Harmonium

Koji Fukada's "Harmonium" examines the consequences of the past in the most extreme fashion A seemingly regular family gets an unexpected visitor The Suzuokas are a seemingly regular family of the three, living in the suburbs. The husband, Toshio, runs a small metalworking industry in the basement of the house they live in. His wife, Fumie is a homemaker and their little daughter, Hotaru goes to the elementary school and takes harmonium lessons. However, when Kusataro Yasaka, an old acquaintance

What are “Castratos of moon-mash?” Who are these seemingly real but only partially embodied figures, which Wallace Stevens mentions almost in passing at line three in his poem, “Men Made Out of Words.” As readers, how are we to understand this short ambivalent phrase, which while confounding us appears to answer the question raised in the previous two lines: “What should we be without the sexual myth, / The human revery or the poem of death” (1-2). Stevens does not elaborate on the image of the moon-mashed

Song for my mother’, ‘Harmonium’ and ‘Nettles. The title of each poem describes exactly what it is and what is about. ‘Praise Song for my Mother’ is not actually a poem, it is a praise son. Which in Guyana (where Grace Nichols was born) it is something written after a person close to them has dies. It is written to commemorate and rejoice about a persons life. ‘Nettles’ is a story about a Scannells son who falls into a pit of stinging nettles. Finally, ‘Harmonium’, ‘Harmonium’ almost says what it’s

In both “Harmonium” and “In Paris with you”, a difficult relationship is portrayed though Armitage and Fenton write of two different kinds of relationships, the reader has no problem detecting the difficult relationship. One of the very first things we see in “In Paris with You” is the speakers inability to say the words ‘I’m in love you’, frequently he says “I’m in Paris with you” as a replacement, using the city that is associated with love and romance instead. Perhaps Fenton is trying to portray

the text “Twenty men crossing a bridge, into a village, Are twenty men crossing twenty bridges, into twenty villages” (Harmonium, 1923) visibly tell us that the poet is trying to convey the readers that in order to have a good and better community, the people in the community have to work together. The line from the text “Or one man crossing a single bridge into a village” (Harmonium, 1923) informs the readers that the ideas of twenty people are better compared to idea of a single person. The poet

Sunday Morning is far and away Stevens’ best poem in Harmonium, and may be the best he ever wrote, but it also does not fit with the overall style of the collection and as such I will pretend that it does not exist. Additionally, its length and copious allusions make it unsuitable for a fair analysis at present. Instead, “The Snow Man” and other vignettes match much more neatly here. “The Snow Man” is one of the most easily understood poems in Harmonium. It is also definitively human and personal, drawing

Sophia Marchese Film 1010 Essay #3 October 2015 There are many aspects that go into the art of filmmaking. Almost everything that the audience experiences in a film has significance in one way or another. Filmmakers use specific components in order to express thoughts and ideas through their work. These fundamentals of filmmaking typically contribute towards meaning. Audiences can draw multiple different meanings from a film, as everyone interprets things in their own way; but ultimately an overall

James and Amelia Emma (née Pavitt) Gardner, who came to Harbour Grace, Newfoundland about 1856 as mission teachers. Gardner wrote that Emma was “an excellent musician, singer, and teacher,” who played the harmonium at St Paul’s Anglican Church from the age of 13. She apparently played the harmonium on the day that her brother, Reverend George Gardner, rector of the Heart’s Content congregation at St Mary’s Anglican Church at the time, held a service to commemorate the receipt of the first message transmitted

A Guided Epiphany In “Eveline,” the main character, Eveline, lives a terrible life with a stern father, a miserable occupation, and a dreary home. When she is offered the chance to leave her abysmal life and start a new one with her lover Frank, she rejects this proposition and remains in Ireland. Immediately this presents the reader with a paradox. Why did Eveline stay? Wasn’t her life terrible? It is not until the reader digs a little deeper into “Eveline” does the paradox solve itself. Joyce

Vonnegut's foremost purpose in The Sirens of Titan was to provide a social satire in which he could poke ridicule at the military, religion and the stock market. By examining the main characters of Beatrice Rumfoord and Malachi Constant, Vonnegut explores the answer for mankind's purpose of life. Beatrice Rumfoord, also known as Bee, remained in the “highest attainable position” in the United States and her talent was a “poetess” (6). Even though she remained well endowed, she was a mystery to the