In “The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, which is an abstract diction and has deeper meaning lying inside it, the poet gives us a beautiful image by explaining different views in the poem .However; we can see the beauty of his art by understanding the deeper philosophical meaning beneath the poem. The poet used personification, metaphors, symbolism, synecdoche and refrain to compare the cycle of nature with cycle of life. The main message of this poem tells us that with all the different effects that we cause to nature, eventually nature will dissolve us, our experiences and ideas and continue on its path. The Persona in this poem is the poet himself who gives us different images from a town and it’s sea shore .In the first line of the first stanza “The tide rises, the tide falls “(l.1), the poet is talking about a repeating cycle in nature. By paying close attention, we see that at the end of all three stanzas in this poem, Longfellow used refrain by repeating the same line.
He is also referring to his poetry that it killed the cow because it was so sad. These are both an example of a hyperbole (overstatement) that is a figure of speech in which exaggeration is used in the service of truth. All the verses in this poem have a rhythm, which is any wavelike recurrence of motion or sound. The rhythm is eight beats per line. The second verse as well as second speaker of the poem slings right back at the attack on his work by obliging that for people like him alcohol is the best medicine.
English 1102 “The Fall of the House of Usher” A nameless narrator walks us through the mysterious house of his childhood friend Roderick Usher on a gloomy and ominous day. From outside narrator notices house is old, creepy, has an evil atmosphere and a huge zig-zag crack in the roof. Has been asked to come to the house by Roderick because he is sick. Goes inside, find the inside just as creepy as the outside. Finds Roderick in house, super sick and pale, not himself.
Those winter Sundays By Robert Hayden Sundays too my father got up early and put his clothes on in the blueblack cold, then with cracked hands that ached from labor in the weekday weather made banked fires blaze. No one ever thanked him. I’d wake and hear the cold splintering, breaking. When the rooms were warm, he’d call, and slowly I would rise and dress, fearing the chronic angers of that house, Speaking indifferently to him, who had driven out the cold and polished my good shoes as well. What did I know, what did I know of love’s austere and lonely offices?
After beginning the poem with the question, “What happens to a dream deferred?” Hughes starts to answer that question in the following lines through the use of simile and diction. Lines 2-3 familiarize the metaphorical similarities of a neglected dream and a dehydrated raisin: “Does it dry up/ like a raisin in the sun?” Hughes’ use of simile to exhibit how an unfulfilled dream is similar to a raisin is fitting; much like a raisin is appeased of its life-giving liquid, so does the human spirit experience emotional undoing when an influential dream is not achieved. A raisin is a small, rather unattractive form of its past self, a once
The use of personification helps give an image along with a clear connection. Another device used by Heaney is allusion. The allusion seen in the poem is “our palms sticky as Bluebeard’s”. The connection between this poem and Bluebeard is that the narrator of the poem feels guilty for taking all of the blackberries. One top of that, the blackberries got spoiled, where “sweet flesh would turn sour”, which is the change for worse.
Why would God swipe at him with the dull and indiscriminate blow of a “lionlimb”? Why, then, maliciously look at him lying there with “bruised bones” and further torment him with gales of “tempest,” while he cowers, “heaped there,” wanting to escape but exhausted and with nowhere to run? Then the poet attempts an answer. The “tempest” was actually a harvest wind, shucking the “chaff” from the wheat to expose the kernels of goodness concealed within. In patient acceptance of divine vengeance, the poet has “kissed the rod” of God’s punishment—or rather, he corrects himself, he has kissed the hand that held that rod.
Narcissus' vanity has clearly been a curse, but as his section of the poem reaches its end he slowly is relieved of this curse when "a flower whispers my name with such slight moment" (lines 12-13). In these lines he is beginning to stop paying attention to only his own beauty and hear the soft calls of Echo. "It seems filament of air, the world becomes cloudswell",
Blake writes of the demoralization of children in his poems who have the unhappy job of cleaning up after others. He provides his sad & pitying commentary on a thankless job. He writes the poem from the point of view of a child, pulling the reader in & making him empathize with the children. The child narration is furthered through song and rhyming. In Blake’s 1789 poem, the persona begins by stating that his mother died when he was young & that his father sold him before he could properly protest his future uncivilized job of sweeping chimneys.
In the left foreground is a curvy cypress tree which is typically associated with mourning. It is painted in the same way as the sky with fluid lines which enhances the flow of the Starry Night painting well as its easiness on the eye. Van Gogh´s choice of color in Starry Night has been much debated, particularly the dominance of yellow in this and other late