Memories are also seen as the foundation of A. E. Housman’s To an Athlete Dying Young. Through the allusion of the line: “Shoulder-high we bring you home.”, This poem holds, as its main theme, the premature death of a young athlete as told from the memories of a fond friend serving at his funeral. “The time you won your town the race/ we chaired you through the market- place/ Man and boy stood cheering by/ and home we brought you shoulder high/.” The first stanza demonstrates the narrator’s most impacting memories of the deceased athlete. These lines of the poem, being of an optimistic nature, denote the athlete’s positive impact on the narrator’s ideals and memories he has. “Smart lad, to slip betimes away/ From fields where glory does not stay…./ Of lads that wore their honours out…./And the name died before the man”, reveals the concept that those dying at the peak of their glory or youth are really quite lucky. Despite the normal memories and feelings of pain, hurt, and darkness that shadow death, the narrator’s views remain optimistic and happy due to the loving memories he possesses for the Athlete.

Toni Morrison’s The Blues Eye is composed of sections that are labeled by the seasons: autumn, winter, spring, and summer. The seasons serve as markers of time and evoke irony on the displacements of memory throughout each. Morrison also uses the seasons to order her novel, but through the use of diction and irony narrator’s memories brings horror rather than beauty. Spring usually alludes to a time of renewal and rebirth noted by holidays such as Easter. Spring, however brings the awful thoughts of Claudia being whipped by new switches, and the unforgettable memories of Pecola’s horrid rape. Pecola's baby dies in autumn, the season of harvesting. Summer, being the last chapter in the book, should bring a feeling of relaxation and new life but hatred and self destruction through the “new” eyes of Pecola begs to differ. In either case the characters seem to shape in some sense by memory’s operation. Does memory provide a means to integrate ourselves into a future of our own devising or does it chain us to an unchangeable past? Morrison’s use of the natural cycle of seasons answers that by underlining the unnaturalness and misery of her characters’ experiences and memories.

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