Analysis Of The Sculptor's Funeral

Harvey Merrick, a brilliant sculptor, has died and is being transported back to his hometown of Sand City. Throughout The Sculptor’s Funeral, the short story is told from multiple points of view. The beginning of The Sculptor’s Funeral is told from the point of view of Henry Steavens. Henry Steavens is a student of Mr. Merrick’s and considers him a mentor. Henry travels with Mr. Merrick’s body as it is being transported to his hometown in Kansas. The point of view of Henry Steavens is significant to the setting of The Sculptor’s Funeral because he comes from Harvey Merrick’s life after he has left his hometown. Harvey Merrick is essentially returning to his hometown for the first time since his departure and having Henry there to experience

Throughout many of his poems, Frost puts the everyday scenery as the main focus and uses it to express his inner thoughts. Frost uses his individual poems and works them into a larger poem by using a reoccurring narrator. Such as, in Mending Wall, the speaker describes a farmer and his neighbor having an argument about his apple orchard and his neighbor’s pine tree. The neighbor does not want any of the speaker’s apple orchards to mess with his pine tree. The speaker makes a clever comment about how his apple orchards cannot get across and mess with the cones under his pine trees. The neighbor only responds with, “Good fences make good neighbors (Frost 232).” That exact quote is symbolic of not only the fact that having a wall to separate the apple orchards and pine tree prevents any future conflicts between the neighbors but the same could be said in life. The speaker, for the duration of the poem, contemplates the words of his neighbor. As if to lead the reader to draw their own conclusion on the wall

Eliot’s The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock is unexpectedly not at all a “love song” like the title suggest. Eliot tells the poem through the eyes of a man by the name of J. Alfred Prufrock. Prufrock comes off as very awkward, especially when it comes to the opposite sex. For example, “And how should I presume… Is it perfume from a dress that makes me so digress? Arms that lie along a table, or wrap about a shawl. And should I then presume? And how should I begin? (Eliot 369).” Prufrock makes reference to trying to get the confidence to talk to a woman. Ultimately, he can’t find the courage and does not talk to the woman. The whole poem is ironic due to the fact that although the title suggest that it is a “love song” it is more Prufrock telling about his isolation and social awkwardness in his