Metaphor

Throughout the poem the phrase, “I love thee” is the anaphora, or the repeated phrase included in the poem. Simile is used as well, in the lines in which she is comparing her love that she feels. One of the last notable methods is a metaphor, which is almost the entire a poem a metaphor of the love this person feels for another person. Using different lines such as, “My soul can reach, when feeling out of sight For the ends of Being and ideal Grace” (Browning), which is just a complex way of…

The text of the poem focuses on the feelings that the author has about being outcast and useless in the eyes of the audience or other people in his life. The author becomes self-preoccupied with self-reflection staying alone and weeping over his position as a social outcast. The poem depicts the author as feeling hopeless amidst other people that were more successful and capable. He wished he were like other people that had more hope in their lives and who were surrounded by friends. It is…

Many metaphors used by politicians are used without an actual knowledge of the metaphor, and people just put their own meaning on it. This just shows how corrupt politicians are using metaphors for whatever meaning they find convenient. The false limb is usually “a noun or adjective tacked on to some general purpose verb.” (262) The use of false…

Danielle Mullins H English 12-4 11/12/15 “All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace” While first reading Richard Brautigan’s “All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace” readers may not see between the lines, but when the underlying message is coherent, Brautigan’s abstract work, and the events that shaped his life illustrate the poem. The message of Brautigan’s poetry will captivate the reader and allow better understanding of Brautigan’s life and reasoning. Richard Bruatigan…

Metaphor is a comparison not using like or as. The Three metaphors that I find interesting and that strengthen the poem all come from one poem, “Metaphors” by Sylvia Plath. The entire poem is riddle with nine metaphors as the hints. Without one of the metaphors a reader might miss a clue that is important to the riddle. The three that I find interesting are “a melon strolling on two tendrils” (3), which I took to mean her melon shaped stomach on skinny vine like legs. The next metaphor that…

The two stylistic devices mostly used being metaphors and similes. For example, in the first paragraph she explains how “one naturalist refused to kill a weasel” explaining that it was “socketed into his hand deeply as a rattlesnake” (“Living Like Weasels”, Dillard). The person eventually having to “soak him off like a stubborn label” (“Living Like Weasels”, Dillard). Those being examples of a simile. She effectively uses an elaborated metaphor through the involvement of imagery. Throughout the…

John Clare was a famous writer whose background was not the norm. Clare was born into a less fortunate, lower class family with parents who were illiterate (Poetry Foundation, 2016). Clare became a farm laborer at a young age, but was later given some formal schooling and discovered a love for poetry. As writers do, Clare using his background and what he was familiar with developed his skill and went on to publish multiple volumes of poetry (Poetry Foundation, 2016). First Love by John Clare…

In terms of figurative language, Mernissi frequently uses metaphors, similes, and hyperboles to compare her culture to American culture. She would use a simile about the clothing clerk by saying she sounded like “an Imam’s fatwa,” in order to show how she seemed as controlling as a Muslim priest reading her the rules that she must follow (Mernissi 275). Later a metaphor is put into use when she describes herself being “a dinosaur” when she realized that her body…

Each author has different diction and syntax that makes their work unique. Authors use different stylistic tools for different reasons throughout their story. Different stylistic tools have different effects and do certain things to the story. In American Wife by Taya Kyle, Taya uses figurative language to get a point across to her reader, make her writing more interesting, and allow her readers to better visualize what she is talking about. To begin, Taya uses figurative language throughout…

In “The Bear”, Galway Kinnell employs the setting of wilderness as well as elaborate metaphors and other figurative language to explore the internal relationship, and sometimes struggle, one has between their instinctive and rational inner selves. Kinnell’s use of figurative language to represent natural phenomena in the poem blurs the line between primitive and rational to produce an introspective exploration of the human experience. Kinnel also highlights how man is both one with nature while…