He also uses a simile that the dwarf is like a half filled sack a valueless object made more so by being only half filled. There is also a sibilance sat, slumped, sack and sawdust which together make a disconcerting sound and or feeling for the reader. In the next two lines “on tiny twisted legs from which sawdust might run” he uses the alliterative tiny twisted. And the sawdust can be regarded as the dwarfs life slipping away. And in the next section “outside the three tiers of churches built in honour of St Francis brother of the poor, talk with birds, over whom” he is juxtaposing the wreck of a man outside of the church with the magnificence and grandeur of the three tiered wedding cake of an edifice which as the church at Assisi.
This poem expresses frustration at the inability to fulfill one’s dreams. The eleven-line poem uses word play and symbolism to express an overwhelming sense of frustration. Using questions to guide the reader deeper into contemplation, Hughes uses symbolism and similes throughout the poem to present the reader with graphic images. Food symbolism appears more than once in the second stanza, symbolizing that dreams, like perishables, may be good at first but change when ignored, whether for better or worse. The symbolism of the raisin in line 3, drying in the sun, symbolizes the power of a dream, like the sweetness and flavor in a grape, condensing and becoming more concentrated.
This forces the reader to acknowledge that there is no ‘perfect scene’ on the earth. Furthermore, In the third paragraph , Steinbeck deliberately changes the tone back to harmonious and uses the ironic simile ‘rabbits sat as quietly as gray sculptured stones’, as humans might collect , to reflect the animals’ sense of intuition that the scene is about to be disturbed so the reader is curious to what is going to happen next. Steinbeck deliberately uses detailed description to build a
- Pastoral imagery - Bird imagery evokes a sense of fragility - Colour connotations: “ - Oxymoron - “nesting machine guns”. “nesting” continues the bird motif which evokes fragility; the connotations of nature are negated by the antithetical noun “machine” which suggests artificiality and violence. The juxtaposition of nature and violence conveys abhorrence of war. Alternatively, it could convey the fragility of life: the delicacy of the line demarcating life and death. - seven sparse stanzas structured in tercets, the majority of which conclude with full stops.
The essay is written with information to support Price’s claims on her view of how America’s culture can be simple-minded, ignorant, and easily influenced. Price’s whole essay could be the new definition of caustic. One of the sentences in the first paragraph Price writes, “ First, it was a flamingo.” The italicizing of the word flamingo gives readers a sense of sarcasm and that Price feels that the fact that a bird-influenced America’s culture vastly baffled her. In the third paragraph Price writes, “The hues were forward-looking rather than old-fashioned, just right for a generation, raised in the Depression,” Price’s sassy and sarcastic remark states how America felt that bright colors would give a sense of hope and happiness through a difficult time. Another sarcastic point Price writes is in the first sentence of the last paragraph she says, “Why, after all, call the birds “pink flamingos”—as if they could be blue or green?” The simple-mindedness of America’s culture is shown by the sarcastic remarks Price writes because of America’s action to be influence by flamingos In the essay, Price also compares and contrast America’s culture to other countries.
However, Hawthorne has a shift in his writing of the forest in this passage; for example, “The sportive sunlight – feebly sportive, at best” shows how the sun in this area is weakened by the evil that presides in the forest; and “withdrew itself as they came nigh” indicates that the sun runs from the sinners, Hester; and finally “left the spots where it had danced the drearier, because they had hoped to find them bright,” tells us that anything that once was shown upon by the sun will one day become dreary, as the light moves away from them, the sinners. This hints that Hester once had the sun shine on her, and she was the most beautiful woman in the whole town, but her sin had caused the light to reject her which has left her in her current condition; all the while, the sun still shines on Pearl, not rejecting her because of who her mother is, but rather accepting that she has the potential to remain pure. The fact that the sun does not reject Pearl shows Hawthorne’s view that Pearl is the hope for the future that puritan
Jack is used by Golding to attribute less than human behavior: anarchy and savagery. He is described as having red hair, wears black with a snake clasp; he is “ugly, cruel and manipulative”. His appearance hints to the reader that he could be the cause of destruction on the island. “Within the diamond haze of the beach something dark was fumbling along...Then the creature stepped from the mirage on to clear sand, and they saw that the darkness was not all shadow but mostly clothing”. The
This is further enhanced by the use of serpentine, uneasy brush strokes of the tree. Van Gogh's distinctively visual brush stroke techniques are used in versatile ways. Compared to the cypress tree, the town is painted with short strokes and is relatively quiet which reveals his isolation from the world, the fact that he painted “Starry Night' from the room of an asylum gives further indication to the responder of his melancholy, anxious life. Although the viewer may not know what Van Gogh was thinking, the distinctively visual painting provokes a powerful reaction that will affect the viewer in different
I used to admire her, but I downright respect her now” (126). Addie, on Cora's self-righteous arrogance: "Like Cora, who could never even cook” (166). Armstid: "A man aint so different from a horse or a mule, come long come short, except a mule or a horse has got a little more sense” (176). MacGowan, to his fellow clerk when Dewey Dell enters the store: "I'm going into conference” (233). Consider also the following descriptions: Of Jewel, exhausted from working around the clock, falling asleep while milking the cow, "his hands up to his wrists in the milk and his head against the cow's flank” (122); and at the table, "going to sleep in his plate, with a piece of bread halfway to his mouth and his jaws still chewing” (123).
Having observed, in John Updike’s rendering, that the whole animal Kingdom is under the reign of mortality; we now see all of Nature as suffering fading and extinction as well. This poem is brief and very beautiful. It is fitting, in view of the relative importance of man compared to the importance of Nature, to make it shorter. The tone is gently uplifting and appropriately conducive to meditation, in view of the content, which is the theme of these two poetic works combined: we are a fallen species on a polluted planet where nothing gold/good is incorruptible or remains untainted, and if it did, it would still be