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Emily Grierson

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Yohnapatawpha County

Birthday

...

Friends

3 friends

Homer-your-HOMMIE
tobe
Colonel Sartoris

Wall-to-Wall with Homer-your-HOMMIE

Emily Grierson: ... okay.

Homer-your-HOMMIE: Let's hang out sometime.

Emily Grierson: Hello, Homer.

Homer-your-HOMMIE: Hey, Emily. What's up?


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Description of Emily Grierson's Facebook

Her facebook, for the most part, is bare. She doesn't take useless, pointless personality tests, nor does she download a number of applications because she finds them ridiculous and a complete waste of her time. She refuses to fill out her personal information for she does not want others to know more about her than she would like. Thus, she does not post any pictures of herself or give updates on her daily activities either.

More importantly, she sets her facebook on private and has only three friends. "Homer-your-HOMMIE" is Homer. His name demonstrates how he is modern and social with other people; at the same time, it also illustrates his outgoing personality. Tobe's name is all in lowercase because the only purpose in him creating a facebook account is for Miss Emily to be able to contact him when she is in need of his services. He is her servant; there is no need for any formalities whatsoever. And finally, Miss Emily added Colonel Sartoris as a friend to reach him whenever she needs him to takes care of her taxes.

I only posted the Wall-to-Wall with Homer because I think that that would be the only Wall in which Emily would look at and/or check if she is ever on facebook. Here, Homer asks Miss Emily if they can spend time together. Homer's replies look relatively the same, while Emily's responses changed from somewhat formal to completely informal. With the ellipse, she is illustrating her hesitance to spend time with him. Nevertheless, she agrees with a period, which illustrates her final stance on the issue. This, however, can be viewed as a turning point for Miss Emily because she rarely steps outside of her house. In order to spend time with Homer, however, she is willing to take this step.

Thesis Formulated for the Thesis Worksheet

In Emily Dickinson's "Hope is the Thing with Feathers," she uses an extended metaphor to convey her interpretation of hope in contrast to pain.

The True Image Behind Digging

In Seamus Heaney's "Digging," he begins the poem by describing how "the squat pen rests; snug as a gun." In other words, a pen, to him, is equivalent to a weapon, which can be interpreted as representation of power. Thus, the simile is used as a comparison to emphasize the power of language. I chose the image above to illustrate and emphasize how, to Heaney, the pen was no different than a gun. The image above is a pen in the shape of a gun to demonstrate this point.

Throughout the rest of the poem, Heaney sheds light on the purpose of the title of the poem, "Digging." He describes in great detail how both his father and grandfather dug for a living, while he shall dig with his pen. the image above only provides the literal physical labor the poet's father and grandfather had done. So, in a sense, the image is limiting. One cannot, however, the poet himself included, cannot dig literally (or properly for that matter) with a pen. It is a metaphor that he uses to explain how he shall dig into his imagination and mind in order to write for a living. To be more specific, he will use his pen to write poetry as his occupation. Simultaneously, through the Anglo-Saxon style he uses to write, where he emphasizes on the use of alliteration and the repetition of sounds, he is able to "dig" (in a sense) through history by using a style that existed when his father and grandfather were still alive. Since Heaney is able to effectively use "digging" in a variety of ways, both explicitly and implicitly, he makes it clear that he is able use take one simple concept and show the reader a number of ways in which it can be interpreted.

I Choose To Look At Pound(s)!

The first line of Ezra Pound's "In a Station of the Metro" is written very effectively. It states, "The apparition of these faces in the crowd" (1); he uses the synectoche of faces in a crowd to better illustrate the imagery in the poem. This way, the reader can easily see how the faces are only a part of the crowd similar to the "petals" of a flower or, in this case, a bough. Moreover, choosing to use the would "apparition," which is similar to the word "appear," Pound is able to demonstrate that the reflections of the crowd appear before him in the puddle (as the title explains) "In a Station of the Metro."

The Definition of Form

Form plays a significant role in poetry because if the form of a poem is changed, then so can its meaning. In other words, if a section of a poem is translated into modern day English and written in prose, then the meaning and essence of the original poem would be lost. William Shakespeare's "Sonnet 73," for example, can be interpreted differently if its form is changed. The original version of the second quatrain states, "In me though see'st the twilight of such day / As after sunset fadeth in the west, / Which by-and-by black night doth take away, / Death's second self that seals up all in rest" (5-8). If this quatrain is paraphrased, translated into modern day English, and written in prose, however, it can change into the following: "In me you see the light that remains after the sun sets in the west, which eventually fades into the darkness of the night. Another form of death everyone experiences is through sleep." After the second quatrain is paraphrased, it appears more straightforward and simple in its meaning. Thus, it can be easily understood. By doing so, however, the essence of the original version of this quatrain is lost. Words that were originally used for a purpose were replaced by words who conveyed a similar meaning but no longer do the poem justice. The word "twilight," for example, has the word "light" inside. Thus, it illustrates how light is only a part of the sky that is setting. If the poem simply uses "light," then the imagery would be different. Instead, the reader could imagine a bright light emitting from the sun before he reads on only to find out that the sun is beginning to set. Moreover the "black night" is a deep contrast compared to the "darkness of the night." By using the color "black," Shakespeare is able to also convey that the night is so dark that is seems black. Simultaneously, he can also use this color to represent death. If Shakespeare simply illustrates the night by how the sunset eventually fades into the darkness, then the reader would only see how the sky slowly darkens. And by saying how rest is "Death's second self," Shakespear implies that sleep is another form of death. Stating it this way, however, allows Shakespeare to use alliteration and to prolong the imagery of death to the reader. In addition, by using the word "seal" instead of "experience" gives the reader a sense that people are forced to sleep rather than choosing to rest because they are tired. In relation to the rest of the sonnet, this quatrain illustrates how Shakespeare is comparing his dying self to a day that is beginning to end, and as the night ends he shall retire for the day and sleep, perhaps even forever. Thus, this is the quatrain that reveals the poet's current condition and how he is about to leave the world and his lover through death.