For example, Sharon Olds uses various similes to describe her night. She states, “Love? It was more like dragonflies in the sun, 100 degrees at noon, the ends of their abdomens stuck together, I close my eyes when I remember.” She uses a simile to compare her sexual experience to dragonflies mating. It seems, like, a weird comparison, but it fits the poem perfectly.…
Imagery is also shown with similes throughout the poem, such as “in their sterile housing they tilt towards these like skiers.” The poem also acts upon our senses, sight when it states “Surrounding them like their last movements (the mash, the…
Poetry Analysis: “Fire On The Hills” The poem “Fire On The Hills” by the California poet Robinson Jeffers describes a scene in nature utilizing descriptive imagery and oxymorons in order to explain the inevitability of fate. Jeffers begins the poem by describing deer fleeing from a fire.…
He only had classes for a few hours of the day. He spent most of his time reading in various placed around the campus. It was also during this time that Poe's relationship with John Allan turned quite bitter. Edgar started to display his habit of drinking and his love of gambling. Assuming that his expenses would be paid, Poe continued to loan and gamble himself into over two thousand dollars of debt.…
However, the poem also taught us how to protest and live strong. “Just like moons and like suns”. A Simile is used in this sentence to…
Miller’s brilliant poem, “Spring Storm” is the story of a man whose emotions are unstable. Miller’s use of similes serve to develop the theme that emotions are complex and subject to change, just like the weather. The poet describes the temper of the protagonist in lines 3 to 4 when he says, “He moves like a black cloud over the lawn and---stops.”. The use of simile reveals that he is traveling furiously and is filled with rage. By comparing the movement of the man to a thundercloud, the reader is able to sympathise with him and understand the ferocity of his movement.…
Poetry is a very beautiful and unique form of literature, but it often is given a bad reputation. The main reason being is people overanalyze it, instead of taking in the beauty of it. Billy Collins’s poem “Introduction of Poetry” explains how people overanalyze and take away from the beauty of a poem. The speaker suggests ways of reading poetry that allow the reader to understand the poem, but not take away from the beauty of it. Billy Collins quotes “I ask them to take a poem / and hold it up to the light / like a color slide” (lines 1-3) meaning take the poem that is being read and analyze it, but do not analyze it to the point you loose sight of the beauty or “colors”.…
McKay’s use of simile in the second line of his poem, “I am sharp as steel with discontent” shows his anger towards the government that don’t care about the African Americans. Also, the speaker shows that as you set barriers, we in unity grow bigger and stronger against your…
In Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night, Dylan Thomas represents death by night and darkness. Hence, “Do not go gentle into that good night” (1) means ‘do not slip quickly into death’. Thomas is addressing an unknown listener, advising them not to die without putting up a fight; “Rage, rage against the dying of the light” (3). This “dying of the light” (3), along with “close of day” (2), represent the nearing of night and therefore the nearing of death itself. This also means “the sun in flight” (10) and light represent one’s life.…
In his sonnet, “Thou Blind Man’s Mark,” Sir Philip Sidney uses an apostrophe as a way for his speaker to address their complex feelings toward the subject of desire. The speaker explains that desire has the power to both mentally and physically blind people, causing them to strive towards instant, materialistic gratification rather than true self-satisfaction. However, these feelings seem almost ironic as it appears that through discovering the true face of desire, the speaker found a new longing: to kill the evil that is desire. In order to express such complicated feelings to readers, Sidney relies on various poetic and literary devices such as repetition, alliteration, and form to help present to his readers what the speaker believes desire…
Another metaphor used is when the poet compares the sun to an eye, ‘the eye of…
Beauty, despair, crime, and death all describe Alfred Noyes poem The Highwayman. Alfred Noyes uses Metaphors, similes, and repetition to emphasize his points and details on the highway man. The poem is not only a beautiful piece of literature but a wonderful example on how you can use gorgeous objects to describe a not so gorgeous person and events. “The wind was a torrent of darkness upon the gusty trees,” this is the very first line of the first stanza in Alfred Noyes the Highwayman.…
The colloquial idiom to “kill time” is commonly heard in passing. Whether it is a baby’s first steps, a first car, or even a marriage ceremony, a communal ideology remains that life contains nothing more than waiting for the momentous events. However, this theory of “killing time” whilst waiting for the future also kills any chances of obtaining a purposeful life. Monotony has become an epidemic in today’s society, leaving thousands feeling trapped and vainly seeking some shred of meaning in their life. The great American poet, Robert Frost, gives unique insight on the recognizable struggle between balancing the demands of society with one’s personal search for purpose.…
The second stanza is proof that nature has a main part in describing the character and maybe even the meaning the poem. “The leafy boughs on high”, means the “main” part of the branch, resaying nature is the main branch of the poem. The second stanza also has the evidence that the character is depressed. “Hissed in the sun” Hissed mean a sharp note but can also mean displeasure. Figuring out that hissed could mean displeasure, resaying it would be” displeasure of the sun”…
Diseases and Sicknesses are two negatives people might encounter in their lives and the detrimental effects of these illnesses is the main reason of death. In Thom Gunn’s poem “The Man With Night Sweats” the person is suffering from this disease and he wrote this poem because of the deaths of his friends. Gunn tries to show people how detrimental this disease is as he struggles through life. In “Night Sweat”, written by Robert Lowell, by employing the use of hyperbole and similes, he tries to compare two important and distinct aspects of his personal life, his poetry writing and his disability, whereas in “The Man with Night Sweats” Thom Gunn utilizes visual imagery and the use of hyperbole to create a world where the author suffers from…