The narrator’s changing understanding of the inevitability of death across the two sections of the poem illustrates the dynamic and contrasting nature of the human
Vidash Khelawan Professor Rachael Benavidez ENG 130 08 FEB 2023 Title Line 1 (Humans Compared to Nature) Title Line 2 (Accountability is What defined us)
Poem #1 : 1. Does it use figurative language? If so, what kind? There is figurative language in this poem. The whole poem is an extended metaphor for decision making.
In Norman Maclean’s novella A River Runs Through It, the river flows throughout the story and weaves its way into many different themes and lessons that the characters learn. A river also runs through our lives, and I see it as the path that we decide to follow. Sometimes we face obstacles, and we have to choose if we want to push through them and keep going or let them stop us from moving forward. Rivers often branch off into different paths, and it’s up to us to pick which branch we want our lives to flow into. This novella follows Norman as he discovers his path and faces difficulties.
The key theme identified throughout this poem is clarity. Two terms used to analyze, and interpret this poem are metaphor, and analogy. First, the use of analogy is expressed in line eight, “Silent as the autumn river’s flood.” poetryintranslation.com, (2000-2017). The poet is comparing silence to that of an autumn river’s flood.
The book “ The Soul Brothers and Sister Lou” by Kristin Lattany from chapter 4-8, Lou believes in the club even though she has some doubts. Therefore she seeks for help and guidance from her teacher Miss Hodge. When Miss Hodges agree to help her, she brings Mr. Lucitanno and Blinde Eddie. With their help, she discovers a new world of music. Which cause her to make a song, with Fess’s poem.
Not only does Harper Lee symbolize Tim Johnson in To Kill a Mockingbird, but also the snowman. Maycomb County is expecting snowfall, enough for school to be closed (Spark Notes). Maycomb is known for being a very tired and counterproductive town where things rarely occur. So this was a wonderful surprise to the citizens of Maycomb. Because of this, the citizens of Maycomb decided to build a snowman or Morphodite.
Although the river only has one start and finish, this can relate to a person’s obligation to their family. Lanier’s passion for nature is expressed in the clear setting of the river, and the surrounding scenery. And though transformation is not specifically stated, the journey down the river shows all that has been encountered and overcome. Finally, Lanier’s use of religion is left natural to the readers. Although Wright, Stephens, and Lanier differ in age and come from two different time periods, their ideas for nature, transformation, and religion can be related to one
The story Wolf Brother, by Michelle Paver, is a thrilling tale about a prepubescent boy who is desperate to avenge his father and save the forest from a devastating evil. The setting of this book is in an ancient European forest, thousands of years ago. The theme is the will to survive and destiny, which the protagonist,a twelve year old boy named torak, expresses well by doing everything he can to survive while carefully avoiding the antagonist, a bear that is possessed by an evil spirit whose goal is to destroy everything in its way, and ultimately defeating it, which is in the prophecy and falls into place by destiny. Wolf Brother begins with Torak and Pa, Torak’s father, in a clearer part of the forest having a Small meal before they
Furthermore, the epigraph sets the poem’s tone with an extreme sense of futility and hopelessness. This idea is presented through the recurring motif of water throughout the poem, where it symbolises life. However, Eliot chooses the idea of barren, dryness to illustrate the idea of lack of life in a war-torn society; “dry stone no sound of water”, “now water but only rock - Rock and no water”, “there were the sound of water only” “but there is no water” and the “dry sterile thunder without rain”. Through these recurring ideas of dryness Eliot effectively conveys the idea of bleakness and death, that the Great War has sucked away the life of the society, there is nothing to keep the society from functioning properly. There are also contradicting ideas in the poem where there is too much water that people drown.
Both poems talk about their own personal struggles in finding truth, in “XXVII” by Stephens he describes it as a “breath”, a “wind”, a “phantom”, and a “shadow”. It
Throughout this poem, Robert Frost uses extended metaphors to convey that every human has a path that causes them to constantly make choices that will continue to shape their lives. In the first lines of the poem, Frost states, “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood/ And sorry I could not travel both” (Lines 1-2). Immediately, the idea is established that the speaker has to make a decision.
The message of the poem- life changing decisions and obstacles isn 't exactly presented to the reader but rather hidden amongst the choice of words used to describe the intention of the text. There are two specific connotations present throughout the poem in which they bring an exciting relevance to the poem. Within the poem the "two words that diverged in a wood" (18) is more than just roads that is being described. The connotation of the road in the poem is a representation of the choice and journey in life in which one should take. Each road consists of different choices the speaker can make; each road will lead to a different outcome, events within a lifetime, or a questioning future.
The poems “Animal Wisdom” and “The Last Wolf” both use examples of personification and imagery to explain animal intellect. Though the two authors, Nancy Wood and Mary Tallmountain explain in different ways, they are both technically explaining the same idea. Though us humans underestimate animals, some animals have intellect very close to ours. Maybe even better than our intelligence. This essay will be about how these two poems are similar and different.
The two paths symbolize the life of the traveler and all his life decisions. This poem expresses life, because in life, there are important decisions that in some instances can make a really big change, sometimes it’s hard to find your way out of something, and there are many possible ways you can do it. “Then took the other, as just as fair, and having perhaps the better claim” are verses where we can clearly see that this is a decision in to which he is putting a lot of thought. Throughout the poem, we learn that there are two paths to take, but the traveler, who we suppose is Robert Frost, is uncertain of which one to take. We learn that this is really a life decision, and not just a choice between two paths.
