Metaphor

In “The Road Not Taken” the speaker (Frost) describes both roads, he states “long I stood… And looked down one as far as I could… To where it bent in the undergrowth” (Frost, 137). This excerpt can be seen as the roads being a metaphor for the future. When the speaker examines both roads but cannot see beyond the undergrowth, this demonstrates the poet’s interpretation that no one knows what the future holds. As the audience reads further the speaker states “Oh, I kept the first…

Shakespeare uses figures of speech to give his beautiful poetry a boldness of imagery. Throughout the play, metaphors and similes masterfully serve to create a vision by comparing two things. Both are literary techniques used by Shakespeare to create hidden meanings and stories within his work. A Midsummer Night’s Dream is a great example of how Shakespeare uses figurative language to discuss underlying meanings within the play. Shakespeare’s comparisons give the reader relatable emotion because…

what it was capable of later all its branches had broken off. This is one of the metaphors that Berry uses in order to support his point on how realizing your full potential as as an individual does not always mean you will succeed. This shows how not only do people need to develop their individual potential but realize that with a community much more can be accomplished. In his essay Berry decides to use a metaphor as the title, which is “men and women in search of common ground” (para 14).…

with kin in order to heighten the value of life. The mother’s time is maximised through reference to her age as close to “thirty thousand days”. Stanza five sees the commencement of the fabric motif, symbolising typical duties of motherhood. The metaphor of the mother’s face as “fine threadbare linen” portrays a weakness upon nearing death and the vocabulary choice of “crumple” indicates depletion in her mother’s determination to defeat death. However, the persona describes her mother as…

• In order to have a more fulfilling reading experience, it is important to have knowledge of the religious traditions, beliefs, or readings from different cultures that could affect literature, despite an individual reader’s personal beliefs • Since culture is greatly influenced by its dominant religious system, even if a writer does not necessarily adhere to the beliefs, the key values of that religious system will affect the literary work • Despite a reader’s religious affiliation, generally…

Throughout the story she must shed every identity that she creates due to issues that she runs into, until she is finally forced to return to her hometown and clear her original name. In the novel The Passenger by Lisa Lutz, similes, imagery, and metaphors are used to convey that viewing situations as permanent causes one to become sedentary, therefore one must shift their perspective in order to realize that everything is only temporary. In the novel The Passenger by Lisa Lutz, imagery is used…

such as “haunting” and “lost” there is undeniably a mood that is more similar to hopeless and exhausted than sweet and honorable. This sharp contrast serves to peak the readers interest right from the beginning of the poem and also can serve as a metaphor for the meaning of the poem as a whole. Upon first glance, the poem appears to be pretty positive, but when the reader actually begins reading the poem, it becomes obvious that it is about unveiling the harsh realities of war. This can be…

described as walking through a wood one morning, reaching a fork and contemplates which path to take out of the two diverged roads. The persona chooses the road “less travelled” and sets off on a holistic, life-changing journey. The poem is an extended metaphor about life. The character in the poem literally journeys through the “yellow woods” down one of the “two roads” but this journey is merely the basis for the more important symbolic journey. The poem is allegorical as it consists of a…

impact upon the reader. Complex events in the book are often presented as simplistic and understated through the narrative voice of the child. Such sentences juxtapose the deep and dramatic musings of the old narrator. The literary devices, such as metaphor, simile and characterisation, are used in an original way which sometimes mask the dark undercurrents of the situation. This is present in the pages 32-35 as the family responds to violence and a young boy unravels his identity. . The author…

Sometimes life is best explained in metaphors. Sometimes the hurt, pain, and anger found in life are more easily grasped when one looks at them in terms of other objects. This is how the poem,“The Minefield,” written by Diane Thiel, looks at pain and anger. Written in short and choppy lines with no clear rhythm or rhyming pattern, this poem tells the story of a man who witnessed his friend blown to pieces in a minefield. Because of this, the man who witnessed this terrifying tragedy has grown…