Emily Dickinson Metaphors

“Life is about choices. Some we regret, some we are proud of. Some will haunt us forever. The message: we are what we choose to be.” -Graham

The main idea of the poem is that the speaker is confronted with this fork in the road and must choose which road to encounter, which is similar to when people choose a certain path in life. “I took the one less traveled by, and that has made all the difference. ”- Frost People feel pressured to be popular, consequently, they follow the path instead of making their own path.

At the beginning of the poem, “You do not have to be good” is used to not only speak to the narrator but set the course for which readers will follow. “You do not have to walk on your knees… repenting.” is another example of the mesmerizing words Oliver uses to aid in the reader’s emotional connection to the narrator. The poem begins with these lines to represent how a person dealing with limitations may feel and respond to these. Still, these thoughts are quickly disregarded by the narrator and readers become informed that such feelings of self-blame are petty and unnecessary.

Then, in Keisha’s poem she seems slightly agitated, I’m guessing at Andy. She sees that he clearly has something wrong, but won’t talk to anyone about it. He can’t hold in his feelings forever, and eventually they will come out. She writes, “What’s your problem, little man,” (Page 67). In B.J.’s poem he is calmly trying to find love.

“My son says I am average, an average mother, but if I put my mind to it I could improve” (Pastan 706). No mother would like to be called an average mother, likewise, this was Pastan’s ultimate goal. She wanted the reader to see the struggles that this mother/wife had to go through. By using the extended metaphor to emphasize the disapprovals that the narrator received, the reader can now relate, as people constantly judge/critique what you do. The final line of this poem is very striking for the reader.

This is similar to how Odysseus is kept from his happiness. The speaker of the poem begins by describing something that she has to do, but how others keep her from doing this. “One day you finally knew, what you had to do, and began, though the voices around you kept shouting their bad advice” (Oliver 1-5). These voices that she talks about are the people trying to keep her away from her goal and she chooses to look past these and accept her own opinions. On her journey she has to learn to ignore all the negativity.

Howe-ever , the poems it self, makes readers think the author is trying to say something more than what he is writing. For example the phrase, “other words are stapled wagers in a perforated book” here she is giving words the character of stapled wagers. In this phrase she is referring to words that are wrote on a poem just for publicity, because they don't really means anything for the author. Also when she said “the stub remains an ill-pulled tooth with a ragged edge” this is another type of reference to the inadequacy of words and the meaning people give to them. This means that there will always be a conflict because you cant use a word to describe someones personality,

In Robert Frost’s 1916 poem, The Road Not Taken, he uses metaphors, imagery and strong punctuation and line breaks to explore a theme focused on making proper decisions and discovering new experiences. His skillful use of figurative language has made this poem incredibly famous worldwide. The writing truly captures the dilemma people go through when choosing which path to take in each aspect of their lives. In the first stanza, Frost starts off by using a metaphor in the first line: “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood.”

At the end of the poem, the speaker says “if I stepped out of my body I would break.” This means that the speaker doesn’t want to challenge or is afraid of coming out of their comfort

We are here to contribute positively with grace and humbleness. We’re here to follow our own set of rules we make, not here to listen to negative vibes or opinions. In the poem, “Mother to Son,” by Langston Hughes, he writes, “ Life for me ain’t been no crystal stair. It’s had tacks in it, and splinters…,” which means life wasn’t perfect for the speaker in this poem and that life will never be perfect, or easy.

"The Road less Traveled" its "The Road Not Taken", and the road not taken of course it 's the road he did not take; which means that the title passes over the "less traveled" road the speaker claims to have followed in order to foreground the road he never tried". The article also clarifies that "The title isn 't about what he did; it 's about what he didn 't do or is it"? The article still leave us with the thought of , did the poem take the road less traveled by or did he want to take the road less traveled by but didn 't? It seem as if frost never traveled anywhere and predicted he did. When he expressive the last thought of the road less travelled, Mr. Frost stated how he would love to tell the story of The Road

In the story “Of Mice and Men” the author John Steinbeck uses foreshadowing. Foreshadowing is when the author gives hints and clues what will happen later in the story. John Steinbeck uses foreshadowing to give the reader clues about the ending of the book Of Mice and Men. Four examples of Steinbeck’s use of foreshadowing is the first clue is the title, the second clue is lennie petting soft things and not knowing his own strength, the third clue is characters dreams aren’t going to come true, and the last clue is when candy’s dog get’s shot in back of the head and says he should’ve shot his dog himself. The first example of foreshadowing in “Of Mice and Men” is the title.