Monday, November 16, 2015


Print or TV Ad(Structuralist Analysis)
MC DONALD ADVERTISEMENT


                  McDonald's maintains an extensive advertising campaign. In addition to the usual media including television, radio, and newspaper ads, the company makes significant use of billboards and signage, sponsors sporting events ranging from Little League to the FIFA World Cup and Olympic Games, and makes coolers of orange drink with their logo available for local events of all kinds.[4] However, television ads remain the primary form of advertisement.
McDonald's has used 23 different slogans to advertise in the United States, as well as a few other slogans for select countries and regions. At times, it has run into trouble with its campaigns.

                   There have been many McDonald's advertising campaigns and slogans over the years. The company is one of the most prevalent fast food advertisers, especially in the United States, where it spends the most advertising money of any fast-food restaurant and the fourth-most of any advertiser in the country. McDonald's Canada's corporate website states that the commercial campaigns have always focused on the "overall McDonald's experience", rather than just product. The purpose of the image has always been "portraying warmth and a real slice of everyday life." Its TV ads, showing various people engaging in popular activities, usually reflect the season and time period. Finally, rarely in their advertising history have they used negative or comparison ads pertaining to any of their competitors; the ads have always focused on McDonald's alone, one exception being a 2009 billboard advertising the new McCafe espresso. The billboard read "four bucks is dumb", a shot at competitor Starbucks.

                   In Spring 2008, McDonald's underwent the first phase of their new image and slogan: 'What we're made of.' This was to promote how McDonald's products are made. Packaging was tweaked a little to feature this new slogan. In November 2008, McDonald's introduced new packaging, eliminating the previous design stated above (except for the Philippines and a few countries, where the previous design is used in tandem with newer packaging and in Fiji, where the previous design is still current) with new, inspirational messages, the "i'm lovin it" slogan (appearing only once on most packages). McDonald's also updated their menu boards with darker, yet warmer colors, more realistic photos of the products featured on plates and the drinks in glasses. From 2009 to 2010, McDonald's introduced new packaging worldwide.

                  The McDonald's ad chosen advertises a plan to offer free wifi at all McDonald's locations. The exigence of the ad is clearly to improve sales by attracting members of the working class that require access to the internet at all times. The message of the ad is again somewhat vague, assuming that everyone will know the four bars signifies free wifi. However, it is also quite likely that anyone who uses wifi regularly at lunch to conduct business will already be knowledgeable about the symbol. The primary audience of the ad is anyone who may require wifi access at lunch to continue their work or read email while eating. There is also a secondary audience, that being the increasingly large number of people with smartphones who will find wifi helpful to look things up while eating. The context of the ad is that people have to eat, so the ad is attempting to convince people to eat at McDonald's. The ethos in the ad is almost nonexistent, but is present in the fact that McDonald's is a very large and well known fast food restaurant and has little reason to lie about what it does. The logos is simple, in that wifi is helpful for anyone working on the go and needs to keep up with business even while on a lunch break. The pathos is also nonexistent. The ad is extremely minimalist, and has little substance while still conveying a simple message. The ad itself is eye catching, with a bright red background and all yellow text. This makes the ad easy to see and allows virtually anyone to almost instantly connect the ad to McDonald's. The ad is somewhat vague, assuming everyone will already know that the bar symbol signifies wifi capability. However, since the ad is targeted at a small primary demographic it is likely to be effective in attracting those people.





MoulinRouge(Postmodern Analysis)



Most of the criticism of Moulin Rouge seems to indicate that the person speaking has significantly misunderstood the film. Yes, it is an unusual film in most aspects (except for the plot), but I believe that everyone involved knew exactly what they were doing—this is reinforced if you listen to the commentaries on the DVD, where the method behind the madness is revealed (for example, much of the criticism is leveled at the film’s first twenty minutes; in the commentary the writers Baz and Craig reveal that they were purposely testing the audience in those first twenty minutes—looks like they succeeded!)). As well, despite the fact that, with much of its content and its execution, it obviously belongs in pop-culture, I think it’s also, surprisingly, quite a literary film, in as much as many of the ideas that shape it have a long literary history, something that probably goes overlooked by most of Hollywood. Perhaps the juxtaposition of unconventional style, techniques, objectives, etc. (when was the last time you saw a Hollywood film that purposely tried the audience’s patience at the beginning?) with such a conventional story, which frees the audience’s attention to focus on these other things, as well as the other levels in the film, was what turned some people off the film. 

