e.e. cummings uses language in both the literal and figurative sense. By creating a realistic setting and characters through only a few simple words, he has made a sweet story that deserves the attention that it requires to understand. In the poem the first glimpse of the setting is that it is a “pretty how town” and puts heavy emphasis on the four seasons. The repetition of the months spring, summer, autumn, and winter sets the time of the poem as happening over the course of a year. Their are people harvesting what they planted, several mentions of snow, and reference to the month of April which is in the beginning of spring. cummings also uses language to hint that the town is small by saying “Women and men(both little and small)/cared for …show more content…
In the fourth stanza it is discovered that “anyone’s any was all to her”, which is in reference to noone. While none of the people in the town liked anyone, noone loves him and shares his emotions when she “she laughed his joy she cried his grief”. Using the figurative language of making ‘anyone’ and ‘noone’ into actual characters creates a hopeful mood in the poem. cummings uses these words intentionally because anyone can find someone to love them when nobody else does, and that a person can love someone even if they feel like they are unimportant. Together they go through life, which is exemplified through the four seasons, and eventually die together. In the stanza where anyone dies, cummings again uses language to trick his readers by writing “and noone stooped to kiss his face” which on first reading seems sad. However, knowing that noone is a person that loved anyone, the line is actually heartfelt and kind. After noone is buried alongside anyone the people of town return to reaping and sowing as they did in the beginning, which creates a feeling that they were unaware of the love that the two people shared. Upon first read, the language leads readers to feeling sorry for anyone, but after understanding the meaning of the poem, they feel sorry for the other men and women that couldn’t see the beauty of their
There a lot of literary devices used in the excerpt from All the Pretty Horses that convey the true meaning in the scene. The hallway the man walks in has portraits of his ancestors whom he vaguely knows. This is connected to the present day when the man who he has gone to see now is also dead. The paragraph also uses figurative language like “yellowed moustache” and eyelids that are “paper thin” to tell us that the man he went to see is dead. The next sentence following that says “That was not sleeping. That was not sleeping.” putting emphasis on how the man in front of him isn’t sleeping and is truly dead. It also references the way that death is associated with sleep and called the long sleep. The excerpt also mentioned that the man is
The House on Mango Street is a novel by Sandra Cisneros. It is set in a poor, Latino neighborhood around 1960. The main character, Esperanza, is expected to get married in order to support herself. However, Esperanza strives for independence, and seeks to end the cycle of abusive patriarchy that holds Mango Street in thrall. Through the use of syntax and figurative language, Cisneros establishes that a sense of not belonging can fuel an individual’s desire for a better future.
In this short, but charming story, Amy Tan uses imagery to bring the story to life. With figurative language, the reader is immersed into the Chinese culture and can better relate to the characters. Tan main use of imagery is to better explain each character. Often instead of a simple explanation, Tan uses metaphors, similes, or hyperboles to describe the person, this way they are more relatable and their feelings better understood.
Tatiana de Rosnay used different literary tools to assist her writing in order to deepen the story, including figurative language, dramatic irony, and foreshadowing. The use of figurative language helps to clarify a description in order to place an image in the mind of the reader. Similes are the main type of figurative language used throughout Sarah’s Key, allowing the reader to see what is happening. Many images conjured up make comparisons as a child would make them, as much of the story concerns the innocence of a child, such as “[t]he oversized radiators were black with dirt, as scaly as a reptile” (Rosnay 10) and “[t]he bathtub has claws” (Rosnay 11). Other descriptions compare Sarah, and Zoe, to a puppy, a symbol of innocence, as children are known to be
As he slouches in bed, a description of the bare trees and an old woman gathering coal are given to convey to the reader an idea of the times and the author's situation. "All groves are bare," and "unmarried women (are) sorting slate from arthracite." This image operates to tell the reader that it is a time of poverty, or a "yellow-bearded winter of depression." No one in the town has much to live for during this time. "Cold trees" along with deadness, through the image of "graves," help illustrate the author's impression of winter. Wright seems to be hibernating from this hard time of winter, "dreaming of green butterflies searching for diamonds in coal seams." This conveys a more colorful and happy image showing what he wishes was happening; however he knows that diamonds are not in coal seams and is brought back to the reality of winter. He talks of "hills of fresh graves" while dreaming, relating back to the reality of what is "beyond the streaked trees of (his) window," a dreary, povern-strucken, and cold winter.
