dreams are as important as lives. The poem shows a theme of reflection of one’s life. To hold onto your dreams as if they were your last drop of hope. Without dreams‚ one’s life would seem empty and dull. Hughes uses a mixture of metaphors and personification throughout his poem. Hughes uses metaphors to show how useless life would be without dreams: “Life is a broken-winged bird” (Hughes 3)A bird with broken wings cannot fly anymore‚ a man without dreams cannot live their life to the fullest. The
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The Lemon Tree provides viewers with an excellent portrayal of life’s struggles as a Palestinian woman being oppressed due to an ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict. The main character‚ Salma Zidane struggles from tough economic hardships ever since she has become widowed for ten years and her two daughters are married and her son moved to the United States. While she is alone Salma earns her only small form of salary from a lemon grove that her family has occupied for fifty years. However‚ one
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Euripides’ Medea uses the personification of the golden dress to symbolize the aggressive power takeovers of the BC Greek era. “She‚ when she saw the dress‚ could not restrain herself. She agreed with all her husband said‚ and before he and the children had gone from the palace‚ she took the gorgeous robe and dressed herself in it‚ and put the golden crown around her curly locks. She arranged the set of the hair in the shining mirror‚ and smiled at the lifeless image of herself in it. Then she
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Speak: Melinda and Tree “When the roots are deep‚ there is no reason to fear the wind.” This is a famous proverb of Africa. There might be a lot of similarities between human and tree. Therefore‚ people make comparisons between tree and human easily by their appearances due to their shape——bark is like their skin‚ a trunk with branches‚ just like human bodies and arms. In addition‚ people can also compare the way trees grow and die to the human life. Thus‚ trees are often used to symbolize of human’s
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In “The Rocking-Horse Winner‚” there is a lot of personification used in the story. However‚ the most important personification that affected the story’s plot development was when the house was talking. DH Lawrence draws a connection between the house being able to talk‚ and emphasizing the family’s increase of needing and wanting more money. The personification of the house affects the exposition by showing the family’s unspoken greed for money. The story starts out as the house is “whispering”
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Oedipus often uses personification in his dialogs to make them more emotional. “stab of memory taking me insane” (pg. 240‚ lines 1455-1456) In this quote‚ Oedipus talks about his true feelings. He personifies his thoughts and describes how they stab him with bits if his memories. He continues by saying that these stabs are driving him insane and what he has done is all on him‚ therefore‚ he should be “cast” away. A theme found in Oedipus The King is - We are our own worst enemy. Oedipus clearly
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could serve as her own particular model‚ this is the manner by which Kahlo started and with numerous self-pictures of her which would lead her buildup. Through her sketches‚ all the disaster and agony she suffered was communicated. In the painting tree
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loved. Our love poet Xuan Dieu used to say‚ "How can we survive without falling in love with another?" Therefore‚ no matter when and where we live‚ love is still beautiful with its myriads of senses ranging from sadness to happiness. Reading the Apple Tree by John Galsworthy‚ the readers once again have a chance to comprehend and to perceive different senses in the loves‚ which Ashurt devoted to Megan Davis and to Stella Halliday. Megan Davis was a country girl who Ashurt met when he and his friend
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centuries‚ presidents have influenced sense if security for their citizens as they strive for a positive future towards America’s base. Many as Abraham Lincoln cared to “bind up the nation’s wounds” especially after the battle for civil rights. Personification can be referred to as a description of the post war society as it implies the country needing a fix with an appeal of ethos. A message of optimism is therefore sent to convey the presence of aspiration in Lincoln’s mind‚ even in a time of division
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Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poem‚ "Ode to the West Wind" and Sylvia Plath’s poem "Mirror" both employ the poetic tools of apostrophe‚ the address to something that is intangible‚ and personification‚ the application of human characteristics to something inanimate. However‚ they form a paradox in the usage of these tools through the imagery they create. Both poets have breathed life into inanimate objects‚ however death and aging are the prominent themes within both of these works. In "Ode to the West
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