Analysis Of The Skater Of Ghost Lake By William Rose Bennet

E. B. White's story "Once More to the Lake" is about a man who revisits a lake from his childhood to discover that his life has lost placidity.  The man remembers his childhood as he remembers the lake; peaceful and still.  Spending time at the lake as an adult has made the man realize that his life has become unsettling and restless, like the tides of the ocean.  Having brought his son to this place of the past with him, the man makes inevitable comparisons between his own son and his childhood self, and between himself as an adult and the way he remembers his father from his childhood perspective.  The man's experience at the lake with his son is the moment he discovers his own

In the poem First Ice the author Andrei Voznesensky elucidates the seriousness of heartaches and the melancholy that is felt in breakups. An abridged form of the poem would be that a young girl was crying in a telephone booth, devastated and grieving at the fact that she had gone through an estrangement. This caused tears to stream down her face and smudged her makeup which in turn left a distorted set of facial features. Ashamed at the fact that she was crying in public she explicitly tried to hide herself in the overcoat described as “draughty”. Keeping in mind that the poem took place in a setting where it was freezing cold outside it certainly added emphasis to the descriptiveness and the theme of the poem, for specific aspects to

E.B White, author of “Once More to the Lake” explores the dynamic relationship between father and son to convey the power of memory and the inevitable chill of mortality. The symbol of the dragonfly and the lake creates a sense of duality while introducing subtle changes throughout the essay.

“Once More By the Lake” is an informative short story featuring a man who seems to feel as though he is losing his identity. As a parent, he doesn’t realize that as time passes by his family’s orientation is changing and, as a result, seems to lose himself in time as his surroundings and his son’s actions remind him of himself. Nonetheless, throughout the story, the author uses great detail to put the main character’s feelings on display by using experiences and emotions that are relatable to the reader. The childlike mannerisms and impressive attention to detail exhibited in the essay show how the narrator sees himself and showcases the author’s use of imagery. Revisiting his childhood lakehouse brought past memories to the surface which, over time, shows the main character’s emotional ties to the lake. In fact, in the story, the narrator says, “It was the arrival of this fly that convinced me beyond a doubt that everything was as it always had been, that the years were a mirage and there had been no years” (White 2). Throughout the story, White challenges the reader's mind by describing his situation to the reader and unintentionally drawing from them the conclusion that life as one knows it is destined to change at any given time, including one’s

Authors often create texts that share common themes to teach readers importance of certain aspects and hardships of life. Theme may be expressed through an author’s use of rhetorical devices and many other contributing factors such as figurative language and repetition. The essay, “Once More to the Lake” written by E.B. White and the poem “Forgetfulness” written by Billy Collins, both contain a theme of identity loss. In “Once More to the Lake” E.B White connects to a lake at young age and when returning with his son years later is unable to identify himself. In similar theme “Forgetfulness” describes different factors of human life and everyday things being forgotten and lost. Both White and Collins use repetition and metaphors to further push the theme of identity loss throughout the texts.

Was I relieved that he was dead? Did I feel guilty because I didn’t save him? I stood staring across Bloody Ice, and perhaps it was wicked, but I told no one and was married to my sweetheart in a fortnight beside Bloody Ice. I was beautiful then, hair unbound and cheeks rosy in the cold. Gazing at blurry photographs, my children would sometimes ask why I did not smile or why my face was perpetually turned towards the lake’s faded red.

The author symbolizes the water as transition and spirituality, the lake is symbolized as the elusive badness the boys want so badly. The narrator notices that none of them are as bad as they try to act. After that night the narrator realizes he cannot make it in that life, rather the narrator wants to go to the safety and security of his home and parents.

Cullen’s use of Simile provides the reader with vivid and specific details about the poem and what is means. These include phrases like “Your grief and mine must intertwine like sea and river,” where we can see use of simile to create vivid pictures of how humans should “intertwine” their emotions with others. Also, another use of simile in the text is when Cullen describes the pain of grief when she says “The ills I sorrow at not me alone like an arrow, Pierce to the marrow”. Through this passage we see the tone of grievance as well as the authors call for human togetherness and

