This suggests that the woman’s body is very weak, like a dying flower, and also conveys the writer’s love for her – he believes she is beautiful, like a delicate flower. The theme of isolation is explored in an effective way when the writer speaks of a distance of pain “neither she nor (he) can cross”. The word “nor” isolates the words “she”
In “Drifters” the family’s constantly changing location results in them unable to set up roots in a community and live a fulfilling lifestyle. The symbolism of the “green tomatoes” shows the mother’s frustration about being unable to set up roots in a permanent location and live a fulfilling and productive life, resulting in a lack of belonging to a community. Similarly, the contrast between her hands which were “bright with berries” when they first arrived, with “the blackberrycanes with their last shrivelled fruit” when they depart highlight how her hopes of a happy and productive life have deteriorated with the prospect of having to leave. In contrast to the mother’s perspective on leaving, the youngest daughter’s is “beaming because she wasn’t” happy there. Through exploring the contrasting perspectives of the mother and the youngest daughter, the Dawe shows how moving communities have different effects on people.
She characterizes the student through not only her thoughts, but also her feelings. For example, she says she was splitting herself apart “with the slow-simmering guilt of being happy” (line 37). This shows that the student’s heart is evidently happier in the North, but she is just frightful to show it because she does not believe her family will approve of it. Another example is how she utilizes powerful words to describe her feelings such as “heartsick” (line 27) and “acidic holes” (line 34). These words show that she has very muddled emotions about her new manner of living in college.
In Rita Dove’s “Daystar”, there are several phrases and words that lead the reader of the poem to a profound understanding of the struggles that the main character of this poem experiences. According to the context of the poem, the main character appears to be a mother and wife in distress. Throughout the poem, she is presented as having a dreary, lethargic, and disconnected outlook of her current situation. The main question that must be asked is what the narrator tried to convey by stating that “she was nothing, pure nothing, in the middle of the day” (21-22). There are many possible answers strung across the poem that suggest why this mother describes her state of being in this way, such as the words that were being used to express how
Ironically, the security Williams finally felt was later described as a “kind of death” as one falls prey to an effete way of life which destroys an artist’s creativity and an individual's purpose in life. This use of irony further supports Tennessee Williams’ didactic tone, used to convey the importance of difficulties in one's life in order to have meaning and creativity. The repetition of sentences beginning with “I”, at the bottom of page two, demonstrates Williams’ critical tone towards what he became. The tremendous focus on a first person point of view, displayed how success dragged him into a life of cynicism, causing him to see his friends as pests. The final sentence in this string of repetition supports a didactic tone because it discussed how Williams felt dead inside in an attempt to teach us about the consequences of a convenient life.
Her grandmother did not consider her hopes of finding a true love but rather the situation of finances. Her first marriage killed her dream of true love, but once she divorced
She breaks her thoughts down in order to show the indifference. She says that women are first portrayed as objects; this patriarchal society sees us as mere bodies. Thus, we are either regarded as objects or as bodies; the mind does not exists here. Here, the subjectivity does not lie in the mind, but within the body. Women’s sole purpose is to be that of another subject’s intentions and manipulations.
As the end of the poem approaches, Dawe justifies his positioning by informing the readers that the mother and children silently renounce their individual desires and accept the ‘drifter’ lifestyle in order to belong to the family in which they feel safe and loved. Dawe’s father was a farm labourer who moved from place to place to find employment. His mother longed for the stability in life that circumstances
The author effectively broke up the poem into stanzas, each stanza discussed a different scene. It represented a condensed timeline of a love diminishing. Each stanza is creating a different scene and the change in meter helps transition from each stanza. She starts off talking about a perfect rose, but then moves on to talk about how maybe something beside a rose should represent love. Maybe the author has fallen in love in the past, but then slowly fell out of it and was no
She addresses her father as “daddy” like a little kid, speaks in a child-like abrupt manner, and begins the poem with “you do not do/you do not do/ anymore black shoe,” lines that resemble the old nursery rhyme “There is an old woman who lived in a shoe”. However, this is not a happy child, but one with frustration and unresolved conflicts with her father, as she calls him “evil” and a “bastard”. Furthermore, the way an adult woman completely turns into her childhood self suggests an obsession and a fixation within the past, a phenomenon commonly associated with psychological deficiencies stemming from unsolved childhood issues. These observations correspond to how the speaker metaphorically refers to her father as a “black shoe” that she had to live in, showing her inability to overcome the shadow of her late father. Thus, by addressing him directly instead of referring to him in the past tense, the speaker confronts her obsession and tries to escape the
The poem begins with the speaker looking at a photograph of herself on a beach where the “sun cuts the rippling Gulf in flashes with each tidal rush” (Trethewey l. 5-7). The beach is an area where two separate elements meet, earth and water, which can represent the separation of the different races that is described during the time that her grandmother was alive and it can also represent the two races that are able to live in harmony in the present day. The clothing that the two women wear not only represent how people dressed during the different time periods, but in both the photographs of the speaker and her grandmother, they are seen standing in a superman-like pose with their hands on “flowered hips” (Trethewey l. 3,16). The flowers on the “bright bikini” (Trethewey l. 4) are used to represent the death of segregation, similar to how one would put flowers on a loved one’s grave, and on the “cotton meal sack dress” (Trethewey l. 17) it is used to symbolize love and peace in a troubled society.
Another Side of Marriage An unloved marriage can be one of the most intricate and dreadful parts of an individual’s identity. It influences many aspects of an individual. freedom, independence, individuality as well as emotional growth and moral orientation. A person’s interaction and connection with a unloved marriage is the foundation of their character, of the kind of people they will grow to be, and the values they will uphold in their daily lives.
The tone of the poem is slightly sad, but reassuring. The first stanza is somber because the woman is old and seemingly alone. But, when the second stanza is read, readers are reassured and are able to see the love the speaker has for the woman. "But one man loved the pilgrim soul in you, / And loved the sorrows of your changing face. "(7-8).
The speaker has endured tragic loss and after realizing the importance to carry on, she finds solace and assurance with the realization that her parents who are now dead do not care about her current actions, and she can carry on with her life knowing that the sorrow she faces will not prevail for much longer after she passes away. The speaker questions what the dead are thinking by rhetorically asking, “And what of the dead? / They lie without shoes / in their stone boats” (13-15). The metaphor about graves being stone boats shows the inability to avoid death because boats made out of stone will always sink, forever unable to rise to the surface. Just like she is swallowed up by her grief, her dead parents are the stones that were swallowed up by the waves, symbolizing death’s certitude.
Though the poet tries to create a happy mood at the beginning through her use of rhyme: “fell through the fields” and “the turn of the wheels” as well as reference to the “mother singing”, all is not happy. The word "fell" in the gives a sense of something sad and uncomfortable happening. This sense of sadness is heightened by one of the brothers “bawling Home, Home” and another crying. There is the use of personification in describing the journey: “the miles rushed back to the city” which expresses poet's own desire to go back, and the clever use of a list which takes us back to the place she has just left: “the city, the street, the house, the vacant rooms where we didn’t live