Seasons May Change, Winter to Spring: Symbolism in the Weather: This line from “Come What May” is echoed (as are other lines from the song, throughout, like “storm clouds may gather” (when the lovers are pulled apart) and “stars may collide” (when they come together) at the end of the film, when the windmill sails turn, changing winter to spring, as Christian’s voice over tells how after months of despair he was able to sit down and write their story. Spring as a symbol for rebirth is nothing new, but if you look closely, you can see the seasons change throughout the film, to reflect what’s happening in the narrative. Christian’s voice over tells us he arrived in the summer, “the summer of love”, and that’s when he falls in love. Later, when jealousy has started to consume him, during the Tango, when Christian is standing below the Tower looking up at Satine and the Duke, time has progressed and it is now fall; there are brown leaves on the ground around Christian. And after Satine tells him she’s staying with the Duke, there is a shot of the last leaf falling from a tree. This, of course, coincides with the breaking of the storm, complete with thunder and lightning, to tell us that something is wrong. Then, later that night, when Satine has died and the camera ascends through the roof of the Moulin Rouge, it is snowing out. Snow, of course, covers things over, making them look, well, shiny and new. Then, the transition to spring as Christian completes his journey out of the underworld. To emphasise, this journey, it is night when he begins to write (not to mention, sepia-toned black-and-white), and when he finishes his story, it’s day (and we’re back in colour). Like much else in this film, the weather does not make much sense from a strictly logical, realistic point of view, but this is not a realistic film. The weather, like many other things, is used symbolically, to convey feelings, emotions, and the general atmosphere, with few words. When thunder crashes in the background, or the last leaf falls from a tree, everyone knows what that means.


Wednesday, October 21, 2015




"HANDS" by Sherwood Anderson (Psychological Analysis)


            How can a story be about hands, but also about so many other things? Sherwood Anderson's 'Hands,' which is one vignette among many in his book ''Winesburg, Ohio,'' is definitely about hands, but it is also about truth, beauty, and the grotesque.

             In his Memoirs, Anderson tells about the first reactions to Winesburg, Ohio when it was published in 1919. He recalls that it was "widely condemned," described as "a sewer," and its author was called "sex-obsessed." He reports that a woman told him, "I read one of the stories and, after that, I would not touch it with my hands. With the tongs I carried it down into the cellar and put it in the furnace". Hands" was very likely the story referred to by this shocked lady, for the subject of homosexuality was one that most readers in the twenties thought unmentionable.

           Today, however, Anderson's treatment of Wing Biddlebaum's problem seems very delicate. The story of Wing Biddlebaum is a story of hands.' But how can that be? Sherwood Anderson's 'Hands' tells the story of Wing Biddlebaum and it is, indeed, a story of hands. We are introduced to Wing's hands in the same sentence wherein we are told his name. His hands and their nervous flitting remain central as we learn of the derision the people of Winesburg, Ohio, have for this neighbor of theirs. The name 'Wing' was actually given to him in mockery of the way his hands were always fluttering. We learn that Wing 'did not think of himself as in any way a part of the life of the town where he had lived for twenty years,' which tells us of his isolation and loneliness, as does the eager anticipation with which he paces his front porch as the story opens, hoping George Willard will visit him. George seems to be the one person to whom Wing has any connection in the town. The story of friendship between Wing and George is also a story of hands--we learn that Wing's hands, just as his personality, are freed in the presence of young George. In George's company, Wing's hands 'came forth and became the piston rods of his machinery of expression.


