Browning over-exaggerates the features and beauty of the nature of England almost making them come alive with her use of personification. The poem is very descriptive and also plays on all the five senses. She shows the sense of taste with the use of the word ‘sweeter’ in line 12, ‘ Made sweeter for the step upon the grass’ and also line 20, ‘Fed full of noises by invisible streams,’ the sense of hearing is shown using the word ‘noises.’ Browning also used the repetition to give the reader a sense of continuity. She shows that nature is evergreen and will be omnipresent in this world. This can be seen with the repetition of words like ‘the’ and ‘and’.
“Nothing like that” (689). The Tinker, being the salesman that he is, finds away to soften her when he spots the chrysanthemums. “What’s them plants ma’am?” (690) Elisa is overjoyed with this outside interest in her flowers. When the he notices the flowers it’s like he notices her now too. She is connected to the chrysanthemums.
In Erich Maria Remarque’s book, All Quiet on the Western Front, nature appears as a means of projecting the mood of the book. There are many instances of nature that affect Paul and how he thinks of war and how both nature and war have changed him. In chapter one for example, the mood is placed by how nature is being described. The first chapter has descriptions about how the flowers and butterflies were so beautiful even if it was a war zone. "The grasses sway their tall spears; the white butterflies flutter around and float on the warm wind of the late summer."
Dandelions are also known to be happy flowers so this sets the mood in a more soothing and calming place. The poet also uses imagery to lighten the mood up. “And a jumble of skirts spilled onto the ploughed grass,” could be portrayed in a mental image of the clothes scattering around from the laundry truck. It makes the mood less tense because instead of rather describing the horrible images of the accident, the poet decides to describe the little details of it. There was also an internal rhyme in that line which was “skirts and shirts”.
Spring Hail Analysis Spring Hail is a poem written by Les Murray. A literal interpretation of the poem tells the story of young boy and his pony and their journey through the aftermath of a storm. The repeated refrain “this is for spring and hail, that you may remember: for a boy long ago and a pony that could fly” allows a hint of nostalgia to seep into the consciousness of the audience while reading the poem and allows the audience to understand that the poem is a recollection of past events. The lilting voice of the poem and lack of rhyming scheme also means the poem can be easily taken as simply a vividly written narrative. But further contemplation reveals the poem to be a lyrical analogy.
I enjoyed the way that Mr. Soto described the weather and the lovely girl that he first held hands with and the way the candy was tiered in the store. Also, the rhythm flowed nicely throughout the whole poem. Poetry that rhymes and flows easily holds my attention more than poetry that doesn’t rhyme. As stated before, Gary Soto writes mostly about Mexican-American culture and the farming industry in central California but what I enjoyed about “Oranges” is the description of the first love of this young man and how he impressed the girl he was with when he used an orange to help buy the chocolate that she picked out. It reminded me of myself in my youth when my first love gave me a hand drawn picture of on oriole that he drew for me for Valentine’s Day.
One top of each float, there were people wearing colorful masks that were throwing beading and other special goodies at the crowd on the ground. In between floats, dancers and band members were marching the streets playing their instruments and dancing to the beat. At the end of the parade, police officers were riding horses. One of the horses was pooping while he was marching, I remember laughing at
Tim Petriccione 2B-1 Great Gatsby Outline Intro: * Flowers are a sign of vibrant life * They can have different meanings in different situations and symbolize different things for different people. * Color, shape, and smell of flowers can evoke powerful emotions for people. * The significance of flowers in the book is shown through the numerous times they are shown. THESIS: Through the use of the floral images, Fitzgerald symbolizes the eventual demise of Gatsby’s ultimate dream of love. Body Paragraph 1: TRS: A rose in full bloom is a dramatic symbol of true love just as the withered rose is a symbol of unrequited love.
As writing a sonnet, composing a rondeau is demanding exercise for a poet. Analysis: * In Flanders Fields: features the alliteration that helps structure this poem throughout. * “…the poppies grow”: poppies were a symbol for death in war before World War One, but it was McCrae’s poem that helped to popularize the poppy as a sign of remembrance for the Great War. Poppies have been associated with the battlefield since at least the Napoleonic wars, when poppies would thrive and grow on the fields freshly manured by blood. Poppies were also associated with sleep (opium being a poppy derivate) and McCrae, being a doctor, would have been conscious of this: the idea of sleeping under the poppies is revived in the last lines.
In addition, the purple color of lilacs is traditionally representative of nobility and mourning. Abraham Lincoln is well known for his actions against slavery, actions that labeled him as large-hearted. This quality of Lincoln is further embodied by the lilacs in their “heart-shaped leaves” (16). Lincoln’s grand stature is another quality found copiously in the lilac’s “tall-growing” bushes (13). In addition, lilacs also reflect vacillations of Whitman’s ideas about the proper way of mourning.