A
literary appreciation of Pollen ( LaviniaGreenlaw )
by Supri
Introduction
It is
interesting when reading this short story.
From the title we know this literary works heavily in scientific topic,
but don’t make an early conclusion. lets
investigate what is actually the author want to say through this short story .
is there any reason why the author choose the pollen as the title? is there any relationship between this story
and the social phenomenon at that time ?
Some of the
points above may represent the questions of the readers while they read this
short story. Pollen is one of the works of LaviniaGreenlaw .Greenlaw was born in London into a
family of doctors and scientists. She began her working life in publishing and arts
administration before he become a freelance artist, critic and radio
broadcaster. She lives in London and currently works as professor of
creative writing at the University of East Anglia. It makes sense now why she choose a scientific
term to be the title of her story, but does
the story tell about pollen ? or is the pollen just a symbol of
something ? it’s better if we go to the story tells about .
Investigation
This short
story tells about two persons who had a special relationship in the past
and after for long
time they lost each other , now they have an opportunity to communicate each
other through a letter. Because its form is in a letter, so it provides a kind of
styles of short story writing. Back to the story, the characters are Zed and
Laura.Through the letter, Laura wants to ask many things which explain all of
the unexplained things happened in their
past. It is showed by the sentences made by Laura is more than Zed. Every time
Laura asks many things, Zed gives a short answer even it doesn’t have any
relation with the questions .now they have their own life with their couple,
but why zed appears after lost for long time.
In their conversation (of course
through the letter) seems that Zed try to know whether Laura still has feeling
on him or not by asking her to have a luch together . At the first time, Laura
refuses Zed’s invitation, but at the end , Zed didn’t come after she Agreed. It
shows that actually he still loves her, but in the condition right now, it is
impolite when a maried man hang out together with a woman who doesn’t have any
bussiness with him . in his deepest heart , Zed want to make sure how Laura
looks like now . it shows in the last letter of Zed . Zed says that he was
late, but he saw her and didn’t to try stop her . He just looked at her carefully
and admire to her beauty . It can be said that he plays Laura’s heart . so this
is the caracter of Zed . He easy makes fun with a woman and so easy leaves them
with the broken heart. This caracter of Zed maybe have similarities with the
pollen . They easilyfertilizea lot ofstigma and switching fromoneto another . but why the Author choose this of topic
which is an affair of the maried man and the maried woman.
I think the author wants to show us about what happends in society at
that time . What happens is a change in the paradigm of the people about love.
In the previous age of literature , lets say some romantic novel such as Romeo and Juliet , Scarlet letter
,etc. They view love as a very precious thing , even a person is
willing to die for it. In this short story prove that this view is no longer in
that way . eventhough Laura and Zed are still in love each other, Zed hold his
desire to meet Laura . He doesn’t want to break the rule .The second change is
that long time ago maybe a men is faithful and now are broken by Zed’s caracter
which is symbolized by Pollen.
It can be said that the world is
dynamic and always changed as time passed . As well as the phenomena in the
real society . this short story tells about the real life , about love and the
rule in the society . The feeling is defeated by the logic . The love is defeated
by the rule.
This is the world now , we have to open minded to this kind
of phenomenon . so we can face the world
and not run over by the time .
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