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thesis: in thomas hardy's poem the voice, he uses imagery, personification and rhyme to create the effect of a woman moving through the speaker's life. the woman that he once knew and that was once there is portrayed by the wind and how the wind sort of acts as the woman and tricks the man into thinking she is back.
I.) imagery- hardy uses imagery to show how the wind travelled through the land to the man and tricked him into thinking the woman was back.
- air-blue gown, air/wind image
- the breeze, wind image
- wind oozing, wind image
II.) personification- hardy personifies the wind as if it were the woman that the man misses and uses it as a tool to trick him and show how his feelings are shown.
III.) Rhyme- Hardy uses rhyme to move the peom along like the wind moves the man. the rhyme shceme helps the poem to flow and show how the wind flowed to the man.
- end rhyme,
- first stanza abac rhyme. ab through rest of poem.
VI.) tone- The tone of this piece is wanting and sort of nostalgic. the man misses the woman and is tricked by the wind into thinking she may be back. the nostaliga is seen in how he misses her.
conclusion: Hardy uses the literary techinques to create the movement of the woman and the feelings of the man in his poem from the p.o.v. of the speaker to show how the two were connected and how the man misses the woman still after what seems like a long time.

unpacking question

question 1.
2. compare uses and/or abuses of power as a theme in novels or short stories you have read. say what this theme and its presentation contribute to each work you discuss.
3. show how the theme of power/abuse was used in the books you've read in regards to presentation and the overall theme of the work.
4. identify theme and how it's used in the works.
5. darkness at noon and as i lay dying

question 2.
2.in novels and short stories, characters tend to have both "an inner life" and a "public life." both of these may be part of the fiction, if not equally so in every work. choose examples from your reading to discuss how and how effectively these two aspects of human existence are presented.
3. show how the characters of the books are to themselves and to others. show how well these two points of view are presented in the books.
4. identify characterization and style of the character in regards to themselves and others.
5. the bluest eye and as i lay dying.

dewey dell

dewey dell keeps to herself a lot and isn't too active in the family unless she has to be. she is quiet at the beggining of the book and doesn't do much but fan her mother. her first passage is about her and lafe and we see into the mind of dewey dell and how immature she seems to be. she's just a girl but she has to deal with this "tub of guts" the only person that knows about it are her and darl and he finds out because "he knew without the words." darl and deewy dell have a talk without really talking and that goes with a larger theme in the books of words and how characters have trouble finding the right ones or using them. on page 48 we see more of dewey dell but from the eyes of darl when their mother is dying. we see some emotion from dewey dell for the first time, in my opinion. in the last paragraph on that page darl talks about her voice and how she "flung herself across addie bundren's knees" she shows a lot of emotion at her mother's death that wasn't really expected. in dewey's section on page 58 we see more into her mind and how she doesn't have the words again. she is talking about how peabody could help her get rid of this tub of guts but he wont and she goes on about being alone and it goes with the idea of her being away and isolated from the family. she is saying how she is alone and lafe is alone and if she could feel the baby she wouldn't be alone but she wants the alone, just not with the baby in her alone. again on page 120 we see into the teenage mind she has where all she can worry about is what is going on with her. the passage can be interpreted in multiple ways but i think that she is talking about the baby being too soon. she doesn't speak like an adult would in her mind, in this part or previous parts, she repeats herself a lot as if she is unsure of what she is saying and if she says it more than she will be able to wrap her not so developed mind around the complex ideas, kind of a ways to reassure herself also like at the end of the passage when she says "i believe in God, God. God, i believe in God." she can't even worry about the death of her mother because of the baby. she was there when her mother died but she says "i heard my mother was dead" this shows how she was so worried about other things that she didn't even really notice what was going on around her. dewey dell does a lot for other while still keeping to herself, like when jewel is sneaking off to work and addie makes the others compensate for the slack and do his job. sge is kind of the second mother in a way. she has to cook and help clean and take help with vardaman when she's just a child herself.

