The author uses imagery and personification to help with the poems theme. The author says "I wait for you with cool, blue arms and silver face". This give off a imagery how lake looks and the use of personification give off that the lake is waiting for the speaker no matter what.
What is the purpose of all the contrasting, descriptive imagery? What elements underlyingly stand for other items? The poem opens with the speaker reflecting on their past and relating to frogs asserting that they
“I Was Sleeping Where the Black Oaks Move” written by Louise Erdrich focuses on a child and a grandfather horrifically observing a flood consuming their entire village and the surrounding trees, obliterating the nests of the herons that had lived there. In the future they remember back to the day when they started cleaning up after the flood, when they notice the herons without their habitat “dancing” in the sky. According to the poet’s biographical context, many of the poems the poet had wrote themselves were a metaphor. There could be many viable explanations and themes to this fascinating poem, and the main literary devices that constitute this poem are imagery, personification, and a metaphor.
Elinor starts us out with a small sight of the setting. She talks about a smoke-tarnished moon and the dead leaves, “with the color like blood.” I thought of it’s interesting word choice; showing/relating to death. She then mentions a child being murdered by the sea, and how the sea was joyfully killing the so-called “strong little boy.” The title itself, is also memorializing the meaning of the poem, “Sea Lullaby.”
In line at the narrator's fear has a metaphor and a simile in line 11. The poem is full of similes and metaphors. For example, line 3-4 are similes also lines, 9-11, 24-26, 29-30, line 32, and line 32-34. The poem in line 4-6 includes metaphors.
The thesis: In The Curious Incident of the Dog In The Night-time, Christopher makes use of various types of images to express and show how Christopher’s character sees things and the theme of figurative imagery. In particular Literal imagery, imagery visual and organic visual Christopher makes use of Literal Imagery to express His emotions about certain things. Christopher said: ‘’ On the fifth day, which was a Sunday, it rained very hard. I like it when it rains hard’’ ( 103 ). It sounds like white noise everywhere, which is like silence but not empty.
The author utilizes multiple metaphors in the poem to create vivid imagery in readers’ mind about the poem. Additionally, John Brehm widely utilizes nautical metaphors to bring out its intentions. For instance, the poem is entitled “the sea of faith.” The term “Sea” is used to show how deep, broad, and everlasting the act of “faith” can be.
The agony the writer is feeling about his son 's death, as well as the hint of optimism through planting the tree is powerfully depicted through the devices of diction and imagery throughout the poem. In the first stanza the speaker describes the setting when planting the Sequoia; “Rain blacked the horizon, but cold winds kept it over the Pacific, / And the sky above us stayed the dull gray.” The speaker uses a lexicon of words such as “blackened”, “cold” and “dull gray” which all introduce a harsh and sorrowful tone to the poem. Pathetic fallacy is also used through the imagery of nature;
The third book I have chosen for my research is 'The Sound of the Sea', written by Jacqueline Harvey and illustrated by Warren Crossett. This is another book where death is a central theme. This book differs from my other two books in the way it explores the death of a parent from a child's point of view, where the other two books looked at the death of an animal. This picturebook is a moving story that explores the relationship between a young boy, Samuel Sullivan, and his mother. Samuel is remembering the precious times he spent with his mother before she became ill and went away.
The poem is written in a somber and reflective tone, and the speaker's words contribute to this effect. One example of this is the usage of terms like “sharp-toothed,” “lurk,” and “unleashed” to describe the desire for revenge. These words have a sinister and dangerous connotation, suggesting that the desire for revenge is something to be feared. Additionally, the speaker employs phrases like “neither satisfaction nor cure” and “festering wound” to depict the consequences of seeking vengeance. These words stress the destructive and unsatisfying nature of vengeance and help to emphasize the poem's message.
Metaphors are used greatly throughout this poem. An example of this is the phrase “spools of suffering set out in ordered rows”, this phrase also contains alliteration as spools of suffering set all begin with an ‘S’. This metaphor represents the people pictured in the photographs suffering as it isn’t the spools which are suffering. The ‘S’s’ used in this metaphor also creates a sibilance effect as if the poet is whispering. Additionally, there is a paradox present in how he has organised suffering, the chaos of pain and war into neat ordered rows.
Metaphorical language plays a vital role throughout the poem. The poet implants devices such as personification to better convey the moral of his piece. In the lines “Her hardest hue to hold, Her early leaf’s a flower” (line 2-3), nature has been referred to and personified as ‘her’, evidently transformed into a female
Each stanza begins with naming a type of man. He uses old, good, wild, and grave to describe men. Old is a metaphor for wise because with age, wisdom is gained. Good is a metaphor for moral, wild is for young, and grave is for very sick because each word is a description for these men at these ages. Young people are wild, able to do whatever they want.
In the first stanza the speaker invites the readers on a quest that ends in a question they are not allowed to ask. The ensuing lines project a dismal solitary life of seedy hotels and lowly restaurants. The employment of similes, “Like a patient etherized upon a table (line 3) and “Like a tedious argument of insidious intent”(lines 8-9) is a suggestion that he is paralyzed and ineffectual in his ability to control his choices and resulting consequences.
Diction ‘Merciless’(line 1) ‘Agonies’(line 7) ‘Forgotten dreams’(line 22) Symbols ‘Attacks once more in ranks on shivering ranks of gray, ‘(line
