Poetry conveys emotions and ideas through words and lines. Long Way Down gives the story about a boy named Will, who wants to avenge his brother. He believes that a guy named Riggs killed his brother. He takes his brother’s gun and leaves his family’s apartment on the eighth floor. On the way down the elevator, he is stopped at each floor and a ghost from his past gets on. Through poetry, the reader sees why Will believes he must kill who he thinks killed his brother. Through big picture analysis and close critical analysis of one of the poems in this book, one can see that this author has written a poetic masterpiece. The poetry in this story paints a picture that is not achieved in other forms of written communication. The author uses mostly …show more content…
One would categorize this poem as a free verse poem. This poem contains a simile, “five cigarettes puncturing the sheet of smoke like headlights in heavy fog” (lines 3-6), and a metaphor, “the cigarette meant for him was burning in my stomach, filling me with stinging fire” (lines 12-16). Both are figures of speech; he knows the difference between cigarettes and headlights and his brother’s cigarette does not actually burn in his stomach. The author fits some imagery in this short poem, such as “the orange glow of five cigarettes puncturing the sheet of smoke like headlights in heavy fog” (lines 2-4), showing a visual description of the moment. The reader feels as Will does, with the phrase, “burning in my stomach, filling me with stinging fire” (lines 13-16). The author has selected details that add to the heavy mood of the poem, words such as “puncturing” (line 3), “sheet of smoke” (line 4), “heavy fog” (line 6), and “cloud” (line 10). The author uses these on purpose to give the reader the feeling of the suffocating smoke in the elevator. This poem does not have any alliteration, assonance, or consonance, but it still has the poetic flow to it that separates poems from plain words. In this poem, the author changes syntax in the phrase, “Shawn hadn’t lit one, became invisible in the cloud” (lines 8-10). This draws the readers attention to the fact that Will has not yet gotten over his
Examining the literary terms used in this poem, one should mention alliteration first. It is used in the following line: “There are those who suffer in plain sight, / there are those who suffer in private” (line 1-2). Another literary device,
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.
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
Hey guys, welcome to poetry fest, on this show I like to not only entertain but also inform. I want my audience to walk away learning something. Throughout this show I will be discussing how poetry can be used as a form of social commentary to generate social change. Today’s poem is featured from 1893 written by Henry Lawson when he was 26 years old, Out Back employs a series of figurative language devices to walk us through the adversities of a shearers life, the poem also shows a fairly negative view of Australia’s natural landscape. This is to be linked to the idea that this poem is a form of social commentary.
2. The first reason for this thesis stems from the point of view used in the story. The point of view exemplified is one of third person, more specifically one who is omniscient. The story’s message could not be conveyed from the first person, due to the fact that virtually everyone in the writing at hand is not only unable, but unwilling to figure out the true nature of their surroundings.
The author is able to so descriptively express this common event by dedicating each stanza to a different perspective involved. The author begins the poem with a protruding inexplicit situation, captivating the reader’s interest and provoking curiosity to help create imagery. Much like a thesis of an essay, the author states “blurring to sheer verb” at the end of the first stanza, he restates the true simple nature of this topic. Wilbur next describes the surrounding in reaction to the fire truck, showing the reader the flamboyancy and power of the fire truck. At the end of the second stanza, the author italicizes the line “thought is degraded action!” This could be interpreted as the speaker’s thoughts, suggesting that those ringing bells remind him that thinking is but the inferior form of action. In the third stanza, the author focuses on the effects of the fire truck on the speaker, helping relate the reader to the thoughts of the speaker as he experiences this event. Corresponding to the ending of the second stanza, the speaker is reminded of the true nature of thoughts, thus letting go of his worries “I stand here purged of nuance and my mind a blank. All I was brooding upon has taken wing.”
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.
The poem does this when it uses metaphor and personification. For instance, it states “when care is pressing you down it a bit. The silver tint of clouds of doubt.”
Short Investigation #3 “Jabberwocky” - speaker: third person/narrator, tone: serious, figurative language: lines 14-15 use imagery. Lewis Carroll’s poem, “Jabberwocky,” emphasizes good vs. evil. The “good” being the brave boy, and the “evil” being the monster called a “jabberwocky.” This poem reveals a fundamental of language, or the aspect where people that use the language can create new words and phrases. In the first two lines of the poem, “’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe,” (121).
To the character and to the author, it seems that ghastly nature murder and the immoral approach of treachery is merely an element of reality. This story is a true representation of author’s anguish and torment nature.
The main one that catches a readers eye is a metaphor. A metaphor is basically two phrase mushed into one phrase that are not compatible. The whole poem is basically a metaphor for example in line 8 when it says “Words cause deaths that bullets never would.” This sentence is not physically possible but if one thinks about it figuratively then he/she see’s the real meaning. Saying something like “you stink” to someone who has no power or water or lives on the streets can cause that person to cry or even get physical depending on who that individual should be.
Can songs be labeled as a piece of poetry? In fact, songs can be considered poetry if they contain poetic devices which there is a various amount of. Some individuals might believe that poems only consist of rhythm, however, poetry is composed of several attributes. The song “Like a Rolling Stone” by Bob Dylan can be classified as poetry because it tells a story, includes imagery, and has figurative language.
Have you ever read a piece of text, and weren’t quite sure what the main idea was? Authors use the text structure of articles in order to develop the main idea by using figurative language and outside quotes from scholars. (insert transition sentence) By using different text structures, the author develops the main idea of the essay with figurative language. “Into this empty casing, the teachers are supposed to stuff education.” This piece of figurative language is used within the first paragraph of Harris’s essay, to define early on the purpose of this essay.
William Blake’s “The Tyger” is about the mystery of the creator of life, but for the sake of the poem, Blake uses a tiger. William Blake unravels the tone of the poem through many different strategies. William Blake really utilizes devices such as diction, syntax, figurative language, and imagery. These devices that are used by Blake, develop the tone of “The Tyger”. The tone of the poem is very inquisitive.
Another prominent aspect of poetry is entrenched within this poem, imagery. The first speaker pronounces his brothers "startling blue eyes" that he will never observe again (line 3). A few lines later, he expresses of the "cold, steel bullet" that destroyed his brother, who held a large part of his heart (line