Trifles

In the play, "Trifles" by Susan Glaspell, the main characters are Mrs.Hale and Mrs.Peters as they are interested in the death or Mr.Wright. Some differences the ladies have are that Mrs.Hale doesn't like that the police are in the house, while Mrs.Peters knows that it's just their duty. They also disagree with each other as Mrs.Hale believes that the investigators are trying to turn the house against Mrs.Wright in order to lock her up, while Mrs.Peters says that the law is the law meaning that the police have to do their job and if that's locking up Mrs.Wright then so be it. Mrs.Hale also insists fixing one of the threads on the quilt while Mrs.Peters doesn't believe that they should be touching things inside the house. I believe that Glaspell made these two women different in order to add more suspense to the play. As Mrs.Hale doesn't seem to care for authority and Mrs.Peters is more worried about things. Their differences bring them together toward the end of the play as they dispose of the bird together that would've been a key piece of evidence for the authorities. Which is also how they contribute to the end of play as disposing the bird really leaves the authorities with no leads and nothing to go on.

Week 10

For this post I focused on a few of my favorite music artists to look at Figures of Speech. The first artist I looked at was the Red Hot Chili Peppers. In the song "Snow", they use an Anaphora when in their chorus they use the word "The" to start each verse of that chorus. The lines go " The more I see, The less I know, The more I like to let it go." As they repeatedly "The". Jay-Z also uses an Anaphora when in his song "Encore" he says "I came, I saw, I conquered." He repeatedly uses I at the beginning of each sentence. Adele also uses a Figure of Speech when she uses a Hyperbole to exaggerate calling her lover when she says "I must have called a million times." She uses that in her song "Hello". These are just a few instances in which artists use Figures of Speech in their work. When artists use figure of speech they are trying to get a message across, something that they have encountered or something that they have been through, they just put a little twist on it. I never really payed attention to the use of Figures of Speech in music until I really started paying attention to it and reading the lyrics for this post, but there are a lot of uses for Figures of Speech in music.

At the San Francisco Airport

I chose to focus on "At the San Francisco Airport" written by Yvor Winters. The wording in this poem is a little strange in my eyes. It seems as if when she use Terminal, that she means it in two ways. I notice this because in the first line she says "This is the terminal, the light" but then in the first line of the last stanza she says "This is the terminal, the break." So she uses terminal in two different ways. Also, when she says "You take the way you must take." I think she says this because when you go to get on an airplane, you're doing it for a reason, you must take that way because you chose to travel, you need to get to where you're going. I also think it's interesting when she uses yard in the first stanza. She's talking about the planes in the yard rather than calling it a runway or just strictly the airport. So the use of yard in that line is interesting to me when she could've said runway or airport though yard is the correct term. I think it's ironic that she says "Beyond this point, on lines of air" because you're getting ready to fly and travel by air but also because it's called an airline so for her to use lines of air is ironic in a way.  This could also be viewed as a pun.

Stop all the Clocks

In the poem "Stop all the Clocks, Cut off the Telephone" by W.H. Auden, it seems as if someone has died. The speaker seems to be a woman who just lost her husband as in the very last line of the poem she says "For nothing now can ever come to any good." Something that only a wife or husband would say about each other. Also, when the speaker says "He is dead." in the second stanza, leads me to assume that it's a woman talking about her husband. The speaker is speaking to an audience, maybe her friends or family. The speakers attitude is very upset, depressed. As she has just lost her husband. The setting switches I believe in this poem, as I believe that it starts out in her house and then maybe to a funeral home. In the first stanza she says "Stop the dog from barking" and "Bring out the coffin, let the mourners come." The dog would be at her house, the coffin would be at the funeral home. The situation is that this woman just lost her husband and so she is very upset over this. The tone of this poem is somber, very depressing. As she mentions that nothing will ever be any good, and that she "thought love would last forever." She is depressed about the loss of her husband. The theme of this is grief, or even depression. I come to this finding because of the speakers tone and the way that she is describing things as the speaker is making it seem as if her world is coming to an end.

A Certain Lady

In this poem, a see a man who loves a woman who either doesn't love him back or even know that he exists. In this first couple lines of the poem he seems upbeat, and happy. However as we reach the end of the poem he turns into a bit of somber tone, where is more speaking from his heart about his losses when he says "nor can you ever see the thousand little deaths my heart has died." Also when he says "And all the straining things within my heart, you'll never know." He also speaks about all the things he can do for her like smile, and paint his mouth and trace her eye brows but she'll never see or understand the pain he feels inside. However at the end, it seems like he would do her wrong when she leaves or if she left. When he says, "Oh, I can kiss you blithely as you go..and what goes on, my love, while you're away, you'll never know." So it makes it seem as if he would do her wrong when she left as she'd have no idea what he was doing which would give him free range. So it's a bit of a tough story to pick up toward the end as he kind of switches his tone here for a different meaning.

Home Burial

There are two different speakers in this poem, the husband and wife, the mother and father of the child they just lost. They take two separate approaches on grieving, the husband seems to have accepted the loss of his child, while the mother is still very upset over it. The father, while he has seemed to have accepted the loss of his child, is now more focused on comforting his wife and making sure that she is okay, which you can tell by her tone of voice that she is not. I feel as if the husband's approach is better than his wife's. While i'm sure that he is upset, he handles it much differently, by not losing his cool and by focusing more on his wife, while she just seems angry about everything now and is uncooperative with her husband is so upset that she needs to leave the house when she says "I must go- somewhere out of this house." The wife, however, does have a reason to be upset after losing her child, I wouldn't know the feeling and hope to never know the feeling, so I can understand that she is upset, but for the long term I think that her husband has the better approach.