Once More to the Lake and The Ring of Time Essay -- Comparative, White

In E.B. Whites essays, Once More to the Lake and The march of Time, he demonstrates deuce different interpretations of time and how time is used to symbolize meaning in each piece. Once More to the Lake is an essay that is derived mostly from Whites individualised experience while The Ring of Time is an essay that mostly examines a teenage girl performing at the circus, in the eyes of White. Both these essays bestow the reader insight of how the author uses the theme of time to show different aspects to the toshline. In Whites essays, he uses similar strategies that reflect on the early(prenominal) and foresee the future, use other individuals as vehicles to access an alternative temporality, and demonstrate his own perceptions and visions in order to explore the reality and different notions of time. Both stories ar similar in a sense that White writes them from a present time setting however, he explores the notions of time differently since he reflects on his by in Once More to the Lake while he foresees the girls future in The Ring of Time. In The Ring of Time, White writes about his cosmos at the circus and spotting a girl of sixteen or seventeen, politely treading her way through the onlookers who blocked the entrancethe richness of the scene was in its plainness, its natural condition-of horse, of ring, of girl...a ring of ambition, of happiness, of youth (2-3). However, after a week or two, all would be changed, all lost the girl would wear makeup (White, The Ring of Time 3)and, because of that, he envisions her twenty-five years out front, and she was now in the center of the ringwearing a conical hat and hi-heeled shoes, the image of an older woman, property the long rein, caught in the treadmill of an after... ...ity of time in both The Ring of Time and Once More to the Lake. These strategies include reflecting on the past and foreseeing the future, using other characters as vehicles, and having a personal perception of time. To sum it all up, both stories have similarities such as being written in the present. However, they have some differences. Both stories may use a technique of viewing the theme of time, but they are each solitary and dissimilar to each other. Also, each story has a character that isnt the narrator but instead, the one that is used to explore time, whether it is looking back at the past or looking ahead in to the future. White made both these stories personal pieces of writing however Once More to the Lake is more reflective while The Ring of Time is more of a public piece. All in all, each story is quite similar but very different as well.