S Jackson's Online Journal

“The rain set early into night”

“It tore the elm tops down in spite”

“She shut the cold out and the storm”

“Blazed up and all the cottage warm”

“Murmuring how she loved me”

The first thing that there is that is clear to see is that he the narrator is greatly in love with porphyria and is at the beginning  most probably constructing different circumstances that may be the cause for her being late one that I believe the narrator of the story is constructing in his mind and is represented in his volatile language is that he is very anxious and almost distressed about the possibility that she may be with a different man and the narrator describes this in his quotes as metaphors such as “it torn the elm tops down in spite”.This metaphor being that he may be knocking things off of shelves and throwing things around the cottage as a way of reliving the stress he is creating as he is fantasizing about where is true love is  another quote that I believe to be a hidden metaphor for how he really feels is “and tried its best to vex the lake”.This meaning that as she remains unseen he increasingly becomes angered and stressed over not knowing where his one and only love could be.

From these quotations I can see that there are probably two people involved in this poem. One, the man, is inside of the cold dark cottage and the other, the woman called Porphyria, is outside in the cold and storm. When Porphyria enters the cottage she immediately changes the atmosphere and the cottage it is no longer a dark cold place but is instead a warm one as seen in this extract “Blazed up and all the cottage warm” this is a form of pathetic fallacy as when she enters the cottage the whole setting changes and becomes calm and peaceful  .This quote shows that she makes the cottage and also possibly the man feel the same way. I also believe that the two characters love each other dearly, as said in this quote “Murmuring how she loved me”. There is a very calm atmosphere when the two characters interact given that there is a very violent storm happening outside so violent it is destroying objects “It tore the elm tops down in spite”.yet again this is a sigh of pathetic fallacy .

one conspiracy almost that I believe to be a possibility is that perhaps the reason the narrator killed porphyria was as he did not want her to 1 go away again and leave him in darkness and 2 as he did not want to feel betrayed and cheated by her again.

One of the most important parts in chapter six, I believe, is when the twins whose duty was to ensure that the fire did not die in the night both failed there task. When they awake in the morning they react to the ash pile almost as if it was the end of their time on earth and now they were to be executed.  Perhaps as though they had just been told that God is unreal and have no real answer for what it is that they should do next – almost like headless chickens, their whole ritual in a way has been disrupted.

In chapter 5

Piggy agrees with Ralph’s rational idea of life being improvised and how people spend most of their life looking at the floor and their feet.  Ralph calls a meeting and scolds the boy for breaking the rules and not keeping the groups’ rules as their principles.

Simon is having a conversation with the Lord of the flies ,the Lord of the flies also happens to be a pigs head on a stick and is the beast yet all the while Simon is almost in a way feels that he is seeing things that are not really there such as the pigs head on the spike with the flies surrounding it .as said here in a quotation” Lord of the flies hung in space before him”and the quote that gives me the impression that he was dreaming is when it said “Simon was inside the mouth. He fell down and lost consciousness.

In chapter seven there is a quarrel between Ralph and Robert where by Robert was “jabbed ” by Ralph with Eric’s spear.  There was also a group of boys that made a circle around Ralph and Robert and the crowd was yelling or rather chanting “kill him, kill him”.  It was as if for a brief moment they had lost all knowledge of their humanity and devolved into horrific and savage beasts.  The type of beasts that lives in caves and grunted as a form of communication rather than a group of young British boys that were highly sophisticated and able to survive together in peace rather than in pieces .
Another event that occurred was when they found a new cave and inside the cave they found the beast – this was also another sign of control between Jack and Ralph .

Jack,Piggy and Ralph are at the beginning are debating different mechanical and electronic devices that they could or should build one was a thought about a clock but that was quickly trashed when there was a comment about there being no metal available to make the clock,this quickly evolved into the idea of a sundial ,they considered sheathing sticks into the sand and letting the sun tell them the time.”we could make a sundial.we could put sticks in the sand”.

Ralph believes Piggy to be a bore and that his only true purpose is that he is fairly gullible and can easily be tricked .”Piggy was a bore;his fat,his ass-mar and his matter-of-fact ideas were dull:but there was always a little pleasure to be got out of pulling his legs”.

There was a ship that had been sighted and all the boys that saw the ship ran over towards the ship as they were amazed by what they were looking at they contemplated creating smoke but to no avail did it succeed as when the ship passed the island Ralph whimpered.”come back!come back!”.

Ralph

How does the speaker use nature to present symbols in porphyria sliver and I think of thee?

The author of the poem describes the narrators emotions in the poem in his use of hidden metaphors that are describing how he feels and how he is concerned about how porphyria had not yet arrived and was showing now clear Sign of returning to him yet one quote that back up my point is “it tore the elm tops down in spite”.This metaphor may be the narrator showing how he felt and what he was doing in my opinion I believe that the quotes hidden meaning was that he was tearing things up in the house as he was so stressed that she had not returned.

Perhaps the man that strangles the girl with her long blonde hair, “in one long yellow string I wound three times around her pretty little throat”,may have done it as he felt that he did not want her to have her innocence taken from her.

annother would be that the man is perhaps insain then after relishing in his deed relised that what he has done is wrong and is now horrified by his actions.

Perhaps also there is the idea of in a way the rain may represent the tears from the man that loves her and then kills her also the howling wind may represent the anger and love that the man feels for her.

I am replying to the feed back that I have received from mr north that he has been sending me starting with the first feed back that is related to the task is the request for me to correct my punctuation and my vocabulary.

The writers wording and phrasing is very descriptive and he gives a very detailed explanation for as to what it is that’s going as stated in this quotation “the wind came in gusts,at times shaking the coaches it traveled round the bend of the road “

He uses personification in this extract as said in this quote “the wheels of the coach creaked and groaned”