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Comparing Two Metaphors

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The first line (l.1), if read with plain eyes, could just be interpreted for just a lonely walk at night. If read with a deeper sense of understanding. The night is a metaphor for depression. When reading this poem, I immediately thought of someone being depressed. The tone is one of sorrow , then transforms to humiliation or embarrassment (l.1-2-3). he didn't want the watchman to see his sorrow, with no eye contact made. Then hopefulness, when he hears a cry. I believe he first stood still because he thought it was for him. Then he realizes that no one cares about him. no one knows him, he's still alone (lll.1-2-3). but back to depression (V.1-2). The rhyme scheme follows the pattern aba cdc efe ghg aa. This poem is a metaphor
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The mentions of brightness throughout the poem represent it breaking through the seal. The poet is growing from his trauma and using it as guidance. He mentions his father cleaning up a fish at sundown. Sundown represents the bad memories and

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Wiesel uses the element of symbolism to make “night” represent the horrific events he had to go through. I liked the way he did this because it gave perspective to how time no longer had meaning yet nothing that happened could be forgotten. On page 105, Wiesel talks about his ill dad through

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This particular poem is about parents that have no idea what's going on in their kid's daily life and what they go through. With this type of action, the parents act as if all is good and make little to no effort to get involved in their day to day activities. This shows the kid that the parent does not care or seems like it. The kid will be influenced to do things they normally wouldn't do. If the parent would at least make an attempt to get involved, it may influence them for the better but until then it will not happen.

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I think this because it says “Don't you set down on the steps ‘cause you find it's kinder hard. Don't you fall down now” This line means once you stop it's harder to start again and you may get set back. I also think this poem is about fear of the future because it says “and sometimes going into the dark where there ain't no light”. This line means they are afraid of their current position in life and are afraid of what will happen

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Basically Wiesel is saying that the days felt as depressing as a normal night, and the night took the lowest of emotions that it had to offer and left it for the prisoners to experience. Just by reading this one could pick up on the subtext that Wiesel longs to feel the happiness and warmth of a day, the freedom. Another example of imagery is on page seven, which states that Eliezer and Moshe would meet “in the synagogue after all the faithful had left, sitting in the gloom, where a few half-burned candles still gave a flickering light”. This signifies that the candles had been burning all

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“I stood petrified. What has happened to me? My father had just been struck, in front of me, and I had not even blinked (39).” After his father dies, he says: “I did not weep, and it pained me that I could not weep.

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The narrator describes, “And on his way he would see the cottages and homes with their dark windows, and it was not unequal to walking through a graveyard” (174). No one was outside interacting, they were all in their homes on their electronics. More specifically, it was always quiet and lonely on the streets at night. As the narrator mentions, “The street was silent and long and empty, with only his shadow…” (174).

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This assonance begins the poem by setting the scene. We are able to interpret that the unnamed narrator is in a terrible mood, is fearful, and his anxiety is skyrocketing. This is set at midnight, which gives a feeling of uneasiness. These dark terms are emphasized by the assonance to give the

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What makes objects important? They are the key to any great story. Objects can be anything that designates everything. They bring meaning to someone, additionally they can be the reason that they keep people endeavoring to succeed. Objects can connect recollections of consequential life experiences, also, cause it effortless to recollect the experience.

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Furthermore the use of figurative language grabbed the reader's attention while demonstrating the importance of the power of words. The poem was short with three verses yet it was one of the impactful poems of the book. The words used were dark but significant which ended up making the readers relate back to their own life and makes them dive into similar feelings they have had. Power was shown through deep, sharp and cutting verses about loneliness. This specific theme was important to the book because without it people wouldn't be able to truly relate back to the

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“But I had no more tears. And, in the depths of my being, in the recesses of my weakened conscience, could I have searched it, I might perhaps have found something like-free at last!” (pg 106 Wiesel). The quote from, “I Sit and Look Out” by Walt Whitman, talks about the oppression and death of people. The quote “Night” By Elie Wiesel shows the person broken down by death, disease, and war.

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The metaphor such as comparing life to a nightmare really indicate to the reader, how hard and struggle some each day must be. The word choice such as using the word infected in line 8, ‘every night infected with despair’ truly conveys and connotes to the reader how each night is like a disease, and spreading grief throughout the body. I used the adjective desperate in the line ‘desperate daydream’ because it has connotations of hardship and readers will feel as though the daydreams are a salvation each day and can relate to this or remember some salvations they had in times of struggle. I also used other techniques such as caesura in the first stanza, to break up the sentence and enhance the rhythm of the poem. It also allows the reader a brief moment to reflect on the

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