T.S. Eliot portrays Prufrock’s alienation and depression by using metaphors. The use of metaphors enhances the readers’ thoughts about Prufrock’s character. The reader begins to understand Prufrock as sad and lonely. In the poem Eliot writes, “I should have been a pair of ragged claws scuttling across the floors of silent seas.” This metaphor is a depiction of Prufrock and how he wished he was a crab who lived on the bottom of the ocean.
The first time that we meet Odysseus he is crying on the Beach of the goddess Calypsos’ Island because he is homesick. He is stuck here because on his journey home to Ithaka after the Trojan War he and his men sailed to the land of the Cyclops where the island natives weren’t as civilized as they had hoped. Odysseus and his men discovered the cave that the Cyclops live in and decide to stay the night. The Cyclops that lives in the cave is Polyphemus, son of Poseidon. When
He goes on to describe the suffering, loneliness, cold, and hunger that he has experienced on his sea voyages “in a hundred ships, In a thousand ports” (lines 4-5). He draws a stark contrast between him and the land-dwellers that he describes as “sheltered On the quiet fairness of earth” (lines 12-13). By describing his hard life at sea and contrasting that with the easy life of land dwellers, he is appealing to the pathos of the audience, who are the Anglo Saxons living in hard times in Britain after the glory days of Roman rule. As the seafarer describes in lines 81-84, “The days are gone When kingdoms of earth flourished in glory … No givers of gold, as once there were.” Thus, the seafarer
Slavitt expresses why people are willing to die for this opportunity. Titanic is an uncomplicated poem that uses informal diction to express the main points. In the beginning, it asks who wouldn’t want to buy a ticket for a doomed ship? Slavitt uses words that have two meanings: “If they sold passage tomorrow for that same crossing, who would not buy?” (2-644). Crossing has a double meaning in this poem; the denotative meaning is actually crossing the sea.
The men start to mourn together. Here is where I noticed certain words throughout the selected passage. The words: gush, tides, flow, shower and ran all make me think about water. Earlier in the poem, Achilles is filled with rage and he is compared to a fire. Comparing Achilles then and him now, I found that he is a complete opposite of himself.
The sea in this poem is used as a conceit, which is a complex, extended metaphor that is developed throughout the piece. How does the sea function both literally and figuratively in the poem? The sea functions as his feelings and emotions and also as an actual sea because he was a seafarer. 9. What is the conflict of this poem?
“Survival on the High Seas” Introduction to Literature “For whatever we lose (like a you or a me), It's always our self we find in the sea.” ~ E.E. Cummings Stephen Crane and Joseph Conrad, both in writing fictionalized tales of the ocean travels, explore the contemplations of man and the mysteries of human character. It is the sea, serving as the fundamental backdrop, where the brave protagonists journey forward in determining their own impending fates. “The Open Boat” and “The Secret Sharer” share the epic theme of perseverance through chains of traumatic personal experiences that become integral to the course of individual transformation. Yet, each story is a different representation in the elements of struggle and uncontrolled obstacles.
A simile is also used in Train’s song when it says, “Acts like summer and walks like rain” (Stanza 1, Line 3). Lastly, the use of personification gives the song the ability to be a poem. It can be seen when Train says, “Did Venus blows your mind,” in stanza 6. All of the these elements are typically found in poetry. Train’s “Drops of Jupiter” is a bitter song about the loss of a loved one could stand alone as a poem.
Crossing the Red Sea How does ‘Crossing the Red Sea’ communicate to the responder ideas about the concept of journey? “Crossing the Red Sea” composed by Peter Skrzynecki communicates to the responder not only a physical journey but an emotional journey in which migrants escaping post WWII sail through the Red Sea. Peter uses a variety of techniques to bring out the concept of an arduous journey undertaken by a group of traumatised migrants. One technique would be the use of visual imagery throughout the poem to show the progression of the journey to recreate a string of memories to the responder. “Shirtless, in shorts, barefooted” in the first stanza is a quote used by Skrzynecki to evoke a strong sense of poverty and how hot it was, posing a physical reminder to the extended duration of the voyage to the ‘Promised Land.’ Later on in the fourth stanza Peter talks about the night and the soothing and calming effects it brings in contrast to the day’s heat.
We catched fish and talked, and we took a swim now and then to keep off sleepiness. It was kind of solemn, drifting down the big, still river.” | The two boys are being alienated from society, as is described in this quote. They must live by themselves and escape and signs of humanity, so that Jim cannot be found and reprimanded for his actions. Also, they become bored with themselves, and it is seen how they wish they did not distance themselves from society so much. | Realism | 12 | 66 | “…I felt just the way any other boy would’a’ felt when I seen that wreck laying there so mournful and lonesome in the middle of the river.