Synecdoche

The poem begins with a series of four sample stories about poor people hitting a stroke of luck, and striking rich. Whether it be, doing well in the market, finding love, winning the lottery, and claiming insurance. The story of Cinderella follows the Grimm’s’ version of the tale. After the death of her mother, Cinderella works as a housemaid to her evil stepmother and stepsisters. Her father spoils his stepdaughters with extravagant presents but only brings Cinderella a twig. She puts the tree…

Sylvia Plath’s “Morning Song” explores a mother’s complex emotions towards her newborn child after giving birth for the first time. Although motherhood is often regarded as a joyous event that gives a woman’s life purpose and meaning, “Morning Song” instead depicts motherhood as a complicated event fraught with uncertainty and fear, but also with love and affection. Rather than expressing overwhelming love and happiness, the mother in the poem feels distant from her child and gradually learns to…

In The Healers written by Ayi Kwei Armah, a fictional nineteenth century African world is corrupted by manipulation and deception. The Healers is based on deceit from the white settlers, whilst the “healers” are the inspiration to morally correct the entire community. The “healers” are seen as a potential threat to the power that the settlers have, which also leads to their ruination. Armah exploits the differences between the settlers and the African cultures. Due to Armah’s background of…

Introduction to “Yo no fui, fue Teté” “Yo no fui, fue Teté” is an attempt to invade the consciousness of those living on this side. The same people who everyday leave a wound in the mind and subconscious of many individuals socially “unfit” in the gender-binary. Thus, excluded from the social discourse as inorganic creatures that for the lack of a proper categorization are so-called “del otro lado.” That border, which divides, us, those of this side and those of the other side, is what the poet…

metaphor to signify his agony which makes him a ‘Metho Drinker.’ The metaphor ‘waterfall of ceaseless Time’ effectively highlights the never ending pain as time goes on and on just like a waterfall. The poem also utilises a type of metonymy called synecdoche in the line ‘the terrible night to be his home and bread’ where ‘home’ refers to shelter and ‘bread’ represents food. The…

In recent times, rapid economic development and technological innovation has impelled dominant global ways of thinking. The deterritorialising world breaks down spatial space and brings countries closer. Information exchange between countries becomes easier and national boundaries lose significance. Countries become increasingly integrated and interdependent and this leads individuals to move away from established cultural roots. The opportunities of the global world are enticing and can…

When people think of the Bible, they think of religion. People have to stop and think that the Bible is not only religion, but it’s also about literature. People question why to put literate styles because they think it will be easier to be straightforward with God’s message? The answer to that is that God used different people in different ways. The people God used wrote in the style they are known with as how the Holy Spirit encouraged them. There are so many types of literary means used by…

resulting from the negativity within ‘This Lime-Tree Bower My Prison’ results in a myriad of realisations for the persona. Within,“Tis well to be bereft of promis’d good, that we may life the soul, and contemplate with the lively joy of joys,” the synecdoche of soul with the…

Morenike Ibidapo Design by Robert Frost is a poem that seems to be describing a moment in time, when one is observing a spider on a heal-all, with a moth caught in the spider’s web. There is not much action in the poem, in fact, the only action taking place is the speaker looking at this scene in nature. It seems that through this observation, Frost is saying that some grand design may be responsible for creating this scene in nature. In this poem, Frost uses a series of metaphors and an…

The text is a letter written by Nicholas Cummins, a county magistrate from Cork, in the end of 1846, and addressed to Arthur Wellesley, Duke of Wellington. Cummins also sent the same letter to the London Times in a desperate attempt to call upon the sensitiveness of the readers in London, in order to fight against the public disbelief about the magnitude of Irish suffering, acting as an eyewitness of the horror lived by peasants, children and women, in the south west of Ireland, namely in…