               The old man, who is described as fat, frightened, and nervous, seems too ineffectual to be dangerous. His bald forehead — noticed because his nervous hands fiddle about arranging non-existent hair — suggests his loss of strength and virility. The central symbol of this powerful story is, of course, hands, an image that will be important in other stories in Winesburg.Consistently Anderson seems to suggest that hands are made for creative impulses, for communication. Whitman, one of Anderson's favorite authors, said, "What is more or less than a touch?".

             "Hands" haunts us because we recognize in Wing Biddlebaum our own helplessness and we see how thoughtlessly society can persecute what it does not understand. Perhaps we see ourselves in both Wing and in the society that has ruined his life. 


Analysis:
               Published in 1919, 'Hands' falls into the Modernist movement in literature. As many Modernist texts do, 'Hands' seeks to explore the existence of truth and our ability to access it. The story challenges readers to question things presented as truth, and to consider the process whereby we believe we learn true things.
               The text presents several 'facts' that are later called into question. The story is supposedly about a character named Wing Biddlebaum. However, we find out that his real name is Adolph Myers. Similarly, we are also told that Wing (Adolph) is 'a fat little old man' but later we learn 'he was but forty but looked sixty-five,' and thus he isn't old at all. With these reversals of information, the reader is left to wonder what other information presented in the story might be incorrect and whether it is possible to ever know for sure.


Tuesday, October 20, 2015





"ANOMALISA" by Charlie Kaufman (Fantastic analysis)


             Kaufman’s newest film Anomalisa made its premiere at the Telluride Film Festival over the weekend, and we have rounded up the early buzz. The film is notable not only because Kaufman’s involvement but it is the auteur’s first stop-motion film. The story is about “a man crippled by the mundanity of his life”. Three weeks ago, Charlie Kaufman was pacing anxiously around a green room at the Palm Theater in Telluride. Just a few feet away, "Anomalisa," his first directing effort in seven years, screened for only the second time during the weekend festival. It was a big moment.

Here is the description of the film:

"Fasten your seatbelts. Michael Stone, spending the night in a Cincinnati hotel on business, is beset by a dramatic stream of insane and intense characters. Just before he spirals into desperation, he finds escape through a surprising, astonishingly tender erotic encounter. If the preceding description seems enigmatic, it’s because revealing anything more might spoil the intricate, tragicomic dreamscape created by Charlie Kaufman (SYNECDOCHE, NEW YORK) and Duke Johnson (the Adult Swim series “Mary Shelley’s Frankenhole” and “Moral Orel”). ANOMALISA is animated, with wondrous stop motion; David Thewlis and Jennifer Jason Leigh and the gifted Tom Noonan do the voice honors, superbly; and Carter Burwell’s string-based score is perfect. We know Charlie Kaufman’s status as a visionary and one of the American filmmakers who really matters; we can now discover Duke Johnson as a major creative force."


              In “Anomalisa,” an inspirational speaker in crisis checks into Cincinnati’s (fictional) Al Fregoli hotel, named for a delusional condition in which paranoiacs believe that those around them are not who they appear to be, but a single tormentor hiding behind multiple disguises. That’s a helpful bit of trivia to consider before entering into Charlie Kaufman’s latest brainteaser, this one originally mounted (just twice) for composer Carter Burwell’s “Theater of the New Ear” sound-play experiment and rescued from obscurity by a team of imaginative producers who thought it might make an interesting stop-motion project — which it does, exceptional even, although it’s unclear just who they imagined might be the audience for such a cerebral cult offering.

                What follows is both beautiful and heartbreaking, and ultimately unforgettable. Kaufman has done it again, writing a deeply flawed male protagonist and a woman who seems so incredibly ideal despite (or perhaps due to) her imperfections, and he’s engineered it so that we fall in love: Michael’s gray and overcast, Lisa just wants to walk in the sun, and for as long as he can make the moment last, she’s the one. The anomaly. The Anomalisa. 
           
