In The Metro

The poem, “In The Metro” shows how much a quick encounter with a woman in the subway effects the male speaker emotionally. Initially, the speaker is recalling seeing “the girl with the shining legs in the metro”(4). The speaker is sad that this encounter didn’t last very long because he recalls that, “she goes her way and I go mine”(4-5). He remembered her disappearing as, “the escalator carried her away”(7). He describes the escalator “as a river”(8), and the girl as “a flower to sea”(8). At the end, he stands in the subway “with a shopping bag dangling from [his] hand”(12), showing how deeply he’s thinking about this quick encounter.

Another Mystery

The poem, “Another Mystery,” shows how a young boy’s perspective on death changes as he becomes older and more mature. The poem begins with the image of the speaker at the dry cleaners with his dad and he says, “What’d I know about death?”(2). After his father comes out of the dry cleaners he said, “This is the suit your grandpa is going to leave the world in”(4-5), and the speaker, “touched the plastic,”(7). Next there was, “a long interval”(10), in which the speaker is growing up until his father is dressed in a suit a the speaker thought, “He was dead, wasn’t he?”(17-18). Then, the speaker begins to talk about how an hour ago, “[He] picked up [his] own suit from the dry cleaners,”(23-24). Finally, the speaker rips through the plastic covering the suit and, “held it—the rough, palpable fabric,”(29-30).

The Wild Swans at Coole

“The Wild Swans at Code” is the story of a man growing old and wondering when he will be gone. At the beginning the man is nineteen shown by, “The nineteenth autumn has come upon me”(7). Next, he notices a body of water with “nine-and-fifty swans” (6) withinin. Eventually the swans “scatter wheeling in great broken rings” (11) and the author feels “heart… sore,” (14). The author is sad because when they flew away, “their wings [were] above my head,” (18). Finally, the author asks, “they have flown away?” (30).

Still Frame Analysis

In Rebel Without a Cause, I after Plato was shot by the police for running out of the museum with his handgun, this frame shows Jim Stark zipping his jacket on Plato’s dead body, with the Crawford’s maid and Judy standing over him. Jim had offered Plato his red jacket earlier in the movie but he declined it. When Jim was with him in the planetarium, he offers it to him again and Jim says it was because Plato was always cold. This Jacket is a symbol of safety, security and protection from more than just the cold. In the planetarium, Jim sees and knows that Plato feels like he’s being attacked and he needs to calm him down so he doesn’t get killed by the police after shooting at them earlier. To calm Plato down, Jim offers him his red jacket, to create the illusion and provide Plato the feeling of safety. Jim believes that once Plato feels safe and comfortable, he will be more willing to cooperate with him and the police. Overall, this plan doesn’t workout because Plato was still shot by the police but afterwards, Jim is seen zipping up this symbol of security on Plato. This shows that Jim genuinely cares about Plato, and wasn’t just giving the coat to him so he wouldn’t kill anyone, he was giving it to him because he cared.

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