Momaday and Brown used conflicting diction to create different views on similar landscapes. Momaday uses words and phrases such as "loneliness is an aspect of the land," "all things in the plain are isolate," "to look upon that landscape in the early morning, with the sun at your back, is to lose the sense of proportion," "imagination comes to life," and "creation was begun." Momaday's use of words show the sacredness of the land. They also signify that the land is of important value to him on a spiritual level. On the other hand, Brown uses words and phrases such as "everything had turned bad," "gone," "replaced by an endless desolation," "roamed restlessly," and "return to their reservations to keep from starving."
What connections have you found between the ways in which Plath and Hughes write about the seasons and/or time of the year in their poems? In Plath and Hughes poems, the use of seasons and time is often used in order to represent the narrator’s inner world of feelings. Furthermore, they are used to set the tone of the poem and therefore inflict emotion upon the reader. In Plath’s ‘Spinster’, Spring is shown to cause uncomfortable feelings within the narrator, leaving them in “disarray”. The confusion and therefore discomfort within the reader is evident as a result of the “irregular babble” of the birds and the “tumult”.
In addition to Carson’s ethical appeal, she also makes an emotional appeal to the reader. She relates the issue of spraying poison on plants back to how it can affect the reader. She creates an emotional connection with the reader by asking thought provoking questions. She appeals to the better side of human nature by instigating a feeling of guilt from the readers own selfishness by asking questions that make them think of other people. For example when she asks, “Does Indiana still raise any boys who roam through woods or
This should be a positive image but I find it quite ironic as the natural beauty, peace and quiet are shattered by the sounds and sights of war so it affects everyone. It think it would be around spring, maybe even summertime due to all the flower picking that seems to be going on. We soon find out this beautiful place in the Scottish countryside must be totally different from our main characters home town. There are two characters that we are introduced to in this short story, Miss Laing and our main character Margaret. Miss Laing
Reading the poems of both Wordsworth and Coleridge, one immediately notes a difference in the common surroundings presented by Wordsworth and the bizarre creations of Coleridge. Thus they develop their individual attitudes towards life. I will look at differences and similarities concerning people's relationship to nature in poems by Coleridge and Wordsworth such as: "The Ancient Mariner", "Kubla Khan", "The Nightingale," "Lucy", "Tintern Abbey," "There was a boy", " Old Beggar", "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" and "Frost at Midnight". In "The Ancient Mariner," Coleridge demonstrates how violating nature and her subjects brings doom to the infracted. In this poem, the poet emphasises the vengeful, dark side of the land and the sea.
Blade runner & Frankenstein NOTES: • Both focus on the “eyes being the windows to the soul” • Both show the importance of nature • Both questions that we as humans should be asking ourselves such a “what is social justice” and “should humans play god” • The power of nature depicted in Frankenstein is juxtaposed with the dystopian world of BR and the lack of nature. • Many of the characters find peace in nature for example, victor Frankenstein says “These sublime and magnificent scenes afforded me the greatest consolation that I was capable of receiving”. • There are parallels to victor FS, his greed for knowledge and the creation of his monster. Greed without consideration of the consequence of one’s actions is a key concern raised in BR and FS. • The meaning of what it is to be human is raised greatly in both texts.
The use of these rhetorical devices combined creates a sense of emotion for the reader. With words such as “who” and “why,” Carson calls on the reader to use their conscious and think if what is happening is actually the right thing to do. She portrays the earth as a beautiful sense of nature which took many years to become and humans are destroying it just because of the inconvenience nature has become for them. The use of logos and ethos in this essay pulls the reader in and then creates a sense of emotion to understand the problem in the author’s point of view. The purpose of this essay was to create a better understanding of how people kept wildlife out of their business and how harmful it was.
Thoreau’s main source for metaphor is the natural world around him. When he describes nature, he likes to anthropomorphize the life around him. He gives the birds, the plants, the animals, and of course the pond in Walden personalities. For example in the chapter titled “Battle of the Ants” in Walden, Thoreau uses anthropomorphism and conceits to describe the war of the two ant species. The uses of these literary techniques help Thoreau show his hatred and thoughts of
Poetic Analysis ‘Magpies’ ‘Magpies’ by Judith Wright is a captivating and fun poem, which explains the two completely different personalities of magpies. In this poem, the poet positions the reader to see nature as mature, prim and proper, but also extremely greedy and selfish. It successfully uses imagery, movement and sound devices to do this. The poetic devices similes, personification, rhythm, rhyme, alliteration and assonance will be examined in this essay. This poem is about magpies, animals that are mature and relaxed, but when food appears they lose these attributes and adopt a greedy and selfish behavior.
I will discuss the textual absences in the poem showing their importance and supporting my evidence using analysis from Jane Dowson and Alice Entwistle. I will argue that Mew uses simplistic language to disguise traumatic events, using instead obscure colour symbols and ellipsis to reveal how disturbed the speaker is. ‘The Farmer’s Bride’ is written in the form of the dramatic monologue with a farmer expressing grief and disappointment in his loveless marriage. The rhyming scheme is unpredictable with different length stanzas throughout. Yet there is a strong use of rhyming within the poem and a