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...
TTENDER IS THE NIGHT Book One begins in June of 1925, at a beachfront hotel on the French Riviera, near the city of Cannes. Rosemary Hoyt, a seventeen-year-old star of the popular film Daddy’s Girl and her mother, Elsie Speers, are on vacation. Soon after they arrive at the hotel, Rosemary hits the beach, looking for attention and looking for love. She finds both right away in the form of Dick Diver, 34, who seems to be playing the starring role in his own beachside drama. Supporting cast members are his wife Nicole, 23, their young kids, Topsy and Lanier, and the Divers’ very fashionable friends. Nicole can tell right away that Rosemary is after her man. At the big party at the Divers' home, Violet McKisco witnesses something shocking in the Divers' bathroom. Only Tommy Barban, the soldier, has an inkling of what this might be, and he sticks tight by Violet to make sure she doesn’t tell anyone. This leads to Tommy and Albert, Violet’s husband, having a gun duel at four in the...