Storm Warnings Poem Analysis

Pulitzer Prize winner Carol Shields writes a compelling twenty-two short stories collection relevant to human nature. This motif is the continual idea in “Dressing Up for the Carnival”. The fundamental design of the short stories is expeditious but detailed character sketches. By introducing numerous characters while giving them their own personal backstory and motives, in approximately four to eight pages, is quite an accomplishment. Carol Shields executes this perfectly, allowing the reader an in-depth look into their life; furthermore, into their psyche.

Winter and summer storms are characteristically very different. In winter storms, there is often mindless shrieking winds, and they occur quite often. However, summer doesn’t usually have that many storms, so when one happens, it seems to always happen with strong intention. Thus, using this word choice to describe the setting of the scene gives the reader the impression that there is a motive in the events taking place. Hence, adding to the idea that the results of the situation are inevitable. This attitude towards the situation shows that the author has given up. Therefore, her tone is conveyed as

You have lost all hope. You feel like there is no way you are getting back up, and you wish you didn’t have to suffer anymore. Would you get up and try again or accept your fate? For Katniss in the dystopian novel The Hunger Games by Suzanne Collins, she had lost everything, but got back up every time to keep her family safe. For Tris in the dystopian novel Insurgent by Veronica Roth, she gave up entirely and wished she was dead, but in both of these stories, the authors used the mood of the reader and the protagonists’ actions to show that you shouldn’t let negative emotions control you.

Have you ever felt loss so deep that everything you see is different just because that person is gone? In Mother by Ted Kooser the speaker’s mother’s death made his world view more sorrowful. Through this view of the world Kooser uses symbolism, personification, and imagery to show the speaker’s feelings about his mother dying.

Ray Bradbury’s “There Will Come Soft Rains,” tells the story of a self-regulating house that is all that is left of the world. Through the use of diction, the reader is able to understand the shifts in tone throughout the story. In the beginning of the story, we are introduced to the house. Bradbury uses terms such as “ruined city,” “radioactive glow,” and “rubble and ashes,” (Bradbury 1) effectively creating a dark and forlorn atmosphere. The author’s word choice creates an image in the reader’s mind of how desolate the house’s surroundings are, ultimately contributing to the somber tone. Another example of diction being utilized is shown when Bradbury wrote “angry sparks” and “tenderly crisping,” (Bradbury 3) to describe a fire that has begun

There may be nothing more terrifying than an attempt at your life by the very man that saved it in the first place. In the story “The Most Dangerous Game” the protagonist Rainsford falls off his yacht and is forced to swim. He lands on an island where his life is saved by a strange Russian named General Zaroff. The general seems like Rainsford’s savior until Rainsford discovers that he is planning on killing him in a so-called ‘game’ of hunting. In the short story “The Most Dangerous Game” by Richard Connell, Connell uses irony and foreshadowing to contribute to the mood of tension in the story.

In the final section of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the audience is privileged to detailed descriptions of nature as Sir Gawain travels to his meeting with the Green Knight. Why does the poet include such descriptions? Through careful study of the text, it is apparent that these details about Gawain’s surroundings contribute to the suspense of this final section. All in all, the ominous tone of such descriptions followed by foreshadowing and affirmations of surrounding evil by various characters contributes to the suspense which is essential to the significance of the poem’s conclusion.

In the middle of the poem she recounts, “or the storm that drives us inside / for days, power lines down, food rotting” (Trethewey 4-5). Trethewey opens up a new stanza with describing the storm that forces her family into the house for days, then moves to describe all the damage the storm has done outside and to her family. The storm has knocked down power lines and created rotting food for her family. Moreover, Trethewey ends the poem in the same structure, “why on the back has someone made a list / of our names, the date, the event: nothing / of what’s inside – mother, stepfather’s fist?” (Trethewey 13-15). Through these last couple of lines, Trethewey reveals the severity of the abuse that occurred in her home during the ice storm. The photograph captures the beauty of the ice storm, while Trethewey looks at the photograph as hideous because of all the problems that she went through below the surface level of the ice storm. Trethewey ceases to grasp why on the back of the photograph there are names and a date to commemorate the moment, when all she remembers is the abuse that occurred in her

In Frankenstein, on Victor’s way home after being away for six years, a key moment in the novel that weather sets the mood is when “It echoed from Saleve, the Juras, and the Alps of Savoy; vivid flashes of light dazzled my eyes, illuminating the lake making it appear like a vast sheet of fire; then for an instant, everything seemed of pitchy darkness, until the eye recovered from the preceding flash” (Shelley 50). The author, Shelley uses weather to describe the murder of his young brother, William. The weather conditions effect Victor’s mood and convey his emotional feelings of Victor as being scared, sad, or depressed. The imagery in the quote relates to the thunder thus a way to broadcast the murder of his younger brother across the land and

The name of the book is “Isaac’s Storm” and the authors name is Erik Larson. Erik was born in Brooklyn, New York. Larson was received on January 3, 1954. He attended the University of Pennsylvania and graduated in 1976, with a degree in Russian History. He then went back to New York to attended graduate school at Columbia University to study journalism. Erik Larson is now a journalist and a non-fiction author with multiple best sellers. He began writing small stories for newspapers, and worked his way up all the way to the Wall Street Journal, Time Magazine, and The New Yorker. Which is already a huge accomplishment for a lot of writers. Erik Larson is married and has three daughters, the live in Seattle, Washington. He started his career,

Images of rain invoke the idea of tears, as does the phrase “an interrupted cry.” It is dark in the poem not only because it is night but also because the speaker has “outwalked the furthest city light.” The speaker is engulfed by their overwhelming sadness, symbolized by the dark night in which they walk, and they have turned away from the light --the happiness-- of the city. It is bitterly ironic that, even in the city, Frost’s speaker is utterly alone. They even hear and see other people, yet they know that everyone else is totally disconnected from their solitary

In chapter eighteen of the book Janie, Tea Cake, and Motor Boat are seeking to find safety from the hurricane. The author uses the word, “triple fury” to describe the storm. This is a word that is not normal used in our everyday vocabulary, so it then grabs the reader’s attention to how powerful this storm was. The author also uses a hyperbole to emphasize exactly how powerful this wind was. She described it as, “…Tea Cake went out pushing wind in front of him…” Hurston’s use of figurative language helped explain what all was happening during the hurricane.

Throughout the novel, The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the weather reflects the mood and serves as a foreshadowing for the events that come later. Fitzgerald makes a point of describing the weather patterns and conditions towards the beginning of the chapter as the weather always has some symbolic meaning. For example, a large storm hits while Gatsby is awaiting his meeting with Daisy. This sets a dark mood that eventually leads to uneasy feelings between Daisy and Gatsby, which eventually wears away. In literature, rain is used to symbolize a cleansing and in the case of Gatsby and Daisy, their uneasy feelings are swept away with the rain. The gloomy tone towards the beginning is also reflected through the dark storm. Another example

Pat Mora "Uncoiling" poem is about a violent storm, a tornado. "She sighs clouds," and "she spews gust and thunder." She intentionally uses figurative languages to convey a compelling imagery and personification to the reader. The entire poem is referencing a tornado. Pat uses personification to describe how powerful this woman is. Her primary focus is her strength. "she scratches," "she sighs clouds," she spews gust and thunder." Giving gestures as a woman would do if she was upset. The poem goes straight to the point and builds tension as the reader reads further. They get a sense of how strong the tornado was and how it affected the people. As Pat moves on the reader can see the imagery of the poem is very vivid. She gives the reader a clear