Audubon uses loose, complex sentences to describe the entertaining birds. One can read, “In these almost solid masses, they dated forward in undulating and angular lines, descended and swept close over the earth with inconceivable velocity, mounted perpendicularly so as to resemble a vast column, and, when high, were seen wheeling and twisting within their continued lines which then resembled the coils of a gigantic serpent.” Near the middle of the passage Audubon extends his complex sentences with lengthy details following the semi-colon; stating, “The air was literally filled with pigeons; the light of noon-day was obscured as by an eclipse; the dung fell in spot, not unlike melting flakes of snow’ and the continued buzz of wings had my tendency to lull my sense to repose.” Differing from the unending long sentences, Dillard presented short and simple syntax using parallelism sentences such as “They gathered deep in the distance, flock sifting into flock, and strayed towards me, transparent and whirling, like smoke.” One can also read at the end of the story, “Could tiny birds be sifting through me right now, birds winging through the gaps between my cells, touching nothing, but quickening in my tissues?” Audubon “pushed himself to the edge” with sentences going on to long, as Dillard simply “cut to the point” with her Compact sentence
A.P. Literature 10 August 2011 In “Roosting Hawk” and “Golden Retrievals,” the speakers portray the world through there own perspective. The persona in this poem is coming from two contrasting animals; the speakers are a hawk and a golden retriever. The authors use numerous literary devices such as diction, syntax, imagery, and themes to reveal the diverse views of these personified animals. In “Roosting Hawk,” the author uses diction to expose the arrogance of the hawk by making him appear to look almost God-like or divine.
There is another passage in the book when Paul describes the butterflies as being perched upon a skull and fly about the battlefield as if they do not have a care in the world. All this happens as they are shredded by the countless bullets. This is seemingly representing how even in the war, animals, whether they are butterflies or human, die over a rather small disagreement between a minority of humans. The mood that Remarque seems to be presenting is a melancholy comparison between two different animals, thus making a subtle hint that humans are no different than animals, that we are just another animal on the food chain. Again these butterflies are an indication of the delicate balance between life and death.
The first three stanzas focus on the beauty of the Earth with the list of creatures, and the wonders the world holds; ‘Andes, Himalayas, Kilimanjaro’ and ‘Amazon, Ganges, Nile’, whereas the final stanza focuses on the destruction of the world that is upon Atlas’ back. Atlas is about to give himself up for the World after trying all he can to fight against the Gods but now he must be punished. The whole mood of the poem flips and the audience realise that all the wonders mentioned in the previous stanzas are in danger. ‘he bears where Earth is, nowhere, head bowed, a genuflection to the shouldered dead,’ is a line which shows the total metamorphosis and shift in tone from the beginning of the poem. As a reader we are able to see that despite all the passion and power Atlas put in, it wasn’t enough
This is odd as the object of her affections is her husband,whom has no feelings towards her. He is undeserving of her love,as Emilia could be offering all this love to one whom actually deserves it. This is a good character trait in Emilia. Due to her not getting the love she wants from husband, she develops the belief that women should be able cheat on there husbands. Subsequently they had a rocky relationship,even though
That's what I think anyway, maybe I'm crazy and she doesn't feel a thing. However since I think she did feel a little guilt she wins here. Then the wife of bath wins on the fact that deep down she seems to be searching for something real. The pardoner may want something like that as well but I hold to much of a grudge againtt him to see it if he does. Then, finally, the wife of bath changes somewhat with her last husband.
Two quotes from “A Sound of Thunder” that represent this theme are “Embedded in the mud, glistening green and gold and black, was a butterfly very beautiful and dead” (pg. 299) and “It fell to the floor, an exquisite thin, a small thing that could upset balances and knock down a line of small dominoes and then big dominoes and then gigantic dominoes, all down the years across time.”(pg. 299), these quotes represent the theme because they show that one little thing changed the future entirely. This theme represents science fiction because if time travel were real, scientific date can prove that things could be changed very
- Pastoral imagery - Bird imagery evokes a sense of fragility - Colour connotations: “ - Oxymoron - “nesting machine guns”. “nesting” continues the bird motif which evokes fragility; the connotations of nature are negated by the antithetical noun “machine” which suggests artificiality and violence. The juxtaposition of nature and violence conveys abhorrence of war. Alternatively, it could convey the fragility of life: the delicacy of the line demarcating life and death. - seven sparse stanzas structured in tercets, the majority of which conclude with full stops.
The bird was a symbol for Doodle himself. The bird traveled a long was away from his home; which was an awkward and not proportional shape. In conclusion of the story, Doodle also layed on the ground with his neck deathly set backwards. Both Doodle and the bird were red. All these observations are similarities between the two which shows that the Scarlet Ibis’ death foreshadowed Doodle’s death.
Irving describes the small village as “blue tints of the upland melt away into the fresh green,” which paints a vivid picture of the village. Irving uses figurative diction to create an eerie tone in the story. In the Kaatskill Mountains, Rip hears a loud noise “like distant thunder” and the sound of ninepins echoing throughout the mountains “like rumbling peals of thunder,” even though the people playing ninepins have “the most mysterious silence.” Irving uses direct diction to develop the ironic tone of the story. Dame Van Winkle’s death brings “a drop of comfort” to Rip, which allows him to get his “neck out of the yoke of matrimony” and happily live an