There was solitude that she created with her words that was very powerful. Figurative Language: What poetic devices were used in this poem? What did these poetic devices do for the poem? Did these devices help create imagery or communicate the author's feelings? She rhymed throughout the poem, her rhyme scheme being ABAB.
The caged bird\'s song represents the sustaining hope of achieving this society. CONNOTATION: Alliteration - Repetition of constant sounds at the beginning of words. But the bird that talks down his narrow cage can seldom see through his bars of rage... this stanza Maya uses alliteration of seldom and see to make the poem more affective. Seldom and see both have the repeated "S" sound. Repetition of vowel sounds in non-rhyming words.
This is the case for Emily Dickinson and her poetry, as well as two very different texts, ‘Walking Naked’ by Alyssa Brugman and the play ‘Stolen’ by Jane Harrison. They all show the desire to belong by several individuals, and all express the same issues that connect them, even though their stories are all vastly dissimilar to each other. Emily Dickinson was born in 1830 and ever since adolescence; she felt a lack of connection with the human social world. Her unusual connection with nature however had become her outlet of her lack of belonging in society. Her poetry very much reflects this, and she advises the audience subtly in her writing that it is not society’s fault that she cannot live in the regular social world, but she just needs something that society doesn’t give her.
How does Gwen Harwood lead you to share her concerns about aspects of the world? Gwen Harwood is a sophisticated poet who uses many means of writing to entice the reader to share her views on certain aspects of the world. Her poems demonstrate her worries in parenting and relationships within families. She also expresses fear of death and her interest in individuality. A collection of six poems demonstrates the techniques used by the poet to convey her messages and influence the reader to understand her concerns.
Zora Neale Hurston wrote Their Eyes Were Watching God using a unique use of language particularly rural southern black dialect throughout the entire novel. Throughout the novel she utilizes an interesting narrative structure, setting the presentation of the story between high literary narration and emotions. The long passages of emotion celebrate how Janie felt spiritually and mentally in Janie's little world. Hurston's use of language parallels Janie's quest to find her voice. Their Eyes Were Watching God is primarily concerned " with the project of having a voice, with language as an instrument of injury and salvation of selfhood and empowerment", said Henry Louis Gates Jr. Jody stifles Janie's speech which prevents from speaking when
She chooses to listen to her instinct and her morals by saving a bird which others wish to find. The white heron which is a rare bird can be seen as a symbol for nature. Her decision to protect it symbolizes her decision to protect nature. This action is also a symbol of coming to age and gaining her own views and beliefs. In a way the author provides a coming of age theme through this short story.
Emily Dickinson explores the concept of not belonging due to a lack of connection experienced with her place in society. Dickinson’s poetry then contrasts this, by exploring her sense of belonging to her poetry and to Nature. In the poem I had been hungry all the years, the persona in the poem initially seeks a belonging with society, however she immediately rejects this belonging due to her sense of discomfort and lack of connection intuited. In the poem I died for beauty but was scarce, Dickinson explores the perception of making the deliberate decision to belong to her art and indirectly to nature. The film Pan’s labyrinth explores the sense of belonging the character Ofelia feels to a fantasy world that she has created, as a consequence of not feeling a connection to the real world.
The poem “The Woman Makes Peace With Her Faulty Heart” written by Margaret Atwood. The speaker created by the author is the woman. The whole poem is the description of her feelings, worries, things that bothered her throughout her life and that caused her pain. At first it seemed to me that this poem was an address to someone. But later I realized that the speaker talks to herself, to her heart.
A regretful tone permeates the poems end, where Harwood recognises that for the heart to “waken to...paradise” the creative self must lie resting. In the words of Allison Hoddnot “the sadness of the ‘sleepless mind’ that remains unsatisfied despite ‘love’s’ brief peace is Triste Triste”. Alternatively to this psychoanalytical reading Triste Triste may also be perceived through a religious reading. Triste, Triste is a poem which enables Harwood to draw upon symbols to reconcile the paradoxical nature of our world in the midst of a variety of literary techniques and devices. Triste, Triste can be seen to place immense prominence on life after death, describing the soul as symbolic to eternal life with God in heaven, and the heart as emblematic of the earthly body.
Eiseley also uses rhetorical devices like ethos in order to convey the emotions that a bird has. He describes the bird to "have been soaring restlessly above us for untold hours" to wait for her mate. He appeal to the emotion of sympathy for the bird as she tirelessly soar and wait for the captured. This shows that the birds have emotion and real connection for each other unlike anything a machine can have. Rhetorical devices like ethos and juxtaposition are used throughout Eiseley's passage to convince the reader that birds and machines are truly different.