The poem I chose was Carolyn Kizer's "Widow in Wintertime" seeing as it was the only one I even mildly understood. But for the poor reader who has to read this I am sorry if I totally miss the point that was expressed by the author. This is only my limited view on the piece. Though I did like this piece the most out of the other works there was something raw about the writing style. Something that was not expected from the first few lines.
"Last night a baby gargled in the throes of a fatal spasm. My children are all grown past infant strangles; so, reassured, I knew some other baby perished in the snow. But no. The cat was making love again". The first five lines talk about a child dying and the persona knowing that it is not her child for they had all grown up. So the persona thought that someone else's baby was dying in the snow. "But no. The cat was making love again." .
"Later, I went down and let her in. She hung her tail, flagging from her sins. Though she"d eaten, I forked out another dinner, being myself hungry all ways, and thin from metaphysic famines she knows nothing of". The second stanza speaks of the cat proudly "flagging" her tail, but this is where the persona combines the literal world with the world in her mind. The persona feeds the cat hoping to feed the metaphysic hunger inside of her even though the cat has already eaten. .
"The freckles beast! Even so, resemblances were on my mind: female and feline, though she preens herself from satisfaction, and does not mind lying even in the snow. She is lofty and bedraggled, without need to choose." The third stanza starts off with the persona comparing herself to the cat "female and feline" and from this point on I think that the cat and herself are in fact different aspect of the persona. She is projecting onto this cat things, that she may have don in her youth. Possibly projecting her youthful self onto all of the cat's actions.
The Long Wharf Theatre production of Charles Mee's Wintertime is a perfect example of the effectiveness of design elements in a play. ... The costumes used in Wintertime both define roles and gives clues as to the setting. ... Wintertime is clearly a production that depends heavily on design to present and contribute to the moods and world of the play. ...
In today's economic upheavals, downsizing, layoff, merger, and bankruptcies have cost hundreds of thousands of workers their jobs. Millions more have been shifted to unfamiliar tasks within their companies and wonder how much longer they will be employed. Adding to the pressures that workers face are new bosses, computer surveillance of production, fewer health and retirement benefits, and the feeling they have to work longer and harder just to maintain their current economic status. Workers at every level are experiencing increased tension and uncertainty, and are updating their resumes....
They had a girl child when Madhavi (husband) died and thus led Ramabai to start her career as an Indian widow. ... In this she discussed about discriminatory aspects of Hinduism, child marriage, widow's status and lack of education for women. ... She wanted to build homes for young widows where they could get education and become teachers, nurses and run their small business. ... She went to USA and after an emotional appeal requested for financial help to free Indian young widows. ... She was only addressing the problems and hardships faced by widows, and wanted to work on their impr...
Williams' poem is one of irony and the title of this poem, "The Widow's Lament in Springtime,"" foreshadows the sad irony of this poem very well. ... The term "cold fire,"" an oxymoron, is a significant aspect of this poem in that it simply relays the widow's emotional state while providing the irony a modernist, like Williams, so desires. ... In line twenty the widow mentions a story her son told her, probably in a desperate yet futile attempt to lift his mother from the mire of her grief. ... White seems to represent a shift among extremes in the widow's observations; ...
Black Widows Probably the most well known poisonous arachnid is the black widow. There are approximately ten types of black widows, of which only two or three are recognized by most people. ... The Lactrodectus mactans, more commonly known as the southern black widow, is the most dangerous. ... Unlike most other species of spider, the male black widow is the one that is hardly ever seen. ... Unlike the black widow, the brown recluse is not known for causing sickness. ...
Sacagawea was an important member of the Shoshone tribe. She was born in eastern Idaho in what is now Salmon, Idaho. It is thought that her birth year was about 1790. When Sacagawea was around the age of 10, she was captured by a raiding band of Hidatsa and carried to their camp near the border o...
Most of my life I have lived in so many uncomfortable homes. I have lived in the slums of Westchester County, New York, for most of my child hood. I shared my bedroom with roaches and rats. If I would have lived in any of these apartments for more than a year, I probably would have been able to n...
We can easily imagine a world in which paramedics always answer widows truthfully when queried. ... First, it is clear that the widow expects to know the truth. ... What if telling the truth brings the widow to the point where she commits suicide, however? ... Likewise it is impossible to judge whether upon hearing the news, the widow would commit suicide. ... We can easily imagine a world in which all paramedics lied to widows in this specific situation. ...
