Letter One Figurative Language

The meaning of a word or a phrase can be funnel in many ways throughout the author’s text. However, it can also be funnel through the same way, even though the authors may be completely different. In Letters to a Young Poet “Letter One” Franz Kappus a nineteen-year-old student, wrote a letter to Rainer Maria Rilke, in the pursuance of criticism, he strive for critique of his poem. However, Rilke refuses to criticize the young military born poet, but rather denounce Kappus inquiry for criticism in his poem. Likewise, in David Mitchell fictional excerpt solarium from “Black Swan Green”, Jason Taylor a thirteen-year-old boy from England, who’s profound affection toward the artistry of writing so much to the point where he himself publish his poem under a pseudonym name, Eliot Bolivar. Jason was invited to the vicarage, where
When writing to the Kappus, he stated that, even if his everyday life is not interesting or poor, he still has his “childhood, that jewel beyond all price, that treasure house of memories” (Page 2). Through the use of extended metaphor, the comparison between his childhood memories to a treasure chest filled with jewel, expresses to the young poet that his childhood memories is special and original, because of the fact that only he experienced through it. Furthermore it also reinforced the ideology that beauty come from everyday life. Rilke told Kappus to “write about what your everyday life offers you; describe your sorrows and desires” (Page 2) because beauty don’t just come from special moments in your life. The use of words sorrow and desires, effectively affirm the fact that, even through abominable time, it can still be translated into some form of beauty. He stated that “the thoughts that pass through your mind and your belief in some kind of beauty” (Page 2) expresses the idea that your everyday thinking is beauty, because it’s personal to