Blue Poem Figurative Language

Essay Outline Sheet Topic: Compare the symbolism, metaphor and theme used in both poems. Brainstorm: Provide point form ideas which can be used in your essay Body Paragraph #1- What will you discuss? In this paragraph, I am going to discuss the symbolisms and metaphors that are being demonstrated in Emily Dickinson's poem, "Hope Is The Thing With Feathers". In the poem, the speaker utilizes the bird and the storm to represent hope and hardships. What examples will you use from the poem?

Throughout both poems, the writer makes use of these poetic devices in similar and contrasting ways to relay to the reader his inner battle with the concept of death. Within both

The essay I have chosen to do is Abigail Adams’ Letter to John Adams now how I have perceived this assignment would be that I am to argue whether it pertains to the category of pathos being emotional, logos going with logic or facts and examples, and ethos which would be ethical/morals. Now I’ll go into a little more depth about why it is pathos; the rhetorical appealing of our emotions. First things first would be my examples one being when she writes in her letter to him “acquiescing in a painful separation from the companion of my youth, and the friend of my heart.” Right here she is pretty much saying that despite all her efforts to not be sad about his departure she can’t help but feel lonely without him, in this other one “shall we not be

Pity? Care? Compassion? Or does she simply want to rid her shop of his troublesome presence?” (Pg. 47) The purpose of rhetorical question is to leave the audience wondering and to realize the author’s message without saying it directly.

The story she is now “telling” about her life involves a kind of dissembling, or hiding under false appearances, which may be characteristic of all art. In this poem, as in others, Jennings seems to be guided by Emily Dickenson’s dictum “Tell all the truth but tell it slant.” The contradiction between the statements made in the opening tercet and the ideas suggested in the rest of the poem opens the poem up to a number of probable readings. As a result of this disjunction, the poem can be read as an enactment or performance of the speaker’s mind in the process of fabricating a coherent argument to justify something she cannot really understand. The rationalization starts with the calculations, the enumerations, and the self-justifying comparisons

Trethewey immediately uses imagery to set the scene inviting your senses to help illustrate the image she has already relayed. This helped depict a more in-depth image of her poem “elegy”. After reading this poem several times, to build understanding, and break down literary elements; I came to the conclusion that Trethewey emphasizes the struggle to find balance. The balance between metaphor and symbolism, increasing throughout the entire poem showing battle between connotation and detonation. The struggle in which she used to connotation to portray the bigger picture, but also balanced out by denotation to show the subliminal messages of the relationship shared between the narrator’s father and herself.

Weil’s essay does indeed lay out a definition of force, and by bringing to light examples in the Iliad where force is demonstrated, she is subjecting the poem to force as she analyses both it and defines force itself. However, as she delves deeper into the epic, Weil’s focus shifts subtly. While she gradually adds nuance to her critique of Homer 's magnum opus, she applies to the work her definition of attention as she lays out in her essay, ‘Reflections on the Right Use of School Studies with a View to the Love of God.’ This subjection of the poem to force, which Weil attenuates into attention,

To do so poets follow or choose a style this is determined by a set of rules. The two poems discussed in this essay are ‘The Wreck’ by Don Paterson (1963- ) and “My Galley” by Thomas Wyatt (1503-1542). The areas which will be explored in this paper are describing the structures of the poems. And how it with the rhyme scheme it affects the reading and understanding of the text. Both texts will be interpreted in light of the information.

The poet is attempting to extinguish the bystander effect amongst her readers by choosing a very solemn and tragic mood to place emphasis on the reality of child abuse that goes unreported due to people not questioning what they are hearing. The poet wants to prove a point to the reader that we must acknowledge the signs of child abuse and take action.

William Butler Yeats demonstrates a unique way to keep the readers guessing throughout the poem. He sheds light upon the fact that society as a whole has drawn attention to sin over faith while the end the world is arising and “the centre cannot hold” (3). The author makes it clear that as a reader you can identify the literary devices diction , allusion , and foreshadowing along the the text. Yeats uses the first stanza alone is able to describe the diction found in the poem as a head scratcher or hard to understand. W.B Yeats established a somewhat hopeless tone as he used the quote “The falcon cannot hear the falconer”(2) which would infer people are not believing that things would not get better but worst.