False Papers

Intro People say that their memories are the most precious things they posses. One may say that memories are Every mans memory is his hush-hush literature. Aldous Huxley. We can say that this can be exhibitionn in the works of Andre Aciman in False Papers (Square Lamartine) by and Carol Ann Duffy in Nostalgia. Both authors show attitudes and feelings of nostalgia nevertheless cave in incorporated these feelings in different perspectives and attitudes of what nostalgia is.The question that will be discussed in this presentation are how do twain authors Andre Aciman and Carol Ann Duffy in Nostalgia and Square Lamartine phthisis literary devices to portray their feeling of nostalgic feeling? Andre Aciman writes intimately his olden tense memories from Egypt w present he imagines himself reliving his childhood. He links his travels through his departed through the different instances and occurrences that have taken place in his past. He links Nostalgia with the linked essays t hat conjecture on the experiences of loss, moving from the forced departure from Alexandria as a teenager and the brief stay in Europe.He himself quotes that his nostalgia is beautiful because Most people are convinced I sleep to scramher Alexandria. In truth, I love remembering Alexandria, for it is not Alexandria that is beautiful. Remembering is beautiful Andre Aciman Carol Ann Duffy writes about the romantic view of the past and childhood, where one hopes for the past, by cosmos too prized. She takes nostalgia in a different direction where it sets up a course of barriers where the poem takes different tracks in writing about relation of the past and the origins of the feelings which draws one keister to the past.Body 1 Carol Ann Duffy in Nostalgia talks about how the feelings of romantic view of the past childhood and where ones hope for the past are expressed. In nostalgia she mentions the early mercenaries where the poem archetypical imagines the first feelings of nosta lgia the origins of the feelings preceding the news. Even if emotions have origins, that are even if they dont always exist, they only seem to some extent more than arbitrary, more questionable then they have been so. The idea opens up the possibility of consideration, judgment, of the particular emotion.The system of Early establishes the origin of the emotion. The mercenaries is a little more complex in the sense that why would someone or anyone leave their home? In this case they are leaving home for money. The word suggest a kind of moral judgment where mercenaries fight for no other reason that money values, etc, are not an issue for them. Nostalgia is first described as a sickness. This seems both a kind of punishment for the mercenaries leaving home but also a kind of reduction of the general romantic aura of nostalgia, its description as a sensitive delicate feeling.The usage of the word wrong repeated over and over gives the sense of why there were not used to and what t he mercenaries didnt expect, what was not suited to them, or morally or esthetically wrong, bad in itself. The word wrong blurs across al the different shades of meaning, although on it all depends on what your perceive to be the moral of the poem. Every detail that they mercenaries felt is wrong this is accentuate with the repetition of the word and the list of different qualities. Adding to this the emphasized wrongness is the one return money. It sounds every cold and inadequate place against the list of all that is wrong.The general idea of the first verse sounds critical oddly when it seems to be summed up by the final word of the long second sentence wrong summarizing judgment given emphasis by placing the word a run on line, completed by this single word alone. It sounds at least temporarily conclusive a moral judgment. In Square Lamartine by Andre Aciman, he uses repetition in devising his point. He emphasizes his past feelings with how beautiful it is remembering the ti me he looked out of the window to remember the akin sky, same city and the same feeling that overcomes the memory. My passage to France is no Longer easy I can go to France, But I can no vivificationlong be in France. To be in France is to think all of the times I came so close and failed, of near-misses and close calls. He makes it clear that hes trying to remember the salmon pink of the memory of France at that time, yet his attempt to remember that dish had some near-misses and close calls but to himself he still thinks of it as his failure. The repetition of France emphasizes his point on trying to remember the beautiful city and his memory of the place.To question something is Andre Acimans literary technique to bring out the beauty in the memory that he is trying to remember. He also uses the usage of rhetorical questions to question the beauty of the remembering this nostalgia that sends our emotions spiraling. His question Why wasnt I Born here. Why cant I live here whe n will it happen, why am I here when it seem too latterly? Andre Aciman uses the question to ask the reader to sympathize with him. He is questioning how the realistic this feeling is but he still can seem to visualize the beauty of remembering the feeling.He also links the why wasnt I born here with the live, and his presence of being there. It creates a two sided argument on what its real like to see yourself being there and actually being there. Body 2 In the 2nd stanza Duffy mentions, they had an ache here, it was given a lay down, a sweet pain in the heart. The ache here now seems to be leaving a consultation between the speaker and the doctor, and the here point to is the speakers own heart which comes keystone to the feelings suffered by the mercenaries is now also suffered by the speaker.The distanced judgment is partially compromises as the speaker too has this ailment. in that respect is a severity factors due to the speakers involvement compromising the distanced ju dgment, which adds more severity feeling when it suddenly changes from merely making them ill to it was killing them. The making of nostalgia an illness has not only stripped away that romantic aura that nostalgia is meant to feel like but also had increase its strength in the poem distancing and minimizing nostalgia making it more pressing.The language and imagery of the second verse its noticeably more romantic than the first stanza. The feelings that are imagined in the second verse are that of those who stayed put, which were appalling i. e. those who merely imagine the feeling because they do not feel it