metaphysical journey‚ to a physical journey into the Canadian landscape. Atwood uses the simile “The hills…welded together move to let me through” This informs us that she believes people have to experience the depths of your mind before they can truly experience reality. The comparison between the Canadian landscape and her mind is continued when she describes the hills “become endless as prairies” With this simile she is describing her mind as never ending and bare‚ it is a place in which you could
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“Discuss how composers have created distinctively visual texts to explore a particular point of view” There are a variety of different techniques used in the play “The Shoe Horn Sonata” that enable the text to be distinctively visual in conveying a point of view. Dramatic effects such as music‚ dialogue and flashbacks create the perspective of two women looking back on their memories and experiences of World War 2. Similarly‚ Kenneth Slessor uses distinctively visual elements to aid the description
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bigger. At the beginning of stanza 1 Larkin decides to use techniques to create curiosity in the reader about the everyday scene which is explained in more detail later on in the poem: “Closed like confessionals‚ they thread” Here Larkin uses a simile to show how the A mbulance is perceived from the inside out. A ‘confessional’ is a small room in a church where someone would go to confess their sins and be closer to g od. This reference to the ambulance being like a confessional gives the idea
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the horrific sights before their eyes and those of the reader. The simile ‘like old beggars under sacks’ found in the beginning of the poem not only evokes the difficulty of the soldier’s movements through the sludge but also shows how degrading war can be. The use of multiple similes such as ‘like hags’ arouses the responders pity for the men and gives the reader a sense of the soldiers weariness and numbness. Graphic similes are used extensively and metaphors such as ‘drunk with fatigue’ enhance
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Dymond the writer uses a range of different languages. For example‚ similes are used a lot‚ like in stanza fourteen there are two similes‚ they are; her skin was soft as sable‚ and her eyes were wide as day. Whereas in John Lomas‚ there is only one simile in the whole ballad‚ that simile is; my conscience did like fuel burn. That simile is in stanza nine. In comparison Charlotte Dymond has four similes and John Lomas has one. Similes are when you say something is like another thing or when someone says
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Compare the ways in which James Joyce and Sylvia Plath portray intense experience and emotional states in their writing Both writers portray intense experience and emotional state in their writing; this creates engaging emotive texts which creates imagery in the reader’s minds. James Joyce uses more subtle ways than Plath of creating intricate imagery and emotions for the reader through long descriptive writing in ‘Eveline’‚ a short story where a young woman is planning to run away from her violent
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Wilfred Owen (Essay) By Catherine Pineda Wilfred Owen‚ the famous poet was born in 1893 - 1918. He was twenty five years old when he was killed in action on the fourth of November‚ 1918. Owen’s poetry was known and admired in Great Britain from the 1920’s when his friend Mr. Sassoon first editted his poems. However‚ some of Owen’s poems has not yet been published. Wilfred Owen learned to write poems in his room as he was wearing a pair of gloves and a coat to prepare himself when he is in the
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Great Gatsby chapter 3 analysis Austin‚Connor‚Uday‚Andre‚Josh Chapter Summary Nick Carraway- Narrator describes Gatsby’s parties (who goes‚ what kind of people are there‚ what food and drinks are served‚ what music is played etc.) Nick gets “actually” invited to Gatsby’s party. He explains that people who are not invited‚ end up showing up anyways Nick arrives at the party and he describes the things he sees. Nick meets Jordan Baker at the party and meet new people (rumours of Gatsby begin)
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played as a yo-yo in return.” Demonstrating how men meddle with women’s feelings. All women want is to be treated the same way they treat others‚ instead men take advantage of what they have to offer leaving them feeling neglected and empty. Utilising similes and imagery such as‚
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How do Maya Angelou and Grace Nichols communicate what it means to be a black woman in today’s society? In this essay I will compare two poems. The two poems I will compare is Maya Angelou’s ‘Still I rise’ to Grace Nichols’ ‘Of course when they ask for poems about the ‘realities’ of Black women’. I think Maya Angelou’s ‘Still in rise’ has a rather different message to Grace Nichols’ poem. I think they are interesting to compare because Maya Angelo is lively and spirited about writing a poem about
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