The first example of longing comes from the lyrics of “Pray for the Winds to Come”. The lyrics represent longing caused by a separation from home. The lyrics are written from a first person perspective of the narrator. The lyrics reveal the narrator’s acute longing to home in the North. The melancholic state of the narrator becomes vivid with his experienced feelings of alienation and nostalgia. Although he feels trapped in a foreign place where he does not belong, he still seems to have a hint of vigor in him as he is pleading the winds to take him home. The opposite arrangement of the descriptions of the North and the South emphasizes the discomfort of the foreign land and likewise the solace of home. The narrator’s mind is completely preoccupied by thoughts of his homeland thus highlighting his firm emotions. It can be argued that he is not experiencing nostalgia as a fatal disease like Johannes Hofer defined, but more metaphorical meaning of nostalgia connected to longing for a …show more content…
The narrator asks the winter “to bless your child” as he is hoping to return to his home. The narrator’s statement “my ships are gone” possibly implying of the passing of time, of his old age or of his feelings of weariness. Possibly he understands that returning to home cannot fully satisfy his mind due to the time passing home is not the same anymore. This in turn deepens his melancholy. The memories of his homeland, of “the trees, the snow and the lakes” run through his mind, thus connecting his melancholy to memory. This connection to his memories of the North is also strengthened with the references to elements such as wind, sea and sky. These elements also reflect the narrator’s feelings of displacement as they are familiar yet strange, in a way the same but
1. Chapter 3, page 5, #3: “A little fog hung over the river so that as I neared it I felt myself becoming isolated from everything except the river and the few trees beside it. The wind was blowing more steadily here, and I was beginning to feel cold.”
The subsequent section is concise as it provides the depressive historical context of the poem. The usage of factual period of time 1949 and the war / Now four years dead- conveys the suffering of the exiles and their endurance of the lengthy wait to migrate as they weren’t economically or physically capable to leave earlier.
Ted Kooser’s “Abandoned Farmhouse” is a tragic piece about a woman fleeing with her child, the husband ditched in isolation. The mood of the poem is dark and lonesome, by imagining the painting the writer was describing I felt grim because of what the family went through. As reported in the text, ”Money was scarce, say the jars of plum preserves and canned tomatoes sealed in the cellar hole.” This demonstrates the understanding of why they deserted the farmhouse. The author also composes, “And the winters cold, say the rags in the window frames.” This proves that the residence was unaccompanied. When placing the final touches, the reader begins feeling dark and lonesome, asking about the families disappearance.
Imagery uses five senses such as visual, sound, olfactory, taste and tactile to create a sense of picture in the readers’ mind. In this poem, the speaker uses visual imagination when he wrote, “I took my time in old darkness,” making the reader visualize the past memory of the speaker in “old darkness.” The speaker tries to show the time period he chose to write the poem. The speaker is trying to illustrate one of the imagery tools, which can be used to write a poem and tries to suggest one time period which can be used to write a poem. Imagery becomes important for the reader to imagine the same picture the speaker is trying to convey. Imagery should be speculated too when writing a poem to express the big
The tone is set in this chapter as Krakauer uses words to create an atmosphere of worry, fear, and happiness in McCandless’s mind. “The bush is an unforgiving place, however, that cares nothing for hope or longing”(4). McCandless is on the path of death, which creates worry and fear for the young boy. “He was determined. Real gung ho. The word that comes to mind is excited,” (6). Alex is very excited and care free, which Krakauer used to his advantage in making the tone of Alex’s mind happy. The author creates tones to make the reader feel the moment as if the readers were sitting there themselves. Krakauer uses dialogue and setting to create the mixed tones of this chapter. As one can see from the quotes and scenery the author uses tones that are blunt and are to the point to make the reader feel as though the emotions are their own. Krakauer uses plenty of figurative language in this chapter. He uses figurative language to support his ideas,to express the surroundings, and tone around the character. To start the chapter he uses a simile describing the landscape of the area, “…sprawls across the flats like a rumpled blanket on an unmade bed,” (9). This statement is used to make reader sense the area and set the mood for the chapter. The use of figurative language in this chapter is to make a visual representation in the readers mind. “It’s satellites surrender to the low Kantishna plain” (9).
