Love is unconditionally caring about someone else that you care more about yourself. Love may give us joy, and happiness, but it also brings the worse out in us. In Celeste Rita Baker’s short story Jumbie from Bordeaux, the author presents love and the price paid for love through the indirect characterization of Jumbie, his aunt, and parents. In the story the author uses courage to show the love that Jumbie had for his parents. For example, when Jumbie witnesses the harsh beating of his parents, he immediately jumps in to interfere, by attacking the master.
In the poem “The Century Quilt” by Marilyn Nelson Waniek, Waniek is able to craft a complex, contemporary poem using a variety of literary devices. Through enjambment, imagery, and chronological succession, Waniek describes the complexities of her quilt and reflects on it’s beauty and uniqueness. In lines 1-2 of “The Century Quilt” Waniek uses enjambment to start her poem with ambiguity and suspense. In addition, her use of enjambment slows the pace and forces the reader to digest each line as an individual thought, rather than a cohesive statement. In turn, the slowed pace and ambiguity of the opening couplet offers a preview to Wanieks unique style and syntax.
In Marilyn Nelson Waniek's "The Century Quilt" there is a diverse and loving home, and a sure symbol of generations of a family and childhood within the blanket. Through warm imagery and reminiscent tone, the measure of this quilt to Waniek's life is illustrated as a profound connection and admiration of her family and a nostalgic escape. The color illuminated imagery draws a relationship between family and love through the quilt. "
She sees her past and her future when she’s under the quilt, again furthering upon the idea of “The Century Quilt”. Through the use of imagery, tone, and structure, Waniek ties an ordinary everyday quilt into multiple complex meanings, not only giving the reader something to connect to, but also giving the poem an extraordinary feel to
In “The Great Scarf of Birds” by John Updike, the speaker concludes that his heart has been lifted by the image of a gray scarf. The poem is marked with joy and reverence to the natural world around the speaker, but there is sadness in his last few words. The speaker prepares the reader for this conclusion through an abundance of imagery, similes, and poem structure. The speaker opens the poem by describing his setting through a series of individual but connected natural images. The reader is immediately shown ripe red apples from Cape Ann in October, and one after another, the speaker uses similes to compare one part of nature to another.
(line 12-16) the words create vivid imagery that aids in trying to evoke an emotional response in the reader. ‘If we estimate at a shilling a day what is lost by the inaction and consumed in the support of each man thus chained
In the essay, Love’s Vocabulary, Diane Ackerman uses an analogy to describe a batik to support her ideas about love not being monotone or uniform. In the analogy, Ackerman explains how a batik can represent love by claiming, “Like a batik created from many emotional colors, it is fabric whose pattern and brightness may vary.” This demonstrates how the analogy supports the perspective of Ackerman. Ackerman uses an analogy since the analogy is more descriptive and is more supportive of the ideas she has. The figurative language compares the idea of love not being monotone or uniform to the batik.
It shows the strength of their bond and the impact her parents' love had on her coping
Ali eckermann describes a feeling of ribbons “tying” her to the land forever in the ending lines of the poem. Contradiction is shown between being “tied” to the land while consequently driving away from it. This illustrates the poet’s spiritual bond and connection that ties her to the land and the people even though she is physically driving away from the land. Effective choice of diction is demonstrated through Positive connotation placed on the word “ribbon”. Ribbons are symbolic of beauty, lightness and freedom, shown by ali eckermann’s deep and nonrestrictive spiritual connection she feels towards the land.
As Janie sees “a dust-bearing bee sink into the sanctum of a bloom”, she witnesses the “thousand sister-calyxes arch to meet the love embrace and the ecstatic shiver of the tree from root to tiniest branch creaming in every blossom.” (Hurston 11) To her, this is deemed “marriage” ; it is a merger of two, a union of matrimony and she aims to fully grasp such a sensation. Taken back by the thrill of it all, Janie manages to formulate her own perceptions of what true love must be like; raw and passionate within the moment, like the bees and pear blossoms. Elated at most, she then shares a brief moment with neighborhood-friendly, Johnny Taylor, a young man who she begins to develop sexual feelings for.
Family members tied the young couple in large cloth bags to disallow them from actually making love. “Bundling bolster” was a long pillow that ran through the length of the bed. Parents approved the custom of “bundling” if their daughter had the intention of marrying the man. Irving said that by bundling "they acquired that intimate acquaintance with each other’s good qualities before marriage, which has been pronounced by philosophers the sure basis of a happy union"
The short story “What We Talk about When We Talk about Love” by Raymond Carver is about four friends- Laura, Mel, Nick, and Terri, gathering on a table and having a conversation. As they start to drink, the subject abruptly comes to “love.” Then, the main topic of their conversation becomes to find the definition of love, in other word to define what exactly love means. However, at the end, they cannot find out the definition of love even though they talk on the subject for a day long. Raymond Carver in “What We Talk about When We Talk about Love” illustrates the difficulty of defining love by using symbols such as heart, gin, and the sunlight.
He wanted them to get married because he was hopping the two families would become one and have less
In Sir Philip Sidney’s poem “Thou Blind Man’s Mark”, expresses disapproval of desire as an immoral emotion that overpowers the speakers true meaning of satisfaction. Sidney expresses throughout the poem that desire acts as a form of self- destruction, communicating it as “the band of all evils.” The speaker addresses the complex idea of desire through several literary devices to add depth to the piece, truly depicting the loathing he possesses over such a feeling. In conveying the convoluted and bitter attitude toward desire, Sidney employs poetic devices including anaphora, alliteration, and personification.
In Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” readers are dropped into a deep conflict. A man must tell a woman that her husband is dead. In the beginning there is a subtle hint at the ironic twist ending, but the story goes on cooly in spite of it. Readers start to feel connected to Mrs. Mallard and begins to pity her situation, all because of irony. The effect of irony in Kate Chopin’s “The Story of an Hour” enhances the protagonist’s situation, it introduces the effect of the foreshadowing, and indirectly characterizes the protagonist.
