I think that Icarus isn’t sorry because he dared to push the limits and the risk takers are often some of the most important people in history. On the other hand it pushes the moral of too much or too little of a good thing is bad. If he got too low he would dampen his wings and be unable to fly and if he flew too high then his wings would melt. ( Read more... )

In Eavan Boland’s “The Pomegranate” the narrator sees the myth of Demeter and Persephone as a metaphor for growing up and moving into the big scary world. The narrator says that she was first the child Persephone and then eventually became the mother Demeter. Here she talks about being on her own for the first time: “As a child in exile in a city ( Read more... )

            When you think of a love song you think of a movie scene where the music is playing in the background and everything seems to be just right and then they kiss. As a human race we hold a notion that love conquers all and is always beautiful. From reading the title of T.S Eliot “The Love Song of J Alfred Prufrock" one would think that the ( Read more... )

All three poems represent some sort of growing that comes from maturing or getting older. Richard Wilbur’s “The Writer” talks about his daughter growing from a child to becoming a writer in which she enters “the sill of the world” (590). In “Packing for the Future: Instructions” Lorna Crozier talks about what one would experience when going into ( Read more... )

The author of the boat uses three other fictional stories to create more depth and to allow the reader to understand the author’s intention. The three references in the story are to Eustacia Vye, Moby Dick, and David Copperfield. All three have characters that have surrendered their life to the water in some form and have done so because of a ( Read more... )

In Alice’s “Boys and Girls” the narrator speaks of different rooms in the house so that they each elicit a different feeling. The fathers work area is first mentioned, which shows an importance to the fathers area. When speaking of the environment she depicts a brightly lit area with whitewashed walls, and describes it as feeling safe. Most ( Read more... )