Each item described in the poem is defined with its own sadness, "The unalterable pathos of basin and pitcher" and "Desolation in immaculate public places" (Roethke lines 4,6). Office life is simple but it does not allow the freedom and independence of the world around it. Roethke expresses this when he describes the people as, "the duplicate grey standard faces" (Roethke line 13). Without creativity, an office is comparable to a mine, dark and dangerous. Through in-depth descriptions of the dejected items of the office, Roethke fully portrays that…
* I think Holmes uses the allusion in his poem because he wants to be specific on the term Harpies.…
What does Edwards mean when he says, “The bow of God’s wrath is bent, and the arrow made ready on the string”?…
9. Record the sedimentation rate for a menstruating female. How did this value compare to the healthy individual? Why? 15 mm/hr for the menstruating female and for the healthy female it was 5 mm/hr, for a difference of 10 mm/hr. the reason why this has happened is because when a female is menstruating she can sometimes of develop anemia which van show an increase in ESR. (AL)…
2. Cells that are in the process of dividing are said to be in mitosis or cytokinesis. Cells that are not dividing are in interphase.…
The reference to Robert Frost's poem, "Nothing Gold Can Stay" is introduced by Ponyboy, as he recites it to Johnny in the Windrixville Church.…
P2: Outline the arrangements for providing quality care for looked after children and young people…
Ella was born to William and Temperance, early in the 1900s. She spent of her childhood period in the Newport News. Her family detached or divorced when she was of tender age due to domestic adversities. Temperance moved with her to Yonkers, New York, where she got married again (Ball 40). They were economically unsteady (Krohn 14). However, everyone worked extremely hard to ensure their social and financial needs. Ella loved music, dancing and playing baseball. She was extra adept in academics and scored high marks. She joined the school glee, and people adored her singing abilities. Her childhood days were a grand success.…
The narrator has finally, after months of toiling over her obsession with the yellow wallpaper in the room where she was kept while ill, realized the relevance and meaning of the gloomy decoration. I chose this passage form the short story because it proves to the readers that the narrator is actually mentally ill and reveals her feelings and perception of the yellow wallpaper. This passage, in my opinion, is one of the most important parts of the short story due to the correlation of the woman trapped in the yellow wallpaper and the women in the story. This passage also clearly reveals that the narrator of the story is mentally ill, bringing the story to an abrupt and formidable ending.…
The poem uses filth and grim not only to describe everything in and around the families’ station suggesting that there isn’t any cleaning or self-worth going into the store or the people working there by saying, “Father wears a dirty old soaked monkey suit that cuts him off at the arms” implies that the father hasn’t washed his work suit and that he has suit has shrunk because he has worn it for such a long…
In conclusion, Steinbeck presents the bunkhouse and its inhabitants as bleak and lonely, the place barely liveable. The “lice, roaches, and other scourges” is an example of the terrible hygiene that they had to live through, which can affect the way some of these workers think and act.…
The structure of the poem can be separated in to two parts. The first half describes the soul's perception of the surrounding world as it's body first begins to wake up. This is set during the period between true consciousness and the dream world. In this moment reality becomes pure and timeless. In the third line, the author describes the soul “hanging bodiless and simple.” Using this kind of diction to set the tone as a sort of mock-seriousness and creates a sense of suspension and detachment from the world. Still within the beginning of the poem, the tone seems to sway between humor and spirituality. As an example of the humor used, the author writes “The morning air is all awash with angels.” Still conveying a strong sense of spirituality, this line also serves as a pun towards the angels being described through the hanging laundry just outside of the open window. It also gives the spiritual world a likeness of heaven, full of angels. The humor is in the word choice “awash” because it serves a double meaning. The first meaning is that the air is “full” of the angels, and the other meaning is the fact that people “wash” their laundry to make it clean and fresh again. The first half of the poems…
John Steinbeck was born on February 27, 1902 (www.steinbeck.org). He was born at his house at 132 Central Avenue, Salinas, California. He was born of Irish and German ancestry and born into a fairly prosperous family. His main accomplishments show with the constant hard work and diligence he has shown through his career. "...not enough wingspread but plenty of intention(Steinbeck)." The life of one so great that words seem inadequate to what his life and achievements compare to.…
Identity can be defined as the condition or character a person or thing. Behaviour can be manipulated to mask identity so that people appear to have characteristics and conditions which in reality they do not possess. In this essay, I will present a comparative analysis of two extracts in which the characters have modified their behaviour so that they portray a false identity of themselves. The two characters that I will compare are Sir Percival Glyde from The Woman in White, and Murial from The Lady in the Lake.…
Bishop uses a variety of literary elements in her poem such as repetition, irony, personification, syntax and imagery. She uses these elements to show that even in the face of hard working life, a caring family exists. In this family, she hails the mother figure as the one who takes care of all. The rich imagery of the poem successfully paints a vivid picture of the filling station. This is done mainly in the first half of the poem, in the first two stanzas. Here, there are three important images constructed by Bishop. The first of these is dirt; in the first line of the poem, Bishop writes, “Oh, but it is dirty!” This is followed by ‘black translucency’ in line 5, ‘dirty’ monkey suit in line 2 of the second stanza and ‘dirty dog’ in the last line of the third stanza. Imagery of oil is also present in the first half of the poem, especially in the first stanza. Bishop writes, “- this little filling station, oil-soaked, oil permeated”, give us the image of a gas station dripping in oil. The second stanza continues with describing the monkey suit as ‘oil soaked’ and the sons as ‘greasy’. Lastly, the image of dullness and dreariness is prevalent throughout the poem. In the first stanza, Bishop gives the filling station an atmosphere of ‘disturbing, over-all black translucency.’ A…