Here, the enjambment draws attention to the words and helps reinforce the irony. This view point is in contrast to that of “Give”. In this poem the view point is that of the homeless character so we get to see the other side of the story. It is a dramatic monologue in the 1st person so the voice of the character is used to create his feelings and attitudes. For example, he begins by addressing the listener as “dear” in a heavily sarcastic tone we feel is bitter and angry.
“The Cask of Amontillado” is regarded as a dark and mysterious story, because of Poe’s effective use of irony. Edgar Allen Poe uses the three forms of irony—verbal, dramatic, and situational—in his short story “The Cask of Amontillado” to create a mood of sinister suspense. Verbal irony is used in the form of words, when
He continues this idea by using “wander” later in the line. The transferred epithet of “mean” conveys the hostile environment and makes us question the kind of people who live on the estate, suggesting they are perhaps cold, hateful and aggressive. The use of word choice immediately introduces the theme of purposelessness to the reader and creates a vivid portrayal of the scene. Despite the classical sonnet rhyming of the poem, it has been given an unconventional structure using enjambment throughout the octave, which modernises the poem overall and creates a stream of consciousness, engaging with the reader and ensuring the persona’s words appear genuine: “Play fortresses of brick and bric-a-brac spill out some ash” The plosive alliteration of “brick and bric-a-brac” creates a harsh and unwelcoming sound, signifying the worthlessness of everything on the estate and expressing society’s disgusted attitude towards the neglected area. “Ash” could connote the remains of the dead or of a crumbling building, insinuating decay and sorrow.
The mood of the poem is a depressing one and I intend to show this by referring to structure, imagery and sound techniques that he uses to create the overall mood. The structure does play a small part in helping create a mood/atmosphere but the only significant thing is the way the poem is on the page and it looks like a solid block of words which in a way is a representation of the building. The poem is a sonnet and has a structure which is and octet and sestet, the octet is the first part of and the sestet which is the latter and they are structured in a way it is like you are being forced to witness what it is like in and out of the building and this makes you feel sympathy and depression and adds to the poem mood/ atmosphere and my appreciation overall. The imagery helps back up the depressing mood created by the poet and is best done by the way Edwin Morgan describes the inside of the building and does this well with: “Roses of mould grow from ceiling to wall” The metaphor “Roses of mould” is excellent in conveying the state of building and gives the poem a depressing feel well because it makes you think the building is a state and it is depressing to think what it would be like to live there such as these remaining people do: “Mother and daughter the last mistresses of that black block” This image creates sympathy for these people as they have nowhere to go and are stuck in that building and this also adds to
Many authors are known to use contrasting places to represent opposing ideas that are essential to the meaning of the work. One such author, Nathaniel Hawthorne, writes of a small Puritan town and a very opposite forest in his novel, The Scarlet Letter. Hawthorne uses these places to emphasize the meaning of the work, which is the idea that people need isolation from, as well as connection with, other people. By contrasting the symbolism, inhabitants, and locations of each area, Hawthorne makes prominent to readers the central essence of his story. He does this mainly by making each place represent a different idea.
As I Lay Dying The novel As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner tends to make readers confused when beginning to read it due to the theme the book entails. One of the main themes in the novel would have to be the difference of what are the truth and the explanation of what is true. Without a doubt any point is able to end in a massive amount of what is biased due to the different characters and their individual point of views. Each thought they have on what they believe true is dependent on their previous outlooks and thoughts. With that being said anything that is alleged can’t always necessarily be the truth.
These symbols throughout the story include the old mans eye, the heartbeat and the contradiction between love and hate in which I will be talking about in this paper. When reading Edgar Allan Poe’s, “The Tell-Tale Heart”, it is more easily understood as a figurative text rather than a literal text. A literal reading of this story would make it very difficult to understand the details. By taking this story literally it is not easy to understand the entire meaning and representation of the story. In the beginning of the story, the narrator describes the old man’s eye.
A poet can experience various emotions that can be both negative and positive through an encounter with a place. This is evident in poems “Harbour Dusk” by Robert Gray and “William Street” by Kenneth Slessor. Gray creates a negative atmosphere to his poem “Harbour Dusk” however the poem does not completely revolve around negative connotations as such. At times in the poem ‘Harbour Dusk’, the poet portrays a isolated and tranquil surrounding though the atmosphere delivers a sense of melancholy. On the other hand, Slessor’s poem “William Street” challenges the readers by attributing beauty to the urban setting of the city streets.
Eliot conveys these notions to the reader through the development of Prufrock’s introspective identity. Eliot’s description of this character’s persona relies upon the figurative language devices to effectively communicate the idea of social and cultural isolation. The epigraph from Dante’s Inferno inserted at the beginning of ‘Prufrock’ expresses Eliot’s decision to contribute to the socially isolated perspective. It entails a descriptive voice of a person damned in hell who becomes a symbol of Prufrock’s ideal listener. This is a secretive being that is just at unease to the situation as the reader, and would keep to themselves the content of Prufrock’s
Kafkaesque elements often appear in existential works, but the term has transcended the literary realm to apply to real-life occurrences and situations that are incomprehensibly complex, bizarre, or illogical. Franz Kafka created fictional worlds in which characters try to make sense of a nightmarish world.Kafka’s writing style seems simple and straightforward, but it’s full of philosophizing about the absurdity of life. It’s not easy to understand one of his stories with only one reading. The term “Kafkaesque” reefers to the style in which he wrote and is seen by many as a synonym for “surreal.” His story’s are