This poem is about how Julie was able to find light in the darkness. Overall, this poem is a metaphor itself. It compares a symphony to the Nazis, for that everything is well arranged and orchestrated where the conductor is the Nazi character von Linden and the musicians are his associates. However, within this poem there two similes and one metaphor I used. The first simile is in the very first line of the third stanza. I chose to put this simile in this location because I thought it was most logical to explain what comes next after she hears footsteps coming towards her cell. In addition, I wanted this effect to happen at this point because if you were to analyze the first three stanzas, you can see that the intensity of that the darkness …show more content…
The second simile is in the second line of the fifth stanza. The purpose of its location is to emphasize the turning point of Julie’s mentality after being in the darkness for so long. The effect I hoped to achieve with this simile is that it reveals how wise Julie was when she was able to sense that there is still hope and that there is an important person in her life that she longs to reunite with, Maddie. I chose to use a simile instead of a metaphor because I did not want to make Julie’s heart sound like it is an inanimate object, I wanted it to be real. The metaphor is in the second line of the seventh stanza because I wanted it to be near the end where Julie realizes who she really is and come to appreciate and utilizes her qualities. I hoped that this metaphor would reveal, firstly, that Julie is a great liar, and secondly, that she is persistent. I chose to use a metaphor instead of a simile because in a sense, it gives a feeling that Julie has control of her own self when I say her heart is a person, instead of like a …show more content…
I chose to use personification at the beginning of each stanza in order to introduce the actions of Julie’s heart under the influence of darkness and light. Moving on, the first key poetic devices I used for sound effects was repetition. And of course, the repetition is in the beginning of each stanza until the sixth stanza. I hoped that repeating simply “My Heart” without any words before it, would give a weak feel and show unconfidence in Julie. But the repetition of the beginning of each stanza ends at the sixth stanza because when Julie realizes that she has a friendship waiting for her, she becomes more confident of her actions. The last stanzas begin with more words to emphasize her confidence. Another sound effect poetic device is alliteration, located in the last line of the third stanza. My reasoning behind the location and effect is that it gives a smooth flow when reading and that it accompanies the simile quite well. The last sound effect device I used is rhyme in the last stanza. I wanted the ending to sound playful and cheerful, since that is when Julie’s mentality stabilizes and she internally agrees lie about codes and
It shows that similes have to be compared universally so everyone can understand. This poem is a really funny read and I
7. The personification in the second stanza is that she gives poems the ability to hide and are waiting to be found. The author states that poems are hiding in the bottom of your shoes, and they are the shadows drifting across your ceiling before you wake up. This is personification because she gives the poems traits that only a living organism can possess.
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
The first stanza describes the depth of despair that the speaker is feeling, without further explanation on its causes. The short length of the lines add a sense of incompleteness and hesitance the speaker feels towards his/ her emotions. This is successful in sparking the interest of the readers, as it makes the readers wonder about the events that lead to these emotions. The second and third stanza describe the agony the speaker is in, and the long lines work to add a sense of longing and the outpouring emotion the speaker is struggling with. The last stanza, again structured with short lines, finally reveals the speaker 's innermost desire to "make love" to the person the speaker is in love
Imagery is a grandiose part of this poem, simile’s help the reader to comprehend the enhanced pace fast break of this poem. (L.6) “gathering the orange leather from air a cherished possession” gives the reader an image of just how essential the ball is, and that he is control of the situation. Whenever I get a chance to get a rebound like he did, I take it. It is a feeling of hard work pays off when you get the chance to get a rebound. Another example of a simile, (L.18) “ in slow motion , almost exactly like a coach’s drawing on a blackboard’
This heavy word choice made by Harper continues throughout the following stanzas as well, and this evokes a sympathetic feeling from the audience. At this point, it has not been revealed that the person with the "burden'd heart" is a mother, but it still conveys the anguish that the woman is feeling. The woman is also described as having a "bowed and feeble head," and this conveys the helplessness that the woman is feeling in the scene (stanza 2, line 6). The author continues with this tone when the son is introduced as well. He is described as having a "trembling form" that the mother is trying to hide behind herself (stanza 4, line 16). At this point in the poem, it is made much clearer that the mother and son are slaves because the narrator says that "he is not hers," meaning that even though she gave birth to the boy, he was owned by the slave owners (stanza 5, line 17). Therefore, her own son could never truly belong to her. Slavery has created this situation, and the woman was so desperate to get out that she was willing to run away with her son in order for him to have a better love. When they were caught and the threat that he would be taken from her became real, she became devastated and desperate. However,
