invented. To express themselves better the poet can use figurative language to improve how the poem effects the reader. By using figurative language‚ the poet can further extend his or her emotions and feelings to the reader. By extending the poet’s emotion‚ a poem can reach the heart of the reader and give him or her a closer tie to the subject matter that the poet is trying to discuss. A. E. Housman’s “To an Athlete Dying Young” uses figurative language to further convey the poems theme of the death of
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“waltzing” in their kitchen with their mother watching. Roethke does use a few words such as clinging and romped that could indicate a playful dance and a child clinging to their loving father not wanting to go to bed; however‚ there is more predominant language that shows an abusive father. The author first indicates that the whiskey on the father’s breath could make the son dizzy. This shows that the father has been drinking a large amount
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Mary Lascelles‚ a famous literary scholar once said “I suspect that Jane Austen’s practice of denying the aid of figurative language which‚ as much as any other habits of expression‚ repelled Charlotte Brontë‚ and has alienated other readers‚ conscious with a dissatisfaction with her style that they have not cared to analyze.” Therefore‚ when an author doesn’t use figurative language‚ they can alienate their readers and not describe characters‚ moods‚ or other objects nearly as well. This would lead
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occur during battle. It concludes with informing the reader that war is not as glorious as ancestors or propaganda make it out to be‚ instead it is horrid and brutal. Owen uses figurative language‚ imagery‚ and rhyme to help the reader experience the pain and suffering he endures during combat. Owens uses figurative language‚ like similes and hyperboles‚ to make his hardships as a soldier understandable to his readers.
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In the poem The Raven by Edgar Allan Poe‚ he uses many different types of figurative language and spiritual references to tell a grieving story of a depressed man. Poe also has had many struggles including losing the love of his life to an illness. There are many references to the narrator’s grief throughout The Raven. The seventh stanza references the Bible‚ showing there is hope in a time of darkness. In the seventh stanza‚ Poe demonstrates allusion‚ alliteration‚ and personification. “...Raven
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That isn’t really figurative because that is saying exactly what it means. Figurative language is something that doesn’t mean what it says. The phrase above means exactly what it says. In “Fame is a fickle food” the closest thing to figurative language is rhyming and that isn’t figurative language. These poems are a great example of how you don’t have to have figurative language for it to be a poem. Lastly‚ they are different because in “ Fame
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Bernard Shaw uses figurative language to describe what he saw and what he learned during the cremation of his mother. Shaw uses ironic tones of humor and beauty to describe the cremation. Shaw describes the cremation by stating: “The feet burst miraculously into streaming ribbons of garnet coloured lovely flame‚ smokeless and eager like pentecostal tongues‚ and as the whole coffin passed in‚ it sprang into flame all over; and my mother became that beautiful….” Shaw’s figurative language of metaphor and
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Still‚ it is true Paul advocates for mimesis. However‚ what true imitation looks like for him is not one which leads to glorification of social order‚ but the opposite. It is this opposite‚ counter-cultural view of the cross that Paul has been articulating in all of chapter 4‚ and in 1 Corinthians 1-4 entirely. As problematic as 4:14-21 can seem‚ when this pericope is kept in view of the chapter as a whole a different interpretation Paul’s aim emerges. Still‚ Paul’s command to “imitate me” can seem
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Figurative language allows readers to better understand the message that the author is trying to say. Personification allows writers to easily reveal what they are trying to say when descriptions fail them. By including personification‚ the author can clearly communicate how he felt at a specific time. As a reader‚ personification allows us to easier relate to the idea or feeling the author is conveying. Wiesel uses personification on page thirty nine‚ when he says “Remorse began to gnaw at me.”
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In “I never had it made‚ most of the figurative language used was metaphors‚ for example‚ “eye of a hurricane” means the middle of a hurricanes where the wind isn’t as strong. Jackie really means he was safe for a little bit in the middle of the baseball season. Another example of figurative language is in paragraph 4‚ where Jackie says in the text “money is America’s God” he means that money is as important to Branch
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