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...
TTHE MOVIEGOER During the last Wednesday of Mardi Gras, Binx Bolling, a 29-year-old stocks and bonds salesman in New Orleans, receives an invitation to lunch from his Aunt Emily. Binx feels a prickle of foreboding, remembering when Aunt Emily broke the news of his brother Scott’s death when Binx was a child. Binx lives a peaceful life in an undistinctive suburb called Gentilly. He takes pride in being a good tenant and an upstanding citizen. His main hobby is going to the movies, sometimes accompanied by a girlfriend (usually his current secretary). Today, however, Binx’s quiet life is interrupted by the memory of the “search.” This idea first came to him several years ago, while he was injured in a ditch during the Korean conflict. The search is an attempt to get beyond the “everydayness” of life. Once a person becomes aware of the possibility of the search, they can’t help pursuing it, but someone who remains oblivious to the search remains in despair. At Aunt Emily’s, Binx lear...