These notes serve against the author as they directly challenge. Even if the reader is a philosopher like Kierkegaard, or a learned and intellectual man like Conor Cruise O'Brien, these marginal notes are a challenge and threat for them, to explain more meanings and logical assumptions to the author. There is another meaning by these notes in margins, which is to argue and fight against the author and philosophers of the text. In the second stanza of the poem, Billy also provides a contrasting view to enhance the importance of margins and notes. He begins with considering these notes and comments as “offhand”, “dismissive” and “nonsense”, but he soon explained the importance of such notes for the reader.
Robert Frost’s “The Road not Taken” Analysis Robert Frost’s Poem The Road Not Taken is one of simplicity and regularity. The structure follows a very common format throughout each of the four stanzas. One can try and read into the poem and draw from it metaphors and complex meaning, but the only way to truly grasp the idea behind it is to read it in a literal sense and later understand it. Frosts poem, though simple, is fraught with irony and contradiction as he explains how he will look back on his past. Frost was extremely emphatic on the simplicity of this poem, both in meaning and format.
Literary Text in The Most Dangerous Games By: Melvin Paige The literary texts that stood out to me were suspense, foreshadowing, and irony. Bullying in Jabari’s presentation had a big connection to the story. This is mainly because of how the story ends. This told me that bullying does not always go as planned. At Least in this situation it didn’t.
'Mending Wall' is an interesting poem that is symbolic of the differences in human thinking on barriers Robert Frost is known to make use of nature and pathetic fallacies in his poems and a lot of symbolism that leaves the reader to imagine what he really means,making his poems highly subjective. In this piece, Frost has used words and phrases that we could draw parallels with,he uses a sense of underlying meanings with these phrases. In the title itself, ‘Mending wall’ the poet lets us know that the poem is about a wall or a fence,but later the reader realizes that it’s more than just the words on the surface that Frost wants us to recognize. The poet refers to the wall as a solid object but also a psychological or invisible wall,this wall signifies the differences between the two neighbors. Ironically,when the wall is actually supposed to separate two beings,this wall reunites the two neighbors ,this is seen in the title ‘Mending wall’,where one might suggest that this is grammatically incorrect, what Frost might actually be intending is that the poem is more about the wall mending the relationship between the two individuals than the two merely mending the wall itself !This wall maybe built due to differences in thoughts and ideas or merely just because of social awkwardness of the two characters.
He also uses the symbol of wilderness to show a division in worlds. Also being characterized as the unknown, the towns people do not like the unknown. Thanks to hawthorne we can take a look at the deeper meaning in this piece of his literature. Symbolism is the best way for an author to develop and bring a greater meaning to a story. Throughout the book, Hawthorne uses the symbol of an "A" , the way it is used varies depending on the part of the book the reader is looking into.
This is supported by the Othello by William Shakespeare and A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams. Both literary works show theme of deception and characterization that convey the critical lens. If a person does a wrong thing he/she should try to fix it before it’s too late. If they will not take any steps to fix it, it will eventually affect them in a bad way. Both literary works showed how a person did a wrong thing and it has caught up to him/her.
It could also be a chivalrous gesture against an evil tyrant, even if it is not sincere like in “A & P” by John Updike. “Quote here.” (Updike). Any point in a story where two or more characters have opposite goals that they are trying to accomplish, and it creates a problem for the characters involved. Every character has a Voice in which they speak, and a Point of View in which they see the events of the story and think about them. There is no way to have a story without keeping each character's voice and opinion unique.
Though the poem is written in quite a pessimistic tone, Dickinson somewhat suggests that this change is painful yet essential, showing a breaking of boundaries between what we need, and what breaks us. She describes it as giving “Heavenly Hurt, it gives us -”; this oxymoron suggests that there is a necessary pain we must all feel, it leaves “no scar”, but rather than causing physical damage, it causes a mental or spiritual change within us. Furthermore, the arrangements of the phrases are unusual - Dickinson uses a flipped syntax to emphasise on the confusion she is experiencing and a difficulty to put her feelings into perspective. The collapsing of boundaries is further explored with the use of synaesthesia – there is a constant blurring of the senses which reflects Dickinson’s inability to comprehend the pain she is going through – she can’t articulate the emotion and tries to help the reader understand what it’s like by mixing different feelings together. The “light” is one that “oppresses, like the Heft/Of Cathedral Tunes –“, it is a burden which is always present but she is struggling to carry.
Frost uses the metaphor of two distinct paths to represent two options in his life that he has to choose from. He uses vivid imagery within this metaphor to describe the differences and difficulties of these choices; the first path “having perhaps the better claim” (7) and the second “grassy and wanted wear” (8). Frost then chooses the less traveled path and ends the poem with the declaration that “that has made all the difference” (20). In addition, the paths opened themselves to Frost “in a yellow wood” (1), portraying that Frost has come to a crossroad in his life where he needs to pause and, in order to get any farther, also needs to make a choice between the two paths. The yellow represents both a need for an analytical and pensive pause, as well as the fraying and dying season as steps foot into a different one.
Poetry, I believe is the hardest type of writing to depict, because it can be interpreted in so many ways, the writer could mean one thing, and the reader could read it completely different from how the writer actually wrote it. Even though sometimes this is the case, I have done some thorough research to make sure my understanding of this poem is correct. I derived from this poem that, what Sharon Olds was trying to bring across in this poem was to express her thoughts towards people who have sex without love. I grabbed this line from the beginning of her poem she asked this question: “How do they do it, the ones who make love without love?”. As different thoughts rolled through my head after reading her first line, my first train of thought began with this: The worlds culture has changed and many things have become acceptable in peoples eyes, but one thing is still said to be true you cannot be intimate with a person and forget the intimacy that took place with that person.