Metaphors are believed to possess the power to challenge assumptions, create new universal views, and influence ideas. A popular statement is that a picture is worth a thousand words. Therefore, a visual metaphor like the Learning Gives you wings by Rafael Consuegra is a great masterpiece in the way it informs society and cultural opinions, shapes collective biases and influences the humanity’s societal attitudes. The Learning gives you wings has a mix of several media sculptures that make it both literally and symbolically interesting. It depicts people climbing to the top most part of a building in preparation for a moment of flight. The people with wings represent students progressing with their schoolwork in college. These student are climbing up a wall that leads to the peak of their education which is when they graduate. The peak of the building symbolizes their goals in their life and what it is they desire to achieve. As the students climb up they begin to grow wings which stands for the potential that each student has. The wings grow slowly during the climb indicating that learning is a process and …show more content…
He discusses the various elements that influence the effect that images will have on a reader. Images should communicate quite quickly the particular appearance of an object, symbol, character or location to the audience. The Learning gives you wings artwork represents key lessons in education and how education is the stepping stone to a better future. The artwork is straightforward and falls short in depicting the struggles and obstacles that a student must overcome in their education before graduation. I believe the artist should have done this piece in a manner that depicts a more stimulating and challenging environment to improve on creativity since college is a tasking and rigorous
Looking at the picture brings your eye to the bald eagle mother standing on the cliff. She is symbolic for the state government. Her outstretched wing and the phrase she is saying is representative for the protective way the government safeguarded their citizens. The bald eagle baby is suggestive of a healthy young “able-bodied man” and their nest represents the state. Notice that they are indeed on higher ground, thus holding an advantage over the vulture striving to wing its way up.
I also grasped a better understanding of what kind of person and intensions the most prominent modern Australian artist to date, had in mind when producing his world-renowned pieces
The subject of the painting is a depiction of a mountain landscape. Near the bottom of the picture plane in the foreground there’s a canal through the mountain side. If you look closely you can see someone in the water climbing up the rock. The overall theme of the piece seems to be very peaceful and exciting. Hassam uses a few visual elements of form to support his painting.
People are supporters of the opinion that art is designed to influence a social behavior through plays, propaganda, newspapers and by paintings. For example, paintings are used to promote a powerful form of protest against inequality and atrocity. In a fictionalization story based on real facts, In the Time of the Butterflies, by Julia Alvarez. It demonstrates a clear understanding on struggle, loss of freedom and the living conditions in which one lives in a reign of terror.
In Rhetoric and Argument and What Words Can Tell , Francine Prose brings upon a compelling look into the world of writing. A excerpt from her own personal view of writing, the article is primarily for students or those that are interested in learning more of the process of writing as told by a recognized author. Prose seeks to enlighten and teach his audience about the complexity and difficulty involved in writing a good piece of literature, and how the careful choosing of certain words can significantly alter the literature. Prose uses the rhetorical device of metaphor in your excerpt to compare the details involved in writing to the intricate wirings of a computer. Prose reveals to the audience a new view of literature, where the writing
The author uses Proginoskes’ wings as a symbol of hope, as well as other craft moves to indirectly tell the reader how the characters are feeling in each situation presented to them. L’Engle uses Proginoskes’ wings to symbolize hope and how powerful yet delicate it is. By using wings as a symbol of hope, the author indirectly tells us the emotions of Meg and Proginoskes at the moment. On page 61, Proginoskes is first introduced as an aid to help Meg and Charles Wallace. Proginoskes had his “great wings raised and spread.”
The AVID program has had a positive impact in my academics, and in my life by helping me focus, enrich, and solidify my goals. I can say with full confidence that AVID has become an integral part of my High School year that equipped me with the skills and knowledge needed to be successful in college. As an immigrant who came to the United States five years ago and English being my third language, the AVID program challenged me to think critically and strive to learn more. Personality wise, there are major changes that I observed once I joined the program.
For instance, there is an understanding of the woman’s feelings as she describes “a recurrent spot where the pattern lolls like a broken neck and two bulbous eyes stare at you upside down” and the pattern looking at her “as if it knew what a vicious influence it had” (Gilman 437). The personification is symbolic in displaying how the woman felt as she was stuck in the lonely room with allowance of her husband and Jennie, their child’s nanny, keeping their eyes on her with the dependence of her healing. Additionally, the woman specifies that behind the yellow wallpaper she can see “a strange, provoking, formless sort of figure, that seems to sulk about behind that silly and conspicuous front design” (Gilman 438). As the appearance of the wallpaper is personified, the author taps into the hidden meaning that the woman’s sickness is taunting her as she is attempting to heal. In the end, readers are given the most significant piece of personification in the statement, “and then when the sun came and that awful pattern began to laugh at me, I declared that I would finish it today!”
Kelley’s diction adds a tone to the piece and allows her to get her message across with helping the reader understand more deeply . Kelley’s use of imagery, appeal to logic,
When I analyze this painting, my eyes are drawn to the building in the bottom left which seems to resemble a church. It has a white steeple and roof line along with light red brick for the walls. The color, style, size, and position of this particular building sets it apart from the rest of the buildings which all seem to blend together along the composition. The building’s edge meets right with the fence line along the field in the bottom left corner of the piece. It prompts viewers to begin their focus on the left of the painting instead of drawing our eyes directly to the center.
The gate, ladder and door represent solutions to overcome this obstacle, and these solutions represent “the right way” to approach this obstacle. The part of the poem that says, ““Helicopters, rockets, bombs/ bettering rams/ armies with
Songnan states, “Teacher, I want to fly, but gravity keeps pulling me down.” (165) Gravity, in this story, is also a symbol for an obstacle that keeps her from achieving her goal. Songnan shows examples of historical allusions when she references past gymnasts such as Nadia Comaneci and Nellie Kim or movies such as Casablanca, Roman Holiday, or Charade. The title “Waxen Wings” is a Greek mythology allusion because it references the story of Icarus and when he flew his wings of wax too close to the sun. This ties into the story because Birdie got hurt when she tried to fly as
A literary symbol is usually defined as something to signify ideas and/or meaning by giving a symbolic meaning, contradicting or being different from the literal meaning. Usually these types of symbols are used to develop a more deep, and significant meaning. Just as a cathedral's literal meaning is to offer a place for the religious to worship, the narrator’s drawing of a cathedral has opened a door for him into a deeper place in his own world where he can see beyond what is immediately visible to him; Breaking free from the monotony of his every day life, and what he lacks to see and embrace because of
Hour of Freedom “The Story of an Hour” is a short story written by Kate Chopin. It details a wife named Mrs. Louise Mallard, who struggles with a heart condition. After learning of her husband, Brentley Mallard’s death in a railroad accident, Mrs. Mallard deals with grief in many stages. Chopin incorporates many literary devices throughout “The Story of an Hour,” but imagery is the most evident.
The two texts that are going to be compared are the “Red Umbrella” by Christina Diaz Gonzalez and the “Migration Photograph”. A common subject the two texts share is family issues. The way the two authors portray the subject would be how in the Red Umbrella the kids have to get out of the unsafe country and leave their families behind , while in the Migration Photograph the men have to leave their country and leave all family, friends and other belongings behind. The Red Umbrella and The Migration Photograph share many similarities. One similarity both authors show is figurative language.