really. The controversial language/phrasing/imagery of romantic verse is show in The melancholic pipes and the tapering light of the plain. This poetic phrasing is not only the poets own but also the imagination of these stay at homes, fearing nostalgia.The breakdown between those who really felt nostalgia as an illness and those who elaborated upon their fears of what I mi ght be is just a far too simple division. By unnoticeably introducing the word dwindling is a different perspective on nostalgia, the first verse emphasized geographic distance and now in dwindling and in the last two lines of this verse introduces the perspective of time. The last two lines give a sort of snapshot of the memory from ones childhood. The prisonbreak is unnoticeable but it will determine how the poem ends. Andre Aciman in his writing uses word choice that laborates the thinking of how beauty is captured though different view. Put off grasping in the hope that, when were not looking, when weve stopped hoping and thinking and daydream driven out of its hiding place it might finally decide to tap us on the shoulder and beckon to us with a promise of bliss. This enhances the speakers point of view, the usage of words that show hope of being somewhere and achieving that goal is hidden and with the use of looking, hoping, thinking and dreaming where he creates false sens e nostalgia.Since in square Lamartine he is remembering his past time that he spent his childhood in France. Aciman uses figurative language in which he mentions the coquet of Paris which he implies as remembering is beautiful. Since romance is a feeling of excitement and mystery associated with love he connects this to his love for Paris and his love in remembering something of the past that is so beautiful, nostalgia. Body 3In the deuce-ace stanza Carol Ann Duffy when she says, the word was out this shifts the focus on the personal attachment that people had with nostalgia is now just publically out to be judged and criticized. The usage of the word out emphasizes the word has escaped and so cannot now be contained or restricted in how it will be used or interpreted and, secondly, the story of the existence of this feeling is now general, public property, and so what it might mean, how it might be used, can now no longer be controlled.Duffy uses the priest and the instructor as symbols for questioning the feelings of heartfelt nostalgia. The shift between the first verse where this is that feeling which as become purely mental, imagined, but also mournful, and, as such, insufferable to eradicate because it concerns itself not with individual fate and actions but with fixed condition of Nature and Life and not depending on the person individual actions. The priest is blatant at the workings of memory through the color of leaves because the memory cannot call back the past.And why at the color of the leaves, because leaves turn red and fall in autumn meaning they die. This creates a time framer where time moves on and cannot be stopped. The teacher turns too late in here attempt to recreate her past through her reading the book. The last verse of the poem returns its focus back to the early mercenaries returning home- that should be the antidote for the illness of the first stanza. The seasonal shift being spring which is a symbol of revival and the rep etition of the word same mimics but reverses the repetition of the word wrong in the first stanza.Andre Aciman use metaphors to convey his love and passion for the remembering the time he had spent in France in his childhood. The remembering itself is expressed as beautiful as he uses the comparison of the two different aspects of music and harmony. He does so in the expression If Egypt was the bass melody, Paris was the full orchestral make up, an Saint Augustine thinking back to the time when we had not yet sooner The usage of music helps express the feelings of how the beauty of even the simplest of music elements can make memories so much brighter.The usage of bass melody and Paris was the full orchestral score makes the memory of Paris seem so much full of life. Aciman compares the bass melody which in music is just plays in the background of the music, and makes Paris seem all the more beautiful with enhancing that melodious tune to become that whole orchestral score ignoring the harmony of music. Aciman makes usage of musical methodology to express the full orchestral score which brings outs the beauty in music.This is what makes his remembering the past so beautiful. Aciman also refers back to the past through usage of imagery. Aciman compares the past of Alexandria in compares to the beauty of life and the hardships that he has lived through, viewing up the beauty of man and memories that have been made. He mentions Alexandria and dreaming of a Seine scarcely seven minutes away was also cast upon this landscape, a past life, a pluperfect life, a conditional life, a life made, like Paris, for the mind Or the paper.The indication of a fish which translated in English means a major French river, which is implied as a metaphor. This in turn creates a passage way through his memories which he can flow along and move across time and space, this is indicated with the seine scarcely seven minutes away which was also cast upon this landscape. The river is hi s path which he takes back in seven minutes to his past life in which he describes as more than perfect which he images to be more like he had in Paris. ConclusionOverall these two different style writers have combined different aspects of reaching one goal. The different varied styles to achieve their view on nostalgia, may it be from personal experiences of fictional ones. Their different styles digest to their writing differently. Duffys different styles takes nostalgia in a different direction where it sets up a kind of barriers where the poem takes different tracks in writing about relation of the past and the origins of the feelings which draws one back to the past.On the other hand Aciman making the most of nostalgia by expressing his feelings by linking his travels through his past through the different instances and occurrences and linking Nostalgia that ponder on the experiences of loss, moving from the forced departure from Alexandria as a teenager and the brief stay in Europe. Overall the two express their emotions and thought differently Duff on one hand goes to seek the true feelings and origins where as Aciman just want to remember the beauty and emotion filled experience that you get from remembering.