How he lays after some time motionless like a stone and dies. The imagery of the poem in the second half of the poem paint a vivid picture of the toad lying there in the lawn facing his slow death, but in an odd way its “monotone” as one of the words use to describe the setting, where the toad had like a beacon of light thats shining on him and its like nothing exist but the use to be life of this toad that has some kind of true significance in his life. At the end of the poem its like a ceremony of nature has been used to bury the toad in the nature of the earth. The toad has some importance if the death is being describe in such an intriguing, sanctified way. I picture this dead toad that has taken on a death so dangerous yet pure in the sense that it hold great measures in that particular time and setting.
In line one and two Wilbur uses concrete diction and visual imagery to describe how the occurrence of this frog being dead all happened, "chewed and clipped of a leg" bring out the gore in this homicide of this animal in the "garden" leading the speaker to respond in disgust towards the mower. The first line shows chaos beginning by bringing in this gas powered vehicle into "the garden verge...[that] sanctuaried him" in a peaceful place. In line four, connotation is exercised with "cineraria" leaves, cineraria also referring to the place for keeping ashes; saying the place where this toad lies is his where he falls and becomes his tomb. As the stanza goes on it talks of "heartshapen leaves, in a dim, [l]ow, and final glade" the leaves are to reference the love of nature that the toad represents by living out his day "with a hobbling hop." The "low, and final glade" is another sign of connotation being a low and final grave where the toad will rest for the remainder of time.
This is shown when Simon Wheeler corners the man. The narrator tells, “Simon Wheeler backed me into a corner and blockaded me there with his chair and then sat me down and reeled off the monotonous narrative which follows this paragraph (Twain, 526)”. The people’s mannerisms also aren’t as good because the guy who frog races with Jim cheats him. The author writes, “So he set there a good while thinking and thinking to hisself, and then he got the frog out and prized his mouth open and took a teaspoon and filled him full of quail shot__filled him pretty near up to his chin—and set him on the floor (Twain, 531)”. A third example of local color is how Jim Smiley says the name of his frog.
The Analysis of “Toad” Toad, one of the species of amphibians that have frogs characterized, have dry, leathery skin, and short legs. Comparing to the frogs, toads are often ignored and hated by people, because of the ugly appearance and noisy sound, so they become one of the unwelcome species in people’s mind. Besides, toads do not like the other species, they live with a larger group harmoniously in a quiet and uninterrupted environments where no prejudice but only have the streetlights to shine the passer. In the poetry “Toad”, by William Stafford, describes the same image of the toad like that, its uninspiring repetitive action with futureless behaviors, needs, and desires. In the meantime, this poetry also metaphor reflects the unrealistic hope of the ordinary individual, one who try their best to fight with reality in order to reach their dream even if difficult and in vain finally.
Tim describes the dead body over and over in the story which means he have trouble to move on from his guilt. Therefore, we understand that Tim is under a shock because he realizes that he kills a human been. In the other hand, Azar dehumanizes the Vietnamese man. He compares the dead body to food “wheat” “like oatmeal”. Azar deals with the situation irony and mockery.
“Toad in a Multiplicity of Cultural Contexts and Time-spans.” “O how the mighty have fallen.” One might exclaim in contemplating the toads carved on the porch of the 14th century church of St. Pierre in Moissac, France; for one specimen is seated “at the sex,” as Luyster phrases it, of the female figure personifying bad mothers. Another toad leaps from a demon’s mouth (See Figure 1) .Luyster interprets the scene as an “inverted” Annunciation and designates the role of the leaper as symbolizing a demonic proclamation/impregnation and the female figure of an anti-virgin Mary (Luyster 165). A freeze frame of a nightmare would carry more appeal than this scene. Here snakes and toads torment la femme. Demons frame the figure, and toad has ignored
The narrator first uses a metaphor comparing his cloudy vision on the battlefield to “misty panes” and then uses the simile “as under a green sea [I saw him drowning]” to describe his friend’s death. The simile implies that the doomed soldier was enveloped in a figurative “sea” of poisonous fumes, which “drowned” his lungs – similar to drowning in a sea of water. The heavy use of water imagery is interesting to note, because water is vital to life. Thus, an image generally linked to the preservation of life is here used as a destructive force – a “green sea” in which someone “drowns” (and ostensibly dies a terrible death). Owen also mentions the color green in both lines.
Orwell explains how people may be misled by the saying “the dead look peaceful” (Orwell 2) because most dead bodies he has seen look as if they die in agony. He then goes on to use the simile, “The friction of the great beast’s foot had stripped the skin from his back as neatly as one skins a rabbit” (1). By comparing the simple act of skinning a rabbit to the action of removing the skin of a man by just the brush of an elephant’s foot gives the text more gruesome feel and can be evidence of the
In order to do this, I considered particular topics that may vary, or remain, between the poems, and studied these areas. The idea portrayed by Philip Larkin in ‘Toads’ is his dismal attitude to work. He says, “Why should I let the toad work, squat on my life? Can’t I use my wit as a pitchfork and drive the brute off?” Using the idea of a toad squatting to represent his work, he describes how he yearns for the toad to disappear, using his intelligence as a “pitchfork.” Is it possible to combine his education and quick sense of humour in order to create a better way to survive? He also informs us how unjust it is that people can survive without working, yet he has to work six days of the week, simply to pay off a few bills.
Of Mice and Men Analysis The books original working title given by Steinbeck was Something That Happened, but after reading the poem “To a Mouse” by Scottish poet Robert Burns, Steinbeck changed his mind. The poem describes how the narrator accidentally plows through a mouse’s nest, and the sorrow he feels afterwards. In the poem, the narrator reflects over the relationship between man and animal, deeply apologizing on the behalf of mankind for all the damages done to nature. The narrator identifies with the mouse as a fellow mortal, saying that both the thinking men and the unthinking animals will suffer in the end. The difference lies in the fact, that only the presence touches the mouse; man on the other hand, are able to look back in regret, or look to the future and fear.