1. “Jabberwocky”- Speaker: The young boy’s dad, Tone: Epic, Figurative Language: onomatopoeia In the poem “Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll, the author conveys the epic battle between the young boy and the Jabberwock through the use of onomatopoeia. This is evident when Carroll describes “the vorpal blade [as it] went snicker-snack!” (line 18). Through this sound the reader is able to indulge in the action as they hear the sword slicing through the neck of the Jabberwock. 2. “The Red Wheelbarrow”- Speaker: The author as he looks on to the farm, Tone: calming, Figurative Language: hyperbole In the poem “The Red Wheelbarrow” by William Carlos Williams, the author expresses his appreciation to the serine landscape where the simplistic beauty of the wheelbarrow is through the use of a hyperbole. Williams states that “so much depends. . .” (line 1) on the “red wheelbarrow. . .” (line 3-4). However, he never states what depends on the wheelbarrow, creating an exaggerated statement concerning the red wheelbarrow. 3. “Naming of Parts” - Speaker: solider that is preparing for the war, Tone: Depressing, Figurative Language: Personification …show more content…
Which is expressed when the solider is explaining how to use only thumbs to release the safety catch. In doing so he stated that one should be like “the blossoms [they] are fragile and motionless, never letting anyone see any of them using their finger” (line 16-18). Blossoms do not have the ability to release the safety catch due to the lack of hand, a human quality given to the plants by the other to create the comparison through personification to emphasize how unlike war and nature
A Pulitzer Prize is an award for an achievement in American journalism, literature, or music. Paul Gigot, chairman of the Pulitzer Prize board, described the award as a “proud and robust tradition”. How does one carry on this robust tradition? By mastery of skilled writing technique, one can be considered for the awarding of this prize. Since its creation in 1917, 13 have been awarded annually, one of which, in 1939, was given to Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings for her novel, The Yearling. Rawlings is an American author from Florida known for writing rural themed novels. Consequently, The Yearling is about a boy living on a farm who adopts an orphaned fawn. Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings procured a prestigious Pulitzer Prize for her effectual use of figurative language, sensory details, and syntax.
The Things They Carried describes real objects American soldiers carried during the war. They carried an M-60, a .45-caliber pistol, an assault rifle, ammunition, compass, maps, code books, the PRC-25 radio, sandbags, tanning lotion, toilet paper, tranquilizers, rabbit’s foot, Purple Hearts, diseases, the wounded, the weak, and the land itself. Many soldiers experienced horrific events in Vietnam. War affects the mind. O’Brien said, “We all got problems.” (O’Brien 18). O’Brien relates one example of the war’s negative effect when a soldier shoots a baby water buffalo. He not only wants to kill the animal, but to make it suffer. Silence disturbs soldiers. Many times soldiers think they hear something which results in a bad decision. O’Brien describes a group on night watch who hear noises, go crazy...
The Lovely Bones’s combination of themes work together to expose the raw emotion of a family in pain over the death of a precious loved one. The first and most significant theme to be presented in the novel is that of mortality. Throughout the novel, as Susie looks back over her violent death and its effects on her family, she makes a point that when someone dies, that person's desires and needs pass over with them into the afterlife (Thomas). For example, from watching her sister and Ruth Connor, she realizes that the concept of love is something she still wishes she could have, even in heaven. Her sister Lindsey meets a boy by the name of Samuel, and Ruth grows closer to Susie's first real crush, Ray Singh. These observations by Susie almost
This contrast in style affirms that the soldiers are human and provides emphasis to the weight these intangible objects have on the soldiers. An emotional burden that the men must carry is the longing for their loved ones. The Vietnam War forced many young men to leave their loved ones and move halfway across the world to fight a questionable war in an unfamiliar land.... ... middle of paper ... ...
Written by author Tim O’Brien after his own experience in Vietnam, “The Things They Carried” is a short story that introduces the reader to the experiences of soldiers away at war. O’Brien uses potent metaphors with a third person narrator to shape each character. In doing so, the reader is able to sympathize with the internal and external struggles the men endure. These symbolic comparisons often give even the smallest details great literary weight, due to their dual meanings. The symbolism in “The Things They Carried” guides the reader through the complex development of characters by establishing their humanity during the inhumane circumstance of war, articulating what the men need for emotional and spiritual survival, and by revealing the character’s psychological burdens.