                Halfway through Anomalisa everything comes together - why there’s such a limited voice cast, why the stop motion puppets have visible seams on their faces, what the hell is going on at all - and I got goosebumps. I all but levitated out of my seat as I understood what Charlie Kaufman and co-director Duke Johnson were doing with the film, and what had already been an incredibly personal, deeply human story became absolutely profound, sad and painfully true.



               At first it seems like the stop motion nature of the film is a gimmick; after all, most of the movie takes place in a hotel and is a series of scenes between people talking. You could make this movie with human beings, and with a fraction of the effort. Except that you can’t, and what seemed like a weird tic at first - all but the lead puppet has the same face, every character but the lead is voiced by Tom Noonan - becomes the central driving metaphor of everything. It’s perfectly Kaufmanesque in that it’s a surrealism that is completely in service of story, emotion and a powerful theme.















Wednesday, October 14, 2015



"Design" by Robert Frost (Deconstruction Analysis)


Design

by Robert Frost

I found a dimpled spider, fat and white,
On a white heal-all, holding up a moth
Like a white piece of rigid satin cloth—
Assorted characters of death and blight
Mixed ready to begin the morning right,
Like the ingredients of a witches’ broth—
A snow-drop spider, a flower like a froth,
And dead wings carried like a paper kite.


What had that flower to do with being white,
The wayside blue and innocent heal-all?
What brought the kindred spider to that height,
Then steered the white moth thither in the night?
What but design of darkness to appall?--
If design govern in a thing so small.

--- 1922




           "Design' is a poem of finding evil in innocence, a song of experience, though the voice is hardly that of Blake's child-like singer. On a small scale the first line, like the whole poem, builds up a joke in tone, rhythm, and image that grows into a 'joke' of another sort. In the poem, the joking discovery develops gradually through a series of contradictory pictures. 'A white heal-all' suggests purity and safety, though the color echoes the white of the swollen spider. In another side of the three lines, the speaker gives away his joke. First there is the very correct iambic on the line four in exactly ten syllables, every other one of which must be stressed.

           Assorted characters of death and blight...

           This statement takes on a cheerful sing-song quality, an effect increased in the next line by reversing the stress and omitting the short in 'Mixed ready'. The adding of unstressed syllables lightens the next line to soften the ugliness of what is being said:

Like the ingredients of a witches broth...

         

           How about design of darkness to appall?. Alliteration picks out salient impressions to give older theological and reverse twist- 'Design, yes- but for evil. The 'if' stands out oddly because of the reversal of stress and because of the pause for the loss of a syllable. In the poem first thirteen lines, Frost simply extends the logic of the traditional argument from design. Frost invokes just that tradition in the eleventh and twelfth lines of "Design".

           The implication for Frost, I think, is that the "design of darkness" or of nature or of God is the design made by the perceiver or by the poet. Only the human eye can make or find any design in the natural world. Though the narrator's role in the drama is intentionally and ironically minimized, it remains crucial in the two opening of the words of the poem: "I found". Like all revelation, all design "has been ours". The last line of "Design" suggests, for a temperament as willfull and feisty as Frost.




"Things Fall Apart" by Chinua Achebe (Postcolonialism Anlysis)


           "Things Fall Apart" is generally seen as Achebe's way of taking back from Joseph Conrad and Heart of Darkness. This novel focuses on the Igbo people in the years leading up to the arrival of the first Christian missionaries. The Igbo are the second largest group of people living in the southern Nigeria. They are socially and culturally diverse, consisting of many subgroups. Although they lived in scattered groups of villages, they all speak one language. It follows Okonkwo, a respected member of a tribe, as he build up his reputation. Basically we get to see the ins and outs of pre-colonized Africa and get a hint of what's to come when the missionaries show up.

