Briana Gaines Do we express our emotions authentically? Our faces do not always reflect how people genuinely feel. In the extended metaphor “We Wear the Mask”, Paul Dunbar integrates the use of hyperbole, personification and symbolism to promote the fact that lies and deceit lead into concealed pain and suffering .…
Mask Essay In many novels, a deeper meaning of the text is often sought after to enhance a reader’s understanding and perspective of the book. Unfortunately, in novels, literal definitions have specific meanings that can limit this sought after experience by readers. By using symbolism, a type of figurative language, a deeper meaning can be achieved. In Lord of the Flies symbolism is used to great effect as countless examples are prevalent throughout the book.…
Robin Benway, in her novel, Emmy and Oliver, uses metaphors, personification, and hyperbole to expand on the dramatic plot of her book. This would cause readers to really feel a connection of grief to the main character, Emmy, and her friends, due to the situation they were going through of losing their friend for so many years. Benway expands on the shocking fact of Oliver coming back from being kidnapped by his dad for many years by using metaphors quite often. “Preserved in amber,” “A fossil in a brave new world,” compares Oliver’s new life to that of a fossil. This emphasizes on the awkward transition that Oliver is feeling, he knew his friends before, but after 10 years everything seems completely different-- which is a normal response to have after being kidnapped for 10 years.…
Deuteronomy 32:4 says “He is the Rock, his works are perfect, and all his ways are just. A faithful God who does no wrong, upright and just is he.” Metaphors about God and Jesus abound in The Bible. God is commonly referred to as a rock, as in this example.…
Although Kenny can be a snotbrain, he is one of the main reason why Julia grows the way she does in Linda Sue Park’s novel Project Mulberry. Relationships grow and change in cycles, and throughout this novel, Julia grows closer to the people in her life. She also learns what is important to her, but she could not have gotten there without help from little silkworms and her younger brother Kenny. The poem I wrote was about the relationship Julia and Kenny have. It was based on chapter sixteen because this is when their relationship really blossoms.…
The Endless Conflictions of Love “For That He Looked Not Upon Her” appears to very conflicting throughout. The poem appears to reflect the effect a girl had on the speaker’s mind and feeling of despair. Throughout the poem there are a couple different attitudes or tones displayed such as a depressed, regretful tone and a hopeful, admirable tone. By using metaphors, structure, and diction, the author is able to portray different, conflicting tones within the poem.…
With their relationship on the verge of collapse, Jude confesses and reveals his entire past to Willem. After Jude left the monastery, he found himself imprisoned by Dr. Traylor, a mysterious psychiatrist who lived alone. During their meals, the silence felt something of a “cat’s,” ready to jump towards its prey. The author skillfully wields the metaphor to describe Jude’s initial reaction towards Dr. Traylor. More importantly, the author foreshadows against inevitable problems Jude would later come to face.…
This assignment will be considering whether the two poets from the restoration period Sir John Suckling and Richard Lovelace’s poetry contribute to the sense of the ‘cavalier’ and looking closely at Corn’s assessments of both poets and their perhaps royalist connection. Looking at whether their work fit into the tradition of sex and seduction within poetry, in particular, focusing on Suckling’s Encouragement to a lover and Lovelace’s Song to Aramantha. Looking at Corn’s comments of the two writers from The Cambridge Companion to English Poetry, Donne to Marvell, it is suggested that they were both indeed associated with a small group of writers and the royalist circle.…
In the poem, “For that he looked not upon her,” George Gascoigne uses devices such as comparison, imagery and diction to convey the speaker’s complex attitude changes from an uneasy and hurt attitude to determination in moving on from a relationship he saw as toxic. He is telling himself how he felt with her so he would not make the mistake of going back and getting hurt like before. In the poem the author uses comparison to portray the process of him learning from his mistake. It helps him think over the past relationship he had and start coming to terms that he must move on from the past.…
Sometimes an individual’s desires cause them to face internal suffering. The poem “For That He Looked Not upon Her” by sixteenth-century English poet George Gascoigne explores this idea through illustrating the reasoning of why a man cannot look into the eyes of the women he once loved anymore. Gascoigne portrays the man in the poem as being hopeless and unable to unhook himself from the passion he has for the women which mesmerized him. Gascoigne depicts his hopelessness, and rather bleak almost cautious outlook on love after coming out of a bad relationship through the use of diction.…
“The Flea written” by John Donne uses many different types English devices (i.e. imagery, symbolism and metaphysical comparison). Donne uses the flea because of the size and “fragileness” that the flea holds. While overall Donne uses the flea to take the girls virginity he does go to the extent of saying if that flea dies, so will their love. “And in this flea our two bloods mingled be;” in this quote, Donne likes to argue and say, “we are one in this flea, yet no one thinks of you different, so why can’t we become one without the flea?” While overall Donne uses the flea to attempt to take the girls’ virginity; he does go to the extent of saying that if the flea dies, so will they’re love.…
In “The Flea,” John Donne uses a metaphysical conceit through the imagery of a flea to portray sexual desires and romance. In the very first line of the poem, the speaker brings up the flea by telling the woman to “Mark but this flea,” which makes it sound like he wants the woman to only pay attention to the flea and nothing else (line 1). In the third line, the imagery the flea is further expanded upon when the speaker begins making the flea sound like a sexual object, such as when he says, “It sucked me first, and now sucks thee / And in this flea our two bloods mingled be” (lines 3-4). In these lines, the speaker is inciting that the woman and him are becoming one with each other because the flea went from biting him to now biting her, and…
'Compare the methods used by the poets to explore guilt in Giuseppe and The Deliverer' Both Giuseppe and The Deliverer focus on past events. Giuseppe intertwines historical events with a fantasy character – the "mermaid" - in order to hide some of the guilt the speaker's uncle feels over his part in the events the poem relays. In contrast, The Deliverer's startling honesty and lack of romanticism paint the themes and events in the poem as truthful and real, with the speaker facing the implication of events head on, as opposed to Giuseppe where they're trying to be hidden. The beginning of Giuseppe places the reader in "Sicily in World War Two", with Ford crafting the situation of "the only captive mermaid" and the occurrences in her time…
He Loves Me In the poem "My Papa 's Waltz" written by Theodore Roethke, most readers believe that it is about abuse. Is it possible? Of course it is, it depends on who’s reading the poem and their interpretation of the poem. The use of language, diction, imagery, and symbols, along with the tone helps to influence how readers come to their own conclusion on what the poem is really about.…
On the other hand, Donne in “The Flea” is more cunning in trying to persuade his lover by using love symbolism. He first dramatized the symbol of their love in the flea by symbolizing the flea as their conjugal bed due to mixing of their blood, and how killing it would be desecration of their love. But later when the women kills the flea, the poet immediately diverts his argument in saying that if killing the flea was not a big deal, the act of sex should not be too. Instead of consoling her directly to not be afraid, the poet used witty words to resolve the conflict in his lover’s mind for premarital…