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¶ … Faulkner looking at the rhythms, sounds and underlying meanings.
The Unremorseful Day
The poem as read from a simple standing does not make complete sense it jumps from one aspect to another John is dying yet Joe is reading the story yet who is telling the story, there is a definite obscurity to the way the narrator gives his views, from the dying of John to the eating and preparing of food to the death of John.
There is no regular rhythm to the poem it falls into the lines of a disjointed dirge for the funeral march, the book seems of no interest to the narrator at all it seems as if the book is boring and has no consequence at all to the life of this man. In fact it can be seen that the book does not make any sense to the narrator at all even though he himself is an English teacher and should know what the "they " want.
To understand the poem one must have an understanding of the disjointed views that goes through a persons minds as his friend or relation is dying, it is a mixture of what is happening in the present and what events are happening within the so called book he is reading, the world to this person has become intermingled with a fantasy of insecurity of his own psyche.
Looking at the poem from a deeper level it can be seen that the meaning can have the simple view that this is how a person who has become bereaved picks up someone's life story, the twin sides of a persons life good and bad, bringing forth the proximity of selfish relations who care nothing for a story of time and life.
Moreover the self effacing symbology of a ritualized preparation of the wishes of a dying man to the wake can be superimposed upon the need to tell a story or poem to bring forth a sacrifice of emotions and confusion that enables the reader to delve into a man's mind of remorse, forgetfulness and un wanted thoughts that shape themselves around a key event in a person's life
For Faulkner, meaning and the reality of each person is "mutable." In this regard, the novel deals with the themes of identity and existence and the intentions and motivations behind each individual's reasons for undertaking the journey to bury Addie from many different points-of-view. The images of death and dying tend to add to this search for meaning and identity; for example, Addie's slowly decaying corpse. The death of the
William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying The classic 1930 Novel by William Faulkner, “As I Lay Dying” is a demonstration of the evolution of modernist literature that incorporates an in-depth psychological aspect. The psychoanalytic novel displays the intricacy of the human psyche by attempting to unravel what lays in human minds. The novel presents an emotionally, psychologically and physically distressing journey of a family characteristic by selfishness as they embark. The
Dying William Faulkner's novel As I Lay Dying tells the story of a family living in Yoknapatawpha County, Mississippi. The matriarch of this family, Addie Bundren, is approaching death and her family prepares for this event through various means based upon the personality of that character and the particulars of their relationship with this family member. Upon her death, Addie asks her son to allow her to be buried in
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In the opening paragraph, his detailed physical description of Jewel and him walking on the path exhibits what we soon see is a strong faith that language makes memory, perception, and action real. (Lockyer 74) She also notes that Darl is the character who speaks the most in the novel, thus showing his adherence to the value of language in his actions as well as his words. In doing so,
1). For Lester, the novel is a novel of migration and the ambiguous benefits of Southern culture and traditions: when Addie demands that her family lay her body "to rest forty miles away, in Jefferson, where her relatives are buried" her "request places a burden on her family, who subsist on limited means as small farmers and occasional wage laborers in rural Northern Mississippi in the late 1920s" (Lester 2005,