The contemplative and solemn tone exhibits the serious nature of the poem as the speaker reflects on life, aging and mortality through Harwood's use of natural imagery. ... Harwood's utilisation of the word "rattl[e]" not only evokes the sound of the shells but also reiterates the connotations of childhood toys and innocence previously suggested by the simile "like a doll". ... Emphasis on the speaker's approach to middle-age is achieved through the utilisation of the word "autumn", which often symbolises maturity, middle age and the harvest of a ...

• Word Count: 856
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Obviously, this boy is a splendid example of Grecian, almost godlike beauty and innocence. ... Set in late 18th - early 19th century Italy, it tells the story of the protagonist, Cosimo Piovasco di Rondo, a rebellious nobleman who, at an age of twelve, reacted against his father's authoritarianism, and the unfairness of being forced to eat the most gruesome dishes of decapitated snails and other indelicacies prepared by his sister. He took off to the treetops, as boys of that age are wont to do. ... As Calvino stated, Cosimo is something of a "Don Quixote of the Enlightenment", watching, ...

• Word Count: 1221
• Approx Pages: 5
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

We witness the child is ignorant of the sorrows of death as she wept for what began' Thus a loss of innocence. ... The use of the oxymoron ancient innocence' and quote near breaking point' indicates how fragile and dependent the father has become. ... Strong Imagery such as ripening of fruit' not only symbolizes the ripening of time and old age but the fact this change is viewed as positive. ... In the short story sky high by Hannah Robert' we experience two contrasting periods of a women's life and witness how she has changed due to time and age. ... Both ...

• Word Count: 2540
• Approx Pages: 10
• Grade Level: Undergraduate