Woodticks In Saskatoon By Joy Kogawa Summary

In the mid-nineteenth century Romantic trend in American Literature, authors often used the idea of “walls’ that human beings place between themselves and others both physically and symbolically. Unlike a fence of gate, which imply a way in or out, a wall is a sound structure. A wall is a barrier to block someone else out, or is it used to block yourself in?

Explain (tell me what image the poem brings to mind)She begins by describing the "death of winter's leaves".

In his poem 'Mending Wall', Robert Frost presents to us the thoughts of barriers linking people, communication, friendship and the sense of security people gain from barriers. His messages are conveyed using poetic techniques such as imagery, structure and humor, revealing a complex side of the poem as well as achieving an overall light-hearted effect. Robert Frost has cleverly intertwined both a literal and metaphoric meaning into the poem, using the mending of a tangible wall as a symbolic representation of the barriers that separate the neighbors in their friendship.

Lastly, the isolated room that the narrator stays in is a symbol. The room symbolizes a safe haven, giving the main character time to write and process many

“The Veldt” does use imagery in the mind of their characters, but the imagery of the physical characteristics of the house allow the reader to develop a more powerful sense of entrapment. The thoughts the characters have display their true internal feelings. In “The Yellow Wallpaper,” the main character struggles with a mental illness. She has a “nervous condition” (581), that makes her angry easily and causes her to be sensitive. The use of imagery in the mind of the main characters allows the reader to relate to the character and understand what the character is going through. The main character in “The Yellow Wallpaper” feel trapped inside of her own thoughts and does not have a way to express her thoughts. She is unable to escape the feelings and ideas that are occurring within her mind. She asks, “But what is one to do” (581), when she feels that she cannot express that she disagrees with her husband’s ideas of what she is and is not allowed to do. She is unable to express her opinion which creates a more dominant sense of entrapment within herself. She also seems to be trapped by her own thoughts when she describes the wallpaper. The imagery used to describe the woman trapped within the wallpaper also portrays the idea that the main character sees herself in the woman trapped inside of the wallpaper. It is easy as the audience to relate to the main character’s feeling of being trapped by her own thoughts because of the imagery used throughout the

The speaker of the poem is a hobo that was hiking on the trails. Given that the poem was written in 1928, during the Great Depression, he sounds wistful and hopeful of the mystical Big Rock Candy Mountains. He is talking to some folks he happened to pass by on his way down the track. The speaker ultimately sounds like someone who is down on their luck and only has hope left.

In the poem the speaker’s daughter is being mocked by some white children for being Japanese. The speaker then has a flashback to her time living in Slocan. She remembers the time when the other white kids made fun of her and she ran into the forest to hide and at the same time talks about the woodticks that can dig into your scalp. When she reaches deep into the forest, she then listens for the voices of the kids to guide her back onto the path, and she vows to never go near the mountain alone again. Then she flashes forwards back to the present and she reassures her daughter that they do not have woodticks in Saskatoon.

The poet also used imagery to appeal to the senses. The puzzling force that abhors the wall "sends the frozen-ground-swell under it, and spills the upper boulders in the sun."

The poem sets in a town near the woods in the wintertime of December at night. The poem begins with the narrator reading a book at his house and he is about to fall asleep, but is fighting the urge to. He keeps thinking his love Lenore, even though they are no longer together. He hears someone at the door and answers politely and then come outs and finds no one there. He is afraid and scared since he is all alone by himself. He figures out

When the temperature drops, animals who hibernate disappear from the outside world and emerge once again out in the open in the spring. Biologists wonder what activity occurs in the animals’ hidden underground chambers. Semi - fossorial animals dig enough suitable space underground for hibernation and movement. Woodchucks, skunks, and cottontail rabbits are known species that would occupy a den. Small mammal species like the jumping mice, meadow voles, and white footed mice are known to roam along vegetation to conceal themselves from prey. However, what is the probability that a small mammal would take the advantage and sneak right in and occupy it during the winter is a subject that interest most researchers.

Similar to “Acquainted with the Night,” isolation is a major theme in “Mending Wall.” In “Mending Wall,” there are two characters: the speaker and the neighbor. The two characters have two different opinions on what make a “good neighbor.” The neighbor views walls as a crucial object in

This poem is about Bishop in the waiting room waiting for her aunt at the dentist. Bishop was a little girl and was looking at pictures. She discovered an article on a volcano and read of disaster, and death. She looked in the picture and saw people covered in ash. She became afraid of the volcano, thinking she could become one of the people covered underneath that volcano ash. She felt no different then the others. Bishop was having flashbacks, “Then I was back in it. The War was on. Outside, in Worcester, Massachusetts, were night and slush and cold, and it was still the fifth of February, 1918” (In the waiting room). Bishop was comparing the heavy snowfall outside to the volcanic ash that covered all the people inside the magazine. She felt that there could be so much snow fall that everyone including herself would become trapped underneath this blanket of snow and nobody would be able to save

The last line changes the whole perception of the poem. It tells the reader, she was telling the story to someone she cares greatly for. “As free as I would feel when your love would surround me.” (Line 16) It is now realized that the speaker was comparing her strong connection to the woods to another person. This poem is a free verse poem. The author uses

However, when the responders’ delves deeper into the poem, it is clear that at a allegorical level the wall is a metaphor representing the barrier that exists in the neighbours’ friendship. The first eleven lines of the poem if rife with imagery that describes the dilapidation of the wall. The first line of the poem emphasises that “something” exists that “doesn’t love a wall”. This personification makes the “something” seem human-like. The use of words such as “spills” and “makes gaps” convey an image of animate actions and create a vivid impression of the degradation of the wall. Nature, presented in the form of cold weather, frost and the activities of creatures, also seeks to destroy the wall. The idea that walls are unnatural and therefore nature abhors walls is portrayed in the phrase “makes gaps even two can pass abreast”, which metaphorically indicates that nature desires for man to walk side by side with no barrier between them. When the two meet to fix the wall, it is a metaphor that could be interpreted as the two repairing their friendship as “To each the boulders have fallen to each” which shows that faults in their relationship lie on behalf of them both. While they are mending the wall, a light-hearted tone is established. This is shown through the inclusion of the metaphor “spring is mischief in me” which shows the neighbours having fun together in repairing the wall,

“The parallel plots of a novel… would act in the reader's mind and perhaps the author's as a kind of splitting” (Holland). Frost meant the wall to embody the physical and psychological boundaries people set up to maintain their privacy. The narrator tone for most of the poem is ironic, because he expresses his desire to rid himself of the wall “There where it is we do not need the wall” (Frost 245), but he repairs it nonetheless, “I have come after them and made repair” (Frost 245). Frost introduces the reader with different causes for the recurring destruction of the wall. The narrator’s first possible cause is nature, but does Frost means a force of nature? His choice of words where “Frozen-ground-swell” (Frost 245), which is another way of saying Frost. The poet might be indicating that in actuality he is the one that want the wall destroyed. The second possible reason for the wall’s destruction is the hunters. The narrator constantly expresses his dislike of the wall, but is quick to reprimand anyone who destroys it; in this case the hunters. The narrator’s act of patching the wall when damaged, is a clear sign that he yearns for a psychological to distance him from the neighbor. This ironic tone continues throughout the poem, but it is never completely clear it the speaker wants the wall removed for good, or keep it as it is. The neighbor on the other hand,