In the poem “Auschwitz” by Charles N. Whittaker, the poet uses figurative language such, as end- rhymes and a metaphor to convey a theme about death and losing hope/faith. In the poem, Whittaker uses this phrase “and the blue ink slabs a little harder on the skin/ above the veins in despair where murder let in”(Stanza 3 lines 1-2). Here, Whittaker addresses how “skin” and “in” rhyme at the end of the rhymes. To infer more, end-rhymes occur in the rhyming of the words at the end of the two or more lines of poetry. This connects to the theme of death because the blue inks may represent the blood of all the prisoners who are dying. This illustrates how death is represented when saying “murder” and “veins”. Another example is the metaphor used
For instance, “smell of gunpowder” (Magnus, 6), which is repeated multiple times, is a demonstration of how much the soldier values his war memories, for the solder describes the smell as “stimulating” (Magnus, 8) and “life-giving” (Magnus, 7). At the same time, as the soldier describes war in an enumeration towards the end of the poem, the audience learns his sadness and regret in face to the fact that “No one comprehends a soldier’s work anymore” (Magnus, 28). This enumeration, however, is used to recreate the images that the soldier experienced during his service so that the audience would feel the intensity of war. In addition, the assonance in “knobby bones” (Magnus, 4), on top of emphasizing the bold character of the soldier despite his age, evokes an image of an old, forceless man, which fits well with the beginning of the poem, in which the soldier is portrayed as weak and unenthusiastic.
In this poem there are military contexts like “death lane” which portray through visual imagery images such as trench fighting.
Authors use many types of imagery 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 repeatedly 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 descriptions 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 America at the
The purpose of visual imagery in poetry is to help get the poet’s message across in a language that is strong, vivid and very visual. Visual imagery evokes the emotions of the reader by appealing to their senses and through this helps enhance the mood of the poem. The mood implied in “Daddy”, by Sylvia Plath, is that of aggressive, anger, irritable from one that has a childlike devotion to one of severing due to abandonment. In “The Colonel”, by Carolyn Forche, is one of controlled terror, intimidation, torture, and literal dismemberment. In “The Death of the Ball Turret Gunner”, by Randall Jarrell, the story sets the mood of melancholy at the hands of the state. Each poem a dictatorial figure whether it be the father,
=In “The Masque of the Red Death”, by Edgar Allen Poe, figurative language is used in
Subsequently, the language in the poem reflects that of military use: “reinforcements” and “disrupting blockade” represent conflict and furthermore, colourful and textural imagery evokes within the reader a deeper understanding of the destructive nature of war; “crimped petals”, “yellow bias” and “spasms of paper red” support the colourful imagery used by the poet. The metaphors used by the speaker, moreover, show how the mother cannot escape from an awareness of her son’s violent death: “spasms” and “bandaged” suggest that the son’s death was exceedingly heartless and brutal. The speaker’s memories enable her to maintain a connection with her son but she is unable to avoid think of injury and death. The use of colours and texture ...
The figurative language used throughout the poem contributes to the development of the theme of power. Personification is used to express the urgency and importance of the poet's bondage to create the perfect word. If the poet is unable to accomplish the mission set forth, the "grave/ May clasp his bones"(6-7). The choice of the word
In the story wuftoom Evan is afraid. He is afraid because one day the fly told him “he only had a little time left being a human” and “that he would turn into a worm soon.” When he was told that he was afraid he wouldn’t get to do everything he wanted to do. He was also very confused about what was happening and why it was happening to him.
...f this poem. Rhyming and rhythm bring out the musical quality of language. Music is more happy and spirited. So, if rhyming and rhythm were placed in her poem, it would make it sound delightful and happy which wouldn’t sound right taken that she is talking about escaping the holocaust. Every device that Wislawa Szymborska used has its own purposes. Some were used and some weren’t. The devices that she didn’t use also conveyed the message that this poem isn’t about delight and happiness; it’s about something more serious.
What made me to precise that this poem is about the holocaust is this line, “all the bodies waiting for him in the square” seem to be like the dead bodies of people that the S.S. officer has called and kill is waiting to be cremated in a room of a square.
The ironic use of rhyme and meter, or the lack thereof, is one of the devices Larkin uses to emphasize his need to break out of industrial society. The typical rhyme scheme is not followed, but instead an ironic rhyme scheme is used in the sonnet in the form of abab cdcd efg efg. Larkin writes this poem as a sonnet but at the same time diverges from what a typical sonnet is supposed to be. He is commenting on society’s inclination to form restrictions on those within it. By writing out of the accepted form of a sonnet, his writing becomes more natural because of a lack of constraints due to following certain rules and fitting a certain form. He breaks free and writes as he pleases and does not conform to society. Just as with the rhyme, ...
No poet does a better job of stressing the abruptness of death as Frost in his poem, “Out, out –”. Death is the one of the more central themes among most works of art and normally befalls on the speaker’s loved one. In this case, “Out, out –” is about an innocent boy who accidentally severs his hand with a buzz saw; the entire scene and the family’s reactions described by an observer. Throughout the poem, Frost finds creative ways to intensify the boy’s death and readers may wonder why he focuses on such a heavy and distressing issue. Every verse builds up upon one another, sometimes enjambed together with a variety of figurative language, until the boy succumbs to his injury. By combining an irregular form of iambic pentameter with dark symbolism, Frost captures the inevitability of death and its cruel, unpredictable appearances.
Wordsworth's Poetry A lot of literature has been written about motherhood. Wordsworth is a well known English poet who mentions motherhood and female strength in several of his poems, including the Mad Mother, The Thorn, and The Complaint of a Forsaken Indian Woman. This leads some critics to assume that these poems reflect Wordsworth's view of females. Wordsworth portrays women as dependent on motherhood for happiness, yet he also emphasizes female strength.
In this essay I shall be identifying the comparisons and contrasting the differences between the following six poems which I have read and analysed in my English lessons. ‘Havisham’ (Duffy), ‘The Laboratory’ (Browning), ‘November’ (Armitage), ‘Stealing’ (Duffy), ‘On My First Sonne’ (Johnson) and ‘Education for Leisure’ (Duffy). I will discuss how each poem has connotations of death and express violence through powerful use of language, structure and imagery. I will go into depth on why the characters behave the way in which they do, what they blame it on and why they hold this accountable. Even though there are differences in the characters I will be exploring how confusion is caused due to the instability of their emotions such as grief, jealousy, anger and madness.
Wordsworth was born in Cockermouth, England, to John, a prominent aristocrat, and Anne Wordsworth. With his mother's death in 1778, William and his family began to drift apart. William was sent to boarding school in Hawkeshead, and his sister, Dorothy, was sent to live with cousins in Halifax. It was in the rural surroundings of Hawkeshead that William learned his appreciation for nature and the outdoors. Unfortunately, the peacefulness of his life was disturbed by his father's death in 1783. William was sent from relative to relative, all of whom thought of him only as a burden. It has been pointed out by biographers that Wordsworth's unhappy early life contrasts with the idealized portrait of childhood that he presents in his writings (DISCovering).