Wild swans

Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China is a family memoir written by Chinese author Jung Chang spanning a century in Imperial China, through and past the Cultural Revolution. The book recounts the lives of three women in China via biographies, these women being Chang’s grandmother, mother, and lastly her own autobiography. Chang begins the book by recounting the biography of her grandmother, Yu-fang. Yu-fang’s family was poor, and so her father planned to have her be taken as a concubine by General

” “The Wild Swans at Coole” by William Butler Yeats raises compelling dialogue with Keats’ piece, which suggests that Yeats, to some degree, draws inspiration from John Keats, in that his pose concerning the nightingale becomes a basis and “touchstone” for “The Wild Swans at Coole.” Aside from commonalities concerning avians, both poems share elements of Romanticism, melancholy, feelings of weariness, and other key ideas, images, and plots as “Ode to a Nightingale” and thus, “The Wild Swans at Coole”

The poems, "The Wild Swans at Coole" and "The Great Scarf of Birds," unconsciously play off one another. Yeats and Updike paint similar pictures about similar topics. Although these poems consist of similar subjects, the authors' diction and details are at completely different ends of the poetry spectrum. William Butler Yeats' poem "The Wild Swans at Coole" tells of a man who, in the autumn, would visit this pool of water that was a resting place for a flock of swans. He visits them one

Alice Munro is one of the most honored writers of Canada. She started writing short stories of the same themes due to her lack of time to write longer ones and because she had to take care of three children. Her famous short story of Wild Swan comes from The Beggar Maid: Stories of Rose and Flo that was published in 1982. Rose’s trip to Toronto allows her to explore an aspect of her sexuality that she had been longing to, but the result is very different from what she expects. This is shown through

paper seeks to address those archetypal images embedded in Yeats’ “The Wild Swans at Coole” that are designed to provide a context through which Yeats illuminates its entire design of the soul’s eternity. By applying archetypal approach, the paper finds that there is a direct correspondence between the poet’s quest for his whole vision of personality and his creative flourish in art. Through the chief symbol of the poem, swans, the poet discovers his anti-self in nature and restores the unity of his

Family loyalty in China has had a tumultuous past filled with fluctuation between remaining loyal to the state, yet also remaining loyal to blood relatives. In the autobiography that also serves as a biography, Wild Swans, by Jung Chang, this is seen. The book, which outlines the biographies of the author’s grandmother and mother, as well as her own autobiography, gives an interesting look into the lives of the Chinese throughout the 20th century. This book is beyond eye opening, and is truly

not unlike the characters of three other works of literature; Wild Swans Three Daughters of China, Siddhartha, and Assignment: Rescue. It is true that they all experience entirely different political or cultural changes/continuities in their societies, but there is a distinct similarity in how

Michael Accurso The book, Wild Swans: Three Daughters of China by Jung Chang, is a intimate memoir and a piece of history that shows life through generations. This book shows us the change and evolution of China through the lives of three women. Allow me to give a brief synopsis of who these women are so that it is easier to understand the story. The first woman that we live through is Yu Fang. Yu Fang’s father is looking for a way out of their miserable life so he arranges for her to be a concubine

Both “Wild Swans” by Alice Munro and “Flowers” by Alice Walker explore the loss of innocence in young women. Women have historically been seen as delicate and in need of protection. It is no wonder that the loss of a woman’s virginity is referred to as “deflowering,” comparing a woman’s sexual release to the death of beautiful, fragile nature. A woman’s innocence is coveted, as people go to great lengths to shield them from both the reality of death and the pleasures of sex. The loss of certain kinds

of China’s Gender Relations in Jung Chang’s Wild Swans Christina Ku (Student ID: 050788207) Yunxiang Gao HST 555: Section II: History of Modern China I (1644-1949) Wednesday, November 14, 2007. As China faced new international pressures and the change to a communist society, gender relations transformed women from servants of men to full independent workers, who finally became soldiers of the communist state. In Jung Chang’s novel, Wild Swans, the three women – grandmother Yu-Fang, mother