How Does Duffy reveal her attitude to war and soldiers? In The Falling Soldier, Duffy takes the opportunity to use the photograph of the man’s ‘last breath’ to try and rewrite history, creating several different pleasant images of what the photo could of been representing, compared to the harsh reality. Duffy in both The Falling Soldier and Last Post shows the same theme of her trying to show what she wished, could have happened to the innocent soldiers. ‘If poetry could truly tell it backwards, then it would’ this is Duffy basically telling us that if she could rewrite history with her poems then she would. In the poem The Falling Soldier, which is in relation to the photograph by Robert Capa, Duffy begins the poem by using colloquial language such as ‘flop’ and ‘kip’ to create a very casual everyday image about how the photo could be interoperated.
Ms.Crocco AP English 11 6 September 2012 · In the first sentence Hemmingway says "...that looked across the river and the plain to the mountains." He is using imagery to help the reader paint a picture of his location at this time in the book. · "In the bed of the river there were pebbles and bolders" Hemmingway uses symbolism by showing the contrast in size of pebbles and bolders, in refrence to the two extremes of good and bad that await him. · Hemmingway uses metaphor when saying "The plain was rich with crops.....beyond the plain the mountains were brown and bare." This shows the effect the of war, because there was fighting going on in the mountains the brown, bareness Hemmingway speaks of shows the horrible reality of the war taking place.
Non-standard English is often used in Caribbean speech and writing and Nichols uses this to express how she used to live in Guyana. She also asks another question, "What is the meaning of old tongues reaping havoc in new places?' This is another rhetorical question, a good technique to make the reader think about the actual meaning of the poem The fourth stanza begins with the juxtaposition, ' The blinding illumination'. Two contrasting ideas have been placed next to each other to accentuate one or both of them. This describes the radiant lightning, which cannot be seen because of its
Knowles’ diction plays a key role, setting the tone of the novel. In Chapter 7, Brinker refers to the tree as “ that funeral tree by the river” (90). In a description of the fatal accident, Knowles describes the scene as taking place in the “funereal tree.” The accident that occurred in this tree permanently ended Finny’s athletic career. By naming the tree the “funereal tree,” Knowles creates a melancholy tone. Also, “funereal tree” foreshadows the death of Finny.
I didn’t start to realize this poem was fate until I re-read the ending of the poem over and over. Moore achieves this final meaning of the poem through the use of metaphor and imagery. Imagery is seen throughout the whole poem. One example of imagery is on line 7 and 8. The poem states, “The mixture whirling your legs, wings, stinger, churning you into such delicious death.” These lines really bring a darker image into the poem.
On the contrary, Dickens uses a more poetic approach with descriptive language. He gives statements such as “Where it flows among green aits and meadows”, demonstrating his purpose is to describe the fog which gives much more imagery than Goodwin and his facts. Dickens continues by saying, “the fog is everywhere “and hanging in the misty clouds.” showing more of his figurative language. Although, both authors use different ways to express their purpose they both show the effects of the fog. Secondly, Dickens and Goodwin utilize figurative language and their organization to establish different styles within their writing.
My first reading choice this summer was The Catcher in the Rye by J. D. Salinger. I found many connections and examples of aspects from Thomas C. Forester’s How to Read Literature Like a Professor and I’ve chosen the ones that stand out to me and give the most proof throughout the novel. In the tenth chapter, “It’s More Than Just Rain or Snow,” of How to Read Lit, Forester explains how there is always a reason the author included certain weather in the the setting of a novel and that it has an underlying meaning. Snow is known to symbolize challenges and unhappiness but can also can symbolize death, loneliness, or depression. The main character in The Catcher in the Rye, Holden Caulfield, is a very cynical teenageer who has had traumatizing events happen in his life that have caused him to debate connecting with other humans on an adult level or rejecting that thought entirely and categorizing the world as phony, all while trying to relive his childhood.
It was reported in the medieval times that people were pronounced dead from the plague where heard yelling in a pile of bodies. Usually, these people were left as they were and buried in mass graves. In the story “The Masque of the Red Death” by Edgar Allan Poe he states “The scarlet stains upon the body and especially upon the face of the victim, were the pest ban which shut him out from the aid and from the sympathy of his fellow-men. And the whole seizure, progress and termination of the disease, were the incidents of half an hour.” (Poe, ln 4-6). These lines are about what the plague did to the body and how fast the disease acted upon its victims.
During the plague, they walked around with sweet-smelling flowers in their pockets and burned scented firewood to drive out the disease. 5. Leaving the door open behind you, keeping a peacock's feather, a lunar eclipse, spilling salt and a cat crossing your path (or any encounter with a cat for that matter as they are associated with witches- another superstition to be discussed later) brought about bad
Use the poems we read in class as your models to follow when you write your own. Remember, this is a "write-like" poem, so you should try to write like the authors of the poems below. Your poem should pose a question/situation/problem, a turning point, and a resolution - just like the sonnets did that we read in class. Sonnet 18 Shakespeare Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; And every fair from fair sometime