            How does the writer do anything to question, "problematize", or revolutionize that dominant language so that we as readers are aware of the problems when it comes to writing and speaking the "master's language"?. The Chinua Achebe incorporates the language of the Igbo people into the story itself is often seen as his attempt to put a "native" language other than English.

            By naming sounds, things, people, places are all given to change over time and place. That's how we get different languages and cultures. Achebe shows us how invented language fundamentally. Many indigenous language are seldom spoken because of the influence of colonial power that comes in and forces a new language on the people on the other land. That's the reason why indigenous language starts to fade away. People starts to forget it and the whole generations will no longer speak the Igbo language because they're speaking English or some other language. Let's say, one day if we really decide to write a novel like "Things Fall Apart" as an author we ends up writing a story or a novel in English language and not in Igbo language. This means that the writer is forced to translate his or her culture in another language.






MARXIST ANALYSIS (My report together with Jenhel Mae T. Magno)

"The Virgin" by Kerima Polotan Tuvera (Feminist Analysis)


            Mijares, the main character of the story entitled "The Virgin", as a a writer and as a a woman revealed her desires through her metaphors and symbols in her writing. Despite her being responsible daughter of her family, she also wished to be loved by others, especially she was always been dreaming to have a man in her life. The following lines show her desire to have a man:


"But neither love nor glory stood behind her, only the lurking, empty shadows, and nine years gone, nine years.
In the room of her unburied dead, she held up her hands to the light, noting the thick, durable fingers, thinking in a mixture of shame and bitterness and guilt that they had never touched a man."


            There was also one scenario in the story that shows her romantic feelings and reveals the emotions of Miss Mijares about the carpenter. There was also a symbolic revelation about her desire of being loved. Moreover, Tuvera shows the inner struggle of a woman in the story. Miss Mijares struggle to stick the societal expectations of a woman and to hide her own self was exposed and reiterated. In the society, women are the ones responsible of taking care of the family. This was the case of Miss Mijares, when she was only one left to take care of his sick and old mother. She did all the responsibility that she forgot her own life. Miss Mijares in the story can be characterized as an old maid. At an age of 34, she hasn't still touch a man. Her description in the story and her life really fits her as the old maid who is still untouched.

            The three stages of a women's history, feminine stage, feminist stage, and female that can be identifiable to Miss Mijares' life. The feminist stage can be described as a stage involving protest against the minority rights.

            The last paragraph proves that in her heart, she has gone through the protesting stage and now, she's able to express her own self, her own feelings, and her own desires. It shows that she is now capable of going beyond her social roles as she reveals that she is ready to surrender her virginity. Her virginity is indeed a symbol of dignity; however, it is part of a woman's purpose is to have a man who will be able to consume that long preserved virginity.

            The short story depicts the success of a woman in overcoming the men's stereotypical world. The main character was able to defy the dictates of the society and was able to establish her own self in the quest of being a woman.


"Biag ni Lam-ang" (Archetypal Analysis)


           In the poetry "Biag ni Lam-ang" by no definite author, the story is about a boy who was very extraordinary. When the baby was born, he started to talk and told his mother he should be named Lam-ang. After 9 months of waiting for his father to return, he would go look for him. One night while travelling, he dreamed a group of Igorots celebrating his father's death. Lam-ang was furious and after that he returned to Nalbuan in triumph. He was bathed by women in the Amburayan river. All the fish died because of the dirt and bad odor of Lam-ang coming from his body.

          I felt that the heart of the section was in the epic story. The story entitled Biag ni Lam-ang, in my eyes is truly a story with epic proportions. The story was written with many underlying messages about the history of the Philippines. For example, there was a scene in the story in which Lam-ang took a journey to the mountains to battle the Igorots who murdered his father. The Igorots in this story appeared cruel and unmerciful. The detail of the deaths of the Igorots was very descriptive and brutal. It was so brutal that they seemed to have represented something extremely different. It seemed like the Igorots were actually the colonizers of the Philippines. This scene was my favorite of the story because there seemed to be a historical hidden meaning behind it. Also, the details were short but stunning. The rest of the story was amazing as the beginning. The many bumps or distractions along his life's journey were incredible. It was captivating to see him face a difficult situation and then overcome it.

