Metonymy

Flawed characters often more memorable than the moral lessons which we learn as readers and audiences. This is because we can relate more to them as the imperfections/flaws of the characters often mirror our own. Characters can be unlikeable and still be interesting, and it is their flaws, which often are born out of some defect, that make them interesting. In the Songs of innocence and Experience Blake comments on the flaws in society like the flaw in religious institutions such as the church,…

Bruce Dawe’s 20th Century texts Televistas and Enter Without So Much as Knocking concern themselves with thought-provoking themes that continue to be relevant in the present time. The philosophical themes presented in Dawe’s works are significantly imperative within human experience. These themes include the brevity of happiness, the certainty in specific life patterns and the influence of the media. The use of various language techniques in both of Dawe’s works result in the emphasis of the…

Giuseppe Ungaretti (1888-1970) is considered by some critics, the greatest Italian poet of the 20th Century. He served an infantryman on the lower Isonzo front from the 1915 until early 1918. In the spring, he was transferred to the Western Front where Italian forces fought with distinction. Ungaretti contributed some of the most revolutionary lyric poems to an illustrious and somewhat stilted tradition. These poems were written during the war, and the poet’s war experience becomes a paradigm…

In his poem collection Nine Horses, Billy Collins composes poems in which he portrays himself as a common man, not a successful poet laureate. Describing the art of writing, Collins records three poems ("Royal Aristocrat," "Death in New Orleans, a Romance," and "Writing in the Afterlife") emphasizing the beauty in writing as it "add[s] to the great secretarial din" ("Royal Aristocrat" 26), and showing the transition of writing as an art form from handwritten work to typed pieces. This trio takes…

including Bacchus 's own specialty, wine: "dark thick ones like syrups of mulberry juice, and clear red ones like red jellies liquefied, and yellow wines and green wines and yellowy-green and greenish-yellow" (205). The actions of music and dance are metonymy for a life full of playful yet serious endeavors and pleasure is amongst the routine. In his satirical work The Screwtape Letters, Lewis has the demon Screwtape warn his nephew Wormwood: the enemy (God) is no…

Scene 2 line 1 of William Shakespeare's Richard the 3rd takes one through the thoughts of King Edward. In this passage, King Edward who was just informed that he was the one to pull the trigger on George’s head and how god would chastise him, was recently informed with the death of his brother, the duke of Clarence, George. Afterwards, Stanley makes a pitch to not slay a single servant, thus infuriating Edward. Suddenly Edward is referring to his past relationship with George, and the sacrifices…

For this assessment, I will study Sonnet 116 by William Shakespeare and Elizabeth Barrett’s poem: Sonnet 43. William Shakespeare was an English poet during the Elizabethan era and was regarded as one of the greatest English poet of all times. Shakespeare’s Sonnet 116 is one of his most famous, yet poignant sonnets that had been written. The main poem explores on the theme of love, religion nature; love being the central aspect, but the poet does not address the poem to any speaker, rather it…

V. SYMBOLISM Beloved is the most complex symbol within the novel, mainly representing past. She reminds Sethe, Denver, and Paul D of the forgotten for years. “[I]f you go there—you who was never there—if you go there and stand in the place where it was, it will happen again; it will be there, waiting for you . . . [E]ven though it’s all over—over and done with—it’s going to always be there waiting for you” (43-4). Beloved aroused the evident history needed to move forward, yet became a…

“Speak up for those who cannot speak for themselves, for the rights of all who are destitute. Speak up and judge fairly; defend the rights of the poor and needy” quotes Proverbs 31:8-9 (New International Version, Prov. 31:8-9). This maxim has been accomplished by people throughout all of history. One example of such a person is Anna Akhmatova, a 20th century Russian poet who lived through Joseph Stalin’s rule of the Soviet Union, a time period characterized by severe oppression and a persistent…

Fault of an Image: Agency and Inevitability in “The Second Coming” The anxieties regarding global chaos and the possibility of individual culpability that inundated popular thought in the aftermath of World War I informs William Butler Yeats’s poem, “The Second Coming.” At its core, the poem is an exploration of the equivocal boundaries between individual agency—and further, responsibility—and the inevitability of world events determined by an act of divine providence. Rather than embracing…