Alliteration

had walled up the monster within the tomb,” quoted from Edgar Allan Poe in The Black Cat. Using literary terms is one of Edgar Allan Poe’s strong points in his writing. In The Black Cat Poe uses figurative terms, for instance foreshadowing and alliteration, in a way that helps the story to remain interesting and flow fluently. With plot being an important necessity in a story, The Black Cat has a distinct plot of events. The story begins with a man who has loved pets all his life. Leading to…

There are a lot of adjectives that are used in the poem to suggest the innocence and purity of the boy, which juxtaposition is used by the adjectives and verbs used to describe the invincibility and strength of the Nettles. The poem explores the connotations of the word ‘bed’ and ‘bed of nettles’ and there is a stark contrast to what we associate a bed with and what the bed represents in the poem. Line 1 tells us that the boy’s aged “three” to indicate the boy’s vulnerability, which is then…

Visakkan Senthivel Compare/Contrast Essay – Block Method Over the years, children have been underestimated, and not given the credit for the things that they are truly capable of doing. For instance, whether it is having an inner talent, passion, or even a feeling they must be given the rights to truly show, and express what they care for. This can be shown in the poems Clutches, by Hunter J. Fowler, and Soldier Daddy, by Gina M. Makowsky. Both poems were able to analyze, and unravel the…

The picking of fruit off a dirt organism In the poem “After Apple-Picking” by Robert Frost there is a complex message as most poem or works of literature do. In this specific poem there is a message of death or the thought of death and how the narrator feels about how his life was lived and when his own personal end will come. As he thinks his life was to repetitive and not as he wanted it since he is just a simple apple picker. In the pome Robert Frost mentioned “Long ...Or just human sleep”…

I Am Tourist The poem “ I Am Tourist” addresses the concept of a tourist during a holiday. This poem is read to be more personal to the reader as it is written in first person and we can all personally relate to this poem through past experiences as we have all either encountered a tourist of we have ventured on holiday as a tourist ourselves. In order to portray this effect in the poem, Our author has clearly investigated literary devices such as humoristic devices but also creating imagery of…

In “Queries of Unrest” written by Clint Smith, the author thoroughly conveys his message of darkness, death, fear, and power by his strong use of repetition, symbolism, and imagery. Throughout “Queries of Unrest”, Smith uses many literary terms like repetition to get his message of the poem out. For example, he uses “Maybe”, “darkness”, “scared”, and “cry for help” many times in his poem. When he uses these words and phrases he uses them to express doubt and fear about his life and what he’s…

“[R]omanticism means, to most students a unitary shadowy phenomenon which can be extrapolated as forming a middle ground bounded by six poets: Blake, Coleridge, Wordsworth, Byron, Keats and Shelly” (Aers et al. 1). This paper deals with a work by the firstly named author: Blake. It is about the poem “The Chimney Sweeper: A little white thing among the snow” from 1794 from his collection of works named Songs of Experience. The poem is a companion poem to the formerly written “The Chimney Sweeper:…

Breaking Free The multi-media piece I created is called Breaking Free. In this piece I used ink to draw a small bird perched on a branch. I then used chalk in order to add colour to the piece by colouring the branch brown and adding a multi-colour effect to the bird. In the eye I incorporated a black piece of photo paper with hints on white. I choose to do this piece as it I feel it represents me entering this completely new experience of university. I decided to draw a bird because travelling…

“Beautiful in the mind, Like a word we are waiting to hear”. Adrienne Rich was an amazing poet, her two poems I chose, “A Ball is for Throwing” and “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers” not only captured my attention but required genuine thought while discussing them. In both of her works, Rich uses her work to show the importance of seizing the meaningful moments in your life. Both works have metaphors helping the reader understand what she truly means. In “A Ball is for Throwing” Rich uses the ball to…

Happiness; a feeling often times expressed by people, even if it is not felt. A poem written by Edwin Arlington Robinson titled, “Richard Cory,” was a prime example of this. This poem does an excellent job of telling a story, through only a single scene. It explains the life of a wealthy, admired man that showed signs indicating his feelings of happiness. Most people were able to assume that Richard Cory had everything he ever could have imagined because of his financial status, nevertheless,…