slaughter. This simile has a very deep and emotional meaning to several people because the Jews did not have an easy life during this period of time. They were forced onto trains‚ not knowing where they are going‚ or where they are at. Sometimes they would even be told that they’re going to a certain place‚ but will end up arriving to a death camp. Comparing Jews to sheep has a great deal of relevance because they were both beat‚ killed‚ and tortured. The slaughter in that rooted simile was referring
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The main interpretation of this poem is about a soldier fighting in a brutal war. This poem was written during the first world war in 1914. Frost describes a lone soldier who fell during battle. Frost also describes a soldier that is witnessing many harmful things that were going on during the war and causing this world’s destruction. Although‚ I believe there is also a hidden meaning. I believe that the poem symbolizes all the soldiers and people that were forgotten at war. All throughout our
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Look again at the poem First Frost. Write an essay analysing the poem in as much detail as possible. First Frost is a short‚ free verse poem about a young girl who has been hurt for the first time or ……has gone through her heartbreak/virginity/sexual assault... Throughout the poem Voznesenski tells us that there will be many more events during our lifetime. He uses language and figurative devices to evoke imagery‚ such as personification and metaphors. The poet carefully chose adjectives and
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the poet can smell violence in the air “like the lash of coming rain; and this feeling seems to the poet to be “poised like a cobra”. These are original similes; and these are followed by a series of metaphors based on serpent-behaviour. These are only a few of the examples. Actually Daruwalla’s poetry contains an abundance of similes and metaphors. Daruwalla finds that there is violence in the very air‚ and that this violence is an indication of the mass hatreds drifting across the moon and hovering
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A metaphor is a figure of speech that describes a subject by asserting that it is‚ on some point of comparison‚ the same as another otherwise unrelated object. Metaphor is a type of analogy and is closely related to other rhetorical figures of speech that achieve their effects via association‚ comparison or resemblance including allegory‚ hyperbole‚ and simile. In simpler terms‚ a metaphor compares two objects or things without using the words "like" or "as". One of the most prominent examples
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Robert Frost was one of the most popular and critically respected American poets of the 20th century. He was a modernist who was skilled at representing a wide range of human experiences in his poems. Three times Pulitzer prize winner and the Congressional Gold Medal recipient‚ Frost was appointed as Poet Laureate of Vermont in 1961. Readers are likely to interpret his poems in many different ways depending upon their emotional state. Among the three poems assigned for the reading‚ I was much impressed
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The Most Misread Poem in America Robert Frost’s well known poem “The Road Not Taken” has essentially “taken” over American literature and culture by storm. However‚ the poem seems to have been ripped to shreds as people tend to use fragments of it for their personal purposes. Its famous title and words can be found from the lyrics in various singers’ songs to authors’ books that have been ranked international best sellers using these words. This has caused the poem lose its true value and meaning
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In "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God‚" Jonothan Edwards makes use of similes‚ hyperboles‚ and repetition to strike fear into his audience in order to persuade them. By utilizing the sense of fear along with the rhetorical devices he manages to prove his point. By utilizing similes‚ Edwards makes a comparison to illustrate his point. An example would be when he states‚ "his wrath towards you burns like fire; he looks upon you as worthy of nothing else..." In the quote the comparison being
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J. R. R. Tolkien’s use of similes in "The Fellowship of the Ring‚" like most of his figurative language and imagery in the Ring trilogy‚ attach characters and events to the neighboring dwarf and elven lands‚ to nature. He‚ made what novel experts of Concordia University have called a Christian epic‚ locates spirituality not in a Christ-like figure‚ such as C.S. Lewis’ Aslan‚ but in recurrent relation to innate vigor. His nature similes ground Middle Earth folk in spiritual life. The way he chooses
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Frost and Nature Robert Frost’s use of nature on its own of the most misinterpreted element of his poetry. Frost regularly stated‚ “I am not a nature poet. There is almost always a person in my poems.” In the majority of Frost’s poems he uses nature imagery. His grasp and understanding of natural fact is well documented throughout his poems. But Frost is not trying to tell us how nature works. His poems are about the human mind. His attitude is impassive‚ honest and accepting. In Frost’s
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