When read top to bottom‚ Mina Loy’s poem "Lunar Baedeker" may sound like a story of drugs‚ sex‚ and desperation. In reality‚ it is an encrypted biography of part of Loy’s life‚ as well as symbolic of the cycles of life. Let’s start with the title‚ shall we? "Lunar Baedeker‚" the word ’lunar’ means moon. It can also mean relating to the moon‚ but more importantly it can mean measured by the moon’s cycles. What in the world is a "Baedeker" though? Baedeker is actually one Karl Baedeker‚ a German who
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Oxymoron: The labeling of their camping place as ‘Hell’ is like an oxymoron in the sense that Hell is a desolate‚ rugged‚ destructive place. But the locally dubbed ‘Hell’ is the complete opposite being a thriving‚ natural and peaceful environment. This is discovered by the group when they
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List of Figures Of Speech Personification Personification is all about adding a human trait to an inanimate object or an abstraction. For example: The picture in that magazine shouted for attention. Simile A simile is a figure of speech that compares two unrelated things or ideas using "like" or "as" to accentuate a certain feature of an object by comparing it to a dissimilar object that is a typical example of that particular trait. For example: as big as a bus‚ as clear as a bell‚ as dry as
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The Serf – Roy Cambell His naked skin clothed in the torrid mist That puffs in smoke around the patient hooves‚ The ploughman drives‚ a slow somnambulist‚ And through the green his crimson furrow grooves His heart‚ more deeply than he wounds the plain‚ Long by the rasping share of insult torn‚ Red clod‚ to which the war-cry once was rain And tribal spears the fatal sheaves of corn‚ Lies fallow now. But as the turf divides I see in the slow progress of his strides Over the toppled clods
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poet has conveyed a striking opening to the poem: “Beloved sweetheart bastard. Not a day since then I haven’t wished him dead” The poet has explored a metaphorical setting to an expose juxtaposed theme of love and hate by the use of oxymoron which illustrates that Havisham has deep feelings for her lover but extreme dislikes him now. Symbolic imagery is expressed by word choice which describes Havisham’s mood is to be harsh and cynical‚ this connotes a distressed angry character which
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Dickinson uses symbols‚ imagery‚ similes and themes to show what it can be like when someone is dying. When you first read the title u probably think that the poem will be about the fly and her dying but as a matter of fact the poem’s title is an oxymoron. The oxymoronic “I heard a fly buzz when I died” is in the sense a death poem about life. When hearing a poet write about their death we usually thinks it’s about to happen or it’s happening but not that it has already happened. Emily Dickinson
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Wilfred Owen’s poem “Dulce Decorum Est” is a bleak poem designed to shock the reader by using provocative and interesting word choices to condemn and contradict the government and its supporter’s war propaganda. Particularly the quote “obscene as cancer” includes and interesting word choice. The impact of the word “obscene” is the reader thinks of something completely repulsive and disgusting. This would imply that Wilfred Owen finds cancer disgusting and derogatory. Owen is comparing the effects
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MUSIC FROM 0s TO 1s For those of you who still don’t know what an oxymoron is‚ here’s a classic example of one: virtual reality — two polar opposites that‚ when put together in a term‚ suddenly make a lot of sense.It was only a few years ago that ‘virtual reality’ brought to mind video games played with a helmet‚ sending the player into a different dimension with different rules. Now‚ though‚ there are virtual pets‚ virtual girlfriends‚ even virtual bands. Speaking of the latter‚ while you’re
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of the rhyming couplet here with “content” and “banishment” accentuates the words that have juxtaposing ideas. Individuals are not meant to be content when being banished from their community. This idea is reinforced by syntactically exercising an oxymoron‚ partnering closely the words “liberty” and “banishment” within the rhyme. Celia’s loyal personality is established by choosing to leave the negative‚ heartless aura of the court for something better with Rosalind‚ further demonstrating how not belonging
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’round‚ cursèd cold‚ foul or fair‚ half hid‚ and brawn and brains” (Service). The cold of the Arctic is a major theme and Service uses an assortment of other literary devices to convey his message (Team‚ Shmoop Editorial). He sets the tone with the oxymoron at the end of the first stanza; “midnight sun” (Service) where midnight speaks to cold and sun to warmth. Then again in the first quatrain he uses a metaphor to tell of how ones “blood runs cold” (Service) in the Arctic. Service employs juxtaposition
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