Saturday, 4 June 2011
The CLOD and the PEBBLE & Hills like White Elephant
The poem shows how love has two opposite features at the same time. According to it, love can "build a Heaven in Hell's despair", while love can also "build Hell in Heaven's despite". In the short story, the theme is more likely about the evil side of love that the poem talks about in last stanza. The man and the girl are having heated discussion about choosing between having an operation or not. The man, who seems to be much older then the girl, doesn't want to have a baby, but the girl does. The baby can be thought as fruit of sweet love. Instead of having a right discussion that leads to fair decision, the man uses no pressure pressure to manipulate the girl. This is absolutely a wrong side of love, which builds Hell in Heaven't despite, and the girl decides to leave the men realizing this fact. Also, the man struggles to move the baggages at the end, which symbolize a burden in his mind. At first, this couple would had only great pleasure with each other like the first stanza of the poem. However, one of them ended up in a situation where he has to use no pressure pressure, and the other ended up where she is manipulated, which refers to last stanza of the poem.
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Kia, it was good to see that you identified some of the points of contact between the two works in question!
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