Edgar Allan Poe’s “The Raven” uses a dismal tone to compliment the story’s melancholic theme. In the poem, the narrator mourns the death of his wife, Lenore, which eventually leads to his demise. Moreover, as the narrator enters the beginning stages of the dying process, swinging in and out of reality, he explains the dreadful experience. To enhance this story even further Edgar made strategic use of the following figurative languages: symbolism, repetition, and rhythms. When the narrator began
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The theme of the oil painting “ Boys Blowing Bubbles” is one that tells a narrative of fragility and the briefness of time. The theme of fragility of time has long been attributed as a common theme since the ancient times. In many of these art pieces images such as bubbles were perceived as symbols of fragility, purity, and time. In Boys Blowing Bubble, Woutiers explores the fragility narrative with great attention by emphasizing symbols, spatial placement, color, and mood. The spatial placement
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Poetry allows an author to relay a message to a reader through different literary devices and each reader can interpret the author’s words differently. However, in this poem, the author makes his point clear. Lord Tennyson Alfred uses syntax, different figures of speech and abstraction in the poem, “The Charge of the Light Brigade,” to illustrate the honor and heroism of the six hundred in the valley of death. Tennyson uses syntax to create an irregular poem that does have some repetition. There
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In The Hobbit, Mr. Tolkien inputs many intriguing traits into the characters. Many are positive and many are negative to him. An interesting question along with it is, intelligence or physical strength, which is better? Mr. Tolkien demonstrates this throughout the book. What matters most is what is negative, positive, and intelligence over physical strength. First, Mr. Tolkien considers unpreparedness negative. He believes unpreparedness is negative because he emphasized how Bilbo was sorry and
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The color grey is used throughout the novel to symbolize lifelessness. One main example of this connection is George Wilson and the atmosphere that surrounds him, ultimately foreshadowing his death. Wilson is described as “mingling immediately with the cement color of the walls,” (Fitzgerald 29) as if he blends in with the anemic glaze upon his fortification. This gives character evidence to Wilson, his bland personality and undying affection for his wife, who feels nothing towards him at all. The
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In the Prologue of Ethan Frome, Edith Wharton sets the frame for the main story describing the setting of the book taking place in Starkfield, Massachusetts. Illustrating the themes of silence and isolation, and darkness and despair "the sluggish pulse of Starkfield". The vast and empty winters, cold, and many events follow up the harshness and despjair of winter. Thus, the most symbolic feature in relations to the characters in the book with "the deadness of the community". Winter describes the
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“My Papa’s Waltz” vs “Those Winter Sunday’s” Theodore Roethke’s “My Papa’s Waltz”, and Robert Hayden’s “Those Winter Sunday’s” are two hearts felt poems that are somewhat similar about respected fathers. In these two poems, both authors take an admiring look back at some of the most memorable actions of their fathers. It is clearly implied that their fathers were not perfect by any means, but deeply loved. The authors wanted us to see how much their fathers loved them, but by reading these poems
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In “My Papa’s Waltz”, written by Theodore Roethke, a child struggles with his father’s alcoholic nature. The first stanza remains innocent in its nature, as the child attempts to keep up with his father’s dancing and refuses to let go. Begging in the second stanza, the poem seems to take a more violent turn which is evident through Roethke’s diction. The melodic rhythm and title, “My Papa’s Waltz,” suggest a dance between father and son which could serve as both a literal dance and a dance of life
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When analyzing “crossing the swamp” by Mary Oliver there are a lot of significant and interesting things about it including: Extended metaphor, where the poem is compered with Olives real life struggles and life blocks, the other one is consonance, this is where the poem does not only apply to life but also manually, and finally with the use of alliteration and the repetition of a sound to transform the dead swamp into a “ bulling hissing swamp”. and altogether into the spit image of Oliver’s life
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Star spangled banner Francis Scott Key used rhyme for the star spangled banner. He describes every detail that was happening. He used bombs bursting in the air to try to put a image in our mind what was happening in that exact moment. He also wrote how it felt, example in the song he wrote ¨ on the shore dimly seen through the mists of the deep where the foe’s haughty host in dread silence reposes, what is that which the breeze, o’er the towering steep¨. It also used a metaphor an example is it says
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