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5A: Responding to Literature
The poem was written in 1919, which is immediately after the First World War. I think that Yeats is, on one hand, enthusiastic about the end of the world and the coming of a new era. On the other hand, I think he is also a bit circumspect about what this new era is likely to bring about: more anarchy? The fact that the world has escaped the tragedy does not mean that it is over the hurdle yet: it can still spiral out of control, just like the hawk in the poem.
The second poem refers to the death of one's father, while the first has an ever presence of nostalgia throughout the writing. In both cases, many of the words used incline to suggest suffering and sadness, such as 'tears', 'crying' and 'grieved'. Some of the metaphors and epithets are used in the same manner.
A the dying light," "go gentle into the night" and "close of the day." I think that these metaphors provide a very lyrical approach to death, not like my own. I am agnostic and believe that death is simply the end, as well as just another phase of life to which we should not pay too much attention to.
I think so: if we look at the painting, the farmer does not look towards the sea, where Icarus is falling, but simply continues to plough straight ahead, as if nothing has happened and as if nothing can deter him from his own activities. This is also emphasized in the poem itself: "But for him it was not an important failure."
The Modern Short Story Lesson 6 Journal Entry # 11 of 13
Journal Exercise 6.6A: What Makes a Good Story?
I think there are several important things. First of all, a good short story needs to have a good plot, probably the most important of all elements. The reason for this is that a good plot will coagulate the rest of the story together and will retain the...
On the other hand, you might also want to have at least an interesting character, because he or she can carry some of the load in the story. Finally, a certain twist in the plot will make the story live on in the reader's memory even after he is finished reading it.
Lesson 6 Journal Entry # 12 of 13
Journal Exercise 6.6B: Effective Transitions and Revising Passive Voice
Lesson 6 Journal Entry # 13 of 13
Journal Exercise 6.6C: Responding to Literature think all three can apply to the narrator. The first meaning applies because he is being ignored by the woman selling at the stall and this produces his state of being valueless. Secondly, he is also loving himself too much, which is why he is affected by this experience and why all his idealized visions are destroyed. Finally, he is also hungry for praise ad admiration, as a child.
a. There are several cracks in the structure of the building and the letter is signed with the letter K. There are several hints of panic, including the refracting light on the table that shows the letter.
b. I think it is more likely that Mrs. Drover has been traumatized by her wartime experiences, which have made her have these hallucinations. An argument in support of this is that her hallucinations seem to appear only during the war and are directly related.
I think that "The Demon Lover" does not necessarily meet the requirements mentioned in 6.6A. First of all, it is almost entirely coagulated around the main character and has no secondary characters on which the story can also be built. Second, the plot is not too interesting either and the entire story is more psychological than something that can carry the reader's interest throughout.
I would not recommend it to other readers.
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" There is a more calm feeling to his description. This is not to say that the author was portraying war as being a patriotic act, but the author was not as graphical in his describing what the soldiers were seeing and going through. The reader is more connected to the actions of the poem and not the fact that someone is dying. He ends his poem by referencing "hell"