Girl Before a Mirror shows Picasso’s young mistress Marie-Thérèse Walter‚ one of his favorite subjects in the early 1930s. Her white-haloed profile‚ rendered in a smooth lavender pink‚ appears serene. But it merges with a more roughly painted‚ frontal view of her face—a crescent‚ like the moon‚ yet intensely yellow‚ like the sun‚ and "made up" with a gilding of rouge‚ lipstick‚ and green eye-shadow. Perhaps the painting suggests both Walter’s day-self and her night-self‚ both her tranquillity and
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the poem "Mirror"‚ Sylvia Plath employs many different poetic devices to develop her message that people need the truth although it may be hurtful. Plath uses a mirror and then a lake as a metaphor for the truth. She also makes the mirror come alive with personification‚ simile and metonymy. These other devices are important to the poem and the scene it creates‚ but the mirror being a metaphor for truth is the most important. The poem is basically about a woman looking into a mirror. As she ages
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which the values of slavery‚ racism‚ oppression were ingrained in southern culture. Twain uses a mixture of biblical allusions and nature-based symbols to emphasize his distaste and disgust with situation of the South of the time. When Twain alludes to the creation story in the Bible‚ he is placing Jim‚ a runaway slave‚ and Huck‚ a white southern boy‚ as equals. To compliment his allusion‚ Twain invokes the river as a symbol of constant magnetism toward the inescapable culture that embraces the very
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Robert Frost makes an allusion to an accident that happened in Vermont back in 1916. He chooses to make an allusion back to Shakespeare’s Macbeth. The allusion refers to the queen’s life quickly ending after her chop to her head. She quickly bleeds to death. In "Out‚ Out‚" the boy carelessly drops the buzz saw after being distracted by a time of fulfillment known better as supper. Soon realizing the carelessness of his mistake‚ pleads to his sibling to not allow the doctor to amputate his appendage
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Mystical Insights to “The Second Coming” In “The Second Coming‚” William Butler Yeats brings forth menacing allusions while using supernatural events to apply his cultural roots with religious and historical reverberation. Yeats relates the binaries of birth verses death to demonstrate the cycles of time which humanity passes through during the stages of life with prophetic visions he has seen. With the benefit of imagery and symbolism‚ Yeats creates compelling‚ mystical insights of juxtaposition
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THE MIRROR OF ART: REFLECTIONS ON TRANSFERENCE AND THE GAZE OF THE PICTURE Joy Schaverien The images in this paper are strictly for educational use and are protected by United States copyright laws. Unauthorized use will result in criminal and civil penalties. 1 Cognition‚ language‚ myth and art: none of them is a mere mirror simply reflecting images of inward or outward data; they are not indifferent media‚ but rather true sources of light‚ the prerequisite of vision‚ and the well-springs
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Through allusions Bradbury creates a world in which book burning has become a centerpiece in the 24th century society. Allusions can bring the past to the present with the power to change societal views: “noting specifically the literary and Biblical allusions‚ we see a deeper message in the novel than simply the warning that our society is headed for intellectual stagnation. The literary are used to underscore the emptiness of the twenty-fourth century‚ and the Biblical Allusions point subtly
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EAST OF EDEN In the book‚ East of Eden‚ by John Steinbeck has many allusions to the bible throughout the story. There are Charles and Adam‚ Aron and Cal‚ who relate closely to the bible characters Cain and Abel. Steinbeck has many allusions to the story‚ but he also strays away from the bible story. In the book‚ Charles becomes jealous of Adam because their dad favored Adam the most. Mr. Trask liked Adam gift that was a puppy over Charles gift‚ an expensive knife. John Steinbeck is following
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Samuel Johnson Allusion: “Knowledge is more than equivalent to force.” –Dr. Johnson This allusion was used to show that Montag faces an organization/government that does its best to limit knowledge. If knowledge is limited‚ then force becomes the more powerful of these. The allusion also shows that Montag is weak and will remain that way if he doesn’t try to accomplish getting more knowledge. Samuel Johnson is perhaps the most quoted of English writers‚ after William Shakespeare. Johnson was
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foreshadowing to similes and metaphors I have unlocked a deeper appreciation for the literature I read. The two examples I would like to dive into are allusions and irony. An allusion is‚ as stated in the webster dictionary; an implied or indirect reference. The use of allusions in literature add a whole new layer to the story‚ character‚ etc. Allusions are meant to bring up memories in your mind‚ and then have you connect
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