One thing that is very important in all forms of writing – not just poetry – is the description. When writing, an author should describe the setting and the characters thoroughly, in a way that resounds in the reader. All descriptions are written in hopes of putting an image into your head, and especially as sophomores, I believe that we are still learning how to write descriptions. Descriptions are not as easy as everyone thinks of them as – not a good description, anyway. I’ve read many descriptive sentences from peer grading essays and my trudge through numerous novels and short stories, and rarely do I find that descriptions really put an image into my head. Not to discourage the way teachers teach descriptive writing as I understand that if it’s difficult to so much as write a description, it should be very difficult to teach it. Many descriptions follow along the lines of “the sky was as blue as the crystal waters of the Pacific and little white dots of cotton lined the pearlescent skies, lazily flitting about.” While there is generally nothing wrong with this description, I find that it’s just too wordy and all these descriptive words strung together detract from the mood of the writing more than they add to it. I believe the only time I’ve ever seen this form of description work is in a couple of mystery novels, and I suspect that it would do well in the horror and macabre genre. However, if an author is trying to create a light mood or tense mood, the excessive amount of words used to describe even the face of the protagonist or antagonist takes away from whatever mood the author is trying to create. If an reader has to lug himself through tons of description words to finally get to what is actually going on, the work ju... ... middle of paper ... ... clunky descriptions, yet it is listed as an imagery poem, so it is assumed that it is a very descriptive poem. The words are well chosen and line breaks are helpful (something novelists don’t really directly get), but the poem itself is beautiful both visually and audibly. Speaking for myself, I find that drawn-out descriptions are often times boring and make me liable to skim. Rarely do I really find a description I just find perfect, but I feel that J.K Rowling often does a good job at detailing her stories. Good descriptions are difficult to write, so it would be far too difficult to fill an entire novel with just good descriptions, so it is understandable that there will be a couple less aesthetic descriptions. However, the most annoying ones are the works with absolutely no good descriptions and just follow through with crystal, blue, bright skies like the Pa
Authors use many different types of imagery in order to better portray their point of view to a reader. This imagery can depict many different things and often enhances the reader’s ability to picture what is occurring in a literary work, and therefore is more able to connect to the writing. An example of imagery used to enhance the quality of a story can be found in Leyvik Yehoash’s poem “Lynching.” In this poem, the imagery that repeatably appears is related to the body of the person who was lynched, and the various ways to describe different parts of his person. The repetition of these description serves as a textual echo, and the variation in description over the course of the poem helps to portray the events that occurred and their importance from the author to the reader. The repeated anatomic imagery and vivid description of various body parts is a textual echo used by Leyvik Yehoash and helps make his poem more powerful and effective for the reader and expand on its message about the hardship for African Americans living
In “The Treasure Of Lemon Brown” the author uses descriptive adjective to develop the mood and the characters of the story. First, the story talks about “The small pale green kitchen”. The descriptive language helps you visualize the the kitchen, you can infer the kitchen is old and not very appealing. Second, the story states “Then returned the graffiti-scarred building to the grim building.” This helps describe the mood, bleak
Descriptive language is used to give graphic details. This paints vivid mental pictures in the reader's mind. It contributes to the feeling of personal involvement of the reader. All the author's observations are described in detail. Words used are simple yet effective.
Authors often use details that evoke a response in readers to produce an effective description. Their aim is not simply to tell readers what something looks like but to show them. Katherine Anne Porter’s “The Grave” and E.B. White’s “Once More to the Lake” are essays that use subjective language to illustrate the principles of effective description. Porter’s “The Grave” describes a childish afternoon of rabbit hunting that brings death close enough to be seen and understood, while White’s “Once More tot he Lake” is a classic essay of persona; reminiscence in which he recreates the lakeside camp he visited with his son.
