Bruce Dawe’s poems, from Sometimes Gladness, are a commentary of Australian life, from 1954 to 1978.…
Poets use imagery to capture the emotion and feeling in the poem in which they are writing. Judith Minty, in her poem “Conjoined,” uses imagery to truly depict the meaning and emphasis of that work. Through the images that Minty paints in the minds of her readers, the essence of the poem is revealed. One can strongly see and feel the emotion that this poem possesses. The images are distinct and bold, and through the first, second, and third stanza, the images can be easily seen and identified. The poem “Conjoined” is not a pleasant poem, but it speaks of great truth for the situation in which it describes.…
“A peanut-brown boy with curly hair, he seemed to know everything,” (McPherson 9). Comparing the color of a peanut to the skin color of a boy that the main character notes is important in contributing to McPherson’s ongoing connection between lifeless objects and the colors of everyday life. It’s this type of diction that the author uses that develops a childish tone throughout the story. Not only does the author use this connection between two different parts of speech but he also uses adjectives to develop the colorful tone of the story. “These happy children would pull and twist the long arms of billowy crepe paper into wondrous, multicolored plaits,” (McPherson 13). The main character describes his observation of the colors around the Maypole as “wondrous,” which continues to develop the tone of vibrant and youthful colorfulness throughout the story. The adjectives the author uses have a childish ambience to them, including “wondrous,” which creates a visualization of the main character as a young boy staring in awe at the colors of the Maypole. “A deep blue bandanna enclosed her head with the wonder of a summer sky. Black patent leather shoes glistened like half-hidden stars beneath the red and white of her hemline,” (McPherson 18). The author continues to portray the main character as a young man infatuated with the colors around him to amplify and extend the tone of color in the story through a childish…
In Macbeth, Salome, Havisham and Stealing, there are a variety of ways in which disturbed characters are presented through both language, structure and context. In this essay, I will convey the various ways in which disturbed characters are shown throughout the written pieces such as violence, death and loneliness.…
Throughout The story he implements imagery. For instance, he illustrates, “Fair was this youthful wife, and therewithal As weasel’s was her body slim and small A girdle wore she, barred and striped, of silk. An apron, too, as white as morning milk About her loins, and full of many a gore; White was her smock, embroidered all before…” ( Line 125-130 ). Here he visually describes how Alison looks. Furthermore, he mentions, “ Truly, sweetheart, I Have such love longing That like a turtle-dove’s my true yearning: And I can eat no more than can a maid…” ( Line 597-599 ). In his imagery he show the sin of lust due to the usage of diction to show his vision of how he sees her. He lust her that he continually ask for a kiss from her and tries to woo he without any care of his husband being in his way.…
The speaker of this poem is going through an identity crisis. They are dull and don’t see themselves having a personality. They see women in beautiful saris in the beginning of the poem and revel in how exotic and interesting they are or appear to be. Simultaneously they are conscious of their own bland way of life…
The first descriptions in the poem are of savagery, the thing, rough and crudely done, cut in coarse stone,' these are to signify how imperfect the object is, made by an imperfect being thus indicating the objects inferiority. But, conversely these images could also indicate a certain sense of simplicity within the object; it is not needlessly ornate. The next are of disdain for the object, spitefully placed aside, as merest lumber,' the attitude of the collector lends to the idea that they prefer grandioso works of art, and the attitude that beauty is more defining in a pieces value than either historical value or the meaning of a piece. These feelings of discontent…
Another time the poem connects to the novel is when the poem is describing the freaks. The poem states “Proper reflections of the error to be, and images of self-confusednesses, which hurt imaginations only see; “ This is describing the freaks because in the book it states”So, what happens? You get your reward: madness. Change of body, change of personal environment, for one thing. Guilt, for another, guilt at leaving your wife, husband, friends to die the way all men die - Lord, that alone would give a man fits.So more fear, more agony for the carnival to breakfast on.So with the green…
Just as language sways the emotions of the author, imagery is critical in the way the writer produces his or her literary pieces. Gustatory, visual, tactile, and auditory illustrations are found in this selection. Shakespeare writes, “buzzing night-flies” and “of sweetest melody,” these…
The themes of isolation, hopelessness and insanity are heightened greatly through the use of imagery and allusions. As the opening of the poem originates at midnight ‘the gloomiest’ time of the night with the only source of light irradiating from the moon, the only things can be seen through the moonlight indicating the importance of the moon. In a traditional sense, the moon was seen to represent the womanly grace associated with physic, intuitive and mysteriousness yet also in a way presenting a dark nature welded in a realm between the conscious and the unconscious. The fragile wordings embody the compassionate feats of the feminine and motherly side of the moon as she tenderly ‘smooths the hair of the grass.’ However there is a radical change in tone as ‘A washed-out smallpox cracks her face.’ As this line is ambiguous as to whether the persona was referring to the moon or a woman’s facial features or perhaps both. However in the artwork, a depiction of a crescent moon illuminates to a different notion of the beginning of a renewal cyclic change.…
“The Whirligig of life” by O Henry exhibits many great figures of speech and uses all five common literary devices skillfully and complexly. For this reason, some of O Henry’s ideas may take more reading between the lines to truly…
Noticeably the poem is made up of only two complete sentences, where periods are replaced with commas. The use of asyndeton in both sentences creates a feel of a never-ending list of sadness and misery. Roethke chose to prolong the sentence in order for the reader to feel as though they are deprived of a break because like society in the poem they are trapped as the list goes on and on. Asyndeton is partnered with personification in sentence one to create the gloomy and somber tone. By personifying everyday inanimate objects with feelings such as the “Inexorable sadness of pencils… Misery of manila folders…” (lines 1 & 3), Roethke brings these everyday objects to life in order for them to serve as symbols of how the tasks performed everyday are simply rituals done with no true passion. They simply create boring and diluted individuals that become ultimately the same, photocopied, image.…
The poem is basically about a woman trying to find the ‘perfect dress.’ All throughout the poem, the author depicts the desire to hunt for this dress as being brought on by the want and desire to be like one of the gorgeous and glamorous models that are seen walking the runways and covering the front pages of magazines. One could tell the tone of this poem would, more or less, be sad. This could be deduced from the first line when the author writes “a blue confession.” Blue tends to be a color of sadness and I feel that those words were a symbol of the sad tone that was to be portrayed.…
This underlying theme and aspirations of achieving beauty is ever-present in this poem. From its beginning to its very conclusion, with the woman’s day dreams about people looking at her in awe…
In the essay," What Happiness Is," Eduardo Porter shares quotations from sources to define happiness (459-61). I will focus on Gandhi's quotation " Happiness is when, what you think, what you say and what you do are in Harmony,'' Gandhi. In the world on one else steal happiness from you in this manner, only you can. If you do what you say and say what you think, then all is in alignment and you have opportunity for happiness. When they are out of alignment you have internal conflict and happiness will be hard to achieve.My life was good and I was happy. I had a great husband and had recently brought a house in Sacramento, had a good job and a great circle of family and friends.…