E.B White portrays such a strong message through his writing. A message where all of us can relate to, Once More to the Lake, the lake serves as the setting for both the author's past and present. Early on, White reflects on his own childhood when his father would take him to the lake. He then explains that now he is taking his own son to that very same lake. In this context E.B uses rhetorical devices such as, metaphors, similes, and personification. E.B lets the reader really envision the summary of his trip to the lake in Maine. White has come full circle, accepting his own mortality. In his son's image, he no longer sees himself. He is clear that his son's maturation is a sign that White is getting closer to death. White not only understands

B. White, serves its expressive purpose, using plenty of emotion, such as joy and happiness, showing the author’s value of the past, how he defines himself as a family man, and uses subjective language. He also uses a literary purpose, to show that the essay is authentic with verisimilitude, make the essay more entertaining with tension, provide artistic unity with a beginning, middle, end, and a theme, and aesthetic language to add a certain beauty in the way he writes. The primary pattern followed by the author is the descriptive pattern, describing the lake as it was when he was a child and the way it was on his trip with his son. At times the author uses a comparison-contrast pattern, to show the differences and similarities between his experiences as a child at the lake and as an adult, The author of this essay uses expressive and literary purposes, and descriptive and comparison-contrast patterns, to allow the reader to know what he is feeling and thinking, while at the same time feel like they are there themselves with the use of his descriptions of the lake. His use of the comparison-contrast pattern allows the reader to have a better understanding of the differences the author is experiencing during his visit to the lake with his son. Altogether, it is a very well written

. . should burn and rave at the close of day”(2). This means that old men should fight when they are dying and their age should not prevent them from resisting death. Another example of personification in the poem is “Their frail deeds might have danced in a green bay”(8). This line personifies the men’s frail deeds by saying that they could have danced. This means that the potential actions of the men could have flourished and contributed greatly to their lives. The metaphor “. . . words had forked no lightning. . .”(5) is about how the men had done nothing significant with their lives. They had not achieved anything great or caused a major change. The simile “Blind eyes could blaze like meteors and be gay” is about how even grave and serious men will fight against death for as long as they can. Another notable example of figurative language within the poem is “. . . blinding sight”(13). This oxymoron details how the men can see very well and it is very obvious to them that they will die soon, but they know that they can control how they will leave this world. There is an abundance of imagery within this poem, a few examples of which are “. . . danced in a green bay”(8), and “. . . caught and sang the sun in flight”(10) . These examples of imagery are both appealing to the sense of sight by using descriptive words such as “Green” and “danced” in the first example and words such as “caught” and “flight” among others. The second example also appeals to the sense of sound by

The night symbolized death, and the walk was the person's journey to find their lost life. This poem was somewhat disturbing to me. I thought of a lost soul, thirsting to finish a mission that was not completed in life. Frost depicts death in a frightening manner with the contents of this piece of work.

A poem is an experience, not a thought. It is an experience both the author and the reader share with one another. Authors of poems use tones, keywords, hidden messages, irony, and diction to create their work. They use these tactics so the reader thinks about what they are reading and try evaluating what the message is that the reader wants to get across. In the poem “Snow” by Louis MacNeice, he uses these same characteristics to get the readers mind active in the words. Let’s examine the poem “Snow” and see what the meaning behind this poem is.

At the end of the dock is a sign that reads; "No Fishing, No Swimming, No Dumping"; a sign that is quite often recognized by all visitors of parks and lakes and as big as the windshield. Around the lake there a hills and valleys around Lake Lavon. $200,00 home are springing up like mad. Retirees, former airline pilots, and people generally burned out on big cities are discovering Lake Lavon. The small lake but the perfect weather, and the safe-quiet atmosphere are drawing people like a cover-up draws Ed Bradly. Without thought or hesitation we smiled and warmly held ourselves in each other arms and slowly sat down together at the end of the dock, put out feet in the water and the water was so cool like melted water from snow (to eat the strawberries we brought). The strawberries were delicious; red, ripped, and plumped; sweetness caressed our mouth with very bite. Some were quite sour, but was washed it away by an ocean of water every time. As supplies ran short she decided to play lazy and had me carry her to watch the people fishing by the dock. Although very distinctive and precise, I was like a bear; very step was heavy and short. To the left side of the dock about 200ft people ware fishing and kid's playing soccer on the field near the lake. By watching them play I remember my childhood, that my mother always took me to the Lake Lavon every weekend to fishing, and now I'm with my girlfriend holding her hand and watching people fishing and