Anne Carson’s 38 pages’ anecdote “The Glass Essay,” is about the bad aftereffects of a breakup between the narrator and her husband, Law. After that she goes back to her mother’s house to invest time with her. There is a good measure of narrative about her activity with her mother, her walks on the moorland, and her dreams, many of which are provoking and appearance “nudes” that she uses to guide her way to rebirth. Narrator and her mother stop over her father, who has Alzheimer and in a rest house. The narrator looks so emotional and tries to forget about the past, which represents the two faces of narrator in the poem.
The first part of the poem is a dream that cracks around 4 A.M. Next, the tale shifts to the house of the Anne Carson’s mother where she visits to spend some time with family. Carson is describing 3 women in the house- herself, her mother and Emily Bronte. All of them are sharing different views about relationship with men. Her mother speaks in anger that she
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should put hard efforts on her relationship with her better half, Law (Enotes). Emily has a great physical energy in all the verses done by her (P.5). Emily refers the physical kind of thing as “Thou.” The interesting thing is that Emily does not know anything about men even in the family. After reading this stanza “Unsociable even at home and unable to meet strangers when she ventured out,” a question rises in my mind- Emily Bronte is a poet and poets write about nature, humans and almost about everything so how she can be alienated from men? The stuff related to this question’s answer found on page.7 where poet comparing herself with Emily and providing couple of reasons to present image of Emily’s life. The major chunk of Carson’s verse is covered by the group of three lines called Triplet line form. Furthermore, the sub-headings and the space between the small paragraphs give us a time to inhale air. Even the short stanzas are helping us to understand the poem and giving a sense that poem is not going continuously (Rickerby). Anne is so smart because she is introducing 4 line stanzas in the beginning and the ending of each section which looks like an ‘abab’ structure. On the other hand, the poet importing her soulvisions that she sees every morning while meditation -“Nudes.” All these visions are reminding her past life. In actual, she is finding herself as a bird that is stuck in a cage. She is struggling relentless with her dead ideas in every single nude; but her ideas are quite creative (Lecture). Carson’s painful feelings can be experienced by the way of her tone, style, and writing poem. The pictures in the Glass Essay turn the story from the real world to psychological state, giving permission to the poet to indulge her own life experience related to an emotional distance as in the line “the videotape jerks to a halt like a glass slide under a drop of blood” (Enotes). In last few stanzas of this tale, we can find the complete general idea of love and loss. Eventually, in the “The Glass Essay,” Carson passed through a dreadful time when her husband left her alone at home.
She is talking about her precious moments that she spent with Law. She is deeply missing and waiting for him; but at the end, when year has been passed and her husband, Law, does not return, she starts to forget her past. She gets emotional while writing her broken memories. The way of her writing looks irritating but she brings the whole poem as a pack of closed life. The structure of the poem shifts the normal kind of literary work into an animated work. Anne Carson also used some work by Emily Bronte and Charlotte Bronte of Wuthering Heights to create a scene while she was with her husband and going crazy. Every morning she finds herself in a new experience which seems that she is having a trouble with her mental state. Honestly, due to these ways that are mentioned above and experiences that she poured into this poem makes it
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When looking out the window "she was drinking in a very elixir of life” (Chopin). The short story comes to an end with her husband walking through the door and Louise falls dead at the sight of her diminishing dreams. This well known short story is comprehended in many ways deciding the reason of Louise’s death and what “freedom” she experiences.
Jeannette Wales, author of The Glass Castle, recalls in her memoir the most important parts of her life growing up as a child that got her where she is now. Her story begins in Arizona in a small house with her parents and three siblings. Her parents worked and didn’t do much as parents so she had to become very independent. Her parents and siblings were the highlights to most of her memory growing up. She is able to recall memories that most small children wouldn’t be able to recall with as much detail.
Jane presents one aspect of woman in The Waking collection (1953): Ross-Bryant views Jane as a young girl who is dead. The poem expresses concern with the coming of death. This poignant elegy is presen...
At first glance Edna St. Vincent Millay's first recognized poem, Renascence, seems to be easy to understand and follow. However, as this sing-songy poem is dissected, the reader embarks upon a world full of emotion, religion, confusion, pain and sin. This poem is split up into six sections or stanzas which separate the action of the poem into easy to understand parts. I have chosen to discuss the first section of the poem for my close reading.
