Claudia Emerson was an exemplary late-blooming writer. At age 57, Emerson published an expressive collection of poems, which describes the aspects of the past in relation to the present. In Late Wife, her Pulitzer Prize winning collection, she exudes her raw emotions from her personal life in the form of letters. In Emerson’s poems, “Natural History Exhibits” “Artifact,” and “Eight Ball,” she elucidates the aftermaths of divorce and death. Upon getting a divorce, Claudia Emerson initially grieves the memories of her first marriage.
In the poem “Men at Forty” by Donald Justice, the poet employs a variety of literary devices to convey the poem’s theme- that no matter old we get, we can never escape the past and the nostalgia that accompanies it. There will always be a longing for those youthful days gone by, a longing that clings to us and follows us as the years pass. Justice accomplishes this through the use of comforting, evocative images that express the speaker’s discomfort with his age, and his acknowledgement of his transition from childhood to adulthood. In addition to the vivid imagery, Justice also uses simple and straightforward diction and a wistful tone to convey the fact that the speaker still craves the simplicity of his childhood. Through the poet’s precise
Many volumes that he wrote were also based on his live and the events he went through. Such as the poem “Virginia” he wrote after his wife’s death. Byron is still considered one of the greatest British poets who remains widely read and influential to people today, along with Poe. In April of 1827, Poe left his father to seek fortune. He then set out with Calvin
In Kim Addonizio’s poem, 31-Year Old Lover, Addonizio introduces two characters, a 31-year old man and an older woman. At first I thought the man was her lover but really the 31-year old man is just someone who has a nice body as Addonizio describes in the poem and as the author portrays the older woman in the poem as being young and it is her way to contrast it with the process of the woman becoming old and weary. The last line in the poem Addonizio says to do with aging is, “I am going to have it back the only way I can” (1398), and it seems the only way she can get her youth back is trying to take his youth by sleeping with him. Addonizio, views the male body in a sexual way that as Addonizio quotes, “When he takes off his clothes/ the milky, lubricious of butter being unwrapped/ when its take from the fridge still hard”. (1398) Addonizio is comparing the man to a “stick of butter being unwrapped”.
Anne Bradstreet’s three elegies for her grandchildren are very sanding and have many similarities, as well as differences. The three poems by Bradstreet are titled, “In Memory of My Dear Grandchild, Elizabeth Bradstreet, Who Deceased August, 1665, Being a Year and a Half Old," "In Memory of My Dear Grandchild Anne Bradstreet, Who Deceased June 20, 1669, Being Three Years and Seven Months Old," and "On My Dear Grandchild Simon Bradstreet, Who Died on 16 November, 1669, Being But a Month, and One Day Old.” In the very first poem, it would seem her first grandchild had pasted away at a year and a half old. Bradstreet’s talk about how God gives and takes away. As well as comparing the child to nature on how trees over time will rot, and that her absence is like a vacant spot were a flower should be. In the second poem, Bradstreet writes as if she is more shaken and broken.
Furthermore, I believe the poems: 'Poem at thirty-nine', 'Remember', 'Ode of Remembrance', and 'For My Mother in Her Mid-90's', do exceptionally well to express this theme of remembrance. 'Piano', being a poem which features remembrance through the use of language that the poet, D.H. Lawrence uses along with the subject the poem is written about, his childhood memories. We see a change in tense in each stanza as he is reflecting on his thoughts and memories. With each changing stanza, the fluctuating tense creates the effect of recollection going back and forth in his writing.
This phrase tells us that he referred his last wife as a piece of artwork. Furthermore, while the Duke spoke with the emissary, we are hinted that he might have treated all his wives as objects or possessions shown in the phrase “At starting, is my object”. The Duke referred the Count’s daughter as an object which suggests that he is probably going to treat her in the same way as he did with his last wife and may also end up the same like his last Duchess. These ideas help present the way the Duke treats his wives as objects as well as us wondering what could have happened to his past
Tristana in both cases is the story of a girl whose mother dies, and a reputable old man Don Lope becomes her guardian. He starts to romance her blurring the line between father and husband. When Tristana falls in love with a painter named Horacio, Don Lope has to come to terms with the sexual liberty that he preached. Though both pieces have the same plot line, they are vehicles to convey different messages about the societies of there time. With this variation there is an inevitable effect on the content of Buñuel 's film.
Heartbreak and vengeance make the perfect cocktail for any juicy story, but so does the concept of a twisted illusion of reality. Stories of passion such as, Evona Darling written by Silas House and My Ex-Husband written by Gabriel Spera, are both examples of stories that give the reader the equation of love and hate entwined together with the tainted sense of reality. House descriptively writes a story about the passion of a mother’s love whose heart has been taken away by her child’s father, who through suspicious friends got Evona’s custody stripped away from her. On the other hand, Spera creates her poem in her perspective of being married to a man that betrayed her and played his cards of deceit. Both stories were passionately written after love had partaken, but the fairy tale ends had come upon them.
Readers can learn more about a character by reading through how they dealt with situations from the past. During the flashback in the dramatic monologue My Last Duchess by Robert Browning, the reader is able to learn more about the personality of the Duke and how he treated his late wife. As the Duke retells the story of when his wife was still alive, he made it seem as if her equal treatment of her subjects was a crime and it irritated him greatly; therefore, the Duke is interpreted as arrogant and possessive. It is easier for the reader to make connections and comparisons to the society, other characters, or even oneself as well. The more the reader learns about the character, they gain further understanding on the character’s actions and may gain a personal connection to their role.
This work is very interesting because of its many hidden meanings behind it. The most likely meaning procured from Titian’s painting is the allegory of marriage. This painting can be described as a “teaching” model for Giulia Varano, who was to become a wife of eroticism, fidelity and motherhood. There is evident eroticism in this painting that served as a reminder that a woman has marital obligations that she needs to fulfill to her husband. There is a strong sensuality of this painting that was consistent with its private, domestic purpose, which was as a gift from husband to