Who Is Chieftest Mourner? a Literary Analysis of Aida Rivera-Ford’s the Chieftest Mourner

Rossetti opens the poem with a tone of regret, hinting at the nature of her regretful actions through flowers and their symbolism. She feels she was “a fool to pluck my rose too soon”; roses are the most classic flower, used universally to symbolize purity and true love, and Rossetti uses the flower to symbolize her profound regret of losing her chasteness too soon, something she feels has incriminated and isolated her. She also expresses the feeling with her guilt over “…snap[ping] my lily”, which represents chastity, innocence, and piety, relating back to her faith and how it was an large part of her lifestyle, further adding to her guilty conscience as she ruins her flowers, literally herself, because her actions are seen as crimes in the Bible. She damages her reputation in the eyes of a hypocritical and ruthless society by forsaking and corrupting herself, and she will spend the rest of her life repenting giving up everything considered important about a woman in Victorian era. “Plucking [her flowers] too soon” represents her regret in loss of virginity too soon, although the definition of virginity is not used so literally here, it metaphorically represents her value, that is, her value to her prospective husband. She feels she is now defiled; society will undoubtedly place blame on her because she is a woman and is expected to be reserved and coy, never to be bold. Her flowers have been ruined; she no longer holds any importance or value.

The use of connotative words in this piece is the foundation of this poem and it provides an idea of what this poem is going to be about. In the first stanza he describes the woman as “lovely in her bones,” showing that her beauty is more than skin deep comparing her virtues to a goddess of “only gods should speak.” In the second stanza, the reader can see and feel the love between the two people. The woman taught him how to "Turn, and Counter-turn, and Stand," showing that she was the teacher in the relationship and taught him things he thought he never needed to know. The speaker shows how when they are together, she was “the sickle” and he was “the rake” showing that this woman taught him what love is.

To begin, a blooming flower marks more than just the commencement of spring. I decided to visually perceive a blooming flower within my slides as it portrays the importance of Romeo and Juliet 's love. In Act 2, Scene 2 Juliet verbalizes to Romeo, “This bud of love, by summer’s ripening breath, May prove a beauteous flower when next we meet.” The flower bud describes the beginning of their love. The blooming flower represents their growing love. In Act 2, the blooming flower utilises the commitment that Juliet wants from Romeo. Juliet tells Romeo that this is only the start of their relationship and that she cannot make any promises until she is aware that they genuinely love each other. At the end of the passage, Juliet wishes that they

The poem’s structure as a sonnet allows the speaker’s feelings of distrust and heartache to gradually manifest themselves as the poem’s plot progresses. Each quatrain develops and intensifies the speaker’s misery, giving the reader a deeper insight into his convoluted emotions. In the first quatrain, the speaker advises his former partner to not be surprised when she “see[s] him holding [his] louring head so low” (2). His refusal to look at her not only highlights his unhappiness but also establishes the gloomy tone of the poem. The speaker then uses the second and third quatrains to justify his remoteness; he explains how he feels betrayed by her and reveals how his distrust has led him

“how poor a part he, her husband, had played in her life. He watched her while she (wife) slept as though he and she had never lived together as man and wife” (Joyce,

At last, diction tells a lot in the story. The way the author uses his words. For example, when the author says, “they had never lived as a man and a wife” it showed that they loved each other so much that marriage was not the thing that held them together. They did not have to be married in order to stay with one another. It was their true love that they had for each

Mayella Ewell’s flowers are “the poor man’s flower”, otherwise known as the red geranium. Mayella has geraniums possibly because she cannot afford expensive flowers. For example, “On one corner of the yard, though, bewildered Maycomb. Against the fence, in a line, were six chipped-enamel slop jars holding brilliant red geraniums, cared for as tenderly as if they belonged to Miss Maudie Atkinson, had Miss Maudie deigned to permit a geranium on her premises. People said they were Mayella Ewell's.” Mayella has the geraniums because they represent hope. She has hope for a better life, not only for herself but for her siblings/children. “...six chipped-enamel slop jars holding brilliant red geraniums, cared for as tenderly as if they belonged to Miss Maudie Atkinson..” Mayella may care for the flowers, because they are one thing she can keep healthy and well. She may have the flowers, not only for their deep meanings, but for the fact that they are not a person. They can not talk or have feelings for something, but they still grow and blossom in Mayella’s care. The red color of the geranium represents passion and love. Mayella loves her siblings very

He describes the love he feels towards her and her love towards him. He gets more excited and happy as the poem goes on. “She’ll run upstairs through the decaying porch burning with love and happiness." (453, Yevtushenko). Although things have changed and gotten old, she still burns with love at the idea of seeing him. He continues on, getting more heartfelt and emotional. He describes what happens when they finally embraced. “She’ll run dripping upstairs, she won’t knock, will take my head in her hands.” (453, Yevtushenko). His lover didn’t even bother covering herself from the rain when she ran in because she was too excited to see him after so long. He explains that only she understands him. He does not worry about how much he has changed over the years, he believes that even if they had changed, they would still love each other regardless. “Will understand my fears, observe my changes.” (453, Yevtushenko). He has absolute love and trust in her, and rests his entire entity with

The use of symbolism by each poet conveys a powerful representation of different ways throughout each poem. While going through their checklist, Snodgrass reminds himself to put an aspirin in the flowers to keep them preserved. These flowers symbolize the love and affection the couple shares hoping to keep their love preserved as well when they return to their normal lives. This symbolism connection is the only sort emotion Snodgrass uses in his poem to show these two were intimate.

The final stanza of the poem represents the woman going into labor and the delivery of her child into the world. “I wither and you break from me;” (16). This line represents the moment the

From a feminist critical perspective, it is clear to perceive that her husband’s death was a release of freedom from her marriage. The text describes that at times, she did and did not love her husband. However, love had not mattered anymore because she was now free. Whether they loved each other or not, she would have still been his property. This restriction of freedom was no longer her cross to bear. The death of her husband would pave her a path for a new life.

There was a frequent reference to “a poet” whose work was widely respected in this novel. The Count de Satigny (who was Esteban Trueba’s ‘suitable’ choice of a husband for Blanca) referred to the work of the poet as “the best poetry ever written, and nothing could compare to it”. When Jaime and Nicholas became adults, the poet became more widely accepted as Clara had formerly predicted the first time she heard him recite in his ‘telluric voice’ in one of her literary soireés. It was evident that the poet lived and wrote about the right of the citizens to live their lives the way they wanted to, making their own decisions and expressing their own opinions without being controlled. For this reason, the funeral of such a poet became “the symbolic burial of freedom”.

The darling buds symbolize the beginning of his love for her. The buds still have to develop into beautiful flowers, just like their love. It´s the beginning of summer, her beauty and his love.

Present for the man itself and absent for the mistress is not talking back. Also, Love and lust. In the first part of the poem, it entails the feelings of the man toward his mistress but as the poem went over, it proves that the main concern of the man is his sexual arousal.