Dragoș-Ionuț Bora

LRE II

I.

- The main theme of this poem is linked to loneliness and isolation, these two being
inside the symbol of the spider which is held captive in his imaginative cage of his
own web. Even so, there is a chance of repention, a wish for thread to extend further,
a symbol for breaking free, a need for breaking the isolation out.

- “Ceaselessly musing, venturing, throwing, seeking the spheres to connect them,”

This line is in a direct connection to the theme, reflecting the isolation of one’s soul,
the effort of working hard to find a pattern, a circle of life ongoing.
“Ceaselessy” expresses how hard and illusory the journey of one’s life can be, going
through every step, damaging and relentless for the soul.
“Musing” expresses the reflection over the life and its journey, the thoughts and the
questions that we put to ourselves over the routes and choices that we take, the
holding back of thoughts, emotions and desires.
“Venturing” talks about how everything can be an adventure and, at the same time, a
horrid stop. We can make mistakes, we can excel, we can take on step forward and
maybe one hundred behind, but everything will constitute a chapter of our own
journey through life, the journey of our soul.
“Throwing” expresses the way in which we take the things for our soul, granted or
not. Also, we can throw ourselves in decisions which can be harmless or harmful for
our soul, decisions that can rip apart bits and shadows of ourselves, decisions that can
destroy the bridge of our journey or even better, that can build it even stronger.
“Seeking the spheres to connect them” – here, the spheres are a symbols for different
moments of this journey that we talk about. We will always try to connect the
beautiful and desired things that we shall need for us, hence the spheres and, by this
connection and by the alluding to the spider web, we can only do this by going
through different routes that our life and soul will take us through, because we will
never have a straight route for what we will desire, no matter what.
II.

a. This toughts were provocked by the struggle that Huckleberry Fin conscience had
with the social standards of his time, and by this we can talk about the treatment that
the slaves had and his wish for saving or helping them, which was considered a
violation of the law at that moment.
b. Mark Twain tried to suggest that he was never a racist, he never thought of them as
objects, even if he was criticized by the usage of the word nigger “nigger”. Also, he is
trying to acknowledge his readers that the black population are, in that context, the
men of the people, the simple ones, the oppressed ones.
c. Huckleberry Fin uses such a non-formal language because he was born in a southern
state, a place where he lacked education in his youth years. Also, this type of language
can be used as a form of making the text much more realist because, as we said
earlier, a formal language couldn’t be used in the context of a southern-raised boy.