Month: October 2016

“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 .