Larkin comments on what he sees, contrasting the natural world with modern, commercialised society. ... These derogatory terms convey Larkin's resentment towards them and the shallow nature of their desires. ... The word 'stare' makes the people seem very focused and determined to gain what is essentially unattainable. ...
Alvarez painfully describes the feeling of a true artist - one that suffers painfully from the realization that the written word has the power to be more honest than what it attempts to describe. ... "What makes her a peculiar, non-traditional Dominican writer is her divided identity," Stavans remarks (Stavans "Las" 13). ... A lot of what I have worked through has to do with coming to this country and losing a homeland and a culture (Alvarez Interview 5)." ... That poet at Lucinda's party the night before argued that no matter how much of it one lost, in the midst of some profound em...
She is skilled at image-making, " the images themselves are important for what they tell us of her sense of being victimized and victimizer but more significant than the actual image is the swift ease with which she can turn it to various uses- (Uroff). ... The images themselves are important for what they tell us of "her sense of being victimized and victimizer but more significant the actual image is the swift ease with which she can turn in to various uses- (Uroff). ... And then I knew what to do. ...
