Figurative language
Figurative language is when the author writes something indirectly to create a special effect. Figurative language includes personification, metaphor and simile. In the poem “Death of a Son”, Silkin is narrating his own experience and feelings of the death of his son “who died in a mental hospital aged one”. (Tuma 552)
This clearly evokes that Silkin's son was not normal and has disability. Silkin creates the extended metaphor of silent houses to recount the death and illness of a son see through his father’s eyes. This can effectively get hold of the audience’s emotional attention and can efficiently convey the pain and loss the father feels throughout the whole poem. (Becky Piasecki) The poet compares his “dumb” house which is his son to other “houses” children around. The other children “Sang like birds and laughed” while his son “Neither sang nor laughed.” (Tuma 552) The readers can practically visualize that the father is comparing his disable son to the other normal children out there around him. …show more content…
Thomas is also adjuring his father to reject death as long as possible knowing that death is actually good and not detrimental or cruel. (Tiempo, Bernad and Tiempo 317) Thomas uses nighttime “good night” as a metaphor for death and his anguishes over his father’s willing acceptance of death. “at close of day” and “the dying of light” (Tiempo, Bernad, Tiempo 317) are also metaphors for death. The “close” of the day and the “dying” of light shows the extinguishing and fading of the sun light at the end of the day and shows that darkness will be approaching so it is a suitable metaphor for death as it is both ineluctable and a natural thing to happen. (Jamie.L.
Figurative language is when the author writes something indirectly to create a special effect. Figurative language includes personification, metaphor and simile. In the poem “Death of a Son”, Silkin is narrating his own experience and feelings of the death of his son “who died in a mental hospital aged one”. (Tuma 552)
This clearly evokes that Silkin's son was not normal and has disability. Silkin creates the extended metaphor of silent houses to recount the death and illness of a son see through his father’s eyes. This can effectively get hold of the audience’s emotional attention and can efficiently convey the pain and loss the father feels throughout the whole poem. (Becky Piasecki) The poet compares his “dumb” house which is his son to other “houses” children around. The other children “Sang like birds and laughed” while his son “Neither sang nor laughed.” (Tuma 552) The readers can practically visualize that the father is comparing his disable son to the other normal children out there around him. …show more content…
Thomas is also adjuring his father to reject death as long as possible knowing that death is actually good and not detrimental or cruel. (Tiempo, Bernad and Tiempo 317) Thomas uses nighttime “good night” as a metaphor for death and his anguishes over his father’s willing acceptance of death. “at close of day” and “the dying of light” (Tiempo, Bernad, Tiempo 317) are also metaphors for death. The “close” of the day and the “dying” of light shows the extinguishing and fading of the sun light at the end of the day and shows that darkness will be approaching so it is a suitable metaphor for death as it is both ineluctable and a natural thing to happen. (Jamie.L.