Literature and Society For my essay this week‚ I chose to use the Reader-Response Perspective to write about Kate Chopin’s piece The Story of an Hour and Bobbie Ann Mason’s story called Shiloh. I believe this approach works well for both of these stories because “one benefit of using reader-response perspective to interpret literary works is that you begin with what is primary and basic—your initial reaction‚ your primary responses” (DiYanni‚ R. pp. 2177. Since both stories deal with the
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Overcoming Tragedies We all experience grief in our lives. In the short story "Shiloh"‚ Bobbie Ann Mason’s narrator introduces us to a young couple struggling with their relationship. They start out as a happily married couple who experience many tragedies in their lives which eventually leads to Norma Jean wanting a divorce from her husband‚ Leroy. This couple reaches a crossroad in their marriage. Norma Jean is a round character‚ who shows change throughout the narrative. For example she
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What techniques has Carol Ann Duffy used in her poetry to make old stories and fables relevant to modern audiences? Comment on upon the use of language‚ imagery and structure. ’Mrs. Faust’ is written in the casual‚ contemporary style which suits its setting and adds fittingly to the collection of ’The Worlds Wife’. In this collection most poems explore the feminist principles or the modern state of them. This poem however‚ introduces a new issue to the collection; the materialistic nature of
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125730071120Character analysis: Norma Jean Character analysis: Norma Jean In “Shiloh” by Bobbie Ann Mason‚ we are introduced to 34-year-old Norma Jean. A married woman since the age of 18 years of age to her husband Leroy Moffit. In the story we learn that she had given birth to their son‚ but dies suddenly which caused a rift in the marriage. The only thing that kept the marriage afloat was Leroy not being home‚ but now Leroy’s permanent stays at home causes Norma wanting her independence and
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The anthology ‘The World’s Wife’ is a collection of poems written by Carol Ann Duffy in which the writer takes on the persona of a range of characters; these being real‚ fictional‚ mythical and biblical. The wives in the collection may be of long suffering‚ but they are not victims. Duffy tackles controversial issues and her women are by no means victorious‚ but she shows the women as they are; not the stereotypical feministic view but angry‚ sardonic‚ impatient women. Duffy seeks to highlight the
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Compare your Responses to ‘Kid’ by Simon Armitage with you Responses to one poem Carol Ann Duffy and tow from the pre-1914 Poetry Bank Poets use features of form‚ structure and language to force the reader to respond in different ways to different poems. Different methods of language are used by poets to produce different feelings about a speaker or generate descriptions of certain people. ‘Kid’ by Simon Armitage is a poem focusing on the partnership of Batman and Robin. It is a monologue from
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completely on my own‚ if I’m going to understand myself and everything around me.” (Ibsen). After she finished talking finally and explaining herself she left her husband‚ three children‚ and everything he had given her behind. In the short story “shiloh” Norma Jean Moffitt and Leroy Moffitt is a married couple who just like Nora and Trovald have deep rooted problems that they never talk about. The roles have flipped in the story Leroy now being home and no longer working only working on his crafts
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Write a close analysis of 40 lines of poetry by Carol Ann Duffy and discuss how far these lines reflect her view on love as presented in “The Worlds Wife” “Thetis” by Carol Ann Duffy explores feminist views of the writer which is demonstrated through the pursuit to find love and the power struggle for female independence. Thetis is one of Duffy’s poems in the cluster “The Worlds Wife”‚ which has not been defined by a prefix of “Mrs” unlike the poems “Mrs Lazarus”‚ “Mrs Midas” and “Mrs Aesop”. Duffy
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evidence. Well that was an event that occurred to the people living in the 1940’s through 1950’s‚ this was called the Communist Red Scare. Bobbie Ann Mason the author makes the characters in the story be affected by Red Scare to a point that the main character blamed the communist for her mother’s miss carriage. In the short story “DETROIT SKYLINE‚ 1949” by Bobbie Ann Mason reflects those events of paranoia that happened in the 1940s through 1950s of the Communist Red Scare. The Communist Red Scare was
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difficult time getting around life and trying to survive‚ just like the author Bobbie Ann Mason in her article‚ “Being Country.” The author explains major difficulties that affected her life and her family’s life. Some of these major difficulties include a broken dream‚ a lack of food‚ and a restricted wardrobe. The most complicated aspect of going through a horrible childhood is the dream to change. Bobbie Ann Mason in her article “Being Country‚” explains this experience. While the author’s mother
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