Poetry and Schizophrenia

The text is very descriptive and loaded with symbols. The author takes the opportunity to relate elements of setting with symbols with meanings beyond the first reading’s impressions. The house that the characters rent for the summer as well as the surrounding scenery are introduced right from the beginning. It is an isolated house, situated "quite three miles from the village"(947); this location suggests an isolated environment. Because of its "colonial mansion"(946) look, and its age and state of degradation, of the house, a supernatural hypothesis is implied: the place is haunted by ghosts. This description also suggests stability, strength, power and control. It symbolizes the patriarchal oriented society of the author’s time. The image of a haunted house is curiously superimposed with light color elements of setting: a "delicious garden"(947), "velvet meadows"(950), "old-fashioned flowers, and bushes and gnarly trees"(948) suggest bright green. The room has "air and sunshine galore"(947), the garden is "large and shady"(947) and has "deep-shaded arbors"(948). The unclean yellow of the wallpaper is

This personification of the house shows that even in the absence of its inhabitants, the house still

The house is different from other houses in the sense that, it didn’t allude to a real house. The house is an image of many ideas

To begin, in the poem “Introduction to Poetry” by Billy Collins he wants his readers to appreciate each poem as a piece of art. He wants his readers to look at the poem and get absorbed into the emotion of the poem instead of only wondering what the poem means. He uses personification in this quote “tie the poem to a chair with rope/ and torture a confession out of it” to express what we do to poems (356). We the readers should instead pay attention to the rhyme and style of the word. We should stop worrying about the meaning of the poem. This is similar to another author style in “Poem” by William Carlos Williams he uses a cat to movements in the “jamcloset” to show his readers that we should be like the cat. The cat takes its time to get around the “jamcloset” which is what the readers should do with poetry we must take our time to look at it and appreciate each word, line and stanza.

To start off the analysis, the setting of the entire poem is significant. Though the poem takes place in a house, the atmosphere the house is set in is also important. The month is September which is a month of fall which can be seen as a symbol for decline. It definitely insinuates that the poem is leading towards death. Line 1 has “September rain falls on the house” which gives the feeling of a dark and cold night with a storm on top of that. To further develop that, Bishop gives us the failing light in line 2 to also give us an idea of the grandmother’s struggle. Bishop uses the cyclical theme of changing seasons to show the unending nature of what is transpiring within the

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Imagery is used in the first line of the poem to bring attention to the audience that the "houses are haunted by white nightgowns. " Being "haunted" in the beginning referred to the ghosts or people residing in the house. These humans can resemble a ghost because they possess the traits of cold, empty, and dead like-features. The color white can be associated with the idea of being bland, basic, and boring. Thus the haunting of white nightgown refers to the idea of

This paper will define imagery, metaphors, rhyme and structure and will also discuss the importance of figurative language in poetry and how it communicates to the reader.

This is an allegory for the state of the narrator; on the outside, she seems fine, but in her mind, she is completely falling apart. “The isolated location of the house, its slight state of disrepair, and the narrator’s further isolation in the fortress-like nursery, all symbolize the narrator’s mental condition.” ("The Yellow Wallpaper.") Within the house, the room to which the narrator is confined, with its gate at the top of the stairs, its bars on the windows, and the hooks in the wall all combine to symbolize the narrator being locked away and to depict women’s status in society. “The nursery is said to represent nineteenth-century society’s tendency to view women as children, while the barred windows symbolize

of the fact that she is kept in the house. One specific characteristic of the house that symbolizes

POEMS is an uncommon blood disorder that occurs when there is an overgrowth of plasma cells in the bone marrow. This results in compounds being produced that damage nerves and other parts of the body. POEMS syndrome is mostly found in people over the age of 50. It is also more common to find this syndrome in men rather than in women. POEMS is often confused with other disorders because of similar signs and symptoms. POEMS is an acronym that stands for (P)olyneuropathy, (O)rganomegaly, (E)ndrocrinopathy, (M)onoclonal plasma-proliferative disorder, (S)kin changes. Polyneuropathy is defined as numbness, having a difficult time breathing, and tingling or weakness in legs. Organomegaly is the enlargement

Extending the house metaphor throughout the poem, Dickinson adds the metaphorical use of doors and windows to represent poetry’s openness. Supporting language was used to suggest that poetry is better and more open than prose with

The poet also uses personification. One examples of personification is when the poet says “Our dreams drink coffee with us as they put their arms around our children. They laugh with us at our falling-down selves and as we put ourselves back together once again at the table.” The kitchen table represents a place that unites people.

     In the film “ A Beautiful Mind” John Nash experiences a few different positive symptoms. The first of these positive symptoms are seen through the hallucinations John has of having a room -mate while at Princeton. This room- mate continues to stay “in contact” with John through out his adult life and later this room- mate’s niece enters Johns mind as another coinciding hallucination. Nash’s other hallucination is Ed Harris, who plays a government agent that seeks out Nash’s intelligence in the field of code- breaking.

The house symbolically acts as a place of isolation, illustrating the way that if humans no longer have communication with other people it results into madness. The symbol of the house is significant, the house is an isolated place especially near the windows. As the unnamed narrator arrives at the house a servant takes his horse, and he enters the Gothic archway of the hall. As the narrator is lead to Roderick's studio by the servant, he notices the familiar yet gloomy atmosphere. He is put in a room where he describes as large and lofty and "the windows were long, narrow, and pointed, and at so vast a distance from