Birds Essay John James Audubon, author of Ornithological Biographies, conveys his outlook on a flock of birds that surrounds him overhead; in comparison, Annie Dillard, author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, intimates her deepest thoughts on this wonder. In light of this, each author dissimilarly conveys an intense affection for birds; Audubon asserts a scientific and objective approach, whereas Dillard provides a more spiritual and less objective perspective. Although both authors love birds, their viewpoints differ on a magnified level. Taking a scientific approach on the subject, Audubon views the sky as “filled with pigeons... the light of noonday was obscured as by an eclipse...” (16-17). Providing figurative language, Audubon compares the darkness of a group of pigeons to a rare scientific phenomenon that only an intellectual might consider.
For example, “staring motionlessly toward the Gulf” (621), just like the couple. The uniqueness of the cranes is observed when they are compared to other birds. The author states, “They towered above the bobbing egrets and scurrying plovers” (621). This description of the cranes symbolizes the uniqueness of the couple’s relationship, filled with love and lasting forever into the sunset beyond their death. The couple in the writing is able to remain humorous and show their love to each other.
Poetic Analysis ‘Magpies’ ‘Magpies’ by Judith Wright is a captivating and fun poem, which explains the two completely different personalities of magpies. In this poem, the poet positions the reader to see nature as mature, prim and proper, but also extremely greedy and selfish. It successfully uses imagery, movement and sound devices to do this. The poetic devices similes, personification, rhythm, rhyme, alliteration and assonance will be examined in this essay. This poem is about magpies, animals that are mature and relaxed, but when food appears they lose these attributes and adopt a greedy and selfish behavior.
Blatantly, Alfred Hitchcock introduces his movie with a shot of cawing birds, establishing suspense, and then drops the audience on their rears, stranded with a few shots of squawking birds. There is lack of a pertinent element in the film that runs amuck in the story, and this element is foreshadowing. Foreshadowing is one of the various strengths in Du Maurier’s The Birds and it is by far the most effective, and so one can elaborate to the conclusion that without a plethora of clues, the reader is numb to arising suspense. Another opportunity given to Hitchcock was the option of paralleling his movie to the genius of the story, because without taking some material from the author, his version is almost a different species and thus the lack of suspense. Furthermore, Daphne Du Maurier stresses important details so the suspense is evident.
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. This emotional connection between the birds is what makes machines different from real life. With ethos, Eiseley is able to showcase how birds possess emotion and how important that emotion. Eiseley uses juxtaposition in order to help show the differences between life and machine.
John James Audubon and Annie Dillard both wrote short passages describing large flocks of birds using vivid imagery and descriptive diction to convey the effect that the flocks had on them as an observer. Both passages have an awed and laudatory tone since the writers seem to be enchanted by the beauty o the birds. While Audubon gives a literal description of what he saw, Dillard describes the birds through the extensive use of figurative language. The descriptive diction in both passages serves to give the reader a mental image of what the writer saw as the birds flew by. Audubon uses phrases like “countless multitudes” and “immense legions” to describe the large amount of birds that he watched fill the sky.
The poet seems angry with the modern life and annoyed at the fact that so many people waste their lives by worrying about the “deadlines” and reading the “junkmail”. In the first stanza the poet is trying to present to the reader what an everyday life looks like for many people. At the same time she is trying to show us that we should forget about all those things and concentrate on the nature. She uses repetition of the word “let” which is like a command; this suggests that she wants the reader to realize that the modern world is very chaotic and not important. She reinforces this fact by saying the “e-mils fly like panicked, tiny birds” which implies that the modern life is very hectic and unorganised.
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.
The term "flapper" refers to the idea that they are young birds "flapping" their wings, referencing their young age and "young" idea, and their loose clothing symbolized freedom from constraints from society. Flappers were young, independent, brash, and sometimes more than a little bit "naughty", at least compared to what their family back on the farm expected. The attitude of a flapper was characterized by stark truthfulness, fast living, and sexual behavior. Flappers seemed to cling to youth as if it were to leave them at any moment. They took risks and were reckless.
I decided to use prediction statements to increase his comprehension while learning new information about birds. I used the narrative text Tico and the Golden Wings by Leo Lionni and the expository text Birds That Don’t Fly by Bobbie Kalman. The narrative text is a fable written about a bird that is born without wings, but desperately wishes for some. He eventually is granted his wish; he is given beautiful golden wings. However, he finds that his bird friends are not nearly as happy as he with his beautiful wings.