Old Man Willow

In William Wordsworth’s autobiographical poem, The Prelude, the speaker, who in this case is also the poet, encounters unfamiliar aspects of the natural world. These unfamiliar aspects cause the speaker’s changing responses to his experience evolving from an ignorantly blissful boy who enjoys the “troubled pleasure” (ln.6) brought on by finding a boat and leaving nature’s comfort to a man who has loss his innocence and finds that the “covert of the willow tree [a symbol of enchantment, Wordsworth’s initial feeling, and sorrow, Wordsworth’s concluding feeling, making the willow tree suspect to the theme of allusion v. reality (his alluded original feeling of enchantment “proud of his skill” (ln. 12) v. his realized feeling of sorrow in the end…

That is what makes it such a beautiful tree. Our campus Weeping Willow Tree consisted of inflorescence flowers. Looking closely we were able to see that they were already drying up. Also an interesting fact about this tree is that the flowers bloomed first and now at this time it’s starting to leaf. The Weeping Cherry Tree that we analyzed had a birds nest in it that we assumed was there since last year. The appearance of this tree is very similar to the Weeping Willow Tree. However, a…

In the very beginning of my life, my environment wasn’t perfect, but it’s an experience that made me who I am today. I wasn’t raised in a set and stone environment. When I was six months old, my mom had left my dad, taking me with her. After that, it was all a blur because of all the moving that was happening. After my mom left my dad, she became a single mother and had a job at Jcpenney… She never received child support or anything, so it was tough to have to take care of me as well. My…

The genus Salix, or Willow, consists of around 400 species of trees and shrubs which can be found in nearly every continent, save for Australia and Antarctica. The wood of willows is light and therefore easily molded, and the plants versatility has lead to it developing a variety of applications ranging from basket-weaving to fire-starting. The near ubiquity and widespread applicability of willows has lead to the plant developing symbolic meaning as well, with the plant featuring prominently in…

which Pocahontas refuses, she's unhappy with the arranged marriage, she stands up to her father, and informs him that she doesn’t love Kocoum and doesn’t want someone serious and secure. This displays important characteristics indicating that Pocahontas is independent. She is characterized as a highly respected woman with sort of a brave behavior that concedes her to search for personal accomplishments, which in this case is the right path determined by nature. She fights with the desire to…

fell. He had simply existed for ages, and will go on living until the world ceases. Tom had no fears; he lived in his own little world, oblivious to the world outside his own. Tom had no interest in possession or domination (Carpenter 208). His powers allowed him to be unaffected by Frodo’s magic ring. When he wore the ring, nothing happened, he didn’t disappear. He also could see Frodo when Frodo wore the ring (Tolkien 1954, 124). The passage of Tom’s wife describing him, showed his god-like…

detail, leading me to believe that Gertrude is trying to soften the blow for Laertes who is already enraged over his father’s death and his sister’s madness; the King says, “How much I had to do to clam his rage.” This is a typically selfish reaction of Claudius which serves to emphasize the need for Laertes to control his grief, as he is an extremely fiery character. Ophelia died after collecting flowers from over a brook. I think that she was collecting them to distribute to the court,…

James Salvatore was born in 1935 and raised in Victoria, Australia with his two parents and seven younger brothers and sisters. After his parents died in 1944 James and his siblings moved to Stewart Island, New Zealand with their great grandmother named Nanny. A year had passed, being 1945, and James took on the responsibility at fifteen years old to care for his younger brothers and sisters and his great grandmother. In Stewart Island all of what was left of the Salvatore family lived in a…

The Scene It was 1976, the punk scene, when a rebellious teenager practically living in his best friend's basement was listening to the sex pistols on his vintage record player. His name was Steven Hyde, a brutally honest and down to earth, radical dude. As the last note from johnny rotten's mouth is growled out, “I wanna be anarchy”, Eric walks in. “Hey man”, says Hyde. Eric asked how's it hanging as he looks into hyde's tinted shades. “Its pretty chill I guess”. “ So, the gang is gonna…

As the era has advanced distinctive types of media, different mediums have been presented to the populace: stories, sonnets, films and so forth. Every type of media has its own particular different importance. Prior to the introduction of motion picture making, TV, writing had been a sufficient wellspring of stimulation. As innovation has advanced, writing can be viewed as motion pictures. Norwegian Wood was written by Haruki Murakami in 1987 and transformed into a film in 2010. The story…