AN OBSTACLE by Charlotte Perkins Gilman Analysis of the poem from different perspectives of the narrator:- 1.As a human being---- The first stanza of the poem signifies the man struggles to live their lives. Climbing mountain path symbolised the difficulties and struggles that human beings faced. Life way is always upward direction and never goes downwards. Yet we have many thing to do and not only for ourselves sometimes we need to help others too. But while man struggles of life there are times that times when the obstruction or hindrance symbolise by Prejudice, become so large that we see the future turns totally dark. But through the future unseen he could not stop. The lines “My work was such as could not wait” signifies that …show more content…
Women walks through the hard ways, bringing with her many things, not only for herself, she does that for her folk also. However in the middle of her way, a prejudice thwarts her effort. Prejudice here refers to the patriarchal society, both men and women who believed that men are superior to women. The second stanza strengthens the first that the narrator's effort to reach equality was not an easy thing to do, moreover with her limited time and strength. We are not highlanders that can live for hundreds of years. Our time and strength to live on this earth is limited. Prejudiced made her struggle harder because he hindered her journey. The third and fourth stanza illustrates the first that the narrator did to continue her journey, that is to talk to prejudice politely, quietly, trying too use the common sense to convince him about the importance of her effort but he did not do anything to improve her intention to continue her journey. The fifth stanza showed the narrator using a more daring effort to challenge the Prejudice in a sort of duel but it still did not work though. Feeling exhausted, she changed her tricks. The sixth stanza illustrated her way, no longer logical arguing nor anger. She begged him on her knees ask for his pity on her. Now she had almost lost her hope and as she sits before him feeling helpless in an ecstasy of woe. However in the middle of her hopelessness due to the limited time and unfriendly weather, she got a brilliant idea when a sudden inspiration come and a sudden wind blow. She depicted it in the last stanza of her poem, she stood up from her kneeling, prepared herself with all her loads and continued her journey. She went on her effort eventually continued her journey, just ignore the prejudice and consider him not exist. She eventually realised, for ages men have done whatever they wanted to do ignoring their fellow human
...he imagery of the more intensely-felt passages in the middle of the poem. Perhaps the poet is like someone at their journey's end, `all passion spent', recollecting in tranquillity some intimations of mortality?
In the short story "A Worn Path," the message that Eudora Welty sends to the readers is one of love, endurance, persistence, and perseverance. Old Phoenix Jackson walks a long way to town, through obstacles of every sort, but no obstacle is bad enough to stop her from her main goal. She may be old and almost blind, but she knows what she has to do and won't give up on it. Her grandson has swallowed lye, and she has a holy duty of making her way to town in order to get medicine for him. The wilderness of the path does not scare her off. She stumbles over and over, but she talks herself through every obstacle. Undoubtedly, the theme of perseverance is what Eudora Welty wants to point out to her readers. Just like the name Phoenix suggests
Phoenix’s journey is a little long just by walking alone in the middle of the
The first stanza describes the depth of despair that the speaker is feeling, without further explanation on its causes. The short length of the lines add a sense of incompleteness and hesitance the speaker feels towards his/ her emotions. This is successful in sparking the interest of the readers, as it makes the readers wonder about the events that lead to these emotions. The second and third stanza describe the agony the speaker is in, and the long lines work to add a sense of longing and the outpouring emotion the speaker is struggling with. The last stanza, again structured with short lines, finally reveals the speaker 's innermost desire to "make love" to the person the speaker is in love
poem and how one can overcome. Is the problem of adversity meant to be taken
In the fictional short story “A Worn Path”, written by Eudora Welty, provided a significant theme of love between a grandmother and her grandson. Also, the theme of determination was presented throughout the story. The main character, Phoenix Jackson, was an old woman who was determined to get to town to receive some medicine for her grandson, and she was allowing nothing to stop her. For example, by Phoenix being an old woman, she did not let her age or obstacles stop her from doing what she was determined to do. In “A Worn Path”, Phoenix Jackson shows a theme of love and determination as she faces conflicts of man vs. self, man vs. man, and man vs. nature
spite of her hardships, she is happy through her words and expressions in the poem.
of the difficulty in acceptance. In the first few stanzas the poet creates the impression that she
Critical analysis What idea does the novel suggest about limitations and its impact on people’s life? We as humans are born restricted in every way possible, but we are a curious being so we try to overcome this limit. But the drive to overcome those limits are not present in many of us. Many of those individuals who have it restrained from overcoming their limits. They feel that limits define us as a person because when we overcome a limit we change as a person.
The second stanza begins with a series of rhetorical questions that express the woman's inner struggle. The second question is her response to the dark encroachment of the procession, and the third question answers the previous two. The randomness of this questioning illustrates the disorganized nature of her thinking, and an answer finally surfaces when she decides that "divinity must live within herself." A list of positive and negative emotions that she has experienced as a result of nature provides further explanation of the divinity she hopes she possesses within. The realization that these emotions "are the measures destined for her soul" ends the stanza with a feeling of hopefulness.
The final stanzas represent the narrator growing up and reflecting on the past memories of her father and whether or not to let them go and
This poem is about the author adjusting to life after being told she was blind. She talks about the struggles and how she views life different after being blind. On lines 17-18 she says “the bravest - grope a little - and sometimes hit a tree”. In this quote the author is saying the bravest people are able to adjust to the darkness but every once in awhile they will have a little mess up or set back. I think this quote is 100% true and I really like it.
Despair was the central theme of many of her poems, and whether she intended for readers to feel what she was feeling or not, readers were able to connect with her; this is especially seen in her poem, “There’s a certain Slant of light.”
The metaphor in this poem conjoins life, and a staircase, "Well, son, I'll tell you:/ life for me ain't been no crystal stair." The mother says to her son, that life is not an easy journey that can be stroll through.. Instead, in this passage of the poem, she tells her son that life is hard, full of stumbling blocks, but one must keep climbing, one cannot turn back or sit down, because one will catch a break, a turn, a landing, and keep going.