According to Children's Grief Awareness 1\5 of children will experience the death of someone close to them by the age of 18.(Children's Grief Awareness Day) “Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe is a poem about a depressed man who misses his Annabel Lee and he goes through explaining how he lost her. Also he talks about how their love was so pure and perfect that nobody had ever had love like they did. The next poem is “Morning Song” by Sylvia Plath. In “ Morning Song” Plath is telling how she feels when having her daughter. Normally you would think having a daughter would be a joyful time ,but she explains it as dark. Plath has depression and she talks about her baby as “a statue.” The topics I am going to be introducing are personification, rhyme, …show more content…
Personification is a figure of speech in which an idea, animal, or thing described as if it were a person. “The wind came out of the cloud by night,\Chilling and killing my Annabel Lee.”(25-26) I picked this example because the wind can’t kill someone that is something only a human can do. Another this example is “A wind blew out of a cloud, chilling\My beautiful Annabel Lee.”(15-16) This is explaining the same thing the wind can’t do human things. This is why this a perfect example of personification. The other one I would like to explain is hyperbole. Hyperbole is an exaggeration made for rhetorical effect. The example is “And neither the angels in heaven above\Nor the demons down under the trees.”(30-31) In “Annabel Lee” the theme is very strong. The theme of the poem is loss ,remembrance and love. It is loss because he is talking about how he lost him lover and it is remembrance because he is remembering his lover. Then his love for …show more content…
Plath used a metaphor very well. A metaphor is figure of speech that in which thing is spoken or written about as if it were another. By comparing her baby to a “fat gold watch.”(1) This is a metaphor because she is comparing her baby to something that isn’t real as a figure of speech. The next one I’m going to do is simile. A simile is a comparison using like or as. In “Morning Song” Plath using a simile when she says “ Your mouth is as clean as a cat's.”(15)This is a simile because she is using as. Then Plath is using tone in her poem. The tone is very gentle and when she says “dull stars”(16). This is showing how her tone is gentle and moderate. I chose to do these ones because i feel she used these ones very well. Then are the ones I
The first literary device is a simile and it paints a picture in the readers head.
More examples of metaphors are “I can’t remember the tale but hear his voice still, a well of dark water, a prayer” (11.6-8).
An example of a metaphor in “Four Directions” is when Waverly relates her relationship with her mother to that of a horse and rabbit. “And that’s what she is. A Horse, born in 1918, destined to be obstinate and frank to the point of tactlessness. She and I make a bad combination, because I’m a Rabbit, born in 1951” (167).
In her novel, “The Street,” Petry uses personification in the interest of establishing a relationship between the setting and Lutie Johnson. “The wind grabbed their hats, pried their scarves from around their necks, stuck its fingers inside their coat collars, blew their coats away from their bodies.” (Lines 31-34) The wind is described as “assaulting” people on the street. Personifying the wind as having ‘fingers’ gives it an eerie tone. The wind is shown as an obstacle that the pedestrians must overcome, the wind blocked Lutie path as if it was the difficult situation she is facing. The wind forced her to shiver as “It’s cold fingers...touched the back of her neck, explored the sides of her head.” (Lines 38-40) It was the wind was a dominate male pushing her back to her current living condition. The wind is described negatively through its
1) This quote is an example of imagery because it uses figurative language to describe what New York is like late at night. As well as it uses words
One example is when Walter Dean Myers wrote this simile, “The voice high and brittle like dry twigs being broken.” This simile helps to show the reader that the person coming up to Greg wasn’t big or strong, he is not intimidating. Another example of a simile in The Treasure of Lemon Brown is, “Father's words like the distant thunder in the streets of Harlem still rumbled in his ears.” This simile helps the reader understand Greg's father, the way his tone is described makes the reader believe Greg's dad is a big, strict parent. Furthermore this simile also helps the reader understand Greg's feelings, the “thunder still rumbling” helps the reader understand that Greg’s father's words are loud and repeating in his head. Another example of figurative language in The Story of Lemon Brown is when the author writes in personification, “Gusts of wind made bits of paper dance between the parked cars.” In this case the personification is used to help describe the setting. The fact that bits of paper were flying around the place probably means that Greg does not live in the nicest of neighborhoods. In the story The Treasure of Lemon Brown, the author uses figurative language to develop settings and characters.
