Imagery Essay

Joseph Conrad’s techniques in “The Heart of Darkness” convey the experience of traveling up the Congo River. Specifically, the atmosphere and effects of the Congo are detailed through Conrad’s use of diction and imagery. Conrad’s diction emphasizes the complexity of the Congo’s atmosphere. As Marlow travels up the “silent” river he notes that the air is “heavy” and “sluggish.” The diction conveys a still atmosphere, emphasizing the idea that the Congo is stuck in (a primitive) time.…

affects us all, and compares the seasons of the year to different periods of our lives. The overall impression the narrator or listener is left with is that of an ominous, almost fearful view on time passing far too rapidly. To support this the use of imagery, simile, repetition, and the first person point of view is significant. The use of assonance and rhyme is less obvious but there nonetheless. As the theme of the poem evolves, the poetic devices always support the movement toward that which…

Eugenia Collier, a well known writer used several literary devices such as juxta position, diction, imagery, point of view, and flashback to create the voice of narrator Lizabeth from the short story Marigolds. The point of view the author was trying to express was extremely clear using statements like “Bewilderment of being neither woman or child.”(Collier) to show that the narrator is a teen going through the rough phases that come with coming of age. Quotes of this story, like this one, show…

the theme would be imagery. When Bruno mentions how he would “throw my hand on the blade for you” and “take a bullet straight through my brain” the reader/listener immediately pictures a lot of pain and violence. The main theme is trying to overcome heartbreak, and because he gave out the wrong picture, the listeners would now think that violence is the solution to overcoming heartbreak, which is not the proper image he is trying to convey to the listener. His use of imagery lacks the proper…

a young girl named Myop who goes away from her home on a sharecropper’s farm into a forest, only to find the dead body of a lynched man. The story is written in such a style that the reader never sees the ending coming. Utilizing the elements of imagery and symbolism, Walker showcases the shock value of a girl realizing that life is not the same for her as it is for everyone else. From the very start, Myop is clearly unaware of the horrors that the world offers. Myop loves the outdoors, as…

composition doesn’t have any line break, assonance nor consonance. In my poem many of different forms of imagery are portrayed. On the fourth line, tactile imagery is presented with the phrase: “ your warm hand on my cheek”. By reading this sentence I can picture the feeling of someone’s gentle hands on one’s face, that feeling of delicacy and romantic sensuality. On the ninth line an auditory imagery is portrayed: “ te amo mi amore, this is what I…

In the poem Success is Counted Sweetest, by Emily Dickinson, the author uses varied imagery to state the speaker’s attitude of the war as well as the theme. The speaker believes that there is no victory in war due to all the deaths accompanying the battle. This is shown with the various instances of imagery, very descriptive words that paint a picture in the reader’s mind, such as success being nectar, vivid descriptions of the soldiers in the war having difficulty defining their victory, and…

Did you hear about the story “House on mango street”? I hear it is the best story to read. I heard things such as there is a lot of imagery, descriptive details, & so much more. If you didn’t read it yet, what are you waiting for? This story is about one girl who has many siblings and they do not have a lot of money. They have moved a lot from apartment to apartment. She hopes that one day they will live in a normal home and get to do the things she can’t due to her current living style. The…

theme of food in, “Ode to Pork” by Kevin Young and “The Word Plum” by Helen Chasin, and are displayed through tone, assonance, and imagery. First on the menu, poet Young writes a love letter to all things pork, and takes us into his taste buds through assonance. Lastly on the menu, poet Chasin takes readers into her mind on binging plums, and tosses onomatopoeia and imagery to depict her sense of eating plums. In “Ode to Pork,” Kevin Young sings an ode that hands the reader a menu of assonance…

dramatizes the conflict between actually feeling love and the act of making love. In Sharon Old’s “Sex without Love” the speaker floats in the third person as more of a scientist experimenting with love. On the surface love is mirrored through the imagery of “beautiful as dancers “and “great runners” (Olds 2-3); making love, as Sutton said “favorable” (178). To continue this praise for loveless-love, Sutton points out that in lines fourteen and fifth teen: “the ones who will not / accept a false…