The Gleaners Analysis

It evokes an image of stress and worry as well as a hope through faith for a better life. It goes on to say: “The ones who are lost to God and mothers/may take the fields/the dry fields” (20-21). The reference to “dry fields” emphasizes the heat and lack of rain and also illustrates the unpleasant working condition. This also symbolizes how they are bound to the island with no other options, trapped.

Vincent Van Gogh and Edvard Munch are among the most renowned Expressionist painters of the twentieth century today. Their oil on canvas artworks is colorful, sensitive and above all expressive. ("Vincent Van Gogh and Edvard Munch – The Art of Expression,"2012). In the Starry Night by Van Gogh and The Scream by Edvard Munch artworks, the artists perfectly blended both abstraction with realism, which called "semi abstraction”. Realism is a style when the artists use visual language to describe his subject, whereas abstract is when the artists uses that visual language in conjunction with subject matter to express his feelings or ideas.

Desmond Tutu, a South - African social activist and retired Anglican priest once said “ Hope is being able to see that there is light despite all of the darkness”. Of Mice and Men is a novel which revolves around the lives of struggling farmers and how they still maintain hope despite their hardships. The symbolic representation of light embodies the hopes and the American Dream, whereas the dark epitomizes the harsh realities and truths of their lives. Steinbeck uses light and dark to foreshadow the upcoming events in the forlorn lives of the migrant workers. He also combines aspects such as the setting and characters with light and dark to paint a vivid picture in the reader’s mind as to how the world of the migrant workers looks like.

He was fascinated by how they would create drama in an artwork. The Night Café is 72.4 cm wide and 92.1 cm long landscape oil painting. The colours used in this artwork are complementary (red and green). The other colours, like blues and yellow create disharmony (Artgallery.yale.edu, 2014).

A Simple Farmer’s Dark Side The speaker of Maxine Kumin’s “Woodchucks” is a farmer or gardener, angered by the pesky woodchucks in his/her garden, However, underneath the simple story of a farmer trying to get rid of woodchucks is a disturbing metaphor about World War II and the evil inside everyone. The evil side of the speaker develops throughout the poem with each stanza showing more and more anger and even thrill and satisfaction in the killing. “Woodchucks” begins with an explanation of how the first effort, more merciful than the rest, doesn’t kill the woodchucks.

Dickens uses three different stylistic techniques to convey his overall attitude towards the social conditions in France, which was contemplative. Dickens describes the landscape of France in great detail, highlighting the potential in the farmlands of France. The next technique that was used was syntax. Dickens repeated certain words in order to put a greater emphasis on them. Without this technique, the reader would not have the same understanding of the poverty of France.

The late nineteenth century gave rise to a new literary movement called realism. Realism is the attempt to create an accurate portrayal of life in literature without filter. The movement aims to portray the life of people from all walks of life, but especially of the working class and the poor. Two of the most acclaimed writers from this movement are Leo Tolstoy from Russia, and Guy de Maupassant from France. Their works, “How Much Land Does a Man Need,” and “The Jewels,” respectively, portray the life of two characters from different lifestyles.

He eventually reunites with several of the characters, and at the old woman’s recommendation, he purchases some farmland. While the previous examples portray instances in which Voltaire displays the harm that boredom can cause, Voltaire uses the text’s conclusion to indicate the benefits of a lack of boredom. After living on the farm for some time, the old woman asks the group to choose the greater evil: the tragedies they endured, or the boredom they experience on the farm [46]. Voltaire answers this question by introducing a Turkish farmer who remarks that there exists “three great evils – idleness, vice, and poverty” [47]. Note that Voltaire affirms that idleness, not the tragedies that occur, equates to evil, and so one can see that Voltaire considers boredom as more detrimental than the tragedies.

Do you know who Pieter Bruegel was? He was a famous artist during the Renaissance. He was best known for his peasant life snapshot paintings. One of his paintings that captured an everyday peasant life is called The Peasant Wedding. This painting was made during the 1567, he was also a printmaker.

HS5610: POETRY ASSIGNMENT: WILLIAM BLAKE ARYAPADMAM C. HS11H011 INTRODUCTION William Blake was one of the most well-known English authors, whose works were seminal part of the Romantic movement in the late Eighteenth and early Nineteenth century Europe . He was not only a poet but also a painter as well as a printmaker too. He created diverse and symbolically rich work of art through his imagination. But his works were criticized by his contemporaries and he was given the label of ‘a poor man who is mad’.

The banks gave them generous, oh so generous loans. They encouraged them to overproduce. The rich were waiting for the wheat prices to fall. When the farmers failed to make their loan payments, they repossessed the land.

Imagery: This is a imagery because it makes you think of a mental picture. " In dim, fitful outline the stable and oat granary still were visible; beyond, obscuring fields and landmarks, the lower of dust clouds made the farmyard seem an isolated ace. 6. Hyperbole: This would be considered a hyperbole because it is a intended exaggeration a devices often used to create irony, humour, or dramatic effect.

The photographs I viewed captured the emotions of the farmers and their children. Viewing the photos, I noticed how the plains were barren and how nothing was in sight except for the dust. I believe the photographs gave me the best understanding because they captured the emotions of the farmer and in turn, I was able to understand why the farmers felt those emotions. Although the interviews were helpful, the stories were told later in the farmer’s life and he might not remember every detail and the description may not be accurate. Articles during the dustbowl also improved my understanding of the dustbowl.

The land shook in anger, causing cracks in the ground and collapsed the Navajo’s empire. It made a deep divide between the land itself up to a mile deep and 18 miles wide. With nowhere else to go, Navajo Man walked reluctantly back to help the land with his problem. “It was I who took your dirt. I was jealous of the river’s special treatment.

It didn’t help that the slave duty was at a whopping twenty percent. This only brought the farmers into more debt with which their tobacco could not render enough profit to get them out of. According to William Allason, the poor farmers were dedicated to lowering the duty on slaves as low as possible as opposed to shutting down the slave trade altogether, for the farmers needed hands to cultivate their product. (Holton, 71) Britain sided with the gentry’s