An example of personification is, “Do you think a snake killer kills muskrats?” said Rikki-Tikki scornfully. (paragraph 34). This is an example of personification because animals can not talk and do not have human-like qualities. This personification proves my theme because when Rikki-Tikki does this it shows his bravery to talk to Nagaina in that kind of tone. Another piece of evidence is “ “Then Rikki-Tikki came up and cried: ‘Turn round, Nagaina; turn and fight!’” (para 88). This is an example of personification because it gives the animals human-like qualities and that Rikki Tikki is talking to Nagaina as if they were people. He shows that he is brave by wanting to start a conflict between Nagaina. By using personification, it gives the text more exaggeration to show the fighting between Rikki-Tikki and
8. The personification in the second stanza is also a metaphor. A metaphor compares two unlike things by saying one thing is another
In lines 1-2 it says, “The mountain held the town as in a shadow I saw so much before I slept there once:.” This is an example of personification, because the mountain cannot literally hold the town. It means that the mountain is so massive that it forms a shadow over the town. The speaker had a different outlook on the town. The speaker is not from the same town that the mountain is located in. The town that the speaker lived in is shadowed by the mountain. His perspective of the town was different, meaning he viewed things differently and saw many things in the town that one from the mountains would see differently.
During the process of growing up, we are taught to believe that life is relatively colorful and rich; however, if this view is right, how can we explain why literature illustrates the negative and painful feeling of life? Thus, sorrow is inescapable; as it increase one cannot hide it. From the moment we are born into the world, people suffer from different kinds of sorrow. Even though we believe there are so many happy things around us, these things are heartbreaking. The poems “Tips from My Father” by Carol Ann Davis, “Not Waving but Drowning” by Stevie Smith, and “The Fish” by Elizabeth Bishop convey the sorrow about growing up, about sorrowful pretending, and even about life itself.
"When dawn spread out her fingertips of rose, the rams began to stir, moving for pasture." Dawn is a time of day, it doesn't have fingertips therefore we have an example of personification. I think this gives us a visual of the time of day when the day begins slowly but reaches across the lands like a hand.
Paul Zindel, author of The Pigman uses several examples of personification. One example of personification is “the door opened with a sigh”. This example shows that the person opening the door has a down mood and slowly opens the door. Another example of personification is “Right in the bright sunlight you can see the flashing
During the early seventeenth century, poets were able to mourn the loss of a child publicly by writing elegies, or poems to lament the deceased. Katherine Philips and Ben Jonson were two poets who wrote the popular poems “On the Death of My Dearest Child, Hector Philips”, “On My First Son”, and “On My First Daughter” respectively. Although Philips and Jonson’s elegies contain obvious similarities, the differences between “On the Death of My Dearest Child” and “On My First Son” specifically are pronounced. The emotions displayed in the elegies are very distinct when considering the sex of the poet. The grief shown by a mother and father is a major theme when comparing the approach of mourning in the two elegies.
Edgar Allan Poe’s 1849 poem, “Annabel Lee”, explores the common themes of romance and death found in many of Poe’s works. The poem tells the story of a beautiful young maiden named Annabel Lee who resides by the sea. The maiden and the narrator of the poem are deeply in love, however the maiden falls ill and dies, leaving the narrator without his beloved Annabel Lee. Contrary to what many might expect from a poem by Poe and yet still depressing, the poem ends with the narrator accepting Annabel’s death and remains confident that they will forever be together despite her parting.
The explication was an opinion thought and also details about this poem. I found out that poems have a lot of meanings once you annotate it and break it down. “Annabel Lee” was an interesting poem that had brought out my attention. Although poems are not one of my biggest things to read or do, I enjoyed “Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe.