Yeats wrote a series of rose poems, including “To the Rose Upon the Rood of Time,”“The Secret Rose,”“The Rose Tree” and “The Rose of the World.” For Yeats, the flower reconciles the binary of temporal and eternal. It unifies these concepts in two ways. First, the rose main...
While a symbol might occur once in literature to signify an idea or an emotion, a motif can be an element or idea that repeats throughout that piece of literature. It is closely related to a theme but is more of a supporting role to the theme than a theme itself. It is within the ...
Hawthorne develops this idea of femininity as a defect, and endows these women with actual bodily anomalies in order to explore the ways in which the symbols on the body, or the body itself, invite a variety of interpretation. In doing so, he shows that these interpretations reveal as much...
Manhood And Femininity In Macbeth Analysis Shakespeare employs a great deal of imagery to depict certain situations, for example he uses the image of blood many times. At this stage in the play Lady Macbeth is confident while Macbeth is subject to frightened loyalty. However, what Macbeth fears...
Meanings and „essences” in Ana Blandiana’s lyrical poetry. The degradation of the symbols of femininity: the water and the moonpoemsignifiedsymbolwatermoonpoetic imaginaryThrough the significance of her language and beyond it, on the semantic level, Ana Blandiana ...
Refusing Butler's Binary: Bisexuality and Performative Melancholia in Mrs. Dalloway In The Psychic Life of Power, Judith Butler argued a woman "accomplishes" normative femininity by rejecting same-sex pleasure. Butler further argues that n... Nowell,Marshall - 《Journal of Bisexuality》 被引量:...
The pink ribbons, while at first glance seems to indicate femininity, also is a blend of the passionate associations of red and the purity of white. Oftentimes, colors are overlooked and perceived as nothing more than the reflection of particles of light. However, the colors frequently contain ...
Woman-water homology appears in modern Bengali literature (namely poetry) in various aspects: as the archetypal symbol of creation and destruction, symbol of the womb as the beginning and end of life and rebirth (connoting both physical womb and eternal womb), and also of the womb as dark ...
How does Hemingway use conflict to advance the message in The Short Happy Life of Francis Macomber? How is the theme of femininity and the power of women from ''To Kill a Mockingbird'' still relevant today? In Of Mice and Men, what do the rabbits symbolize? How...
Innocence; femininity Purple Royalty; bruising or pain Red Passion; sensuality; revolution; violence; war; blood; immoral; danger; fire White Purity; power; conquest; innocence; sickly; white race; good; light (heaven) Yellow Light; brightness; comprehension; rotting; heat; decay; old age ...