The rock to the left is in the shadow, and the one to the right is lit. Note that the ants, the three melted clocks and a fetus-like object all reside in the shade as well, whereas the mountains and the water are lit by sunlight. Here we can see the difference between soft and uncertain objects and hard and certain objects. I certainly found the aesthetic beauty of Dali’s alternate dimension and when comparing his work to Tanguy’s He Did What He Wanted, I was left with a complete misunderstanding and a disconcerted idea of what the painter was trying to convey. The main theme of both works is life and death, the lifeless objects manifesting their painters’ feelings towards the world, and possibly how time is
A.P. Literature 10 August 2011 In “Roosting Hawk” and “Golden Retrievals,” the speakers portray the world through there own perspective. The persona in this poem is coming from two contrasting animals; the speakers are a hawk and a golden retriever. The authors use numerous literary devices such as diction, syntax, imagery, and themes to reveal the diverse views of these personified animals. In “Roosting Hawk,” the author uses diction to expose the arrogance of the hawk by making him appear to look almost God-like or divine.
“The Lesson of the Moth” In society today there are two main different types of people, the free spirited individuals and the conservative individuals. The free spirits believe to live in the moment and die doing something that makes them happy while the conservatives believe to live in routine and stick to “playing it safe”. In Don Marquis’s poem, “The Lesson of the Moth”, Don uses a moth and a cockroach, named Archy, to portray those two personalities. The poem dives deep into how people go about their lives, a touchy subject for some, and how they view each other. The poem starts off with Archy giving the reader the setting and an idea that the moth is suicidal, but the next stanza explains that the moth and the cockroach do not understand each other’s lives.
Visual techniques are successfully used to convey the key theme of power and control in The Rabbits. Power and control is conveyed through the use of symbolism. The British are represented as rabbits, which imply that they are “unwanted pests”, uncontrollably multiplying and taking over. The Indigenous people are characterized as numbats, which personalises them as being susceptible, innocent and harmless. The Rabbits demonstrate their power through their more advanced technology e.g.
Bruce Dawe, renowned for his appreciation of the tones rhythms and resonances of the vernacular idiomatic speech at Australia demonstrated his skill with great effect in the poem enters without so much knocking. In this poem Dawe deploys language as weapon of satire using sarcasm to undercut accepted everyday ideas; in the first stanza both the TV compares Bobby Dazzler and indirectly the poet refer to the audience as “lucky people” in a sarcastic manner. While living in “the lucky country” this conveys the idea that the persona doesn’t feel lucky and doesn’t think others are lucky either, the identity of the personas introduced in the first stanza where “being lucky” doesn’t mean anything to the persona as a baby, unlike the older voice of later stanza. The adjectives describing the family are exaggerated and humorous one economy sized mum one Anthony squires- colostrum- summer weight dad. Which reflects the all-pervading and negative influence of consumerism in satirical comment on his nuclear family; in the last stanza the mortician adding a healthy tan he’d never had before the nice ride out of the underground metropolis adding a sardonic tone which gives an adding depth of meaning.
In the poem "The Death of a Toad" the author Richard Wilbur coveys a response throughout the poem to enlighten the speaker how to retort Wilbur's overall message he is telling the reader with the overall theme of nature. Richard Wilbur reveals the speaker's response that of compassion and love for nature to the death of a toad by his use in word choice in stanza one, two, and three. Wilbur's use of concrete and abstract diction is as prevalent in this poem as the amount of times he uses visual imagery to set the scene and the structure of the poem to go from chaos to peace. Richard Wilbur uses concrete and abstract diction, visual imagery, connotation in diction and a structure of chaos to invoke a speaker's response in stanza one. In line one and two Wilbur uses concrete diction and visual imagery to describe how the occurrence of this frog being dead all happened, "chewed and clipped of a leg" bring out the gore in this homicide of this animal in the "garden" leading the speaker to respond in disgust towards the mower.
This quote is a very good example of an adjective, because it is very descriptive and vivid which helps the reader picturize this. Now we can see that adjectives can change the story to another story. "There was a sound like a great matted yellow hive of bees within a dark bellows, the lazy bumble of
But, what holds them both back? One is just a bug and another is a human being, but sympathetically, which one has it worse? These two short essays brought me a lot of questions by looking from the other side of death from a different perspective. Virginia Woolf explains the life duration of a moth that is trapped. Going in grand detail of how this insects life should be lived, comparing a moth to a butterfly.
* This use of contrasting shows us Victor’s understanding to not disturb the natural rhythm * Shelley suggests that peace between the natural rhythm and civilisation is needed to halt the emergence of chaos * She also explains that industrialisation has inhumane qualities, in that it in part usurps various roles that God himself plays * Paragraph 2 – Frankenstein explores the idea that a tension between the creator and their creation arises due to tension between nature and civilisation * ‘It was on a dreary night of November’ * This use of pathetic fallacy enhances the personification of the night which is detailed as dreary, thus providing a human emotion to nature * ‘catastrophe…yellow skin…these luxuriance’s only formed a more horrid contrast with his watery eyes…shrivelled complexion and straight black lips * The use of gothic imagery explores the ugliness of the creation * Presents Shelley’s view on the Enlightenment, in which she feels it is unappealing * ‘such as thing Dante could not have
Experiencing the goodness of nature has become hard, because man has made itself a part of it (Lame Deer 687). He suggests that man should “listen to the air,” smell it, taste it and hear it. The air breathes new life into all. He speaks about the animation of minerals and rocks of the earth. To really feel nature Lame Deer articulates the sincerity of living in shacks, using an outhouse, taking ones time and listening to the music of outdoor insects (Lame Deer