         Lam-ang fell inlove with a young woman named Ines Kannoyan. He found the house of Ines Kannoyan and he also found out that her house was surrounded by many suitors. He had his rooster crow, which cause a nearby house to fall. He had also his dog bark and in an instant the fallen house. The rooster expressed the love of Lam-ang.

         After sometime, the headman reminded Lam-ang about their tradition that a newly married man had to catch a kind of fish called rarang. Magical in a part where his pets take some actions and something will happen. Story was interesting because there are some parts in the story that was impossible to happen in real life.

Monday, July 27, 2015

Historical-Biographical Analysis( A Child of Sorrow by Zoilo Galang)


           
          BIOGRAPHY(Zoilo Galang)

              Zoilo Galang was born in Bacolor, Pampanga on June 27,1895 and his young life was spent in that Bucolic town, famed for its writers and artists. He went to school at the Bacolor Elementary School and then went to Manila to study at the Escuela de Derecho, the country's eminent law school where he graduated in 1919. A self-starter he learned typing and stenography in English and Spanish all by himself. Attracted to the English language, he took special courses at the University of the Philippines in 1925, then went to Columbia University for further studies in Literature. He was one o the first Filipino writer in English. He was also the first to key fruit out an English novel entitled, "A Child o Sorrow."



          SUMMARY(A Child of Sorrow)

            It was summertime in April in the Fertile Valley when Lucio and Camilo had prepared for their give way and went to Merry town. Lucio Soliman, a wise, kind, and poetic man who loves genus Rosa Garcia with his whole heart. Rosa Garcia, a beautiful, pure, and moral woman who had satisfaction with Lucio Soliman. He is alone because he suffered in regret with Oscar Ramirez, an intelligent thus far self-loving man who doesn't say about whatsoever and the one who relies happiness except his Pancho, the governor. Ismael, a long time-regulator in Merry town. Even though he was Rosa's father, he didn't care of his daughter's happiness.  
          Lucio was elected President of the Rising Generation and continued in his field. One day, Lucio received an invitation from Rosa to attend their Garden Day and that was the first time they met.
         Like how a Governor Pancho, Ismael can be so round shoulder however, Oscar Ramirez is an intelligent yet selfish guy that he did not have any batred because he met Rosa Garcia who was beautiful interior and out. After Lucio's meeting with Rosa, again admitting his feelings for her and they've become a partner. Lucio spent so much of his time with Rosa. The two enjoyed so much of their time but there is a rumor that the two are engaged. Months passed by, people heard the news that Rosa will be marry to Oscar Ramirez. Lucio was broken that time.
               Lucio told himself if he failed in love, he'll be successful in something else. That was his determination. While Lucio was trying his best to move on. Rosa is doing the total opposite. She can't forget Lucio. Rosa died because she got sick and she died in the arms of Lucio. The novel ended by seeing Lucio at the grave of Rosa still lamenting and reading a letter.


Biographical Analysis

            Zoilo Galang manifests the conservative kind of romantic relationship. The years that Zoilo spent in living to the town of Bacolor, Pampanga. The lifestyle in which Galang lives his life clarifies in which the novel takes place. His manifestation about romantic relationship was based during the time wherein Filipinos are traditionalist and old-fashioned. Through the help of his parents, he makes himself fond of Spanish culture and his perspective are influence by American culture. Through this, Galang chooses love as the novel's main theme.

History

           A "Child of Sorrow" is a 1921 novel by Zoilo Galang. It is considered as  the first Philippine novel written in English. Critics have suggested that the novel was heavenly influenced  by sentimentalism of the Tagalog prose narratives of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries.

Historical Analysis

           It is indeed a reflection of Zoilo Galang's personal life and his time. It also presents the social and intellectual currents in which Galang composed his novel. The novel gives a complete view of wonder, simplicity, and beauty.

