Assonance

Nowadays, kindness without guaranteed return is rare. People live their lives with the mindset that they should only show compassion when others return it. The question, “What's in it for me?” Often comes up because people believe that they should only complete favors if they get personal gain from them. Naomi Shihab Nye disputes this mindset in her poem “Shoulders”. She explains a story about a man carrying his child on his shoulders, and how mankind should show each other the same kindness,…

emphasises the feeling of loss and grief. This also demonstrates the narrator’s feelings of confusion and anxiety. However, in the final 2 stanzas the mood is lifted as the narrator sees the body of the corpse of his younger brother. The use of assonance and repetition of ‘foot’ and ‘o’ in “a four-foot box, a foot for each year”, highlights the young age of his brother and brutality of reality. The poet uses full rhyme in the last lines of the poem to bring the poem to a closure reminding the…

Iago’s multiple soliloquy reveals his devious nature and his ability to manipulate others. It also reveals his sad state and gives the audience a reason for his evil nature. This allows the audience to sympathize and even understand why he takes these actions. A Renaissance tragedy also shows the issue of circumstance causing the ultimate conflict in the work. They also reveal how much power Iago has over everyone around him due to his honest outward appearance. He shows his ability to…

This description serves as a severe juxtaposition of what should be to what is the unfortunate reality. Her use of rhyme of ‘wronged’ and ‘prolonged’ build up the pace and tempo as if reaching the crescendo. Noonuccal also uses Alliteration and assonance with the strong ‘ca’ sound from ‘cart-horse’ and ‘castrated’. This harsh sound reinforces the harshness of the words meanings in this context. She also uses such heavily associated emotive language such as ‘castrated’ and ‘hell’ which rile up…

it is spiritual and does for some people what an Ouija board did for her. The bible is strongly connected to God as an Ouija board is strongly connected to dark spirits. Sylvia rarely rhymes in this poem but when she does it is through assonance. She uses assonance in the middle of a line describing the souls of the dead. “Assemble with the frail paleness of moths”. She also uses alliteration and similes when describing the souls. The speaker asks the audience to “imagine their deep hunger,…

Ode to a Nightingale by John Keats was published in 1819. Keats was the oldest of four and lost his parents at an early age. His father died when Keats was eight after he fell off a horse and cracked is head open, his mother died six years later of tuberculosis. In 1816 he became a licensed apothecary, although he never pursued that profession, instead he became a poet. One may ask why he went through all the trouble of getting licensed and then decided to write poetry for a living. In 1817, he…

however still acknowledging everything her father did for her. The author explains that she learned a lot from him and know has taken his cooking style and does the same. In this part of the stanza to draw the reader's attention to it she includes an assonance. She is also very generous with her food just like her father taught her too. The final stanza is very much different than the others since it talks more about her rather than about her father. This stanza shows the love that she has for…

symbol of “stares at the dark window”. This symbolises Harry trying to see his own work and success he worked so hard for but can only see the darkness of what he’s become. Lifeless, empty and alone. The lines “take the long unbroken slope” uses assonance to show despair and is also used to symbolise his regret of his decisions and his helplessness in changing the path his life was headed in. These two examples creates a sense of empathy for the old miner’s intimate story, because everyone…

Moreover he says that their love for each other is seen in their eyes, which are the windows of inner feelings and also the windows of the outer world. Moreover, he uses assonance in "my," "thine," "eye," "thine," "mine" to enhance his point. In this stanza, Donne seems to be fascinated by spheres, as he uses the idea of spheres to describe the world then to describe his beloved’s eyes. Moreover…

Have you ever heard a song that has impacted your life? Songs are a form of art that allows artists to express their feelings in a form of music. Songs can be interrupted in many ways; some songs have a more literal meaning, while other songs require you to interpret the lyrics to understand the deeper meaning. Artists often use figurative, metaphorical, and poetic elements in their songs to help develop the overall message. The use of figurative terms in a song leaves the interpretation of the…