How do Dante and Hesse use imagery to portray the punishment from sin in The Inferno and Siddhartha? In Herman Hesse’s Siddhartha, the suffering from sin comes in your life on Earth, while the suffering form sin in The Inferno by Dante Alighieri is much more severe and comes while in Hell. Both Dante and Hesse use the literary element imagery to portray these punishments and sufferings. While there is major suffering for characters in both novels, there is also a great difference between the two novels as to how the characters in the book suffer for their sins. In The Inferno by Dante Alighieri, Dante uses great imagery to depict the exact nature of the intense punishments the dwellers of Hell are put through by Satan.
The distinctively visual is used throughout peter goldsworthys novel ' maestro ' and the painting By edward munch ' the scream ' 1893. there is some overlap between the distinctively visual techniques used by these writers and painters. This is done through the use of visual imagery, metaphor, exaggeration and the use of colour. The extended metaphor of peter goldsworthy “to describe the world is always to simplify its texture, to coarsen the weave: to lose the particular in general”, portrays that once you try to represent something, you lose something of its real life essence and that the act of writing about something in the world simplifies it. Both texts revel important insights into human experiences by showing the reader how the character
How can symbols be used to contrast characters and ideals? In Lord of the Flies, author William Golding uses fire and water to accomplish this. “Water popularly represents life. It can be associated with birth, fertility, and refreshment. Fire consumes, warms, and illuminates, but can also bring pain and death; thus, its symbolic meaning varies wildly, depending upon the context of its use.
But now, he is confronted to the monotony of pumping gas the small town where he was born. Updike does not take "good or bad" judgement on Flick's situation. He only uses some images to portray a dark, dingy world of the present and contrast it with the bright, shining glory of Flick's past. Some poets can made wrong judgements about the character of a story but John Updike doesn’t do that and that is why I loved this story The imagery is evident in the first two lines of the poem, where the avenue "bends with the trolley tracks and stops, cut off." We already can see that Flick's future has been cut short.
The poem Valentine is an extended metaphor about how the unromantic properties of the onion fit the notion of love. Each individual stanza shows the different phases of love and how it begins with all the best intentions yet gradually changes into misunderstandings and violence. This is shown in the poem at the start as it says “it promises light” showing that it will eventually lead to something positive as the light represents a positive connotation. However towards the end of the poem it is shown to be quite violent as Duffy says “Lethal” which connotates something deadly or fatal that usually causes death therefore portraying the negative contrast to the poem. The structure of the poem has been manipulated to emphasise Duffy's key points.
Commentary For my transformation I chose Wilfred Owen’s poem Exposure. I chose this for my base text because I enjoyed Owen’s elevated use of lexis to refer to the obscene weather conditions in the poem. I also enjoyed how Owen emphasised the importance of time and waiting in the poem, through this idea I thought I could produce a sound transformation. I chose to turn my transformation into the form of a letter, I did this because I felt that the feelings of Owen could be portrayed expertly in a letter however I could not have the letter addressed to a family member of Owen’s because the feelings presented in his poem would not have been suitable to reveal to the members of his family therefore I addressed the letter to a friend of Owen’s who had been in the Army and been through the same or similar events as Owen himself. I started my letter with the date however I did not make it specific because I wanted to portray that Owen has lost track of time and can’t be sure what day it actually is.
The Simpsons pointed out how comical some of Poe’s supposedly deep, gloomy lines are if they were read individually of the rhythm. Other things The Simpsons paradox differed from Poe’s “The Raven” was by using visual effects that didn’t agree with the original text to create irony and physical humor. When the narrator said, “Then, me thought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer,” the unseen censer hit Homer’s head, and we hear Homer’s classic line “D’oh!” Here, The Simpsons paradox transformed the poem by allowing us to see an “unseen” object in a scene that is normal of the physical humor that Homer is usually involved in. They mock Poe’s diction, by using Homer’s well-known physical humor to make a scene in “The Raven” that is supposed to be emotional and touching seem hilarious. The Simpsons paradox used all of the members of the Simpsons family during the sequence of the
Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town CPT Essay Sunshine Sketches of a Little Town Essay This novel, “Sunshine Sketches Of A Little Town”, written by Stephen Leacock, portrays the use of satire through out the whole novel by criticizing people’s stupidity and vices in the novel with the use of humor, irony, and exaggeration. Stephen Leacock wrote this novel very well using satire as the main theme, and portraying all the characters through out the novel. Stephen Leacock used satire to describe and inform the reader of the characters like Mr. Smith; Stephen Leacock showed that Mr. Smith was a very humorous person, and showed off Mr. Smith’s character in a fun, “stupid” way but not making the reader think and feel that Mr. Smith is a stupid person, but on the other hand, a very smart and successful man. Stephen Leacock also used satire on the characters, Jefferson Thorpe, and the Knights of Pythias, which he portrayed them in a very clever way. Through out the whole novel, Stephen Leacock, used satire in a very unique and enjoyable way for the reader, so that they understand and enjoy the novel.
Keri Ann Hass P7 Rising from the Fire In Fahrenheit 451 there is many lessons and messages hidden throughout the book by symbolism, motifs, archetypes, and figurative language. The two main themes that are evident in Fahrenheit 451 are Conformity and Happiness. Bradbury potrays the importance of not "going with the flow". He also tries to portrays what true happiness is. The theme Conformity is expressed in Fahrenheit 451 by the use of figurative language and motifs.
"Robins will wear their feathery fire, whistling their whims on a low fence wire". This quoteis compared but its diffrently worded were it makes us think a little more the author uses these metaphorsto represent a less tangiable thing or some intangable quality or thing. Brad used metaphors in various ways which made the story very well detailed . Inferencing is a great way to make a reader use its imagination by visualising what will happen next. This literary device leaves a story with a myth, and only gives out hints to the reader to help him and think a lilttle more criticallly.