The poems “Fueled” by Marcie Hans and “Machines” by Daniel Whitehead Hicky can be compared and contrasted using similarities found in the poetic devices present in each poem. The most important similarity between both poems is the theme: Man tends to favor technology over nature. Because both poems essentially have the same theme, they both also have the same general purpose. Both poems criticize man-made creations. Each poem points out how mankind worships and elevates technology over nature. Due to this, the speakers seem to have a bias toward nature as they both show the accomplishments of mankind as something negative as opposed to nature which is shown in a positive light in both poems. To convey the theme of these poems, both poets use comparison and contrast to prove their poem’s …show more content…
“Machines” heavily relies on imagery to convey the theme. Auditory imagery is used heavily in the first stanza to depict the many moving parts of a machine. The words used to create this image make the reader envision a machine as something chaotic. In the second stanza, visual imagery creates a scene of nature at dawn for the reader. This contrasts to the hectic nature of the machine since the visual imagery of the second stanza makes nature seem peaceful and tranquil. “Fueled” also uses violent imagery for man-made things, but uses far less. Rather than almost every line using some sort of imagery to create scenes in the reader’s head, she simply says “the rocket tore a tunnel through the sky.” These two lines in this poem create enough of an image in the reader’s mind because of her strong word choice. When talking about nature, she does the same thing. “The seedling urged its way through the thickness of the black” is short, to the point, and just enough to create an image for the reader. Instead of being as vivid as Hicky, she still easily gets her point across using simple images without relying heavily on
As technology moves forward, previous generations feel left behind and nostalgic with the ever increasing advances of it. The Last Child in the Woods is an essay written by Richard Louv expressing his lament over technology apparently replacing nature the way it was when he was a child. He uses pathos, anecdotes, and dictionary choices to share his nostalgia and worry for the way car rides used to be and the way they are now. Louv starts with an example of just how far technology has advanced today by opening this passage with news of an experiment at the State University of New York where “Researchers.are experimenting with a genetic technology through which they can choose the colors that appear on butterfly wings.” He does this to introduce the idea that maybe technology is going too far for its own good into nature.
Such controlled environments provide examples of humanities belief that it is more sophisticated and indeed more powerful than the wild. Despite being written some fifty years apart both Brave New World By Aldous Huxley and Blade Runner Directed by Ridley Scott present the same message. Both texts argue that with advancing technology humanity feels itself more sophisticated and more powerful than the natural rhythms of the world. However, at the same time aspects represented in each text point out that Humanity can never be completely isolated from nature.
In nature, someone can hear the sounds of a creek flowing and birds chirping and insects buzzing; in civilization, someone can hear engines roaring, people chattering, and buildings being built. In nature, one feels happiness and contentment; in civilization, one feels guilt and misery and sorrow. These simplicities of nature are what appeals to William Cullen Bryant in the poem ‘Inscription for the Entrance to a Wood’. The poem tells the reader that nature is a happier place than civilization and that nature gives one the answers to their existence and problems of life that civilization created. Civilization is ugly and corrupt while nature is beauty and tranquility.
Imagery is made up of the five senses, which are sight, hearing, touch, smell, and taste. The first sense of sight is seen throughout the whole poem, specifically in the first two lines, “I had the idea of sitting still/while others rushed by.” This sight she envisions is so calm and still and the perfect example of appreciating the little things that life has to offer. Through the use of these terse statements, she allows it to have more meaning than some novels do as a whole.
Use of technology is expanding from day to day, more things in life are depending on machinery. Machines are meant to bring us a comfortable life, and technology is meant to enhance our living standard, yet. Half a century ago, Ray Bradbury issued an enlightenment in the short story “August 2026: There Will Come Soft Rain”. In E. M. Forster’s “The Machine Stops”, a similar enlightenment is made. Both edify people that things will go wrong when technology is dominant over humanity; our dependence on technology lead people lost humanity, lead people lost control of human creation, and eventually lead humanity to devastate. The didactic works at the level of form in Bradbury, while in Forester is works at the level of content.