Figurative Language in used throughout poems so the reader can develop a further understanding of the text. In “The Journey” the author uses rhythm and metaphors throughout the poem. “...as you left their voices behind, the stars began to burn through the sheets of the clouds..”(25-27). The author compares the star burning to finding your voice. Rhythm also develops the theme of the poem because throughout the story rhythm is presented as happy showing growing up and changing for the better is necessary and cheerful. In “The Laughing Heart” the author uses imagery and metaphors to develop the theme throughout the book. “There is a light somewhere. It may not be much light but it beats the darkness”(5-7). Always find the good out of everything, even it
The author tells us that there is no telling the story of something without knowing the inside. Stories on the outside may not indeed be the reality that is within. The tone and imagery of this poem had a great importance in sending this message to her readers. The glory and doom of this woman would not be able to obtain without its intimate tones ranging from flaunting to embarrassment depiction's of this woman's melancholy. Her glory rose and fell as shortly as her inner spirit did.
The speaker talks about what happens after being emotionally hurt by stating “getting a transfusion from the fire, picking the scabs off our heart, then wringing it out like a sock” (lines 29-31). Words such as ‘transfusion’ and ‘scab’ creates an image of healing and the word ‘wringing’ creates an image of getting rid of unwanted substances. The speaker is explaining that to heal from despair, people need to get their spark back, stop hiding their feelings, and get rid of unwanted feelings. The speaker uses other examples of imagery when she states “Next, my kinsman, you powdered your sorrow, you gave it a back rub, and then you covered it with a blanket” (lines 32-34). The statement gives an image how a baby is comforted when upset. The speaker is explaining that after experiencing despair, it is okay to want to rest and be comforted like a child. The stanza is an example of courage because even after despair, people still have to keep on living.
The passage of the simile is the first verse paragraph following several prose paragraphs. The structure of the verse is loose in following rhythmic or syllabic patterns. Although the form does not have any specific significance to the content, perhaps it is written in verse to sound somewhat poetic. Because the scene is very descriptive and dramatic, it is fitting to write it in a poem-like structure rather than simple prose.
Its use of metaphoric images is there in a sense to familiarize the audience with how the author identifies a deferred or put of dream. The use of metaphor helps provides the poem’s structure and gives it a blunt tone. An example of this would be line 4 where he describes the dream as “Fester like a sore” (493). This particular metaphor is blunt because everyone can identify with what a sore is and the negative assumptions associate with sores such as painful, irritable, or even rotten out. Similar to line 4 are lines 10 and 11 where Hughes states, “Maybe it just sags like a heavy load?”(493) giving the audience the impression that a deferred dream can be a burden or weight on a person’s life and maybe interfere with other portions of everyday life.
The song “Red” by Taylor Swift includes many literary devices to convey a very strong message. The most important literary devices the artist uses are simile, personification, symbolism and hyperbole. Primarily, the composer uses a simile to represent her relationship. A simile is a figure of speech that involves the comparison between two different things. Artists could use similes to compare to make phrases more understandable to the reader. Taylor Swift writes “loving him is like driving a new Maserati” in line 1. This phrase contains a simile to compare driving a Maserati and her relationship. She thinks that it is amazing to drive a cool sports car, but equivalent to love him. It represents love,
The third stanza is a second and different refrain. This refrain occurs in every other stanza. It acts as a divider between the stanzas dealing with a specific character. In the fourth stanza, Father McKenzie is introduced to the reader. He is described as a materialistic man whose life has no meaning.
There are a couple of similes the author uses in the poem to stress the helplessness she felt in childhood. In the lines, “The tears/ running down like mud” (11,12), the reader may notice the words sliding down the page in lines 12-14 like mud and tears that flowed in childhood days. The speaker compares a...
In the last line of the second stanza, the subject enters dramatically, accompanied by an abrupt change in the rhythm of the poem: