Sharon Olds in the poem, “On the Subway,” reveals the encounter of a black boy and a white lady as they travel on a train. Olds was able to establish the contrast of the two people with different races by the use of imagery, tone, and poetic devices. Olds was able to use imagery to enhance her writing and to contrast the difference between the black boy and the white woman. “His feet are huge, in black sneakers laced with white in a complex pattern like a set of intentional scars.” In this image Olds describes the boy who is separated from her by using a simile to compare the complex pattern to the intentional scars.
Contrary to popular belief, the poem inhibits a puzzle composed of numerous rhetorical devices that illuminate the theme Housman implants. In, “To an Athlete Dying Young,” Housman utilizes rhetorical devices such as the rhetorical monologue, imagery, and an ironic tone to develop the theme that serves as a paradox to the negative connotation in which death is labeled. To begin the dissection of devices that are embedded in, “To an Athlete Dying Young,” Housman deploys the rhetorical monologue to proclaim the irony in the death of
It uses this effect to accentuate the “Homecoming” of the dead. Repetition is harnessed to utilise the irony and accentuate the ones who are coming back are dead, not the glorified ending that society was promised. The inditer, Dawe, utilises his perspective to present his view on the matter. His perspective is rather raw, and often the plain truth, as optically discerned in “Homecoming”, and in some stanzas in “On the Death of Ronald Ryan”. Readers may interpret his works in ways of tyranny toward the regime, society in some fashions.
"The Race" by Sharon Olds uses a myriad of literary devices that all connect the tone of anxiety. The poem also introduces two central themes such as discontent and persistence as a result of figurative language. Through series of repetition such as "... flight was cancelled..." or "... I ..." and any other verb that shows how this girl is hustling, the author emphasizes a rushed environment and how anxiety and tension are pulsating. Since the start of the poem, there has been a consistent amount of I's followed by an action verb that illuminated the airport rush and how time was not on her side. Next, with the support of enjambment, diction, and poor sentence structure, the author uses many run-on sentences to focus on the intensity
A poem is often distinguished from other forms of writing as an “art of rhythmical composition ... for exciting pleasure by beautiful, imaginative, or elevated thoughts,” (Dictionary.com). Poets use a variety of literary devices to express their emotions and portray what they are perceiving. In the poem, “Crossing the Swamp”, Mary Oliver uses alliteration, tone, and imagery to manifest in the reader's mind the emotions she felt as she crossed the swamp. Alliteration within this poem is used to offer emphasis on perspectives that the swamp is being viewed through. Mary Oliver alliterated the words branching, burred, belching, bogs, peerless, pale, fooothold, fingerhold, hipholes, hummocks as wells as sink and silently within the first half of the poem.
We often overlook the simple pleasures in life, such as waking up feeling healthy or being able to breathe clearly through both nostrils. Sharon Olds' "Ode to Dirt" effectively employs literary techniques, including metaphors and personification to demonstrate the speaker's gradual shift in perspective towards dirt. As a result, the speaker begins to appreciate the true value of dirt. Sharon Olds is able to express the speaker's attitude toward dirt through the use of metaphors. An example of this can be seen in line 2, "I thought you were only the background" (Olds, line 2).
In this poem, Olds uses symbolism, contrast, and imagery to convey the speaker’s feelings of frustration and nervousness about an encounter on the subway. Sharon Olds uses symbolism to show the speaker's frustration towards racial division. The speaker explains that the man's “black
Throughout the poem Ode to Dirt, Sharon Olds uses word choice and figurative language to show her attitude change throughout the poem and convey the message of; dirt does have an important story and purpose even though people like her may think it doesn't. Olds word choice in the beginning of her poem displays apologies and regret about how she thought of dirt before. “Dear dirt, I am sorry I slighted you," is the first line in her poem. The diction of slighted shows sorrow to the dirt but hatred of herself knowing that what she thought of the dirt was untrue. Continuing through the poem her word choice in lines 7-9 “Subtle, various, sensitive, you are the skin of our terrain, you're our democracy.”
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
In "The Race" by Sharon Olds, the author attempts to convey a sense of aggravated confusion in addition with the fear of being in a race against time in order to see if the main character will reach her dying father in time. Imagery, mood/tone, and point of view play a huge role along with the display of the frantic atmosphere. Imagery and symbolism in and of the setting, play a huge role along with the description of events with colors. For example, "...dark blond mustache...". Dark blond can be portrayed as the color of the unknown of what is to come. "
Again in stanza three, it is stated, “ Where hidden arteries are slowing down / into traffic jams of lost words and memories / ‘My head feels like mud.” (Westerfield, lines 13-15) Westerfield uses imagery again to paint the picture of her grandmother’s brain. This comes after the grandmother’s statement about her brain cracking and these lines give us a sense of what is going on inside her brain. Particularly, meaning overall that her brain is slowing down, the arteries within her brain are beginning to slow in which when it is stating lost words and memories, Westerfield is using this description to penetrate the idea to the audience that her grandmother is forgetting everything slowly, showing the effects that dementia can have on a person. Finally, within this stanza, the metaphorical language the grandmother uses to describe her brain as feeling like mud perfectly describes how many people with this disease feel.
The purpose of this writing was to show how the separation between races and to show how words can provide a deeper meaning or a vehicle for change In the story called always running by Luis J Rodriguez And that is how you can use imagery, syntax, and connotations to express a deeper meaning in writing based on the words
Symbols and Allusions Short Stories Did you know that authors use a lot of symbolism and allusions in the book or short stories that can range from numbers, phrases, colors, and even quotes? After all these three short stories are examples of these stories that are heavily packed with symbolism and allusions, even allegories, but we’re not going over those. These short stories consist of the popular picks like “Harrison Bergeron” by Kurt Vonnegut Jr, ”The Lottery” by Shirley Jackson, and “2 B R 2 0 B” by Kurt Vonnegut Jr as well. These stories have features of symbolism and allusions that we’ll get into.
The poem revolves around the many books that the speaker finds within a library and how they impact her, “To meet an antique book,” implies that it is not a book the speaker already owns. The poem makes a reader feel like they have to go pick up a book right now, making the mood almost a sense of longing for a good book, “His presence is enchantment, / You beg him not to go;” (25 and 26). The author also helps convey this mood through her diction. She uses phrases such as, “A precious, mouldering pleasure” (1), “A privilege” (4), “warming” (6), “enchantment” (25), and “tantalize” (28) when describing how the speaker herself feels when holding a book. Emily even goes on to use adjectives such as: “venerable” (5) to create sentences like “His venerable hand to take,” (5) to pull the theme and mood out.
The poet compared the graves like a shipwreck that is the death will take the human go down and drowning to the underground like the dead bodies in the graves. The last line “as though we lived falling out of the skin into the soul.” is like the rotting of the dead bodies. The second stanza there is one Simile in this
