Paul Shelton Misery

Repetition; He repeats this phrase to illustrate how permanent the memories of the experience are.

Why was the West such a crucial divider between the North and South in this period?

The excerpt from We Were the Mulvaneys, written by Joyce Carol Oates, is about a young 11-12 year-old boy named Judd, who is interrupted by his father and brother while the water and his surroundings hypnotize him. Oates uses diction, similes and imagery as literary techniques to make our narrator Judd’s experiences more intense and alive, which helps characterize him in a much more detailed way. Diction is used throughout this passage to create an overall depressing and frightening mood. Some words that helped create this mood include “hypnotized,” “dying,” “trance,” “fury,” “raging,” “hurt,” and “helpless.” Oates’ word choice is most likely because of her serious tone, which she uses to create the dismal feel. The diction helps characterize Judd, by helping the reader identify his gloomy outlook on life

He compares what he hears to a “sea that overwhelms” or basically complete silence. Edgar also wants us to imagine complete darkness, fear, and hopelessness.

Imagine, he says, the urgency, the panic that causes a dying man to be ‘flung’ into a wagon, the ‘writing’ that denotes an especially virulent kind of pain. Hell seems close at hand with the curious smile ‘like a devils sick of sin’. Sick in what sense? Satiated? Physically? Then that ‘jolt’. No gentle stretcher-bearing here but agony intensified. Owens imaginary is enough to sear the heart and mind.

Willa Cather's "Paul's Case" is a story about a young 16 year-old man, Paul, who is motherless and alienated. Paul's lack of maternal care has led to his alienation. He searches for the aesthetics in life that that he doesn't get from his yellow wallpaper in his house and his detached, overpowering father figure in his life. Paul doesn't have any interests in school and his only happiness is in working at Carnegie Hall and dreams of one-day living the luxurious life in New York City. Paul surrounds himself with the aesthetics of music and the rich and wealthy, as a means to escape his true reality.

<br>There are several image groups used in this poem, two of which I will be reviewing. The first image group is "Sleep or Dreams". Owen often refers to many subconscious states like the afore mentioned one, the reason why he uses these references so frequently is that war is made apparent to the

Narration has a formative influence on the way in which the reader responds to the text. Within his novel, Haddon conveys the perceptions of the logic and order-based reliance of aspergus sufferers through the emotionless mind of the protagonist, Christopher Boone. As a consequence of this narrative style, the reader often feels disconnected and relates his mindscape to the real world. The words ‘I wouldn’t have Shreddies and tea because they are both brown’ unveil one aspect of Christopher’s continuous struggle between emotion and logic. The quote reveals how actions and emotional responses are tied to colours and patterns in an attempt to create order over often-extreme emotional responses. The focus on order is furthered by Haddon’s use of footnotes, which expresses the nature of Christopher’s highly factual mind and reinforces his inherent need for stability and logic. Repetition within the later quote ‘Grabbed hold of me and pulled me… He

The beginning of this poem is about how much the speaker likes loud music. For example the speaker says “the speakers throbbing” which means the music from the speaker has a strong rhythm. This is an Aural imagery. “Jam-packing the room with sound whether Bach or rock and roll” means to crowd to capacity the room with sound. Another phrase is “the volume cranked up so each bass notes is like a hand smacking the gut which means you feel the beat in your guts. Again this is a aural image. This section obvious tells us how much the speak feels about loud music.

Owen and Frost convey extreme experiences and feelings very powerfully and evoke it in a way for us the reader to imagine clearly. In Disabled, Owen conveys the image of death very vividly with immense use of imagery writing 'He sat in a wheeled chair, waiting for dark,' this darkness is referring to the sense that the soldier's life is interminable to him now. Owen is trying to tell us that this soldier's life has been cut short by the war and that he cannot be the same individual he was perhaps five to ten years earlier. Another example of strong imagery in Disabled which conveys extreme experiences and feelings is the good use of visual imagery where he writes 'Legless, sewn short at the elbow.' This powerful phrase gives us the reader an image of the soldier seated in a wheelchair with no legs as well as part of his arm 'deattached', this image being emphasised by the words 'Legless' and 'sewn short'.

For example, Parker mentions in the third line of the poem how “acids stain you” (636). Acid is an image that demonstrates pain; the idea that an acid can burn the flesh, and leave a permanent stain. In this line the speaker is conveying that acid will not only leave a mark; but a symbol of a constant painful reminder. In the next line Parker mentions, “and drugs cause cramp” (636). For example, drugs can cause so many internal issues in the body that can have long term

In the poem “Hitcher”, Armitage examines the disappointments of the speaker who is about to lose his job and who is under pressure conforming to society’s expectations, and his frustration with life. Armitage portrays the theme of isolation using some lexical choices which carry negative connotations such as “tired”, “fired”, “under the weather”, emphasizing the amount of pain he suffers from being threatened with losing his job and not having any purposes in life. Armitage adopts a defeated and frustrated tone to illustrate the frustration, isolation and anger which contribute to the speaker’s internal sufferings. The defeated, frustrated tone of the speaker in the poem is presented through a series of lexical choices which carry connotations of negative emotions. These words form a semantic field of frustrated emotions and the reason why the writer has done this is to try to suggest that the speaker is very disturbed and threatened. “I’d been tired” evokes sympathy from the readers. It is colloquial which underlines realism with a lack of imagery in the poem. “Under the weather” can be inferred as the speaker not feeling well. It doesn’t only mean that he doesn’t feel well in a physical way, it also implies that he mood is not very good, echoes with “I’d been tired” and “fired”. These aren’t convincing, though “weather” has an

The reader can hear her voice through her descriptive words, it shows how the author feels. These descriptive words show us the voice and the voice seems sad and lonely with no help in sight. “Her body was wrapped round the pain as a damp sheet is folded over a wire.”(Woolf pg.124) This synonym also shows how much pain Mrs. Grey's body is in that she feels like her body is being bent in half and weak. The synonym shows the reader of the essay that it sounds sad and painful. Also when Woolf used the word “marionette” you can kinda hear the voice of pain and how she feels like a puppet and not being able to do much at all. When woolf compared Mrs. Grey to a rook on a barn door with a nail through but still leaving I could kinda hear some determination from the essay because it shows how she's been through so much and lost so much but made it through it and still leaving.

Owen also uses language of terror and powerlessness for the speaker as the poem progresses. Describing the soldier the speaker has seen fail to attach his gas mask, he says, “I saw him drowning” (14). He dreams of this encounter repeatedly, “[in] all my dreams, before my helpless sight/ He plunges at me” (15-16). In his dreams, he is not only powerless to aid this man, but

The mood and tone drops throughout the poem. The start is fairly sombre, using phrases such as ‘cursed through sludge’, ‘marched asleep’ and ‘limped on’. The mood darkens in the second stanza. Owen uses words such