Malouf effectively uses images to reinforce attitudes, feelings and emotions. Though the descriptions are long and detailed, they are worthwhile and evocative. Many of the descriptions are symbolic, such as the descriptions of the garden. Malouf’s use of language is casual, which enhances the story, causing it to come alive. Through Malouf’s descriptions of each house he creates an atmosphere to reflect the characters’ feelings.
This use of description allows for a more emphatic style in contrast with the “Go around the point” style of the first Vignette. The lack of simile also makes the use of figurative language stronger, for example when Francis “… felt as if a large piano had dropped from a third story window, smashing him into the ground,” (Ln. 36). The statement was much more powerful than if it had been used in the first Vignette which had a lot of similar language. Despite lacking a lot of figurative language, Lepore is able to build the slug’s atrocious vision of the world around
The realistic adjectives paint a picture that the average person can relate to and understand. As shown from the word choice in The Perfect Storm, the poem is easily seen to evoke more powerful imagery.
Although reality involves a vast supply of details and you can not select them all. Many writers, directors, and artists, emphasis with this information and diminish other information in order to make the novels, movies, plays and etc. more vivid to our imagination.
In today’s modern view, poetry has become more than just paragraphs that rhyme at the end of each sentence. If the reader has an open mind and the ability to read in between the lines, they discover more than they have bargained for. Some poems might have stories of suffering or abuse, while others contain happy times and great joy. Regardless of what the poems contains, all poems display an expression. That very moment when the writer begins his mental journey with that pen and paper is where all feelings are let out. As poetry is continues to be written, the reader begins to see patterns within each poem. On the other hand, poems have nothing at all in common with one another. A good example of this is in two poems by a famous writer by the name of Langston Hughes. A well-known writer that still gets credit today for pomes like “ Theme for English B” and “Let American be American Again.”
As I read through this poem, I noticed quite a few great aspects to the poem. The author uses different words that give this poem a smooth flow. It starts out weak, but then the farther you read the stronger the poem becomes. The poem also includes a rhyme scheme of every other stanza, or ABCB and so forth. An example is tree and see, or bar and car. And that adds to the smoothness of the poem. The poem also adds specific words to give a strong detail in visualization.
The language a poet uses in a poem is what separates it from any other type of writing. We notice right away by the rhyme, the metaphors, the similes, the alliterations and the metric patterns that we are reading a poem, a piece of art. We recognize that what sits in front of us is a portrait of a time, a place, a person, or an event that may or may not exist in our world and that to enjoy this literature we do not need to know for certain what the details mean; it is up to interpretation. This is precisely what Lucie Brock-Broido achieves in her poem. She uses beautiful language to paint a vivid picture in our minds. She extracts feelings through phrases like “Her body was...
describing is simply a dream in what you want to achieve in life. And in the poem the dreams of the
Descriptive writing is different from narrative writing because it uses vivid language. The descriptive essay I used for my comparison is “Sister Flowers” by Maya Angelou. ” As I ate she began the first of what we later called 'my lessons in living." She said that I must always be intolerant of ignorance but understanding of illiteracy. That some people, unable to go to school, were more educated and even more intelligent than college professors. She encouraged me to listen carefully to what country people called mother wit. That is those homely sayings was couched the collective wisdom of generations.”(Angelou, M. n.d.). The narrative essay I chose is “Are the Rich Happy” by Steven Leacock. The narrative...
“Keeping up with the Joneses” (Comic, New York Globe 1913) is a well-recognized quote that I never really paid attention to until the day I decided to replace my cellphone with a newer version. The persistence of the television commercials, internet advertisement, posters and even the social media can persuade or even convince an individual that their current item is out of date and in need of the “new and improved” version. I wonder do we really need to replace our items or is it just conspicuous consumption.
... descriptive writing does not have a plot; rather it describes emotions of the author for the reader to visualize and experience. When writing a narrative essay or story, the author expresses their opinions, morals, and recollections to a more general idea of emotions and experiences. While the content of a descriptive piece focuses on one event, object or place, narrative writing creates stories of love, excitement, drama, science fiction or anything the imagination can think of and bring to life for the readers to experience.