Metaphor

He implements metaphor to compare humans to negative objects; this is backed up by his use of structure and punctuation. Not one line in the poem ‘North Coast Town’ is exciting. The sentences almost feel cut short. “A car slows and I chase it”. ‘Two hoods going shooting…

The poem talks about, the poet’s strong feelings of love for words; Kennel introduces by exalting the beauty of language and words which he succeeds in doing through comparing the blackberries to language and words. The poet’s deep attraction to words is portrayed in his attraction to the ripeness and richness of blackberries. In lines like the “many- lettered, one- syllable lumps, which I squeeze, squinch open and splurge well in the silent, startled, icy, black language. The poet succeeds in…

Woolf uses a practical way of writing to deliver her message. She makes use of rhetorical devices such as a hopeless tone as an intent for the reader to feel pity for the moth and develop their own thoughts of life and death. She also makes use of metaphors, symbolism and imagery to further construct this narrative essay. The death of the moth in this sense proposes the idea that death is an inevitable result of living, where humans battle through life and death only to realize that it is a…

The first poem I wrote for this collection was Depression. Originally, it was very narrative so it took a while for me to decide whether to make the basic concept into a poem or story. Eventually I decided on writing a poem as I didn’t have much experience with writing poetry so I saw it as a personal challenge. I realised the original concept was not very cohesive, so I wrote a rough storyline to work through in order to make the piece more cohesive. An early difficulty I had was with…

Larry Levis lives through his poetry Award winning contemporary poet Larry Levis lived a short life (50 years), but his writing contributions will sustain his legacy forever. Levis grew up in poverty as the son of a grape grower in Fresno, California. His writing often reflects his days of picking grapes and working with Mexican migrant workers in the San Joaquin Valley. His poems are filled with the imagery of his youthful experiences on farm, at the pool hall and later as a custodian in a…

The effects of war are often calculated in terms of costs for weapons, equipment, gains, and losses with respect to what is being fought over, be it land or other resources. In thinking of war that way, however, we often overlook the very personal costs of war; while we may think in the abstract terms of numbers of dead soldiers, we overlook the cognitive, physical, and psychological on soldiers, civilians, and even the entire world. Indeed, while war shows man’s resilience and sacrifice, it…

In 1946 George Orwell wrote, ”Politics and the English Language," the essay explains the relationships between bad writing and bad thinking as well as the political effects. According to Orwell, Modern English and especially written English are full of bad habits; As a result, people imitate each other, and the bad habits spread. Orwell argues that by following the rules he presented people will stop the tendency of writing or speaking bad English. One person that follows these rules is John F.…

DREAM Dreams. What are dreams? My poems was written in the Harlem Renaissance in 1926. It was written by an African-American poet/writer named Langsten Hughes. He was born on Feb 1, 1902 in Joplin, Missouri. His parents divorced when he was young and his grandmother raised him after the divorce. His father moved to Mexico. Hughes traveled the world plenty of times. He attended college in Colombia University in New York, and finished his education in Lincoln University in Pennsylvania. He won a…

she writes that it won’t stop them/her from rising. In each line that author writes each line or Rogers 2 question throughout the essay with a very strong and determined voice. Throughout the poem the writer uses simile (“like dust, I’ll rise), metaphor (“I’m a black ocean, leaping & wild”) and personification (“You may shoot me you words, you may cut me with your eyes you may kill me with your hatefulness”) were used to make the poem so powerful. The poem consists of 9 stanzas and 43 lines.…

love can overcome any obstacle. Suzanne Collins includes foreshadowing, similes, metaphors, and shows the mood and moral of the story during the adventure of Mockingjay. Collins uses…