Friday, April 29, 2011

The Awakening- Part III

Conclusion of the novel comes up when the  Robert makes a difficult decision to break up the relationship with Edna. Particularly,Edna finds the note from Robert in which he specifies the final decision thus creating a large impact at Edna's life. As a result, Edna realizes that she is trapped between her and society expectations. After that she acknowledges the fact that the only people who influenced and supported in her life were her boys Raoul and Etienne. In addition to this, she asserts the claim that she made prior to Adèle that she is willing to sacrifice her life for her boys, but not herself. Finally, at the end she decides to make suicide because in that way she believes that will save the life of her boys.The end of The Awakening is portrayed with significant moment when  Edna release herself to the waters of the Gulf of Mexico.

Tuesday, April 5, 2011

The Awakening- Part II


In this part we can highlight the part where the Edna experiences despair , and the visits that she makes to her friends in Grand Isle, particularly the Mademoiselle Reisz. After many consultations with her friends, she takes the decision to move somewhere else in order to be free from anything.  Apparently, she understands that Robert moved back to the New Orleans. She tended to create new contact with , but it resulted unsuccessful. She tried to convince Robert to return home, and once again shows her love to him.  Therefore, the situation becomes worse, and Edna falls in deeper anxiety. Later on, she decide to return home after the call from Alcee. Nevertheless, Edna is aware by the fact that she will face the life with full of regret and despair prior to the problems that she has with Robert. 

Kate Chopin - The Awakening ( Part I )

The introductory part elaborates the family of Pontellier's, and describes different characteristics of each member. In particular, a father who is doctor, the protagonist mother who does not work, and their two sons. The story begins when they are on vacation with many of Mr.Pontellier’s relatives and associates. In the beginning,  the Pontellier's were family like the others, except their little internal problems. For instance, Edna Pontellier in essence is engaging and handsome. Moreover, she tells about her childhood in Kentucky and her sisters weeding which was upcoming.Many times she was confused in the way that how people acted around her. Her marriage is described simply as an accident, that she just ended up getting married. She was much younger than her husband who was in his forties. During her  stay at the cottage with the other families, she makes new friends, one of which is also the son of mrs. Lebrun, Robert. On the other hand, Robert has chosen one woman for every upcoming summer to whom he devotes himself as an attendant.. Yet, although Robert devotes himself to a different woman every summer, his playful attentions to Edna differ from his treatments of past women. From this perspective, Robert is viewed as quite flirty person which slightly affects the relationship with Edna.

Monday, April 4, 2011

"Invisible Cities- Trading Cities 3"

Trading Cities is the story which tells about the city of Eutropia, the capital of a specific territory. The traveler sees Eutropia in different ways,essentially its size which is partially unequal. Additionally, It appears like a rolling plateau. The city consists of several cities that are waiting to be discovered by other inhabitants, therefore to start a new life there. However, the idea behind the story is that it reflects the rotation effect by which people are used with , but are not aware in general. Furthermore, the rotation effect in a way indicates the habits of people ,and how they change places continually. Another variant of rotation effect is partly illustrating the life cycle , where Calvino succeeded to generalize it as ongoing process. 

"Call Me" by Frank O'Hara

This beautiful poem by Frank O'Hara really impressed me in the way that he offers the reader with the something unique, something which rarely can be found in other poets. "Call Me" is built by his personal style and spontaneity, therefore combining these two and creating desired outcome. Additionally, he contributed in developing so called 'the new romanticism'.
As a consequence, he is shown to us with unique style of urbane and genuine poem; therefore, his unconditional work makes the reader to acknowledge his great work throughout the life. 



 
 

Sunday, April 3, 2011

Elizabeth Bishop's " One Art "


The poem consists of authoritarian model of writing , in which the author shows tendency to repeat lines. 
This line is repeated throughout the poem to reinforce the importance of the line. By doing this, the reader gains a deeper perception of understanding because of such repetition. It implies the fact that  modern traditions and society forces us as people to hide our feelings and emotions.In my opinion, I think that this poem appears to be a relatively complicated story of a women who is desperately trying to convince herself that loosing various things such as people, places, and things, is not a problem for her.  Bishop used repetition to try and convince herself of the things she was writing but eventually knew it was not the case.