It is opened with a rhetorical question, ‘Who told my mother of my shame, who told my father of my dear?’ This shows that the poem is a direct curse towards her sister Maude and has an intended audience. Also the repetition of “Who” in the first stanza almost represents a tantrum that the speaker feels as she knows the answer. Moreover the speaker uses a caesura to reflect the speaker's outrage and anger that “Maude, my sister Maude" could have deliberately caused such a tragedy. The repetition of "Maude" also adds to the strength of thespeaker’s feelings. The speaker refers to her lover in the second stanza a lot.
Kate Chopin’s short story, “The Story of an Hour” portrays how human’s deal with one of the inevitabilities of life: death. Through the characters, Chopin portrays the different approaches to dealing with grief caused by the death of a loved one. The story revolves around the ailing Mrs. Louise Mallard and the way she deals with the news of the husband’s death. Even though Mrs. Mallard seems like a round character, overall, it seems that the writer portrays Mrs. Mallard as a dynamic character. Through the struggles of this character, the reader experiences the different stages of grieving and the ultimate cost of heartbreak.
Steven Herrick’s free verse novel “By the River” displays the struggles of grief and loss that the characters endure as well as some effective coping mechanism they utilise. Various characters such as the protagonist, Harry and his father display the issues of grief and loss and clearly demonstrate ways in which they cope with it. Harry and his father cope through the death of their mother and wife in different ways. The protagonist has to deal with the loss of his close friend, Linda which turns out to be a great struggle but he manages to survive it. Loss can be felt through death as well as someone leaving your life.
Later in the scene, he has a soliloquy in which he says, “frailty, thy name is woman!” Hamlet views his mother’s frailty, or faults due to weakness especially of a moral character, as something that all women have. While Hamlet is upset with his mother’s swift decision to marry his uncle, he resolves that “but break, my heart, for I must hold my tongue,” or not speak even though it will break his heart to not let his mother know how he feels. In act one scene five, Hamlet discusses what happened to his father with what he believes to be his father’s ghost. The ghost tells him to “let not the royal bed of Denmark be a couch for luxury and damned incest. But, howsomever thou pursues this act, taint not thy mind nor let thy soul contrive against thy mother aught.” The ghost tells Hamlet not to take revenge on his mother but to focus his revenge on his uncle because it is his uncle that killed his father not his mother.
An Explication of Howard Nemerov’s “The Vacuum” “The Vacuum” is about an old man grieving his deceased wife and what his life has become, messy and incomplete, as hinted by the poem’s title “The Vacuum”. The poet used many figurative speeches such as personification and alliteration in the poem. These speeches help readers relate to the old man’s feeling more easily. The title “The Vacuum”, makes readers think of the appliance, however, it has more than one meaning. It is a pun created by the poet.
Later in the poem, Hughes accuses his wife of abandoning her family. The repetition of “you” in the lines “unravelled your marriage, left your children echoing like tunnels in labyrinth, left your mother a dead-end” emphasises the immensely accusatory tone of the poem. These accusations in The Minotaur show that Hughes puts all blame for their failed marriage onto his wife, and is not taking any of the responsibility. Hughes’s view of Plath is a conflicting perspective to society’s view of the couple’s relationship. How Hughes portrays his conflicting perspective
Atwood’s piece distinctly displays how Lois is so deeply affected by Lucy’s demise. Coping with this heinously haunting memory is something that Lois does with pure hope and faithful intentions. As people often do, the protagonist Lois molds her life around an event in her past that excruciatingly disturbs her to this very day. During her childhood years, Lois experienced agonizingly painful trauma when her best friend Lucy went missing, and was given the blame for it. Even though evidence in the story helps us to surmise that Lois did not kill Lucy, a sense of guilt from Lucy’s mysterious death infringes itself into her head; she felt as if she could
The way the poem is written, there is repetition repeatedly. One example is when the poem says “Cannon to the right of them, Cannon to the left of them, Cannon behind them.” The author says this at the beginning and the end of the poem to make it clear to the reader that they’re surrounded during the war. This is a very extreme, exciting poem. These two poems were very important and educational about the existence and history of men. “Paul Revere’s Ride” is a very well written poem and is a very extravagant poem.
Relationship appear to be the main cause of sorrow in both stories. Two stories works where communication and the use of accommodition come into play occur in ‘’ A Secrt Sorrow’’ by Karen Van Der Zee and ‘’ A Sorrowful Woman ‘ by Gail Godwin. The antagonists, Kai and sorrowfull huasband, try to mend there partnes despair because of the women in there, lives. Faye and the sorrowful woman struggle with personnel issues. The antagonist Kai, and sorrowful
The therapeutic relationship between me as an emerging counsellor and a client who is grieving can only be healthy when I possess a keen level of awareness about my personal experiences with grief and loss. It is inevitable that I will face and experience more losses as I move through life as change and loss are part of the pattern of human existence. How these losses will impact on me I cannot answer for sure! While I am fortunate enough to know and understand many of the theories of grief and loss I firmly believe the essence of my work lies in my humanity. I cannot give meaning to a client’s grief, but I can facilitate the formation of a therapeutic relationship that enables a client to find the meaning for them.