Tom McMahon stem B Literature Assisi by Norman MacCaig This poem was written by Norman MacCaig after a visit to the town of Assisi in the 1960s. The theme of the poem is exclusion and social injustice, also hypocrisy in the modern Catholic church. He uses a free structure containing no rhythm or rhyme he uses imagery such as similes and metaphors he uses contrast and irony. In the first two lines “the Dwarf with his hands-on backwards sat slumped like a half filled sack” contains many techniques, metaphor where the fact is the dwarfs hands on not literally backwards but twisted and deformed. 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.
This insinuates that Candy is normally somewhat mousy and insecure. I believe that his judgemental society is to blame for the way that he is, incarcerated in a place where people care more about how you are than who you are. I think that Steinbeck perhaps wanted us to feel sympathy and compassion for Candy because of his rough, discriminatory situation. Moreover, Steinbeck also uses symbolism to link comparisons between Candy and his archaic dog. I think that Steinbeck
The murder of Anne Sweeney is an essential part of this story as it gives us many clues and simple but skilful similes and metaphors which helps us to see what the writer is trying to convey and describe. An example of one is “a shower of leaves following me like confetti at a wedding”. This is very descriptive and an example of sensory imagery. “We found the rag doll shape of his unconscious wife slumped over the steering wheel” is an intriguing sentence as it is comparing Mrs Sweeney’s body to a rag-doll. It is also an example of symbolism as rag-dolls are life-less just as Mrs Sweeney is.
Miner refers to dentists as holy mouth men and bathrooms as shrines for odd ritual practices. His language is clearly satirical and creates the notion of the "Nacirema" as vain and self obsessed. Also, they seem to be a masochistic society built around willingly subjecting themselves to pain and torture. The “Nacirema” knowingly allow “medicine men” and “holy-mouth-men” to perform debilitating painful procedures to prevent the unavoidable decay of their mouths and bodies. Miner makes subtle comedic reference to the classic stereotype of doctors having atrocious handwriting when he writes, "write them down in an ancient and secret language."
Othello is afflicted with a jealous tendency and inability to understand others and their motives. Together these two characteristics make him particularly weak compared to people like Iago who is very good at reading others, and especially good in knowing how to work Othello. In Scene 5 Iago, who also isolates Othello, increases the jealousy and then manipulates Othello into thinking that he is making it up, Iago says “beware my lord of the green eyed monster”. The first major influence we see that influences and foreshadows Othello’s down fall/death is the fact that he is too
However, there is a deeper meaning beyond the obvious surface reading. Coming from a more analytic perspective, Bradstreet’s subtle diction causes the reader to question her spiritual sincerity. The couplet in the second section of the poem is one such area where the reader is able to sense a feeling of injustice on the
Sentences ans sections of poems are repeated which gives the impression of Hinley slowly losing her mind throughout the poem. Duffy uses language very effectively, in parts of the poem almost creating a sense of sympathy for Hinley at the same time as making her seem evil. When reading the poem Duffy’s opinion of Hinley is hard to understand. She seems to sympathies with Hinley in some areas of the poem however in other areas the poem emphasises how evil Hinley is. During the first stanza Duffy creates the impression that anyone could become a murderer and this creates the impression that she seems interested in Hinley especially since it is stereotypically men who commit crimes like the Moors Murders .
The tone in the opening lines of a work of literature set up the reader to guess what the work will be about. If the opening lines are filled with angry damnation, the reader might guess that the work will be a sermon. If the opening lines are really sad, the reader would guess the work will be about something that upsets the author. The satire “A Modest Proposal”, by Jonathan Swift, does not quite follow this rule. The opening lines present a terrible tragedy in Ireland, so the reader quickly assumes that this work would be grim or present a justifiable solution to fix the problem.
Year 9 English – Writing Task – Week 7 Many poets use figurative language throughout their poems, thus giving their texts an illusion of different meaning and ideas, creating a poem that is more complex than it seems. The poems “Ione, Dead The Long Year” and “Astigmatism” both include hidden messages and illusions, which can be interpreted accordingly by the reader, showing that the simplest of actions can become the starting point for the most complex of poems. The poem, “Ione, Dead The Long Year” is about a spiritual journey of a man who is mourning the loss of someone who was close to him, thus revealing the subject of the poem. A deeper insight into Passage 1 (Ione, Dead The Long Year) shows the character to be going through a phase of melancholia – compared to the phase of blinding anger that the character of Passage 2 (Astigmatism) is going through on his spiritual journey. By analysing the two poems and their complex structures, the reader discovers a similarity on the subject, of spiritual journeys, however a difference in the context of the journey.
He evokes a very bitter outraged mood in the reader, he’s thoughts and feelings produce anger and spite. Because of his negative outlook on war, Sassoon purposely creates a tone that is very synical, sarcastic, satiric and contumely. He makes it quite clear when he wants the tone to be slow by using polysyllabic syllables and when he wants it to read fast paced by using monosyllabic syllables. The effect of this is to accentuate and lengthen certain words for example the use of the word longing in the phrase “longing to go out again” because of the long ‘l’ consonant and long ‘o’ vowel the word is extended. Sassoon has used the rhyming of similar vowels that have different consonants.