In Anne Bradstreet’s “The Author to Her Book,” Bradstreet expresses frustration with the unauthorized publication of her earlier poetry and dissatisfaction with her literary abilities by crafting an extended metaphor likening her poetry to a flawed child birthed from her alone. Creating a connection between form and function, Bradstreet applies changes in meter, like syncopes and additional syllables, chooses an untraditional structure for the stanzas, and incorporates extended metaphor in order to further highlight the imperfections of her creation. Beginning by demeaning her work directly, “thou ill-form’d offspring” (line 1), and herself , “of my feeble brain” , Bradstreet employs second person language aligned with the envoi genre to personify, humanize, and belittle her creative work. “After birth” (line 2) the poetry existed by Bradstreet’s side, its sole
“Jilting” Essay In the short story “The Jilting of Granny Weatherall”, Porter uses imagery, dialogue and figurative language to show the reader the development of the complex emotions of Granny as she is dying. Porter does this by using descriptive language, different tone of voices, and similes. Porter uses many examples of imagery in this story. For example, Granny thought “It was good to be strong enough for everything, even if all you made melted and changed and slipped under your hands,”.
The Connection Between Art and Poems As you walk into a museum and gaze upon the artwork on the walls, have you ever wondered about the lives of the subjects within the paintings? Being inspired by an artwork is common and ekphrastic literature reflects this. Poets and writers write a response or interpretation of the artist’s thoughts. Kitagawa Utamaro, a famous artist in Japan in the 1790s for his woodblock prints of beautiful women captured a girl applying powder on her neck in the mirror. This very print inspired Cathy Song to include a poem about the girl in her award winning collection, Picture Bride.
In reading Nikki Giovanni’s poems, I read the poems “Migrations”, “I Am Glass”, and “A Fish Out of Water”. Giovanni used great figurative language, imagery and special language choices to create vivid worlds for the readers. For her to create poems that come to life in your mind, she ensured to use excellent figurative language, imagery and special language choices. Her poems kind of give you a taste in reality. It also shows an image in your head of how it would feel to be something other than a human.
Imagery and tone plays a huge role for the author in this poem. It’s in every stanza and line in this poem. The tone is very passionate, joyful and tranquil.
Again she feels like she is right to be mad at God for the loss of her grandchild. Within the same poem, she says “Cropped by the Almighty’s Hand”. The words that she used gave the sentence and negative connotation. The word cropped makes it sound sudden and heartless like God did it to be mean. Her attitude towards God and her religion is anger.
Wordsworth also uses imagery to expresses a similar experience. In the first stanza he describes “A host, of golden daffodils; /beside the lake, beneath the trees, /Fluttering and dancing in the breeze.” (Wordsworth Ln 4-6). Words such as “host”, “golden”, “Fluttering” and “dancing”, all appeals to the reader’s sense of sight, hearing, and smell. It brings us into the scene.
In the short story "Birthday Party", the author's purpose is to demonstrate that intentions can lead to bad consequences especially if the intentions and actions of a person can change the plot of the story. The author, Katherine Brush, uses several literacy devices to provide support to the main idea of the story. One of the most common device used is imagery. Katherine uses imagery to help the reader have a picture of the scene of a couple having dinner.
“Hate Poem” by Julie Sheehan describes how she transformed hatred to love. By looking at her pattern of thinking, it involves her own experience in the daily life that result the conflicts between her loves and hates. This poem begins with “I hate you truly. Truly I do” (1). This opening did not match the idea of a poem about hate; instead it is a poem about love.
Religion is undoubtedly something that is incredibly important for many people. It at times serves as a source of comfort, a sense of purpose, or even a sense of belonging. Because of this, it has been a common origin of inspiration for many poets regardless of origin and time. Anne Bradstreet and Emily Dickinson are no exception. Both reference religious beliefs and God numerous times throughout their works, but they do so in different ways.
Brooke Jakins Mrs. Huval English II-H 6th 18 September 2015 The Wittiest Woman in America Poetry is an escape from emotion. It doesn’t show someone’s character, but how they escape it. Only people who have emotions and character would know what it feels like to want to escape them.
The first time reading through a poem, literary devices such as symbolism, figurative language, hyperboles or oxymorons can throw a reader off. However, after the reader analyzes and truly understands the poem, these devices can add more depth and understanding, allowing the readers to see deeper inside the poet’s mind. In his poem, ‘The Broken Heart’, John Donne incorporates specific devices to portray that love is an all-consuming, vicious monster that can ruin you. In ‘The Broken Heart’, John Donne’s descriptive vocabulary, explaining the way the speaker’s heart was shattered beyond repair, forces the reader to imagine his or her heart as splintered or crushed as Donne’s.
It is also important to see how she used stylistic devices, and how she set up the imagery using tone in her poem. Feminism was highly needed in Sexton’s time and it proves to be a pressing concern in society
In order to change history, people must learn from their mistakes. Segregation in North America has been a big issue in North America that unfortunately still happens in the world today, however, it is not as bad as it once was. In the poem “History Lesson” by Natasha Trethewey, the author uses mood, symbolism and imagery to describe the racial segregation coloured people faced in the past compared to more recent times, where equality is improved and celebrated. The author uses language and setting to influence the mood and meaning of the poem.
“Daddy” is a poem written by Sylvia Plath shortly before her death in October of 1962. Plath is known for conveying strong emotion within her poems; she describes life without making it feel biographical. Throughout “Daddy”, the author uses many literary devices to describe a child’s relationship with her father and the way the narrator feels following her father’s death. Plath’s purpose throughout “Daddy” is to convince the reader that the narrator and her father are very different people, creating conflict between them. She delivers this message to the reader effectively by using metaphors, allusions, and imagery.