This poem holds many metaphors and symbols pertaining to how certain seasons make people feel. She compares the feeling of nature with her personal feelings of being alone after having so many lovers. In “What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why” Millay reminisces back to a time when she had one lover after another. She cries because she lost them all and instead of opening her heart to them and offering her love, she remained closed off and simply enjoyed the physical connections. Edna St. Vincent Millay may have imagined a speaker for this poem, but she makes it seem as if it is coming from her own personal experiences.
In “Queens, 1963”, the speaker narrates to her audience her observations that she has collected from living in her neighborhood located in Queens, New York in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement. The narrator is a thirteen-year-old female immigrant who moved from the Dominican Republic to America with her family. As she reflects on her past year of living in America, she reveals a superb understanding of the reasons why the people in her neighborhood act the way they do towards other neighbors. In “Queens, 1963” by Julia Alvarez, the poet utilizes diction, figurative language, and irony to effectively display to the readers that segregation is a strong part of the American melting pot.
In the novel, “The Things They Carried” by Tim O’Brien, he describes parts of his war experiences through the stories told throughout the book. O’Brien discusses the gory detailed chaos of the Vietnam war and his fellow “soldiers.” As O’Brien gives detail of the his “fictional” experiences, he explains why he joined the war. He also describes a time where his “character” wanted to escape a draft to Canada.
For instance, to illustrate an enhanced understanding of the conditions of the south, Toomer gives a brief summary of the setting of the time period taken place. This poem describes of the Southern land with its changes throughout the fall. As stated in the poem, “boll-weevil’s coming” to eat the cotton “ and the winter’s cold”. This symbolizes the forthcoming of the dark ages in which town people are about to experience. The time when the sky turn dark early, the ground turn white, and when nature goes in a deep slumber. This image of growing darkness and the features of the dead land sets of a depressing mood of the lost season as well as the oppression that African American felt in the South before Harlem Renaissance. Furthermore, Toomer not only uses imagery to augment the knowledge of the circumstances in which the poem in taken place, but also uses it to describe a newly forming anticipation and optimism within the town. After a period of destruction, people encountered “the season when the flowers bloomed”. In this stanza, the blooming flowers represent tiny little sparks forming in people’s hearts, and with this, readers are able to hint that the time of growth, renewal, and of new life is near. Also,
The true meaning of this poem could only be perfectly interpreted by Wilbur, himself. In "Orchard Trees, January," it seems that the interpretation previously given above is correct, although Wilbur may have some different stress points. There probably is an even deeper meaning in this poem that Wilbur could get across, but most of the time it is up to the reader to be able to pick it out and relate it to the poem.
An author’s style of words, sentence structure, and use of figurative language gives an author their own unique style of writing. Although, how an author writes can cause confusion due to connotative use of words and sentence. The author’s style-words, sentence structure, and figurative language can give a reader a description that forms imagery. Also it affects the tone, mood, and theme of the story.
In his book, “Into The Wild” Krakauer develops a position on McCandless through the use of figurative language in the way that he describes McCandless. Krakauer, although sympathetic to what McCandless was going through, failed to show McCandless as a misunderstood, noble young man. Instead Krakauer portray McCandless as immature and indecisive. He does this by including all of McCandless’ encounters with adult where he became dependent on someone's help and guidance. Also, he includes all the time that McCandless back and forth and even attempted to find a job. Although Krakauer may have intended to show the audience the softer side of Christopher McCandless, in doing this he has just push the audience closer to seeing that McCandless was nothing but a young minded
“It takes courage to become who you really are” and in E. E. Cummings work you can notice who he truly is and how he is not afraid to show it. E. E. Cummings work takes place in his birth state which is in Cambridge Massachusetts in the 20th century. Numerous people that now read his poetry, envision the auditory and visual techniques that are used in his work. How does E. E. Cummings use vision and hearing to create meaning? He uses visual techniques with things like spaces, he uses spaces to cause the reader to slow down or speed up (Doc C).
The poem talks about people being sick of society, and want to be isolated from it. Even in the first line, he made an analogy between December being dark and dingy, by saying "A winter's day - in a deep and dark December." The month of December is usually likened to being cold, dark, and 'dangerous'. He also says that it is a lonely December in the second line where he says "I am alone gazing from my window to the street below" he feels left out, and now wants to be left alone, like an island, or a rock. Like in the second poem, where he says that he "has no need of friendship."
In the final three lines of the poem, the narrator gives the sense that, because of death, there is little value in life. He says that “the years to come seemed waste of breath, / a waste of breath the years behind” (14-15). Such thoughts suggest existentialism, which provides a sense of the lack of meaning or purpose in living—that we simply “exist.” Yet the opening lines...