Have you ever love someone so much that you died for them.
Well the poem Highwayman written by Alfred Noyes has this kind of theme. In the poem a highwayman finds a lovely girl. They both fell in love. The highwayman need to go on a run and she stayed home. King George's men captured her and put a gun to her breast.The landlord's daughter sacrifice her life for the highwayman. This poem is a masterpiece! It uses all kinds of poetic devices such as metaphors, similes, and repetition.
First poetic device is metaphor. Example of metaphor in the poem is the wind was torrent of darkness among the gusty trees. I love this one because the wind is compared to the torrent of darkness. It gives a lot of details about this poem. It gives evidence about how this poem is dark and mysterious. Another metaphor from the poem is the road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor. This gives evidence because later on in the poem the highwayman said “look for me by the moonlight; watch for me by the moonlight; I’ll come to thee by moonlight, though hell should bar the way. The landlord’s daughter needed to look for him in the moonlight before King George’s men came.
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Example of simile in the poem is nearer he came and near, her face was like light. It gives evidence that landlord's daughter knows that he is coming and she doesn't want him to get hurt. Another one is his eyes were hollow of madness and his hair like moldy hair. This gives us evidence what he looks like. The highwayman is compared to landlord’s daughter. The highwayman still loves her is something happens.You can tell in this poem that their love connection is so tight and strong. Another simile is dumb as a dog. When the highwayman was robbing the guy heard but didn't do anything. He decided to kill the highwayman but ended both of them
“The Dead Swagman” written by Nancy Cato. She was an Australian writer who published multiple historical novels. She was born in 1977 and died in 2000. This poem is the story of a lonely swagman who died, was half cremated by a bush fire and is now merged with the nature and is given new life.
In the poem “To Whoever Set My Truck On Fire” by Steve Scafidi, it talks about how he got his car caught on fire. It is a free verse and it’s in one sentence. I really like the poem because it shows characterization, how he feels about his car being on fire and uses similes. For example, in the poem, the poet wrote “the innocent numbers of neighbors to memory and maybe/ you were miles away and I, like the woodsman of fairy tales, / threatened all with my bright ax shining with the evil” (30-32). The poet described his action similar to that woodsman of a fairy tale which is easier for the reader to understand his action. It shows that similes have to be compared universally so everyone can understand. This poem is a really funny read and I
Watson successfully utilizes figurative language many times throughout the poem. Watsons personifies the highway various times throughout the poem. The highway is represented as a monster through the words “petulant beast”, “monster” and “recalcitrant animal”. The reason that this is done, is due to the large amount of fatal car accidents that occur on highways, therefore Watson portrays the highway as a killer. Repetition is also often used in the
An example is, when Grummore makes reference to the heir the nurse tearfully said, “never had no hair. Anybody that studied the the loyal family knowed that.” This is funny because the nurse says hair instead of heir and loyal not royal.To support his purpose and tone, the author uses literary devices such as simile and personification. Simile uses like or as to compare unrelated items. When Kay was trying to convince Sir Ector to go to London, White uses the phrase “eyes like marbles” to describe Grummore’s eyes. He also uses simile during the scene where Merlin is giving up his position as tutor and is leaving the household. White describes Archimedes as “spinning like a top” when he disappears from Merlyn's shoulder. Also, in the scene where Wart pulled the sword from the stone, thousands
The speaker uses figurative language to compare a girl that he loves to the happiness of nature, and to state that he will make a special relationship end happily. Simile is a type of figurative language that compares two things using the words “like” or “as.” A simile in line five has a very powerful meaning: “Like everything that’s green, girl, I ne...
Imagery is a grandiose part of this poem, simile’s help the reader to comprehend the enhanced pace fast break of this poem. (L.6) “gathering the orange leather from air a cherished possession” gives the reader an image of just how essential the ball is, and that he is control of the situation. Whenever I get a chance to get a rebound like he did, I take it. It is a feeling of hard work pays off when you get the chance to get a rebound. Another example of a simile, (L.18) “ in slow motion , almost exactly like a coach’s drawing on a blackboard’
The passage of the simile is the first verse paragraph following several prose paragraphs. The structure of the verse is loose in following rhythmic or syllabic patterns. Although the form does not have any specific significance to the content, perhaps it is written in verse to sound somewhat poetic. Because the scene is very descriptive and dramatic, it is fitting to write it in a poem-like structure rather than simple prose.
The first literary device that can be found throughout the poem is couplet, which is when two lines in a stanza rhyme successfully. For instance, lines 1-2 state, “At midnight, in the month of June / I stand beneath the mystic moon.” This is evidence that couplet is being used as both June and moon rhyme, which can suggest that these details are important, thus leading the reader to become aware of the speaker’s thoughts and actions. Another example of this device can be found in lines 16-17, “All Beauty sleeps!—and lo! where lies / (Her casement open to the skies).” These lines not only successfully rhyme, but they also describe a woman who
This is also conveyed in, "The trains shadow, like a bird, flee's on the blue and silver paddocks. " The excitement of seeing his family is highlighted through the simile as it represents freedom, symbolising the poet letting go of the city and opening his mind to what's to come. The change in the poet is distinct when contrasted with his initial perspective of his hometown and how he remembers it with his newfound view since his self-discovery on the
Love That Never Sung T.S. Eliot’s “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” is a complex poem with a dramatic monologue in which the speaker is addressing himself, the reader, or possibly a silent character. T.S Elliot uses poetic devices, such as tone, imagery, repetition, personification, similes, and allusions to shape the poem’s theme of loneliness and mediocrity. Tone and imagery set the essence of this poem. The poem begins with a not so pleasant image of a patient that is anesthetized with ether (Line 3).
She uses a unique rhyme scheme that changes from each stanza. Occasionally she isolates one line in order to annunciate its meaning. She also uses enjambment to help stress the meaning of certain lines. Plath also likes to use metaphors and similes in her poems. Lines nine and ten she uses a simile when she writes, “Like an eye between two white lids that will not shut.
The outset begins with how the character could not stop for death, so death stopped for her. Afterward, she and death boarded a quaint carriage that slowly drove. The poem states that they passed the school, the fields, and the setting sun--and twists the speech with an "or rather--he passed us", referring to the
The two roads presented in this poem represent difficult decisions we are faced with in life. He uses the relationship between the paths and real life decisions throughout the whole poem. This is an example of extended metaphor, which is used to help the readers understand the analogy between the two. The man in the poem said: “long I stood” (3), which lets us know the decision was not made instantly. It was hard for the man to make a final judgment.
One poetic device is descriptive language; it creates a fascinating story, and it is also uncircumscribed as the limit is how descriptive the author wants it to be. Since both Shakespeare and Poe use descriptive language, they both convey specific moods with their works. However, they both translate contrasting moods and messages, and they make the readers feel the essence of the story in different ways. “Ah,
The overarching theme throughout the entire poem is that of choices. The concept of “two roads diverged,” or a split in the road, is a metaphor representing a choice which the narrator must make. Being “sorry [he] could not travel both… [being] one traveler” illustrates that, although he wishes he could see the results of both choices, as seen in saying he “looked as far as [he] could to where it bent,” he is but one pers...