The poem titled “The Fish” by Elizabeth Bishop is about a person that catches a well-sought after fish and realizes the fish is still something worth fighting for. The diction used in this poem would be informal because they talk in a relaxed conversational language. The speaker does use a ton of figurative language which is what made this one of Elizabeth Bishop's most famous poems. There is some positive connotation in the speaker's words mainly used to describe the relationship the speaker has with the fish. The speaker also uses middle diction in this poem to emphasize the time era in which this poem was written, which was in 2011. They used contemporary English to set a tone that shows the speaker's attitude in this poem is calm and collected,
I went paragraph by paragraph describing what each word or a combination of lines could mean. There were a few words that I was able to start writing the meaning right away with no trouble at all, but there were times I could even come up with a superficial meaning to a line. The more I listened to the music the more I could imagine what I could make of it. At first I started off by just thinking since it’s about war, then that should be my main focus. But the more I thought about it, I wanted to show the reader what could be occurring inside the mind of a person that is dying. What consequences it could have for others. What it could mean if a person survives the war, what goes through their minds every day. Although the process took a couple of hours to complete, at the end I at least had someplace to start. I knew I couldn’t use every remark I had written down, nevertheless it was nice to have backups if a certain idea didn’t pan
Literal and figurative language is mainly used as a base in structuring literary texts. It is used as stylistic devices to make narrations appear lively such that readers can create mental pictures while going through the text. Macquarie pen anthology of Australian literature comprises of several literature work. It entails fiction, letters and anthology maps among others. The accounts of this collection range from settlers to gothic stories. Settlement at Port Jackson is a narration by Watkin Tench about a captive who blends into the life of his captives. In this story, Tench utilizes literal and figurative language to explain further how the captive learnt different ways of life in a short time. This paper therefore focuses on this account and specifically on a single character trait; masculinity. Heiss, Anita, and Peter Minter, 48, note the importance of literary and figurative language by indicating how well Tench used figurative and literal language in portraying masculinity in this account? This is the question that the paper provides answers for.
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.
William Carlos Williams is a superb artist. Not only has he created a masterpiece of a poem, but he has also cultivated abstract and concrete images to paint a picture of his red wheelbarrow. Each word is a brushstroke to this "still life" poem. He has also taken elementary objects, such as a wheelbarrow and a chicken, and turned them into icons of industrialized civilizations. Without these indispensable components, society would not be as evolved as it is today. Williams uses an experimental structure in his free verse poem "The Red Wheelbarrow" and effectively demonstrates an array of figurative language. He also utilizes simplistic images to capture the essence of childhood, setting and technology.
A certain matter-of-fact quality pervades the descriptions of the wounds inflicted and received by soldiers; the face-to-face attacks with rifle butts, spades, and grenades; the sounds, smells, and colors of death and dying in this book.
At first glance, William Carlos Williams’ short poem, the Red Wheelbarrow appears to be a concise and simplistic description of a red wheelbarrow. However, after carefully dissecting its structure, and examining his word choice, the imagery contained within the poem is clear and the meaning of the poem is complex (Rumens, 2010). As a result, it is the poem I enjoyed reading the most thus far. To begin with, the poem is written utilizing four intricate and precise couplet stanzas, all of which containing four words. Moreover, Williams deliberately eschews the use of punctuation or capitalization, which allows the words to seamlessly flow from one stanza to another (Poets.org, 2007).
The poem “The Red Wheelbarrow” is a poem that does not really have a set pattern, and that is known as being free verse. The first two lines of this poem have a trochaic meter, which means that it begins as stressed, has an unstressed, and then finishes with a stressed syllable type pattern, that is demonstrated in, “SO much DEpends / UPon” (1-2). This is as if the “so” has the long “O” sound which is stressed, then has “much” which is not, then “depends” has two syllables but starts out with a stressed. The third and fourth lines have anapestic meter, which is two unstressed followed by a stressed syllable, suggested in, “a red WHEEl / barrow” (3-4). I have capitalized “WHEEl” because is demonstrating how I read the line in this poem, giving an example of how I concluded that these lines were in anapestic meter.
“Listen: a four-worded speech: seesoo, hrss, rsseeiss, ooos” (3.456-7). In textually representing “wavespeech,” Stephen’s onomatopoeiac “signatures” foreground the mediated nature of our knowledge and perceptions of the world. Indeed, any ideal or phenomenal referent to which our signifying language is merely attached, acting as a transparent medium through which we might know and perceive the referent, is absent. One might say references in Joyce’s text are in turn other signs. In other words, the unmediated or immediate reception of sense, of the sense of a thing’s ‘quiddity’ or ‘eidos,’ its ideal, “iterable” form is impossible.
Similar to common nursery rhymes, Blake uses musical devices in both “The Lamb” and “The Tyger” which brings an awareness of potential evil and how it dominates over innocence by exercising specific language in both related poems. For example, Blake uses alliteration in “The Lamb” by repeating “Little Lamb” several times during the poem to grasp the reader’s attention. Along with alliteration, Blake’s “The Lamb” and “The Tyger” both capture the reader’s attention by using rhyme scheme. For example, Blake’s use of couplets in both of the related poems potentially brings an awareness of how evil dominates over innocence. Blake utilizes the couplet series in his poem “The Tyger” and proves his theme by comparing and contrasting the tyger and the lamb and even bravely asks if the same Creator who created the innocent little lamb also created the potentially evil tyger