Today as the news from Selma and Saigon poisons the air like fallout,

I come again to see

the serene great picture that I love.

–“Monet’s ‘Waterlilies,’”
Robert Hayden

How does the imagery used to describe the picture contrast with the imagery used to describe the news?

The picture is described as old, while the news is described as current.
The picture is described as calming, while the news is described as chaotic.
The picture is described as safe, while the news is described as dangerous.
The picture is described as pure, while the news is described as polluted.

femininity is conveyed through bernice's personality. she doesn't act how the other girls act and everyone thinks she is weird. she learns how to act in a way that was considered femininely appropriate at the time. she becomes so popular but her attempts to be liked end up backfiring when she is pressured into bobbing her hair. the author wrote that bernice cut off her cousin's hair in revenge for tricking her to cut her hair. this was the authors way of trying to change the way feminine is defined and the way women are expected to act.

edmund spenser and john bunyan also influenced hawthorne. : )

i hope this you with your work : )

you are perfect just the way you are