plog 4

in margaret atwood's siren song, she uses vivd imagery and a tone and mood of deceit and trickery to capture the leader in more ways than one. she captures the speaker with her diction and grabs them with her song. there is alos a theme of women overpowering men in the way they can capture then.
the tone and mood of deceit and trickery comes from the change i see in the poem after the first three stanzas. she seems to try and trap the reader as if the poem were her song. there is a main thme of helplessness in the siroens song and it goes along with how men treat women and women's power over men. the siren or women in general can sing this song and make men kill themselves. it shows how women control the thought and actions of men.
through her diction she uses hooking words to capture the reader like "help me!" and "you are unique" and how she says you a lot and talks to the reader/sailor to pull them in with her "song."

Plog 4- "Punishment"

in seamus heaney's punshiment he uses the imagey of body parts and binding imagery. he also shows the theme of love lost and betrayal of another.
in punishment the strong descriptive imagery shows the reader what is going on with this women in the bog. heaney uses a lot of body imagery. he talks about the neck, nape, ribs, nipples, and other body images. he describes the woman's body and what has happened to her since the altercation between her and her sisters. other images he shows are ones of binding. heaney talks about the rock that is on top of the woman and the noose that is around her neck. these images along with the blindfold and the bandages go along with the binding imagery. there was also a lot of unsual images to describe things, like the amber beads used to describe the woman's nipples and the stubble of the black corn used to describe her hair.
the two themes in this poem are lost love and betrayal. the theme of love lost is conveyed in punishment because the speaker talks about the memories of love but she soon after died and how the speaker says "i almost love you." this shows how she was thinking of love but that it soon after ended. the speaker saying that line shows that he could've loved her in time but at that moment he didn't and that is another example of love lost. the second theme in punishment was betrayal. the two commited the crime of adultery but the young woman was the only punished. she had been betrayed by the man who says "in but would have cast, i know, the stones of silence." this shows how he stood by and did nothing when he knew he should also be being punished for the crime.

plog 3- mid term break

in seamus heaney's poem mid-term break. we see through his diction the theme of death and the contrast of big and small and old and young.
the stark imagery in the poem shows the reader what exactly is going on in the house as the speaker walks in. we see the baby and the old men and the mother and father and all of the other event going on very clearly through the descriptive vocabulary heaney uses. we can see into the time period he wrote in also through the diction with words like sick bay and pram, words that aren't commonly used in today's language.
the contrast of big and small starts in the first stanza when the speaker is talking about "big jim evans" and in the second he talk about babies. another contrast that is seen is the contrast of old and young. we see the young college studnet and the deceased four year old in contras to the old men who stand up to shake the young one's hand and how the parents them selves are older. heaney also uses the word eldest to describe the college student which goes along with the theme of young and old.

plog 2-forbbiding mourning

in john donne's forbidding mounring, he usues circular imagery as a symbol for the love and bond between these two people. through the use of rhyme and circular images and language he creates an empathetic and sentimental tone along with other lit techniques such as emjambent and the overall structure of the poem which helps to show the soothing and somber mood of the poem.
the use of circular images in stanzas 3 and 9 are literal and specifi refernces to circles as doone uses the words 'sphere' and 'circle' to show the imagery of a circle. in stanzas 6, 8, and again 9. in stanza 6 the speaker talks about two souls that are one which creates an image of commitment, which could be seen as a circle since the two are together and there's nothing seperating them like how a circle has no beginning or end. in stanza 8 he talks about a pivoting foot where you would go around and be back where you started which is also an image of a circle. in stanza 9 along with the literal image of a circle he also creates the image of a circle in the last line where he says " and makes me end, where i begun" this creates the effect of a circle because he is going around from the beginning and enging at the beginning. with the use of the circular images he creates the image of strong, unbreakable bond between the two.
the rhyming through out the poem also creates a soothing effect that goes along with the overall mood of the poem. he uses end rhyme along with some internal rhyme to achieve this. the structure of the line indentures and the emjambents also help to emphasis and control the flow of the poem.