In the poem “Van Gogh’s Bed” by Jane Flanders, the features of the work of art that she focuses on is the bedroom as a whole. When Flanders describes the room, she focuses on relating Van Gogh’s Bed to the actual person living in the room. One thing that is noticeable is that she uses one word to describe part of the room, but then explains why she chose that word. For an example, she uses the word “orange,” then right after it, it expresses her view of Van Gogh’s Bed room. Another aspect that Flanders focuses on in the art work is what is around in the room to help with her poem. She sees that there is a window and makes an analogy with it “is empty, morning light pours in like wine, melody, fragrance, the memory of happiness” (Stanza 12). Flanders tends to ignore little things around the room, like the pictures on the wall or the table with items on it. She also ignore the color of the room. …show more content…
Part of Flanders shows emotion with the room because when she wrote “is orange, like Cinderella’s coach, like the sun when he looked it straight in the eye” (Stanza 1), expresses that she sees this room in a way like the Cinderella’s story. Cinderella is lonely and is only contained to her room, where as Flanders makes that relevance to Van Gogh’s Bed. Flanders also shows analogy with each stanza she writes, by relating it to what appears in the bedroom. For an example, she talks about the bed “is narrow, he sleeps alone, tossing between two pillows, while it carried him bumpily to the ball” (Stanza 5), and again refers it to Cinderella, that Cinderella went to a ball but that the person in this painting is dreaming of going to a ball to get out of being stuck in the bedroom. When Flanders explains stanza 8, she sheds some like that it is not only about the room but the person living in the
While wandering through the dancer’s house, the narrator encounters an intriguing painting where “the faces on the top half of the paper were upside down, as if the painter had turned the page around or circled it on his or her knee while painting, in order to reach more easily” (180). This passage suggests the author’s use of an awestruck tone which helps introduce the fascinating painting and shows the narrator’s admiration toward the painting. The author choice to incorporate the phrase, “in order to reach more easily” introduces a childish aspect to the story by implying the painter is smaller because he or she was struggling to reach the painting. The dancer continues to tell the frightening backstory to the painting, explaining how the children were asleep in the car and the mother “poured gasoline all over the car and lit it with a match. All three burned to death. It’s hard to explain, the dancer said, but I was always jealous of how
The spacious, sunlit room has yellow wallpaper with a hideous, chaotic pattern that is stripped in multiple places. The bed is bolted to the ground and the windows are closed. Jane despises the space and its wallpaper, but John refuses to change rooms, arguing that the nursery is best-suited for her recovery. Because the two characters, Emily and Jane, are forced to become isolated, they turn for the worst. Isolation made the two become psychotic.
In The Yellow Wallpaper the narrator and her husband John have gone to a secluded estate, which they are renting for the summer. John a Doctor wanted her to rest as much as possible by following Dr. S. Weir Mitchell's “Rest Cure”. He also picked the room, which is an airy room on the top floor; she would have preferred the small pretty room on the ground floor, but he did not take her opinion due to he was the physician and knew best. The narrator does as she is told even if she is not found of the estate and the room she would be staying at. She has to rest all day long and personally disagree with what she has to do; she would rather spend her time writing, but her husband and other family members think it is not a good idea. She also described the house in her journal, as mostly positive, but some disturbing elements such as the wallpaper; she also becomes better at hiding her journal from John to continue writing. She complains about Johns controlling ways and how he discourages her from fantasizing of people walking the walkways. She has a wonderful time during the fourth of July with her family, then here obsession grows with the sub-pattern of the wallpaper; John started to think her conditions is improving, but she is sleeping less and less. The sub-pattern sees a woman creeping around and shaking the bars and sh...
When Jane arrives at the mansion she gives the reader a vivid description of the estate through her journal entries such as when she first enters the room she will be sleeping in, “.windows that look all ways, and air and sunshine galore,” (Gilman 648). At first sight she describes the wallpaper as, “[o]ne of those sprawling flamboyant patterns committing every artistic sin,” (Gilman 648) declaring she had “.never seen a worse paper in [her] life.” Although her husband strictly forbids her to journal, Jane, continues to confide in her journal writing, “.this is dead paper and a great relief to [her] mind.” (Gilman 647). As the story progresses, Jane writes that she is getting much worse and so does her fixation with the yellow wallpaper.
In conclusion, Van Gogh used the elements above to create a man by himself in a field. He used color to represent feeling rather than represent realism of an event. The cool colors represent the field and happiness in his work. The warm colors represent the harshness of the day and could be a metaphor for life. He used scale and proportion to emphasis the overbearing sun. He also used proportion and scale to represent literally and figuratively how far away home was. The linear perspective was only evident to me after I really studied the used of lines. I followed the lines to the horizon and left side of the painting.
