Thursday, January 27, 2011

Literary Luminary

Page- 70, Chapter 8,

We have in America " The Big Two-Hearted River" tradition: taking whatever wounds to the wilderness for a cure, a conversion, a rest, or whatever. And as in the Hemingway story, if your wounds aren't too bad, it works. But this isn't Michigan (or Faulkner's Big Woods in Mississippi, for that matter.) This is Alaska.

Metaphor- Such as when the author says taking whatever wounds you have to the wilderness



Page- 47, Chapter 6

No man ever followed his genius till it missed him. Though the result were bodily weakness, yet perhaps no one can say that the consequences were to be regretted, for these were a life in conformity to higher principles. If the day and the night are such that you greet them with joy, and life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs, is more elastic, more starry, more immortal,--that is your success...

Symbolism- ( life emits a fragrance like flowers and sweet-scented herbs)
Allusion- ( The true harvest of my daily life is truly intangible )

4 comments:

  1. Once again you have opened my eyes to the various literary eliments in the book so far.

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  2. nicely done... you should do literary luminary for the rest of this book club

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  3. i can see where your coming from with the metaphor and sybolism. Great stuff

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