POEM COMMENTARY A POISON TREE BY WILLIAM BLAKE A Poison Tree is a poem written by William Blake which is themed around hate‚ anger and revenge. The poem is basically a metaphor or a piece of pathetic fallacy wherein the speaker has ascribed his feelings and state of mind to the form of a tree. William Blake wrote a series of poems called Song of Experiences‚ which were a collection of texts in which he shows the human spirit when it is confirmed to rules‚ resulting in strong emotions of anger
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through despair throughout the poem. The build up of emotion in the poem makes the reader more aware of the loss love and exaggerates the heart loss in ‘Mariana’s’ life. Tennyson uses a range of techniques to unfold the emotion in his writing; pathetic fallacy is unravelled through the poem‚ which helps the reader reflect on her despair. An example is ‘gnarled bark’ this gives the impression that the trees are crackled and broken; all the life has been taken away. Tennyson adds a sense of decay and
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How is the gothic illustrated in Frankenstein up to chapter 11? The gothic genre has many defining qualities and features‚ and as a gothic novel‚ Frankenstein (or the Modern Prometheus) exhibits some of these traits. However‚ due to the time period in which it was written by Mary Shelley there are also many features of Romanticism apparent in the novel‚ such as the emphasis on the beauty and restorative powers of nature in chapters 8 and 9. Therefore it is questionable which aspects of the Gothic
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between the witches and pathetic fallacy ‘’When shall we three meet again? In thunder‚ lightning or rain?’’- Similar to the ‘dreary night’ in Frankenstein where the ‘monstrous birth’ consists‚ pathetic fallacy is used to inflict a scare over the reader and foreshadows fear and pain- again‚ similar to Victor in ‘Frankenstein’‚ the witches seem to be comfortable around this type of weather which gives the effect of them holding an inhumanly pleasure concerned with pathetic fallacy- a tendency of the gothic
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Sympathy and fear are created in many ways in the novel ‘The Woman in Black’‚hill does this using many language devices such as first person narrative and pathetic fallacy. There are many examples of sympathy throughout the book for example we feel sympathy for Arthur when he says ’I could not after all retreat to Crythin Gifford’ as it suggest he is trapped in place he does not want to be feeling isolated‚lonely and being held against his will‚ almost as if he is in a nightmare and he can’t wake
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Weather: Unrecognized Representation of the Theme of Evil Shakespeare over the course of his plays has depicted weather as an important piece of element that strengthens his plays depth and understanding. Pathetic fallacy is used to portray some form of emotions or themes to the reader and it also serves as a symbol in some cases. The characters in the plays are supported by weather to an extent that gives the reader a sense of the current environment and setting of the play. In Macbeth‚ the weather
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Frankenstein’s creation/the monster should deserve more sympathy than the creator himself. In the fifth chapter of Frankenstein‚ the scenery is described as a “dark‚ dreary night in November.” –Shelley‚ P.34. As we all know‚ this is pathetic fallacy. Pathetic fallacy is “when the weather affects the current mode of the
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In Romeo and Juliet‚ Shakespeare uses many ways in which he builds tension in certain scenes. In Act 3 Scene 1‚ Shakespeare uses a whole variety of ways to show and build tension in the play and between the characters. The film director Baz Luhrmann also made an adaptation of the play as a film. In his film there are many different visual ways in which Luhrmann builds and creates tension. My first point is‚ right at the start of the scene‚ Mercutio keeps pushing for a fight. Benvolio on the other
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Flies What is being said about power and how is it being said? Power can change people in a way that is incomprehensible either for good or for evil. Power can make one so greedy that someone will do anything for it and won’t let anyone‚ or thing stand in their way. Macbeth by William Shakespeare portrays both the positive and negative uses on Power through the main characters. Macbeth’s greed of power allowed him to exercise abuse and ultimately he was corrupted and destroyed by power. Lady
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the story‚ has many connotations of mystery and of sinister feelings. The sunset is personified and is given the emotion of ‘angry’ adding to the negative feeling of the evening. This is also pathetic fallacy to use weather and surroundings to resemble feelings felt by the humans. Another use of patheic fallacy in this extract is ‘down in the deep trench’. Deep trenches naturally fills the reader with fear‚ giving implications of being trapped and caged in something you cannot escape‚ which gives us
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