A relationship is an emotional connection to someone involving an interaction between two or more people. There are many types of relationships, some functional and others far from being workable. I will demonstrate this through my texts of; Little Fugue, and Morning Song both poems written by Sylvia Plath; the movie, Love Actually; and the book, Trickster’s Choice by Tamora Pierce.
An eerie feeling comes to mind when you hear the name Poe. The detail that he puts in his works are so realistic that you think he would be serving multiple life sentences in a maximum security prison. Some of his works include, the Raven and the Tell Tale Heart. The football team named the Baltimore Ravens adopted the name to instill a sense of fear into their opponents as he instilled in his readers. Edgar Allan Poe’s writing style has been attempted by many, but no one has ever paralleled him due to the fact that he had serious issues like being a major drug addict and his family was very nonexistent and abusive.
The Street by Ann Petry is a novel about a woman, Lutie Johnson, acclimatizing to the urban setting that surrounds her. Ann Petry establishes Lutie Johnson’s relationship to the urban setting through imagery and personification in order to convey the seriousness of the weather which overall, concludes Johnson’s experiences. In this literary work, imagery is used as it allows the reader to visually understand the ruthlessness of the wind which causes Lutie Johnston to desperately search for shelter. In line 24, Petry states, “the dirt got into their noses, making it hard to breathe” revealing the hostile environment that Johnson is in. As the excerpt continues, the reader begins to see how Lutie feels in the environment she is in as “she
Painted by Vincent Van Gogh during a final burst of activity in Auvers before his suicide in July, Houses at Auvers features many of the characteristic elements typical of Van Gogh; the experimentation with color, texture, and thick brush strokes. This painting depicts the view and landscape in early summer, highlighting the patchwork of houses and the rolling greenery. Van Gogh’s unique, thick brush strokes lead the eyes through the painting, create texture and patterns and also highlight and shadow objects in the early summer sun, while his experimentation with color creates contrast and a bright, vibrant image.
Van Gogh had sympathy for the peasants and furthered his passion for humanity. He studied them non-stop to explore their world. The color palette he chose was dark and crudely painted on, almost grungy. It’s a low-lit kitchen area, with the look and feel of exhaustion that the dark color palette engages the viewer to feel what is going on.
This painting by Vincent Van Gogh is on display at the Art Institute of Chicago Museum, in the Impressionism exhibit. There are many things going on in this painting that catch the viewer’s eye. The first is the piece’s vibrant colors, light blues and browns, bright greens, and more. The brush strokes that are very visible and can easily be identified as very thick some might even say bold. The furniture, the objects, and the setting are easy to identify and are proportioned to each other. There is so much to see in this piece to attempt to explain in only a few simple sentences.
The concept of loss is a notable theme in poetry, whether its about love, beauty or even
Upon moving in to her home she is captivated, enthralled with the luscious garden, stunning greenhouse and well crafted colonial estate. This was a place she fantasized about, qualifying it as a home in which she seemed comfortable and free. These thoughts don’t last for long, however, when she is prescribed bed rest. She begins to think that the wallpaper, or someone in the wallpaper is watching her making her feel crazy. She finally abandons her positivity towards what now can be considered her husband’s home, and only labels negative features of the home. For example, the narrator rants about the wallpaper being, “the strangest yellow…wallpaper! It makes me think of… foul, bad yellow things” (Gilman). One can only imagine the mental torture that the narrator is experiencing, staring at the lifeless, repulsive yellow hue of ripping
The first example of an element of fiction used in The Yellow Wallpaper is symbolism. One symbol is the room. There is are bars on the windows to make the reader feel that the narrator is more than likely staying in psychiatric holding room than a room where she can get over her anxious condition. In most sanitariums, there are bars on the windows. The narrator’s husband went against her wishes to stay in the room downstairs with open windows and a view of the garden and put her in a barred prison cell contributing to the theme freedom and confinement. The second symbol is the bed. The bed is big, chained, and nailed to the floor. The reader could say the bed symbolizes sexual repression because a bed is where it happened during the 1900s and with a bed of such large size being nailed and chained down can represent sexual repression.
Vincent Van Gogh’s piece titled Starry Night, represents the artist’s insanity and isolation from the outside world. Van Gogh painted the view that was seen from the room, mixed with the emotions he felt inside. Starry Night is an oil painting on canvas and is two dimensional. The painting is found in the Museum of Modern Art located in New York. The variety of elements and principles of art, help to bring the painting to life, and help viewers understand what the art could represent.