Short Investigation #3
1. “Jabberwocky” Speaker: a story-teller, Tone: fear, bravery, joyful, Figurative Language: The poem uses sound and wordplay as a form of sensory imagery. In line 22, “snicker-snack” describes the sound the blade made as it was swung back and forth.
In “Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll, the hero who represents good slays the Jabberwocky who represents evil. The way the poem is spoken by the story-teller describes his enthusiam for the hero’s victorious battle with the Jabberwocky. This battle for good against evil is seen in the ways the hero and the Jabberwocky are associated with each other. “Beware the Jabberwock, my son-The jaws that bite, the claws that catch,” (5-6). The father is telling the hero to beware the menacing …show more content…
“The Red Wheelbarrow” Speaker: the speaker is invisible, Tone: simple, ordinary, Figurative Language: The poem uses colors as a form of sensory imagery. In lines 3 and 7, the author uses vivid colors like red and white to contrast each other.
In” The Red Wheelbarrow by William Carlos Williams, the author emphasized a simple scenario to draw out the deeper impressions and ideas present in the objects of the scene. This idea is illustrated in the first half of the poem, “so much depends-upon-a red wheel-barrow,” (1-4). His intro into the poem draws attention to the importance of the wheelbarrow. The fact that the words “wheel” and “barrow” were seperated to different lines emphasized the object in the poem.
3. “Naming of Parts” Speaker: a soldier who does not wish to be involved in war, Tone: depressing, gloomy, Figurative Language: The poem uses the stark contrast between the beauty of the flowers and the depressing idea of war as a form of sensory imagery. In lines 4-5, the author explains the duty of the soldiers to name the parts of their weapon, and then he explains how the “Japonica” glistens in the …show more content…
“Harlem” Speaker: someone asking a hypothetical question, Tone: fading hope, disheartened, Figurative Language: The poem uses the topic of a persons deferred hopes and dreams and illustrates them in the form of sensory imagery. In lines 2-3, the author descibes deferred dreams as dried up raisins to illustrate how these dreams are wasting away.
In “Harlem” by Langston Hughes, deferred dreams are being described in various ways to illustrate the sobering thought of what happens to wasted opportunity. The author gives possible solutions until ending up with a likely answer with the line, “Maybe it just sags-like a heavy load,” (9-10). These lines give insight into what happens to deferred dreams over time, they become a burden.
5. “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” Speaker: a spokesperson for Africans and African-Americans over the ages, Tone: perseverence, lasting, Figurative Language: The poem uses the rivers as a metaphor for the lineage and experiences of the African people. In lines 1,2,4,11,12, and 13 the metaphor of rivers being a timeline is
1. “Jabberwocky” Speaker: a story-teller, Tone: fear, bravery, joyful, Figurative Language: The poem uses sound and wordplay as a form of sensory imagery. In line 22, “snicker-snack” describes the sound the blade made as it was swung back and forth.
In “Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll, the hero who represents good slays the Jabberwocky who represents evil. The way the poem is spoken by the story-teller describes his enthusiam for the hero’s victorious battle with the Jabberwocky. This battle for good against evil is seen in the ways the hero and the Jabberwocky are associated with each other. “Beware the Jabberwock, my son-The jaws that bite, the claws that catch,” (5-6). The father is telling the hero to beware the menacing …show more content…
“The Red Wheelbarrow” Speaker: the speaker is invisible, Tone: simple, ordinary, Figurative Language: The poem uses colors as a form of sensory imagery. In lines 3 and 7, the author uses vivid colors like red and white to contrast each other.
In” The Red Wheelbarrow by William Carlos Williams, the author emphasized a simple scenario to draw out the deeper impressions and ideas present in the objects of the scene. This idea is illustrated in the first half of the poem, “so much depends-upon-a red wheel-barrow,” (1-4). His intro into the poem draws attention to the importance of the wheelbarrow. The fact that the words “wheel” and “barrow” were seperated to different lines emphasized the object in the poem.
3. “Naming of Parts” Speaker: a soldier who does not wish to be involved in war, Tone: depressing, gloomy, Figurative Language: The poem uses the stark contrast between the beauty of the flowers and the depressing idea of war as a form of sensory imagery. In lines 4-5, the author explains the duty of the soldiers to name the parts of their weapon, and then he explains how the “Japonica” glistens in the …show more content…
“Harlem” Speaker: someone asking a hypothetical question, Tone: fading hope, disheartened, Figurative Language: The poem uses the topic of a persons deferred hopes and dreams and illustrates them in the form of sensory imagery. In lines 2-3, the author descibes deferred dreams as dried up raisins to illustrate how these dreams are wasting away.
In “Harlem” by Langston Hughes, deferred dreams are being described in various ways to illustrate the sobering thought of what happens to wasted opportunity. The author gives possible solutions until ending up with a likely answer with the line, “Maybe it just sags-like a heavy load,” (9-10). These lines give insight into what happens to deferred dreams over time, they become a burden.
5. “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” Speaker: a spokesperson for Africans and African-Americans over the ages, Tone: perseverence, lasting, Figurative Language: The poem uses the rivers as a metaphor for the lineage and experiences of the African people. In lines 1,2,4,11,12, and 13 the metaphor of rivers being a timeline is