disdain for the doll is made evident through the drastic changes in tone throughout the piece‚ and the speaker’s use of sentences with many clauses to draw attention to key points. The tone of the piece‚ revealed through the connotations of abstract diction‚ mirrors the speaker’s thoughts towards the doll. The tone of the piece starts pleasant‚ containing words with positive connotations such as “special” and “loving”. This is immediately contrasted with the negative words “revolting” and “frightened”
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struggle with in poetry is diction because it very difficult for me find the right words to use when I’m trying to expression something to the readers. So‚ when I’m writing poetry I’m always using a thesaurus to help me. It’s interesting that most poets fail to use the correct diction to express something or someone that might confuse the reader. Learning how to effectively use syntax is key when you are putting together words in a sentence because in order for the poem to be effective they must fit
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desires and express the potential they have hidden deep inside of them. Whether one uses these words to discriminate and disparage a certain race‚ or instead take the same words to heal‚ save‚ and to fight against justice‚ it all relies on the specific diction used. In many ways‚ the Holocaust was a war fought with words. It relied on mass communication to convey it’s message of hate and to mobilize a nation in it’s service. For example‚ Hitler did indeed understand "the true power of words‚" he knew exactly
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mechanisms to amplify her poetry‚ such as the use of slant rhyme and non-traditional forms like the “fourteener” (Gubele). At a glance her poetry may appear to be very simplistic but the substance would uncover the intricacy of its meaning. Dickinson’s poem "I felt a Funeral in my Brain"‚ is an excellent example of the simplistic style that depicts her feelings of overwhelming madness that she was falling into. To capture this she uses many different elements
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children to this incident by providing a more intimate and vicarious perspective. Imagery and diction were two essential elements that allowed the poet to achieve this purpose. These elements enabled the readers to gain a unique understanding that may not have been accessible prior to reading this poem. The quote “white gloves on her small brown hands” epitomizes the use of effective imagery in this particular poem. White is a color frequently utilized in literature to signify purity and innocence. This
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animals to extinction for their benefits. There have been a lot of calls for respecting and protecting nature. The poems “The Author of American Ornithology Sketches a Bird‚ Now Extinct” by David Wagoner and “Moss Gathering”‚ by Theodore Roethke in A Book of Luminous Thing‚ do a good job representing this in their poems. They are similar in the way that they involve both human and
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never forgot this experience. His work was strongly influenced by a poet Siegfried Sassoon. War had got a lot of effects on the people who got in it. Disability was one of them‚ and so was death of course. These were used as themes for many of the poems he had produced. ‘Miners’ and ‘Disabled’ were both written during the period of WW1. They share the reality of war and the effects of it on humans‚ both psychological and physical. ‘Miners’ is Owen’s respond on a colliery disaster‚ which caused a
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disregarding the distinct different elements‚ both works are descriptive in their use of diction. Elevated and sophisticated‚ passage one utilizes works such as “piously‚” and‚ “dubiously‚” to enhance the quality of writing. In comparison‚ passage two incorporates a variety of scientific terms‚ such as physiological and specimen in order to legitimize the scientific themes found in Frankenstein. Regarding diction‚ descriptive words in passage one provided the reader with an image. With sentences such
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is often said that conflict of some kind is at the heart of every narrative‚ and behind and within the poems in Birthday Letters Ted Hughes grapples with a range of conflicting perspectives‚ some of them internal‚ on the tragic outcome of his marriage to the poet Sylvia Plath. There are certainly conflicting perspectives on situations‚ events and characters in these poems. Referring to two poems‚ “Fulbright Scholars” and “Your Paris”‚ we will find how Hughes has created those perspectives. The movie
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The poem ‘Valentine’ by Carol Ann Duffy portrays a realistic and honest view on love. Duffy has a unique perspective of love contrasting to the stereotypical way love is often thought about. She compares love to an onion‚ which is odd because an onion is neither visually appealing nor valued but Duffy’s insight on love and unconventional way of perceiving love is what makes the poem Valentine interesting. She presents her ideas by using a range of different poetic devices such as‚ choosing a distinct
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