Conclusion

           Based on the novel "A Child of Sorrow", the impact on the people was that love became as important in marriage but the truest form of this novel is that, marriage cannot measure the love that binds between the two people. Since the history of the novel focused on the love as its theme. It is such a very powerful feeling that could not prevented by anything else. Love is a feeling, but it also demands sacrifice. The novel teaches us a lot of things. It teaches us the reality in life that we fall in love even in an unexpected time.                    

Formalist Analysis( Naming of the Parts)


                           

 NAMING OF PARTS

by Henry Reed

To-day we have naming of parts. Yesterday,
We had daily cleaning. And to-morrow morning,
We shall have what to do after firing. But to-day,
To-day we have naming of parts. Japonica
Glistens like coral in all of the neighboring gardens,
          And to-day we have naming of parts.

This is the lower sling swivel. And this
Is the upper sling swivel, whose use you will see,
When you are given your slings. And this is the piling swivel,
Which in your case you have not got. The branches
Hold in the gardens their silent, eloquent gestures,
          Which in our case we have not got.

This is the safety-catch, which is always released
With an easy flick of the thumb. And please do not let me
See anyone using his finger. You can do it quite easy
If you have any strength in your thumb. The blossoms
Are fragile and motionless, never letting anyone see
          Any of them using their finger.

And this you can see is the bolt. The purpose of this
Is to open the breech, as you see. We can slide it
Rapidly backwards and forwards: we call this
Easing the spring. And rapidly backwards and forwards
The early bees are assaulting and fumbling the flowers:
          They call it easing the Spring.

They call it easing the Spring: it is perfectly easy
If you have any strength in your thumb: like the bolt,
And the breech, and the cocking-piece, and the point of balance,
Which in our case we have not got; and the almond-blossom
Silent in all of the gardens and the bees going backwards and forwards,
          For to-day we have naming of parts.




              The poem "Naming of the Parts" is a free-verse poem and the two sets of parts named in the poem are pieces of a weapon and objects in nature. There are  two similes used in the poem. I t is shown in the first stanza, fifth line(Glistens like coral) and in the fifth stanza, second line(like the bolt). The poem also shows metaphor. It can be seen in the fourth stanza, sixth line(spring) This metaphor has two meanings; spring means armor and spring means season. The poem has also imagery shown in the whole second stanza.

Mimetic Analysis( The Lady and her Five Suitors)


               


                 In the Lady and her Five Suitors, Scruton justify such a love between the Merchant's wife and the young man. Through Scruton's mindful view, I find that the relationship binds between the two individuals can be considered a disbelief from the views of people who composed a society. The love binds between the two individuals is much more value than what we called marriage.


                 Additionally, the story simply did not convey a message or information to give connection between a relationship of a lady to a merchant. Since there is love that bind between the two, others might say that it is a form of true love. This truest form of love serves as a chance in order to live. In the story there is a willingness to risk their own lives.

Formalist Analysis(The Sick Rose by William Blake)

       

The Sick Rose

O Rose thou art sick. 
The invisible worm, 
That flies in the night 
In the howling storm: 

Has found out thy bed
Of crimson joy:
And his dark secret love
Does thy life destroy.



           In the poem "T he Sick Rose" is a combination of destructive and beauty.It is not totally a free-verse poem since as we can see in the poem, it contains a rhyme scheme. The poem introduces about sexual awakening. This poem shown through the use of metaphors and symbolism. The "rose" mentioned in the poem represents not only love but also beauty that we can connect with females. Since it is mentioned above that it is also about sexual awakening because there is an innocent girl involve in the poem  that can be compared into a rose who introduced into a world of sex and crushed by a worm. A "worm" associated with males. The two shared love and joy who experienced pleasure but they also hurt. The "howling storm' symbolizes the feeling and impression of the rose about her first sexual experience.



Reference:

http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/172938