Compare And Contrast Anyone Lived In A Pretty How Town
Hunter McEntaffer
American Literature
Ms. Gibbs
17 November 2016
Conveying Love or Neglect What makes one love story different than the other? Is it the plot or is it more so how an author tells the story? Francis Scott Fitzgerald, author of “The Great Gatsby” and e.e. Cummings, Author of “anyone lived in a pretty how town” bear similar themes of love and carelessness through the use of diction, imagery, and symbolism. The two authors lived through the 1920’s and the lost generation and expressed the alike themes they saw in the people of their time. Both of the selections reveal the similar yet different consequences of love and carelessness, one using a novel and the other using poetry. Fitzgerald and cummings both used diction in …show more content…
Fitzgerald uses imagery in his novel to work as symbolism. The colors he uses to describe the objects around him are linked to a meaning, green being the one for Gatsby’s hope for love (Fitzgerald 180). Also the weather he uses to describe the day is connected to the mood of the characters and events. In the seventh chapter of “The Great Gatsby” the weather is blazing hot to symbolize the hot headed fight about to occur where Daisy tells Tom she doesn’t love him (Fitzgerald 113). E.e. cummings creates an image of the dedication by using the actions of the characters to symbolize their dedication to their love or their carelessness of everyone else (cummings). Cummings also uses seasons to display time passing (ln 3,11,34). Over time characters either see the love Noone has for Anyone or that no one has love for anyone (cummings ln 12). The next way the theme was portrayed throughout the two works of literature was symbolism. Fitzgerald’s style focused mainly on the works of symbolism. In his novel he uses the color green to symbolize Gatsby’s hope of achieving Daisy’s love, Alcohol to represent the carelessness of people to the law, the eyes of T.J. Eckleberg as a god who watches over the careless, Nick’s honesty to represent reality, and much more (Fitzgerald 159,160,176,180). Cummings also uses symbolism in his poem in the repeated lines. In lines 3, 11, and 34 Cummings uses the seasons to
American Literature
Ms. Gibbs
17 November 2016
Conveying Love or Neglect What makes one love story different than the other? Is it the plot or is it more so how an author tells the story? Francis Scott Fitzgerald, author of “The Great Gatsby” and e.e. Cummings, Author of “anyone lived in a pretty how town” bear similar themes of love and carelessness through the use of diction, imagery, and symbolism. The two authors lived through the 1920’s and the lost generation and expressed the alike themes they saw in the people of their time. Both of the selections reveal the similar yet different consequences of love and carelessness, one using a novel and the other using poetry. Fitzgerald and cummings both used diction in …show more content…
Fitzgerald uses imagery in his novel to work as symbolism. The colors he uses to describe the objects around him are linked to a meaning, green being the one for Gatsby’s hope for love (Fitzgerald 180). Also the weather he uses to describe the day is connected to the mood of the characters and events. In the seventh chapter of “The Great Gatsby” the weather is blazing hot to symbolize the hot headed fight about to occur where Daisy tells Tom she doesn’t love him (Fitzgerald 113). E.e. cummings creates an image of the dedication by using the actions of the characters to symbolize their dedication to their love or their carelessness of everyone else (cummings). Cummings also uses seasons to display time passing (ln 3,11,34). Over time characters either see the love Noone has for Anyone or that no one has love for anyone (cummings ln 12). The next way the theme was portrayed throughout the two works of literature was symbolism. Fitzgerald’s style focused mainly on the works of symbolism. In his novel he uses the color green to symbolize Gatsby’s hope of achieving Daisy’s love, Alcohol to represent the carelessness of people to the law, the eyes of T.J. Eckleberg as a god who watches over the careless, Nick’s honesty to represent reality, and much more (Fitzgerald 159,160,176,180). Cummings also uses symbolism in his poem in the repeated lines. In lines 3, 11, and 34 Cummings uses the seasons to