“He thought he kept the universe alone,” too most people the thoughts of being alone are very frightening. It is human nature to search for companionship. In the poem “The Most of It,” Robert Frost uses a wealth of strong imagery to tell a story of a person who has lost his loved one to death and has to suffer the feeling of loneliness and emptiness created by it. Frost uses the setting of a lake surrounded by a forest to convey a feeling of peace and of being alone to the reader. A man is sitting on the edge of the lake, crying out for someone, his echo being his only company.
After ime, a buck swam across the lake and appeared on the shore and abruptly runs into the brush, away from sight. Although the man only caught a glimpse of the deer for a short moment, it was long enough for him to feel that he was no longer alone, but had something there, even though it was not tangible. The clues given to the reader that someone has passed on are the words “wake” and three lines down, the word “morning. ” A wake can be many things; one is that it is a vigil that is held in honor of a person who has recently died. “Morning” can be taken as “mourning” and be seen as Frost grieving for a loved one.
One also develops the impression that Frost is mourning a great loss, such as a spouse or soul mate, because of the line, “He would cry out on life, that what it wants/ Is not its own love back in copy speech/ But counter- love. ” That quote shows the reader that the man was alone, so alone, that he “cried out on life” asking for it to give his lost love back. He doesn’t want to love someone who agrees with him wholly, and had no ideas of their own, but someone who is articulate, and has opinions of their own. He wants someone he could talk to and love for who they are, not who they try to be.
He had this in his lost love, and now he has no one to share his feelings and emotions with. He was truly alone in the world. ““Nothing came of what he cried,” until one day when an amazing thing happened, something appeared that made him no longer feel so alone. “Instead of proving human when it neared/ As a great buck it powerfully appeared. ” This “buck” symbolizes his lost love, instead of coming back to him in her tangible form; he realized that she was all around him, no matter where he was. She was always in his memories, in his heart. He no longer felt alone, but at peace knowing she was in a better lace, but still with him.
Although the poem has rhyme scheme (a,b,a,b,c,d,c,d,e,f,e,f,g,h,g,h,I,j,I,j) it feels more like Frost is writing a first draft of a story. The last line, “And forced the underbrush- and that was all. ” Seems a rather abrupt ending. The buck came and went, and that was all. It seems as though Frost wanted to say more, but wasn’t able to. It also seems a sad ending, in that the “buck” came into his life and left just as quickly, leaving only a memory. Frost does not give a tangible identity to what he was looking for. He uses the term “it” to describe this thing.
He does not know exactly what he wants, so giving it the broad term of “it,” allows for “it” to be anything. Frost is searching for something to fulfill his empty heart, and he finds that in the “buck. ” In the beginning of the poem Frost is crying out, trying to find something to fulfill his loneliness. By the end, he has found something to lessen the pain of his loss, but it is fleeting. Although, it was able to ring Frost to the realization that he was not alone, but what he was looking for is always around him. Frost found what he was looking for, but not until he came to terms with is loss.
He will never be alone again, and he never was in the first place, for he had the memories, of his wife. Those memories will always remain the same and will always keep her in his life. Word Count: 725 [pic]Sponsored Listings All portraits the eyes are really big and open, but are lacki… All portraits the eyes are really big and open, but are lacking life, giving the impression that the subject is mentally not there whereas physically, the subject’s eyes are looking straight ahead, a good example can be noted in Freud’s work entitled ‘Girl With a White Doggy’‘.
The ubject’s mouth is also rather big and throughout most of Freud’s works the subject have their mouths closed, adding to the stillness in nature. Some hint of a sexual connotation is noted as Freud draws in the subject in ‘Girl With a White Doggy’ with one bare breast. The subject clearly marks the breast with her hand. Often one can pay attention to very small obscure details that can lead to the personalities of his subjects. In ‘Girl With a White Doggy’, we notice a very small ring on the woman’s finger. This could lead to her being a wife, or a mother perhaps.
After one notices these ittle details, one can look again at the face and collect more information from the expressions in the subject’s face. In this work’s case, we see the subject may have suffered a loss in her family life, since her still and daydream face gives us the impression that the character is miserable. One thing that is very important as well in reference to the eyes, the artist makes it a point to show the character deliberately looking at the viewer or having the eyes deliberately hidden. In the work, ‘Strange Bedfellows’ the subject is covering her eyes masking them from the viewer.
