal characters, symbols, and pathos to portray a tragedy.

Ernest Hemingway’s “Big Two-Hearted River” looked much like adventurous outdoorsy short story. However, if carefully examined it’s clearly a story referencing his experiences from World War I. Much of his story can be interpreted in different ways. As you referenced the fish to people and the current of the water representing war, I saw something similar. I interpreted that the fish, although, caught in the current (representing a turbulent event) appeared unbothered, and continued ahead. The fish represented his current feelings. Hemingway experiences from the war troubled and greatly affected him. This was a representation of his internal battle with his experiences and feeling of the war. The fish were the reflection he was seeking to

The short story Hills like wHITE eLEPHANTS BY eRNEST hEMINGWAY IS AN EXAMPLE OF a short story written by a modernist. The story gives off the modernist theme of alienation. The story gives very good description and focuses on the concrete details. It takes place in Madrid, Spain at a bar in a train station. The characters are unidentified and are identified as the girl and the boy. As the story moves along, you soon realize that it is about a couple, the girl is pregnant and the boyfriend wants her to get an abortion.