fireflies lit up the world as I fell asleep.” The song is suggesting that the persona encounters some creatures in his sleep. It doesn’t stop with these fireflies. As the song goes along‚ the persona encounters more imaginative creatures in the lines “Cause I get a thousand hugs from ten thousand lightning bugs as they try to teach me how to dance.” Not only do these creatures appear but they also teach the persona how to dance. Although this can be an indication of personification‚ it may appear
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give the notion of belonging such impact include metaphor‚ simile‚ personification and filmic devices. Dickinson’s ‘I died for beauty but was scarce’ epitomises the view that as humans we all belong to the circle of life. The poem features two personas: one having ‘died’ for ‘beauty’ and the other ‘for truth’. They are instantly affiliated with each other as they both died of noble causes and due to the close proximity of their ‘adjoining rooms’. They form a sense of ‘kinship’ and converse until
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doing normal things that may be better or can just add some spice and additional interest. "Festival"‚ however‚ is written from a first person view‚ as seen from the use of ’I’ and ’We’ in the poem. It is also very much like a personal recount‚ the persona relates his own experiences and feelings during a Chinese festival‚ probably the New Year‚ for lion dancers and spring couplets [used as good luck charms to usher in a good year ahead (only used by the Chinese)] are mentioned. The focus of the poem
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works that portrayed the Australian landscape‚ culture and history. Thus providing a representation of the Australian Identity. The Wonga Vine’ is a poem‚ which has a central focus on the landscape and conversation of the environment. The persona captures the more rural landscapes of Australia‚ such as that desert‚ hot dry weather and creeks.
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Feliks Skrzynecki‚ composed by Peter Skrzynecki‚ is an affectionate‚ yet puzzled poem of the persona’s father‚ as seen through the eyes of the composer. The first stanza beings with the line‚ ‘My gentle father’ showing the reader that not only does this show some sort of affection and admiration the composer had for his father‚ but also some detachment. In the verse‚ it states the father’s devotion to his tasks stems from his sense of belonging to his garden; ‘Loved his garden like an only child’
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“Once upon a time” by Gabriel Okara this poem is about a parent is talking to his/her son and telling him how things used to be. The parent tells the son that people used to be sincere‚ but are now superficial and seek only to take from others. The persona tells the child that he/she has learnt to be just like these people‚ but does not want to be like that anymore. The parent wants to be as sincere as the son. “The people’s eyes are as cold as ice”. This means that there is no warmth or real
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for it sounds like a piece of academic research Larkin uses first person persona to give expression to things he would prefer not to have attributed to himself. The structure of the poem divided into three stanzas; school years‚ adolescent years and the present. The tone is sarcastic and colloquial‚ that along with the shorter lines‚ creates a less serious poem from Larkin. In the first part of his journey‚ the persona is imaginative and loves to read‚ so much so that is it ‘ruining [his] eyes’
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and thinks; ’he seemed quite satisfied’ ’he looked uncertain where to go’. These illustrate that the cockroach begins to feel distracted and confused suggesting that the persona involves his thoughts to it. Therefore this‚ in turn‚ involves the readers in the poem furthermore. The cockroach is an extended metaphor of the persona and human being. The cockroach moves through ’a path between the wainscot and the
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the voice of the persona‚ is one of disgust that society thinks and behaves in this way‚ and points out the fact that change is required and that until it is made‚ life cannot go on. The structure is rather incoherent‚ as refected by the different lines of thought expressed in each line‚ and creates a mood which is tense and rather awkward for both the Whites and Blacks‚ representing the fact that given the situation‚ they are unable to think properly and rationally. The persona makes clear the fact
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The Woman Speaks to the Man Who Has Employed Her Son Summary: The persona in this poem is telling the story of a mother who loved her son. The mother became aware of the child’s presence when she experienced morning sickness. She placed all her hopes in the child and raised him as a single parent because his father was indifferent to the child’s existence. The mother had set no barriers on what the child could become‚ but he grows up to work for some criminal who drags him into a war and gives him
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