“Long days. Open country with ash blowing over the road. The boy sat by the fire at night with the pieces of the map across his knees. He had the names of towns and rivers by heart and he measured their progress daily”
This extract emphasises the lonely, outworld feeling that would have been felt living in such settings. This puts into perspective the feeling that will be felt during the coarse of the plot development.
I think of the mountain called ‘White Rocks Lie Above In a Compact Cluster’ as it were my own grandmother. I recall stories of how it once was at that mountain. The stories told to me were like arrows. Elsewhere, hearing that mountains name, I see it. Its name is like a picture. Stories go to work on you like arrows. Stories make you live right. Stories make you replace yourself. (38)
In stanza 1 the quote explains how he could hear the wind blow against the cell fraim on the window. “A wall of wind crashes against, windows clunk against, iron frames as wind swings past broken glass and seethes…” stanza 1. This quote uses one of the three senses I picked. I feel like if he left prison and one day he heard that sound it would bring him back to his memories back in prison. To this day when I hear wind chimes they take me back to my childhood in prescott valley when it was raining.
Wright utilizes personification to provide the narrator with an amplified empathy through the personal reflection required in order to experience the sympathetic suffering accounted for by the physical remnants of a lynching. In the beginning of the poem, the speaker describes the scene as “guarded by scaly oaks and elms” (ln. 2) thereby stating nature guards and preserves memories of the atrocities of society, despite certain distortions associated with time. By presenting the woods with this lively quality, Wright emphasizes the eerie qualities of the world in preserving the scars of inhumane acts dealt through society’s hand. Once recognizing nature’s preservation of the memories, Wright implies that the speaker remains capable to unearth the scene in which they are to experience sympathy and empathy. The speaker then discovers “white bones slumbering” (ln.4) which presents the bones with the human ability of sleeping. This in return suggests an ironic twist crucial to the development of the poem. By suggesting the bones are in mere rest, this also renders bones capable of awaking from their rest. As the speaker continues, the bones as well as the other elements described suddenly “awake” and reform thereby creating a shift in the visual experience of the...
The wind seems to be a symbol of hope. Hope that he has entrusted in the form of nature. A hope that maybe he can trust that there is no such thing as a ghost that is lurking around tapping on his widows and chamber doors. The narrator looks for a way to make the wind the source of his problems instead of the potential cause that he is having repercussions from a broken
He provides his readers with information on the daily life of the characters that already live in the brutal, dark life in Africa. Through these characters, his readers see the aftermath of living in such a terrible environment and how it becomes natural to be insane and ill. The Europeans are physically affected by the suffering of the body through the scorching heat that leads to a constant and daily sweat. The illnesses they receive has sabotaged the health of their inner body. With all of these rough, ill circumstances building off each other, the mind travels its way into a dark, unhealthy place.
At my weary soul. No man sheltered/ On the quiet fairness of earth can feel/ How wretched I was, drifting through winter/ On an ice cold sea whirled in sorrow" (l. 11-15). The narrator explains that the weather and open sea are the certain hardships that he has to endure each voyage.
The use of the word “heart” emphasises this passion as the heart is considered the most important organ and so demonstrates how his passion (the “summer” in the sentence) is alive. Within these three poems, the use of nature as a mechanism impacted the poems, allowing them to convey meanings in an ambiguous sense yet still get across the general meaning of the poem.
The man finds reflection upon separation from others. The specification of the frozen lake demonstrates that he is drawn to the lake, it holds significance in his life. He uses the lake as a catalyst of reflection, drawing an emotional response leading to his epiphany in the final stanza. “The woods are lovely, dark and deep. But I have promises to keep” The use of the period acts as a separation between the two phrases.