An intellectual insight to discovery in Gray's poetry anthology 'Coast Road' and Kate Chopin's short narrative Tara Jessie Bush 12th Grade

Discoveries can provoke both emotional and intellectual responses which can subsequently seem to be provocative or confrontational. These concepts are illuminated to a profound extent in Robert Gray’s poetry anthology “Coast Road” and Kate Chopin’s narrative “The Story of an Hour”. Gray’s poem ‘The Meatworks’ unveils the affronting and unsettling nature of humans treatment of animals of the abbatoir. Whereas the didactic poem ‘Flames and Dangling Wire’ explores humankind existence in a perpetual cycle of destruction and renewal. The discovery in Kate Chopin’s narrative stems from an obscured understanding of love and sprouts into a shocking loss. These texts possess captivating realizations that evoke desperate emotion and force the reader to intellectually question their own experiences and beliefs,.

The powerful epiphany in the ‘Meatworks’ uses zoomorphism and detail to intensify the horror of the confronting scenes on the abattoir. The quote “using a chompy, greasy stick shaped like a penis” uses blunt, phallic imagery to heighten the sense of sadism and volition. The moral corruption of the characters job is expressed through “scrub my hand” as it is evidence of the blood and horror of his line of duty not being easily...