“Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand” by E.E. Cummings is a poem that uses figurative language, patterns, and imagery to portray a message about Spring. Throughout the poem, the author’s tone is simply calm. “Spring is Like a Perhaps Hand” is about the season Spring changing everything just like a hand. When spring comes it changes things, it moves things. The author uses a hand to compare the movement of what spring does. He uses imagery, and much figurative language. This poem overall uses many aspects to incorporate its message. Throughout the poem, E.E. Cummings used poetic devices to embody deeper images and deeper feelings to the reader. For example, the title itself is a simile. By using the word “like” the author shows how spring
There are multiple examples of visual imagery in this poem. An example of a simile is “curled like a possum within the hollow trunk”. The effect this has is the way it creates an image for the reader to see how the man is sleeping. An example of personification is, “yet both belonged to the bush, and now are one”. The result this has is how it creates an emotion for the reader to feel
The title of the short story, “Four Directions” is symbolic for Waverly’s inner misconceptions. As she goes about her life, she is pulled in different ways by her past and her present. She is torn between her Chinese heritage and her American life. She never thought that instead of being pulled in four directions, she could take all of her differences and combine them. In the end she realizes this with the help of her mother. “The three of us, leaving our differences behind...moving West to reach East” (184), thought Waverly. Her whole life she misconceived her mother’s intentions. Lindo never wanted Waverly to solely focus on her Chinese heritage, but rather combine it with her new American ways. The idea of being pulled in four
Tatiana de Rosnay used different literary tools to assist her writing in order to deepen the story, including figurative language, dramatic irony, and foreshadowing. The use of figurative language helps to clarify a description in order to place an image in the mind of the reader. Similes are the main type of figurative language used throughout Sarah’s Key, allowing the reader to see what is happening. Many images conjured up make comparisons as a child would make them, as much of the story concerns the innocence of a child, such as “[t]he oversized radiators were black with dirt, as scaly as a reptile” (Rosnay 10) and “[t]he bathtub has claws” (Rosnay 11). Other descriptions compare Sarah, and Zoe, to a puppy, a symbol of innocence, as children are known to be
The Lovely Bones’s combination of themes work together to expose the raw emotion of a family in pain over the death of a precious loved one. The first and most significant theme to be presented in the novel is that of mortality. Throughout the novel, as Susie looks back over her violent death and its effects on her family, she makes a point that when someone dies, that person's desires and needs pass over with them into the afterlife (Thomas). For example, from watching her sister and Ruth Connor, she realizes that the concept of love is something she still wishes she could have, even in heaven. Her sister Lindsey meets a boy by the name of Samuel, and Ruth grows closer to Susie's first real crush, Ray Singh. These observations by Susie almost
In 1957, a man named Theodor Geisel wrote a poem that many of you will know,it is a famous children’s book. This poem is called, “The Cat In the Hat”. As many of you know, the poem starts off with two kids who can not go outside cause it is raining and are bored with their lives. Then, something strange and unthinkable happens, a cCat appears and he wants to show the kids a good time only the kids and their pet fish do not want to get in trouble by their mom. But, if you dig deeper, you realize the poem is more than that. “The Cat In the Hat” is actually about our everyday lives and how the Devil tries to get us away from God and into temptations.
The poem I have chosen for this assignment is called "Garden Hose" by Kristine O'Connell George. The reason I chose this poem is because I believe that it shows great use of figurative language. It is especially used in the line that says, "Our hose dozes in the warm sun and wonders, / what to be when it grows up." This line shows that it uses personification. The reason that this is important to the poems meaning is because this type of figurative language is used all throughout the entire poem.
The poem opens upon comparisons, with lines 3 through 8 reading, “Ripe apples were caught like red fish in the nets/ of their branches. The maples/ were colored like apples,/part orange and red, part green./ The elms, already transparent trees,/ seemed swaying vases full of sky.” The narrator’s surroundings in this poem illustrate him; and the similes suggest that he is not himself, and instead he acts like others. Just as the maples are colored like apples, he
In “Queens, 1963”, the speaker narrates to her audience her observations that she has collected from living in her neighborhood located in Queens, New York in the midst of the Civil Rights Movement. The narrator is a thirteen-year-old female immigrant who moved from the Dominican Republic to America with her family. As she reflects on her past year of living in America, she reveals a superb understanding of the reasons why the people in her neighborhood act the way they do towards other neighbors. In “Queens, 1963” by Julia Alvarez, the poet utilizes diction, figurative language, and irony to effectively display to the readers that segregation is a strong part of the American melting pot.
“I remember the precise moment, crouching behind a crumbling mud wall, peeking into the alley near the frozen creek.” (Amir1). The Kite Runner by Khaled Hosseini tells a story about a boy, Amir, who has a guilty conscious throughout the course of the novel. This essay will detail in the theme of redemption through Amir and the figurative language used in the novel. Amir witnesses his friend, Hassan, get raped, and Amir feels guilty because Hassan had the courage to fight his battles.
1. “Jabberwocky”- Speaker: The young boy’s dad, Tone: Epic, Figurative Language: onomatopoeia In the poem “Jabberwocky” by Lewis Carroll, the author conveys the epic battle between the young boy and the Jabberwock through the use of onomatopoeia.
Short Investigation #3 1. “Jabberwocky” Speaker: Father, Mother, Tone: Warning, Be Cautious, Figurative Language: Simile (14), Sensory Imagery (15). In Lewis Carroll’s “Jabberwocky,” a young man is warned of the dangers before he confronts his foe. At the beginning of his quest he is equipped with knowledge of the beast.
Sometimes, the use of figurative language assist a story by strengthen the it and supporting the theme. Figurative language to a story is like a personality to a person, it helps describe the story in more detail and it gives it more life. In the story, The Open Window, figurative language helps strengthen the story and support the theme. When Mrs. Sappleton said, “”I hope Vera has been amusing you?" ” that was an example of figurative language that helped the theme, appearance is a faulty measure of reality.
Short Investigation #3 “Jabberwocky” - speaker: third person/narrator, tone: serious, figurative language: lines 14-15 use imagery. Lewis Carroll’s poem, “Jabberwocky,” emphasizes good vs. evil. The “good” being the brave boy, and the “evil” being the monster called a “jabberwocky.” This poem reveals a fundamental of language, or the aspect where people that use the language can create new words and phrases. In the first two lines of the poem, “’Twas brillig, and the slithy toves Did gyre and gimble in the wabe,” (121).
In the excerpt from the novel Jazz by Toni Morrison, the author develops the themes gender roles and identity through conflict and creating a tense tone and mood with the use of sentence structure, diction, punctuation, figurative language and other elements. Sentence structure is used throughout the excerpt allows the author to create the conflict; Alice vs. men in society in lines 5-8. The author writes a list of all the uses Alice gives men’s old shirts. Using a specific list of uses such as “rags tied around pipe joints to hinder freeing” and “salt bags to scrub teeth” show how Alice no longer has respect for the shirts. In the same way that Alice lacks respect for the men’s shirts she used to iron she also lacks respect for men in society.
Poets spend time working on their craft. Authors labor over minute details and simple subjects to create clear images and meaning. In poems like “Pear Tree”, “Heat”, and “The River Merchant's Wife”, Ezra Pound and H.D. Create images of the changing seasons. “Pear Tree” a story of changing seasons, and “Heat” the personification of a heatwave both use these details and aspects of well written poetry. In “Heat” “The River Merchant's Wife” and “Pear Tree” Pound and H.D. all use language, diction, and details to deliver images of changing seasons and simple meaning.