(pg. 97), Miss Maudie Atkinson thinks about her azaleas and more space for them to possibly “breathe”. She doesn’t seem to care for her own pleasures and comforts as most people do, but thinks about her azaleas more. Miss Maudie seems to care for her flowers almost as gracefully and gently as she probably would be with small children. Scout had observed Miss Maudie
Analysis of the Last Line In “The Roman Spring Of Mrs. Stone” In his first novella, “The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone”, the writer, Tennessee Williams, has portrayed the life of a woman who loses her beauty and goes through menopause and comes to the realization that her success as an actress had more to do with her beauty and single minded tenacity to be "The King on Top of the Mountain", rather than natural talent. She gives up on her career as an actress and goes into a form of exile by travelling to Europe with her husband, who unfortunately passes away two months later. She goes through an existentialist soul searching journey. She analyses and lives her life in a detached way and feels that she is mindlessly drifting on the ocean of life without any actual purpose.
In James Whitcomb Riley’s poem “When the Frost is on the Punkin”, he explains in detail what his speaker loves about fall mornings. From this poem, we can tell that the speaker likes the crispness of the air, the sun, and the colors of a beautiful fall morning. The speaker likes the cool air of autumn. The poem states, “When the heat of summer’s over and the coolin’ fall is here.” By expressing this line, he shows us that he is ready for the cool air of autumn after a hot summer.
The poem, Dirge Without Music, by Edna St. Vincent Millay, is expressing that a loss of a loved one can be difficult to overcome. In this poem, the author tends to repeat the same phrase. “I am not resigned” (Millay 1.1). According to the google dictionary being resigned means “Having accepted something unpleasant that one cannot do anything about.”
Mary Oliver’s utilization of tone in the poem, “Just as the Calendar Began to Say Summer”, displays the speaker’s reluctant feelings towards the forthcoming school year, and a deep nostalgia to be free in nature, away from the mechanical routines and the structured classrooms that are forced upon them. There is a stark contrast between nature and industrialism, conveying the speaker’s own visions and aids to the tone. In the first stanza of the poem, the speaker’s tone is displayed using diction. The beginning of the poem opens with the speaker “[spending] all summer forgetting what [they’d] been taught” (3).
In this story the narrator shows a new beginning for the main character, Delia Jone, through the setting. Examples of this can be seen in the story as early as the first sentence, where the narrator states “ It was eleven o'clock of a spring night in florida. It was Sunday. ”(Hurston 378). The authors usage of the season spring foreshadows a new beginning for Jones because spring is often associated with birth and a beginning of a new cycle.
In the poem, “The Ancient Gesture” by Edna St. Vincent Millay use poetic devices to help the reader understand the message that Millay is trying to relay to the readers. In this poem it describes the speaker relating her agonized waiting for her loved one who is away at war to Penelope from The Odyssey by Homer, who also is home waiting for Odysseus to return from Troy. Throughout the piece Millay uses poetic devices such as, repetition and tone to help convey the message that while the women wait for their loved one with agony and while the men are away they are not focused on the women who wait patiently for their loved ones to return.
In life we can all relate to the feeling of longing for something. In All Summer in a Day, Ray Bradbury’s characters’ lives are clouded with rain and the only see the sun once every seven years. Bradbury uses metaphors, emotions, and repetition to express the sun’s meaning of hope to the main character, Margot, and the children of rocket men and women on Venus. Metaphors and emotions are used to help the reader relate to the connection with the sun. He describes the sun and the rain using metaphors, and uses the children’s emotions to help further the idea.
However, "Spring," by Edna St. Vincent Millay puts an interesting twist on how people should regard the arrival of the spring season. Instead of viewing life as full of joy, happiness, and beauty, the author describes life as beautiful on the outside, but full of nothing on the inside. Edna St. Vincent Millay utilizes imagery and tone throughout her poem "Spring" in order to illustrate that
A couple pages in the novel, it says “And so with the sunshine and the great bursts of leaves growing on the trees, just as things grow in fast movies, I had that familiar conviction that life was beginning over again with the summer.” (p. 4) This shows how spring symbolizes a new beginning where it is the renewal of Earth, welcoming summer. Not only is summer itself just dawning, but so is Nick’s new life.
In the middle of act one Mama says, “Lord, if this little old plant doesn't get more sun than it’s been getting it aint never going to see spring again. ”(1.1, 40) Mama says this in the beginning as the plant symbolizes their dream, and the sun symbolizes hope. Their dream will never be pursued if they don't have hope. As the Younger’s seem to live in darkness with little hope.
Later on May ended her life in the river, and everyone felt depressed that they did not make her happy enough to forget about April’s
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.
Summer Won’t Last Forever In “Summer of the Ladybirds” by Vivian Smith, the poet uses assonance, figurative language, and alliteration to convey that humans hold on to what is not permanent. First, assonance is used when the poet describes the ladybirds as “creatures from the world of leaf and flower.” The usage of the “ea” sounds emphasizes and draws attention to the ladybirds being from a different world from humans, one of “leaf and flower.” The main point that this phrasing gives prominence to is that leaves and flowers are much more perishable than other products of nature, such as humans.
Many people declutter their lives with spring cleaning to try and become someone different for the following months. The use of spring in the poem symbolizes the children going through a time of growth where they are decluttering their child-like habits and growing into the teenagers they are bound to
