AAFTER US In this poem, the poet uses a surplus of imagery to allow the reader to fully see what she is trying to get us to picture. In the first line, she talks about how rain, which can be destructive or helpful, is seeping into a room where books and other material things reside. In the lines to follow, she writes about how everything that flourished under the sun, turned away to try and find the light that they so desperately need. This shows the destructive side to rain because it paints the picture of a dark day with rain falling and silencing all activities that happen during the day. In the second paragraph, the poet writes about a portrait, which has sketches of boats and barns and this creates the image of a perfect utopia where everything is peaceful and nothing has disturbed it. The paragraph that follows this peaceful picture, is where the foreboding and evil rain begins to make its appearance again. She writes about how everything that was ever thought of or invented or t...
NNOSTROMO The fictional South American country of Costaguana is under the control of a dictator—a so-called enlightened despot—named Don Vincente Ribiera. In the province of Sulaco is a silver mind of vital national importance run by Charles Gould. Charles is married to Emilia whom has managed to charm the populace of the country in a way not entirely dissimilar to Evita, actually. Although Emilia is most assuredly not married to the despot nor in any danger of becoming a despot herself. She is married to a man who owns a richly veined silver mine. The political situation is a state of unrest, to put it mildly. In fact, factions are engaged in a revolutionary struggle for dominance over each with the ultimate goal being to overthrow Ribiera who essentially is holding onto power thanks to the existence and reliance upon Gould’s silver. That silver comes under the threat of attack and seizure once Ribiera is actually forced to flee the country and Gould enlists the services of what ...