“The Writer” by Richard Wilbur makes use of metaphors and poetic devices such as assonance to show the journey of a girl’s struggles to overcome the obstacles of adolescence and gain independence. This poem uses two metaphors to convey its message. The first metaphor is comparing the girl’s journey to a journey across the sea. The daughter is writing “in her room at the prow of the house”‚ so her house is like her ship (1). The typewriter keys sound “like a chain hauled over a gunwale”‚ a sound you
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Metaphors are another literary term used in the poem “Schizophrenia”. Stevens used metaphors in “Schizophrenia”‚ by comparing the house in the story to a mind that is completely destroyed by the mental illness. Towards the end of the poem the poet showed how the house had fallen apart and was completely abandoned. The poet used the quote‚ “Seeing cracking paint‚ broken windows‚ /the front door banging in the wind‚ /the roof tiles flying off‚ one by one‚ /the neighbors said it was a madhouse. / It
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eye looks out from an inch-wide hole stamped out of a piece of unusually corrugated cardboard on the cover of a book. The book is the special issue of the journal Film Culture published in 1963. It is we are looking at‚ and is looking at us. In Metaphors on Vision‚ Brakhage (1963) claims that there is an original perspective of an eye. From Brakhage’s perspective‚ it is his eye that peers through the hole. It is his eye we are invited to see through. For many of his audiences in the years since the
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_________ Poets try to use a concentrated blend of sound and imagery to create an emotional response and to try to get us‚ the reader‚ to sense a particular thing. In this poem “Ozymandias” by Shelley Percy Bysshe‚ there are different types of sound devices. The poet uses alliteration multiple times throughout the poem. “Cold command” and “boundless and bare” are examples of alliteration because the beginning letter of each word is the same. Alliteration helps the poet to make their meaning
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Telling the Truth Texts: Birthday Letters Ted Hughes Weapons of Mass Delusion Phillip Adams Breakfast of Champions Kurt Vonnegut How do your texts represent the idea of truth? Ted Hughes’ collection of intimate and deeply personal poetry‚ along with Kurt Vonnegut’s novel Breakfast of Champions and Phillip Adams’ controversial article Weapons of Mass Delusion all represent versions of the truth. In many ways‚ they represent truth as a kind of impossibility‚ as it is constantly
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answers about the nature of his world from the Tralfamadorians. Nonetheless‚ Vonnegut illustrates how although opposites‚ each part is connected to another‚ and without naivety there could be no ignorance‚ without violence there could be no paradise. Kurt Vonnegut also utilizes character archetypes to supplement the themes within “Slaughterhouse
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young age of eight. Her inspiring poems have awarded her with a Pulitzer Prize‚ which is a huge honor for any writer. “Metaphors”‚ which was written in 1959‚ is a poem with obvious‚ but hidden meaning. It is a very short poem‚ with only nine lines. She also uses only nine syllables in each line. A bunch of other subliminal messages can be found throughout this whole piece. The seemingly unrelated metaphors clearly describe her own pregnancy. Plath starts the poem off stating that she is “A riddle
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The Analysis of an Extract of “The Fisherman and His Soul” by Oscar Wilde “The Fisherman and His Soul” is a fairytale written by Oscar Wilde and published in 1888. Written in Biblical dictation it tells a story of a Fisherman who falls in love in a Mermaid‚ but he is given a choice: soul or his love. The Fisherman chooses the latter. As a proper fairytale‚ it joins two worlds together: real and fantasy world and conveys the massage of overpowering and ever-sacrificing love. Oscar Wilde shows
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A symbol is something that represents something else. In Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle‚ a reoccurring symbol is – unbelievably - the cat’s cradle‚ which is represented in three different ways. There’s the “literal cat’s cradle‚ which is where this symbol comes from‚ and there’s an image of the cradle. But the most interesting way the cat’s cradle is represented is when it’s used as a metaphor in different situations. The cats’ cradle is used as a symbol to signify the difference between the world
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original or beautiful in this poem which celebrates the breath-taking variety of nature in its many forms. 3)Continuum- - Explore the wasy Allen Curnow builds up the image of his depression‚ originated from a poetic block‚ in this poem. - Some poems tell a story. Show how you think Allen Curnow makes the story of his mental conflict (creative struggle) and gladual change of mood so compelling. - How does Allen Curnow powerfully convey the difficulties of writing a poem? 4)Horses - The main focus
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