Her family life is depicted with contradictions of order and chaos, love and animosity, conventionality and avant-garde. Although the underlying story of her father’s dark secret was troubling, it lends itself to a better understanding of the family dynamics and what was normal for her family. The author doesn’t seem to suggest that her father’s behavior was acceptable or even tolerable. However, the ending of this excerpt leaves the reader with an undeniable sense that the author felt a connection to her father even if it wasn’t one that was desirable. This is best understood with her reaction to his suicide when she states, “But his absence resonated retroactively, echoing back through all the time I knew him. Maybe it was the converse of the way amputees feel pain in a missing limb.” (pg. 399)
She questions “why should I be my aunt / or me, or anyone?” (75-76), perhaps highlighting the notion that women were not as likely to be seen as an induvial at this time in history. Additionally, she questions, almost rhetorically so, if “those awful hanging breasts -- / held us all together / or made us all just one?” (81-83). This conveys the questions of what it means to be a woman: are we simply similar because of “awful hanging breasts” as the speaker of the poem questions, or are we held together by something else, and what is society’s perception on this? It is also interesting to note Bishop’s use of parenthesis around the line “I could read” (15). It may function as an aside for the reader to realize that the six year old girl can in fact read, but also might function as a wink to the misconstrued notion throughout history that women were less educated and didn’t
pity in the reader by reflecting on the traumatic childhood of her father, and establishes a cause
The poem starts out with the daughter 's visit to her father and demand for money; an old memory is haunting the daughter. feeding off her anger. The daughter calls the father "a ghost [who] stood in [her] dreams," indicating that he is dead and she is now reliving an unpleasant childhood memory as she stands in front of his
Growing up in the early 1600's was a tough time for many people, especially women. Women were very much discriminated against and made to fulfill the duties that were in the household and nothing else beyond that. Anne Bradstreet was a woman that grew up during this time as a Puritan. Puritans believed that humans could only achieve goodness if they worked hard, were self-disciplined, and constantly examining themselves to make sure that they were living their lives for God. Due to this way of looking at life, Anne Bradstreet had little time for writing her poetry. Being a mother of eight children and a devoted wife one would think that Bradstreet wasn't carrying out her duties to her family and God if she was busy writing poetry. Therefore if people knew that she was writing this poetry she would not want them to think less of her so she would write it in a happy and family oriented sense showing how devoted she was to her family through her poetry. That is why Bradstreet writes how she does in the poem To My Dear and Loving Husband. She writes as if to portray that she has a great relationship with her husband and God. Although from her other poem, Prologue, one can see that underneath she truly feels betrayed by the men in her life and by men in general.
The poem as a whole is a metaphor of a woman to nature, specifically a certain species of flower, which accurately represents the growth that occurs within her. Women are often compared to nature in poetry, as it represents their beauty and delicacy, much like Williams did in this poem. Queen Anne’s lace is a white flower with a purple spot in the middle, also called the flower’s “beauty mark.” Douglas Verdier from Poetry for Students points out that the name of the flower alludes to the face of a queen, being fair and pure (189). Queen Anne’s lace is also a hardy flower that is able to thrive in many environments, supporting that the woman of the poem is beautiful yet strong (Stephenson). The metaphor to this flower shows the man’s adoration towards the beauty of the woman in the poem.
Throughout the poem there is only one narrator, a man or woman. The narrator is of high importance to the one being spoken too, so possibly a girlfriend or boyfriend. This narrator alludes to the idea that dreams and reality can be one in the same. The narrator says, “You are not wrong, who deem/That my days have been a dream;” (Line 4-5). The narrator explains that the moments spent with her have felt almost, if not, a perfect dream. The narrator also says, in the closing lines of the first stanza, “All that we see or seem/Is but a dream within a dream.” (Line 10-11). The narrator concludes like dreams, reality is not controlled; reality is what you make it, or what you see. Moreover, in the second stanza the narrator
The third decade of the twentieth century brought on more explicit writers than ever before, but none were as expressive as Anne Sexton. Her style of writing, her works, the image that she created, and the crazy life that she led are all prime examples of this. Known as one of the most “confessional” poets of her time, Anne Sexton was also one of the most criticized. She was known to use images of incest, adultery, and madness to reveal the depths of her deeply troubled life, which often brought on much controversy. Despite this, Anne went on to win many awards and go down as one of the best poets of all time.
This poem is a firsthand account of how Anne Bradstreet was feeling when she experienced the loss of her granddaughter, Elizabeth. Although Bradstreet's attitude on Elizabeth's death seems to reflect her belief in God's plan, the diction suggests otherwise.
Overall, the imagery that Plath creates is framed by her diction and is used to convey her emotions toward all relationships and probably even her own marriage to Ted Hughes, who had rude, disorderly habits. Even the structure of the poem is strict in appearance as each stanza ends with a period and consists of exactly six lines. In addition, the persona of the poem is very detached and realistic, so much that it is hard to distinguish between her and Plath, herself. However, Plath insinuates that the woman actually wants love deep down, but finds the complexity and unpredictability of love to be frightening. As a result, she settles for solitude as a defense against her underlying fear.
Anne Bradstreet was educated in England before coming to the United States. In a time when women were not usually encouraged to openly express their intelligence, Anne was encouraged by her family to express hers through her writing. She was not only the first woman but the first person have a book of poems published in North America. The poems “To My Dear and Loving Husband” and “To Her Father with Some Verses” express Bradstreet’s love for two very important men in her life – her husband and her father.