Going back to ‘Girl With a White Doggy’ we can see clearly the subject is close to staring the viewer right in the eyes. However, Freud still leaves the eyes lifeless, so whether or not the subject is staring at the viewer, he or she knows the subject is somewhere else in his or her mind. One of Freud’s Self-Portraits, shows however, that Freud may not have had the same approach to painting himself. He did not make an effort to emphasize his eyes, and the painting was not very fleshy in nature. We can also observe that an exaggerated viewpoint is being used in the painter’s ork of himself.
Word Count: 366 [pic] Abuse Abuse Many people may never experience what it is like to be abused, or to feel hatred for a parent, but in Bastard Out Of Carolina, the reader gets to relive what it is like to be abused through the eyes of a child. This engrossing and wonderfully written story will open your eyes to the reality of child abuse. The story is told through the eyes of Ruth Anne Boatwright, a child brought into the world with an unknown father and a mother who struggled to bring her up properly in a situation bound for despair. This harrowing account ill leave you speechless and flabbergasted.
Bastard Out Of Carolina is bound to make an everlasting impression in the mind of its readers. Ruth Anne was born into a family of Boatwrights, known throughout the south for their rough-edged ways. She was born when the south was no place for young mothers and their illegitimate children, yet her mother, Anney was determined to bring “Bone” up in a caring and loving environment. Anney did not want to see her little girl grow up to be a Boatwright woman. She wanted to see her daughter make something of her life, something almost impossible in South Carolina.
Anney’s immense love for Bone was visible in almost every aspect of life. Everything that she did revolved around Bone and how it would make her feel. When Mama married Lyle Parsons, a gentle and loving truck driver, both Mama and Bone thought they had been blessed by god. Lyle’s kind and humorous demeanor made him appear almost as an angel in the eyes of Anney and Bone. Things didn’t last for long, though. When Lyle was killed in a car accident, Bone was sure things would never be the same, and she was right. Soon, Mama gave birth to Lyle’s daughter, Reese.
Reese’s locks of curly lond hair and her small smile reminded Mama of Lyle everytime she looked at her. Mama swore she would never marry again because she could love no man the way she loved Lyle. But soon, Glen Waddell started courting Mama. At first, gentle and loving, Anney thought that he would make a good father for her two children. Little did she know that Glen was hiding dark secrets that would soon tear the family up forever. After the honeymoon, Mama and “Daddy Glen” bought a house in Greenville, South Carolina, far from the home that they lived in before, far from the aunts and the uncles that meant so much to Bone and Reese.
In the beginning, Daddy Glen demonstrated no signs of hate or abuse. He brought the kids presents, he took Bone places. He wanted to love and be loved. But from the beginning, Bone saw something suspicious in Daddy Glens icy blue eyes. She saw hatred and contempt. Bone could read Daddy Glen, and she was scared of what might happen. Slowly, Glen’s behavior started changing. He would yell at the smallest things, often blaming Bone for everything. Bone saw Glen looking at her, in strange and seductive manners, and when the abuse finally began, Bone knew that she had to be strong, if only for er Mama’s sake.
The abuse continued for months, and soon, Bone began to believe that she was to blame for everything. It wasn’t Daddy Glen who was acting wrong, it was she, and she was wrong. Mama often passed off Bone’s abuse as her fault also, warning Bone to be good in front of Daddy Glen. The abuse however, was caused by Glen’s immense jealousy for Bone. He saw how Mama caressed her and cared for her. He saw how Mama would do anything for her, how she would hold her and never let her go. Glen’s jealousy turned to angry rage. He thought that if he could get past Bone, Mama would be his, and all his.
The abuse continued until one day Aunt Alma noticed immense scarring on the back of Bone’s legs. She immediately confronted Anney and showed her the scars. Astounded and shocked, Anney moved out. She scolded Glen for abusing her baby. She didn’t believe that he could actually be that overpowering and dominating. Although they were far from Daddy Glen, Bone could tell that Mama still loved him, even though he had mentally and physically abused her little girl. Bone knew that it was inevitable, Mama would go back to Daddy Glen, but Bone wouldn’t go with her. The two remained separated for months.
But one day, Daddy Glen came to the apartment. The abuse that occurred in the next few minutes, was something Daddy Glen had never done before. Daddy Glen raped Bone, broke her arm, and left her bruised and bleeding. When Mama walked in on the scene, she scooped Bone up in her arms and left for the hospital, but Daddy Glen would soon convince Anney that he was truly sorry, and Anney would take Glen back. But, Bone did as she vowed to do. Bone stayed with her Aunt Alma, and Mama left with Daddy Glen at her side. Bone knew she would never seen her beloved mother again.
