Nursery rhyme

Bill Bryson, author of Neither Here nor There: Travels in Europe, accounts his arrival in Europe for the first time. Bryson’s accounts explains his enthusiasm at his entry into the continent to his audience, the readers. In order to capture his excitement into his writing, Bryson used some syntax, repetition, and epithet, which in turn deliver his excitement to us through his work. One of the rhetorical devices that Bryson uses to successfully express his experience in Europe is syntax. Syntax…

Elizabeth Gilbert states, “Depression on my left, and loneliness on my right. They don’t need to show me their badges. I know these guys very well.” Similarly, in Robert Frost’s poem “Acquainted with the Night,” he uses effective figurative language such as repetition, metaphor, and personification to underscore the constant loneliness and depressed feelings of the speaker. One way the constant loneliness and depressed feelings of the speaker is conveyed through repetition. This is evident…

Edward Estlin Cummings: The Master of Art Genealogy and geography, along with numerous other circumstances molded Edward Estlin Cummings into an innovative poet and painter of the modernism movement. The inescapable presence of Harvard, and the desire to live up to his father's legacy as a Unitarian minister, Harvard Graduate , and Professor, played a major role in Cummings’ rebellious attitude towards his father’s traditional world. Cumming’s desire to find his own voice and reject societal…

Both poems refer to Breughel’s, a Dutch painter’s piece of art, the Landscape with the Fall of Icarus. William’s choice of title is the same as the painting’s while W. H. Auden names the museum. The painting – and thus the poems – illustrates the famous ancient Greek legend about Icarus and his father, Daedalus. According to the myth Icarus did not pay attention to Daedalus’s warn, flew to high and the sunbeam melted his wax wings. Icarus fell into the sea and drowned. This is the moment which…

I never saw, but I know… “I never saw a Moor-”A moor, an unseen object to man, but one the poet Emily Dickinson chooses to title her poem. What is this unseen object called a moor? Webster’s Dictionary describes a moor as “A tract of open, peaty, wasteland, often overgrown with heath, common in high latitudes and altitudes where drainage is poor; heath.” There are many terms that Dickinson uses within this poem that maybe unknown and uncertain to some, but they hold a deeper meaning within the…

figures I believe this poem is more positive than it initially seems. I choose to look at the poem base on the relationship. This poem is about a loving father spending time with his son. The poem is written in iambic meter and uses slant rhymes and exact rhyme. The poem also mimics a waltz, which is a dance that is measured in triple time. This causes it to read in a certain manner. The diction in this poem plays to the reader 's mind and sense of rhythm. Imagery and symbolism are used…

“The Rose that Grew from Concrete,” is written by Tupac Amaru Shakur. The poem is short, and is an autobiographical dramatic monologue in which the speaker addresses aspects of the poet’s life. The idea that the poem is a dramatic monologue is demonstrated by the one sided question the speaker asks the reader: “Did you hear about the rose that grew from a crack in the concrete?” The poem is dramatic as it is spoken in a moment of deep emotion, as the speaker passionately discusses the subject,…

believes the angels sent down a wind to cause Annabel to fall ill and die. The last half of the poem describes the endurance of their love. What makes this poem so compelling is Edgar’s marvelous use of imagery and symbolism, rhythm, repetition, and rhyme. Annabel Lee features incredibly rich imagery and symbolism throughout the poem. The imagery, with the assistance of the rhythm, causes the poem to come alive. While the words Poe…

In lines 299-304 Virgil comments on the time of year where the farmers are finally able to enjoy the rewards of their hard work. Virgil uses personification when he refers to winter since it is winter that brings times of restfulness and idleness, unties cares from the farmers, and invites festivities to the otherwise dull agricultural life. This personification it is obviously seen since hiems is in the nominative case in lines 299 and 302 and it is the main subject throughout these lines. It…

the top wasn't similar. Above the ocean the waves are “fury” and chaotic. In the second stanza it had stated “ calmly the wearied seamen rest, beneath their own blue sea” but the last two lines the blue waves turned into “dark blue waves.” There was rhyme when he repeats “ the earth” Hawthorne uses the figure of speech when he repeats “beneath.” Also accounted repetition when talking about the waves, and ocean, because the poet wanted to identify the importance of their part throughout the…