Nona A Mahdi Professor Johnny Lew ENG 111 8 October 2014 The Neglected Young Housewife The concept of neglect is developed in this poem “The Young Housewife” by William Carlos Williams. The author features a man who has been observing this young housewife’s activity by watching her every move. The poem reflects the young housewife’s being neglected because she is by herself in her husband house. She also wears a negligee almost until noon and she seeks attention from other men. The poet give the images in “negligee” that also could be means as “neglect”, “wooden” that give an image/feel as she is living a dull life and stiff. The tone on this poem is unhappy, lust, and lifeless. The man seems to know so many things about the young housewife as he has been watching her for more than one time on the line “At ten AM.” he gives the impression to know the exact time when she moves and about. As if the man has been observing her constantly maybe for almost every day until he know exactly what time she will be out what she wears when she is out also how she behave when she’s outside because on this line “Then again she comes to the curb, to call the ice-man, fish-man, and stands, shy, uncorseted, tucking in stray ends of hair,” It seem this man used to be interested in her because he has been following her but now he just feels sorry I get the sorry feeling when he compare her with “a fallen leaf” falling leaf is fragile and lifeless and when he compare to falling leaf I’m assume
Esperanza deals with plenty of gender roles, alongside the expectations she has to work with. Esperanza is still coming of age while dealing with gender roles and her expectations. Esperanza has to escape the fact that she can’t like Sire because he has a girlfriend, even though she is jealous of her.
I am writing this in hopes that this will serve as a testimony on Samantha Rowe’s behalf. I am hopeful that this will be considered as an adequate testimony in lieu of me being present. I have had the pleasure of knowing Samantha for three months, and I consider her a great person who places value on integrity and honesty. I also place emphasis on these values, and as a future school counselor, I desire to help people reach their maximum potential. As such, I am writing this not only to protect Samantha, but also in hopes of aiding _____ in receiving the help that she needs in order to succeed in her personal life.
Expanitory Essay In stories meant to scare the reader, transformation symbolizes the cultural changes occuring in society. For example, in the stories “House Taken Over” and “The Feather Pillow” the authors use transformation and scary elements that happen to the charters to frighten us. Both stories are examples of Magical Realism. Magical Realism is realistic fiction.
The Birth House written by Ami McKay is a compelling story which follows the lives of a young girl named Dora Rare, who is from a small rural village in Nova Scotia. Dora is first introduced as being a quiet and shy girl who has her life turned upside down when she is reintroduced to Marie Babineau, a Louisianan women who had moved to Dora’s community in hopes of being able to use her “magic” to make sure community are able to have at home births. ( McKay 2006 pg. 7). The story essentially follows the lives of these two women who are struggling to be recognized as midwives as well as individuals who can treat diseases the old fashioned way with herbs and spices during a time period where we begin to see modern medicine emerge.
The poem begins with the narrator describing being alone in the woods. She is being dragged through the water, by a mysterious man which develops the sense of imprisonment. She describes the man’s language as not human and she turned to prayer to find strength.
Similarly the girl is in that extreme condition that only people pass words but offers no helping hand. Expression of mother The last lines of the poem depict the violation inflicted upon the girl. In those lines it is found out that the violence and miserable condition of the girl is due to the torture done by her mother.
Although the poem doesn’t present any rhyme, rhythm, meter or repetition, the word order achieves a great artistic consequence of the title with its distinctive musical styles. The speaker’s harsh and bitter moods change to compassionate and a caring voice; the different tones makes the reader understand how painful and hopeless it is to lose someone he or she loves. The man used to be normal just like any other husbands or fathers who love their families and tried hard to take care of them. Although the poem portrays that the disease is depriving him of his memory of life, it metaphorically draws the positive memories of his house. Because the home gives him a strength and a security, he remembers himself even it is a touch of his life.
The different key features also plays an important role for example the tone that is being formed by the lyrical voice that can be seen as a nephew or niece. This specific poem is also seen as an exposition of what Judith Butler will call a ‘gender trouble’ and it consist of an ABBA rhyming pattern that makes the reading of the poem better to understand. The poem emphasizes feminist, gender and queer theories that explains the life of the past and modern women and how they are made to see the world they are supposed to live in. The main theories that will be discussed in this poem will be described while analyzing the poem and this will make the poem and the theories clear to the reader. Different principals of the Feminist Theory.
The poem says “…a fly buzzing over the Kool-Aid spilled on the sin… (Wakoski 1.6-7)” This shows that she feels like he is bugging her like a fly. Another reason I know this is how she feels towards him is that in the poem, it says “…the sound of banging screen doors on hot afternoons… (Wakoski 1.6)”.
The first stanza is the speaker telling the woman that when she "[is] old and grey and full of sleep,"(1) just read "this book" of her past. The second stanza moves on to talk about her past relationships. Halfway through the stanza, though, he indicates "one man" who loved her better than the rest. This is an indication of his loving
In this song, the speaker is portrayed as a man who is hurting from his past relationship and so he tries to figure out what made things change and where they went wrong. Throughout the song the speaker reflects on how he was feeling while they were still together and now that they are apart. The song was written as a message to the antagonist, the woman that the speaker loved, and now, is no longer with; he wants answers and he wants her to know how he feels and just how much she hurt him. The speaker lets us know that the pain he is feeling from this broken love of theirs is internal by stating, “To hear that tears me up inside and to see you cuts me like a knife” (Poison).
Despite the fact that the fundamental theme of each poem; the relationship of poets and their poems, is the same, through the three poems, the different views of each speaker is emphasized and showed thoroughly by imagery, and tone. First of all, in Neruda’s poem, he uses imagery like “prison”, and words like “must” to emphasize how his poems present creativity and freedom to people who are in desperate need of them, and his belief that it is his destiny to create such poems. In the poem, “The Poet’s Obligation”, from lines 1-6, and lines 18-19, Neruda uses words like “prison” which is a negative connotation to set the image of people’s lives as negative, and tiring. “Prison” is metaphorically used to illustrate how people are closed up in their own life, so busy that they forget about creativity and freedom. In line 2, Neruda uses the word “cooped up” which is originally used to describe chickens in a small space to describe how people are locked in houses and offices every day.
In my opinion, this poem talks about the enlighten road that humans would feel when they explore a new idea of living, it’s not necessary to be about the other life after death. It depends about how people see their lives. In this essay, I will explain the imageries that this poem states and what are the hidden messages that the writer is trying to make the reader feel and explore. This spiritual poem is a metaphor of the events in the funeral that shows another face of death which it is another image of transformation, that led to positive
Society’s superficial viewing of women is also reflected in the poem’s wring, as it may seem that this poem is strictly concerned with a prostitute, but in fact it describes all females. The male representative in the poem, Georges, then asserts his superiority, despite their similar conditions of being poor. Although he is sexually attracted to her as he “stiffens for [her] warmth”, suggesting an erection, he is unwilling to accept her as a human being as he deems her question “Why do you do this?”
The life of a teenager is not always as easy as it seems, especially when your parents are at your bag all the time, worrying if you are verbally abusing, disrespectful, unprotected, taking bad decisions or depressed. Rachel Cusk who is an author of novels and books of non-fiction wrote the article Mothers and teenagers: a modern tragedy in The Times on April 5, 2015. In the article, she discusses the relationship between parents and teenagers in her point of view. She got two daughters and she is very aware of how "hard" the teenage life is and the transformation from child to adult. But are teenagers really such a nightmare, as other parents think?