Gavin Ross Pre-Entry Access Class – English Module Tutors – Aimee McNair and Kevin Wilson Q. In an essay of not more than 1‚500 words compare and contrast ONE PAIR of the two pairs of poems printed below. Your answer should exhibiy a clear understanding of each poem’s meaning and tone‚ and you should consider the effect and importance of formal features‚ such as rhyme scheme‚ sound patterning‚ word choice‚ figurative language and punctuation. Date handed in : 31st January 2011
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Acquainted with the Night Analysis “Acquainted with the Night” is written by Robert Frost. It is about a lonely man walking in the city. He writes in free verse with fourteen lines. Frost uses the devices metaphor‚ parallel-structure‚ and personification to convey the theme of the struggle of light v. darkness caused by depression. The poetic device of metaphor to describe the man’s connection to his depression. “I have been one acquainted with the night” (1‚14). By night‚ he means darkness and
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who is living her life through her career. Piercy also uses paradox‚ personification‚ and the pun to bring the character alive. With the use of metaphors‚ both implied and explicit‚ the reader can deeply empathize the central character of this poem. The tone is set from the first line of the poem. It is so vague as to use a simple simile‚ but a strong manifestation of the idea of the speaker is an actual personification of a material object. She does not say‚ “My hips are like a desk‚” but
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horrible as he puts it. The mood is set in this poem by some of the words like sorrow‚ dreaded‚ madness‚ and torture. These are used to show how it is like during and before the journey towards a meaning. The first literary device is the personification‚
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Chapter 20 Page 183-184 In the novel‚ Their Eyes Were Watching God‚ Zora Neale Hurston creates a sense of closer and fulfillment in this particular passage by employing both auditory and visual repetition/ imagery‚ comparisons with metaphors and personification to demonstrate that peace and amity are both obtainable through love even after going through the toughest of circumstances. Hurston’s method of utilizing repetition conveys her message about the end of Janie’s journey and the peace that Janie
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bells was constructed to be a cheerful and merry Christmas song. It’s fast paced and has many rhymes. The rhyming makes the fast pacing make the song more cheerful and overall a better song. Literary devices used to create this song included personification‚ repetition‚ and rhyme. Rhyme played a big part in this song. Again‚ Carol of the bells is fast paced and rhyming made the song sound better than non rhyming words would. An example of a rhyme is “All seem to say‚ throw cares away‚” (3‚4)
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Although both authors write about the Okefenokee Swamp‚ they seem to express different attitudes and ideas toward the Okefenokee through their use of imagery and other literary devices‚ such as personification and colloquialism. The author of the first passage seems to be writing in an almost lighthearted tone. The author’s use of literary devices‚ such as imagery‚ exhibits perfect examples of this tone‚ as well as establishes a seemingly positive view on the swamp. For instance‚ the author provides
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talks about how the dog crawled under the youngest child’s bed‚ indicating that the children not only loved the puppy but played with her. The narrator allows the dog to rest on his lap on the way to the vet. Even without naming the dog‚ the personification incarnates her and the pronoun “she” helps readers relate to the dog’s value to the family. The dog is a puppy‚ perhaps new to the family‚ who has not been named. Clues are given that the dog is a puppy in lines two and three of the first stanza
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figurative language like personification‚ metaphor‚ and simile makes the reader have a more vivid experience while reading the poem. In the poem Birches‚ the writer uses personification in the next sentence “they click upon themselves as the breeze rises” (line 7 and 8). Mr. Frost explains that when there is a strong breeze the birches click with each other and it moves them up and down and eventually for a moment they touch each other as if they were once one single birch. Personification is also used in
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uthor urges his friends to 1 sing more pleasant sounds‚ and uses it again in line four: “O joy” asking joy‚ as if it were a person‚ if they might praise her‚ employing personification. In the second stanza he keeps addressing joy‚ praising and adoring her using personification‚ imagery‚ simile as well as abstract and figurative language. He recognizes joy as a source of immortality and calls it “daughter of Elysium”‚ a place of perfect happiness of which Joy is the daughter
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