Figurative Language In Once More To The Lake

Once more to the Lake, by E.B. white, is a personal narrative that allows the readers to slip into the shoes of E.B. White and relive the memories he had with a lake in Maine. This personal narrative theme is more illusive, going back in time where E.B. White lived in delight as a kid who visited a same lake each summer. E.B White reflects his childhood memories when he took his son to the same lake that he grew to love. These reflections and memories are both pleasurable and saddening as he realizes nothing has changed. E.B. White uses figurative language that allows him to express his feelings as he relives the memories he once had as a child.
E.B. White uses figurative language to enhance what the lake represents to him, and that allows him to provide the readers with word pictures that engages the readers’ attention. The reason why E.B. White provides these figurative languages it that with these …show more content…
White provides the readers it the overall theme of his own personal narrative. E.B. White illustrates an afternoon at the lake were a thunderstorm took place. He explains how it was an old melodrama that he had seen awhile ago with childish awe. E.B. White provides descriptive details on what is going on with the lake, the electrical disturbance and a curious darkening of the sky was a familiar experience that E.B. White experienced when he was a child. “Then the kettle drum, then the snare, then the bass drum and cymbals, then crackling light against the dark, and the gods grinning and licking their chops in the hills.” Is a metaphor that describes the sound the darkening sky is creating. Then it became calm and the rain was steadily rustling in the calm lake. “As he buckled the swollen belt suddenly my groin felt the chill of death.”, this quote is a symbolic reference of rebirth. When E.B. White’s son puts on his swimming trunks after the thunderstorm, White’s experience with his son is the same with his own encounter with his