ipl-logo

Analyzing Figurative Language

214 Words1 Pages
Elizabeth Collier Analyzing Figurative Language March 20, 2018 "Sketch" by Carl Sandburg is a short poem that describes ships on the shore and a rolling tide. This poem gives off a calming tone to support the theme of nature. Personifications and several metaphors also help bring out the theme for this writing. The first example of personification is "Of the tardy and the soft inrolling tide." The tide is being described as "tardy" to explain it's a late tide. "Puts an arm of sand in the span of salt" is telling us the sand has an "arm" representing a sandbar. These examples of personification help describe the theme by giving nature a more human characteristic. Metaphors in the poem are using a word or phrase to compare to an object
Open Document