To begin with, the first poetic device in this song is imagery. This poetic device affects the song because certain phrases or words help you to imagine what the song is saying. For example,
In doing so, he ensures that the readers walk away from his writing thinking of the unnecessarity of technology and how it distracts one from nature. He encourages the reader to think about what they can do to minimize the amount of technology in their life so they may be more attuned to nature. In short, Robert Louv wisely uses rhetorical devices to form a persuasive
As Edgar Allan Poe once stated, “I would define, in brief the poetry of words as the rhythmical creation of beauty.” The two poems, “Birthday,” and “The Secret Life of Books” use different diction, theme, and perspective to give them a unique identity. Each author uses different literary devices to portray a different meaning.
Image is everything. We can make even the most disturbing scene seem poetic by just adding a few birds, trees, or a river. Poetry is one of the mediums that use this mask. In Singapore by Mary Oliver, imagery plays a very important role. She writes a poem about a poor woman she saw in an airport in Singapore washing an ashtray in the toilet, seem like the woman was encompassing a beautiful scene in nature. A poem is always a beautiful thing, so she wrote a poem about this woman making her a metaphor to the serene image of nature. Although the poem seems to be a beautiful inspiration, it really is a way of her rationalizing her disturbed perception of the woman to nature in the poem. She also uses a very interruptive style of writing by jumping from what she is physically seeing, to what her mind's eye is creating.
I believe that the structure of this poem allows for the speaker to tell a narrative which further allows him to convey his point. The use of enjambment emphasizes this idea as well as provides a sense of flow throughout the entirety of a poem, giving it the look and feel of reading a story. Overall, I believe this piece is very simplistic when it comes to poetic devices, due to the fact that it is written as a prose poem, this piece lacks many of the common poetic devices such as rhyme, repetition, alliteration, and metaphors. However, the tone, symbolism, allusion and imagery presented in the poem, give way to an extremely deep and complicated
...ictures for the reader. The similar use of personification in “Snapping Beans” by Lisa Parker and the use of diction and imagery in “Nighttime Fires” by Regina Barreca support how the use of different poetic devices aid in imagery. The contrasting tones of “Song” by John Donne and “Love Poem” by John Frederick Nims show how even though the poems have opposite tones of each other, that doesn’t mean the amount of imagery changes.
Most all ethnicities and cultures have been prosecuted at one time or another from an oppressing source. In the case of the Native Americans, it was the English coming in and taking their land right from underneath them. As the new colonies of the cohesive United States of America expanded, they ran into the territories of the then referred to Indians. These people were settled down south on the east coast, for example Georgia, Tennessee, Florida and the Carolinas. America obtained this land through the Louisiana Purchase, where they bought it from France. The Native Americans were already there before anyone, yet the big power countries bargained with their land. The Native Americans did not live the way the American democracy did, and they
“What you don’t know can’t hurt you.” A very ignorant proverb, yet popular in the English language. Humankind has challenged many important tasks at hand. Anywhere from finding food and sustenance, to developing theories of the existential. But due to Ignorance and laziness of humankind. The preposterous idea of a dystopian future of “The Machine Stops” written a century ago is becoming a modern day reality. In fact, when comparing the society of twenty first century to the one envisioned by E.M. Forester, the role of technology in society is identical. Also, the idea of conforming to society has created an illiterate culture shared by both societies, reinforcing the fact that both societies are related. In contrast the settings the two societies exist in are different, this gap gives the society of the twenty first century to adjust and correct the future.
Machines have no place in this relationship. They act as a barrier between men and the land. They are dangerous because they perform the function of men with greater efficiency, but they lack the spiritual element that makes the land so valuable. Chapter five uses imagery to detail the evil inherent in the plowing of land by a machine:
The way that the author explains at the beginning what she had on and how she was so ready to pump the gas. Laux explains how the girl in the poem gets splashed by gas that came out of the pump because of the air bubble that was made in the tank. The image of her on the floating grey cloud to find was love was pretty visible. This poem definitely expressed a lot of imagery.