Q. Critical Appreciation of Shelley’s Ode to the West Wind. / Bring out the revolutionary zeal of Shelley in the poem Ode to the West Wind. / Critically analyse Shelley’s use of imagery in the poem Ode to the West Wind. A. Ode to the West Wind‚ the single most renowned and anthologized of Shelley’s poem‚ presents him as the visionary idealist and romantic revolutionary who makes a fervent plea to the greatest of natural forces – the west wind – to disseminate his message of reform and change among
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Keats was inspired to write “Ode to Autumn” after walking through the water meadows of Winchester‚ England‚ in an early autumn evening of 1819. The poem has three stanzas of eleven lines describing the taste‚ sights and sounds of autumn. Much of the third stanza‚ however‚ is dedicated to diction‚ symbolism‚ and literary devices with decisively negative connotations‚ as it describes the end of the day and the end of autumn. The author makes an intense description of autumn at least at first sight
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ISSN 1799-2591 Theory and Practice in Language Studies‚ Vol. 4‚ No. 8‚ pp. 1730-1734‚ August 2014 © 2014 ACADEMY PUBLISHER Manufactured in Finland. doi:10.4304/tpls.4.8.1730-1734 Dialogical Odes by John Keats: Mythologically Revisited Somayyeh Hashemi Department of English‚ Tabriz Branch‚ Islamic Azad University‚ Tabriz‚ Iran Bahram Kazemian Department of English‚ Tabriz Branch‚ Islamic Azad University‚ Tabriz‚ Iran Abstract—This paper‚ using Mikhail Bakhtin’s theory of dialogism tries
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Figurative Language in a Poem “All late readers know this sinking feeling of sinking of falling/ into the liquid feeling of falling asleep then rising again”(13-14). Late readers know how it feels when falling asleep‚ the pull of sleep‚ and the want to keep reading pulling you out. Sleep acts as liquid because you can sink down into sleep or rise up and out‚ as if in the water. In Billy Collins’s poem “Reading Myself to Sleep” He explains how on one dark night‚ with only a lamp for reading‚ he lies
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speaker explains to the reader the importance of language and creating meaning through association. Through the use of figurative language such as metaphors and similes‚ repetition‚ and the presence of boundaries‚ the speaker presents the idea that the world may be perceived as wide and complicated‚ but the use of language and association can create new meaning in one’s life. The are two instances in the poem in which figurative language is used. The first instance is found in the fourth stanza
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Frances Ellen Watkins Harper describes the setting in detail of the process of the slave trade. Harper illustrates‚ the separation of children and parents being pulled apart and are being sold to separate families as objects. He also uses figurative language through his choice of words to give an emotional response to the reader. In the beginning half of the poem‚ Harper uses specific and meaningful words in order to capture the reader’s attention. For instance in line 2‚ “wretchedness” and in line
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In a typical and ideal parent child relationship‚ the parent loves their child. Sappho’s poem “Sleep‚ Darling” portrays through allusion and figurative language that the speakers daughter is very precious to them. The speaker has “a small/ daughter” (1‚2) named “Kleis” (3). In Greek‚ this name means ’a key’. Keys often symbolize release or the opening of things hence freedom. Thus this line entails that the speaker feels liberated from the rest of the world through their daughter. This is
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With "Ode to a Nightingale‚" the speaker in the poem begins with an in-depth exploration of the mortality of human life. In this ode‚ the briefness of life and the tragedy of old age is set against the eternal continuation of the smooth music of the nightingale. Hearing the song of the bird‚ the speaker longs to run away from his usual life in the human world and join the magical nightingale. His first thought is to reach the bird’s state through alcohol consumption‚ but as the poem goes on he
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on the moth and watches as the moths go through its course of life of struggling to get through the windowpanes‚ and eventually reaches death. The figurative language and syntax in the essay efficiently conveys the matters of life and death and what it means to be nothing but life. In the short essay‚ figurative language‚ specifically metaphor‚ is used effectively to connect life and death. Woolf witnessed the comparison and connection of life and death as she saw the moth struggling for its life
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The figurative language used gave out a very negative and abusive vibe in the song “Love the Way You Lie” by Eminem. To start right at the beginning‚ Rihanna sings‚ "Just gonna stand there and watch me burn‚” as an opener. Now we know that she is not actually on fire‚ making this a metaphor. This first line is immediately putting out there that she feels terrible‚ hence fire equals bad‚ and she knows that this other person is just standing there and letting it happen. If she was actually on fire
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