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Hard Knight Metaphors

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In the poem, Knight uses vivid imagery to help the reader better understand the inner workings of the prison system, as well as the horrible treatment of the black populace in that time, through his use of similes. The author writes that Hard Rock “was turned loose / Like a freshly gelded stallion, to try his new status / And [they] all waited and watched, like indians at a coral” (Knight 11-13). In this set of similes, the author creates strong visual imagery to depict symbolically what Hard Rock’s return looked like. Earlier on in the story, Hard Rock was depicted as a wild animal, not afraid to fight his way out of situation. Now, as the other prisoners waited and watched Hard Rock get his bearings in the prison, once more, after supposedly
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In the medieval story of Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, the holly branch, the battle ax, and the green sash are used as symbols to represent life and death. When the Green Knight enters the room he “instead held in one hand a bought of the holly/That grows most green when all groves are bare” (L.27-28). The holly branch is green and it represents peace and the beauty of life and nature. The holly branch also has berries and they are poisonous representing death. On the other hand he “held an ax, immense and unwieldy” (L.29).

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In one case, “He had dark hair and eyes, and a perfectly pointed triangle of a nose that made him look like one of the ravens that circled over the orchard sometimes.” (pg. 5) As well, this shows a terrific example of imagery. The book uses figurative language exquisitely. The book states, “Tonight, she skated under the moon and listened to the music of ice. Welcome to winter, it said.

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Crushed. / He had been our Destroyer, the doer of things / We dreamed of doing but could not bring ourselves to do,” this shows that they looked up to him. The constant reminder of their inferiority by their oppressors had them resigned to fate which “Hard Rock”

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