Mellow Yellow Story
Mellow Yellow is a love story about Marie-Claire and Conrad Zingg. The two love and live for one another. The story uses the metaphor of traffic lights to illuminate their romance life. A metaphor is a word that compares one thing to another directly without the use of a comparative term. The metaphor of traffic lights has many meanings according to the choice of color. The traffic light has red, amber, and green colors. In the traffic world, red light instructs drivers to stop and in the literary world, the color means danger. Green light is the light that gives the directive to go ahead. It means all is well, and people can continue with their journey. The amber is an order to drivers to get ready because they can continue anytime. The author uses the metaphor of light to show how love life remains complicated in the story. The relationship between Marie-Claire and Conrad Zingg goes through happy and turbulence times. The focus is on literary review of how the author uses the metaphor of traffic lights, in relation to Conrad and Marie.
The author uses many metaphors in the story. The author writes, “Their love was a green traffic light.” This metaphor has compared the love of the two lovebirds to the green traffic light. This means that their romance had a lot of meaning to the two. The author describes their love as one that is mutual and relevant. In life, people may enter into marriage and love one another for who they are. Marie-Claire loved Conrad to the extent that she could sacrifice anything for his sake. The author narrates how they used to keep each other company. Every time the two lovebirds were together, they used to share light moments. They used to laugh and smile all the time because of the gi...
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...do something to rectify the situation. The metaphor has clearly highlighted the theme of conflicts in relationships. It shows how Marie and Conrad cannot live a smooth life because of the differences that exist between them. Marie used to complain to Zingg sometimes. The metaphor has shown the dark times in their romance. At times, no one would have guessed whether the two would have ever talked. The red light in traffic lights points to bad and dangerous things. Using it in this story, the author has employed the use of metaphors coherently.
When in love, people should learn to accommodate one another. The use of metaphor of traffic light sheds light on how couples should behave in dark and happy moments. Direct use of word comparison helps to create a lasting impression in readers. It evokes curiosity in them to have the desire to know what the traffic lights mean.
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In this poem called “Creatures” by the author Billy Collins there is a literary device called a metaphor when the reader is reading this poem. A metaphor is a comparison of two unlike things without using the words like or as. In lines one (1) through...
...ors to describe her life and situation. This comes primarily from the fact that in her therapy sessions that is how she is taught to deal with everything. For example, one metaphor she talks about is “… she comes up with the idea of lighting candles to symbolize my past, present, and future…I’ve noticed my past melting… my present candle has stayed pretty much the same,” (D 266). She explains them as her past is become less controlling, her present is her and concrete ideas and her future is bright and untouched. These metaphors show how much she has grown and allow the things she is learning to have more meaning. All of these combine to make the piece very effective and insightful. They help to get her point across and call people to action to help against these crimes.
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... as they present pure fantasy, and the lovers have one foot in each world; they experience desperation in the face of harsh realities, but meanwhile they learn and change as a result of their fantastical dreams. The allusions used in each world illustrate the differences between them and bring them together simultaneously. All of the myths and legends referenced have similar themes and origins, but each is interpreted differently by the speaker; the lovers speak of mythological figures much like themselves, the mechanicals attempt to do the same with little success, and the fairies reference gods and goddess who toy with the fates of mortal lovers. Such striking similarities echo the ever-present theme that in love, we are all the same. Whether we fancy a donkey, a meddling fairy, or a friendly Athenian, in love there is beauty, hilarity, and irrationality in excess.
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...ce of outside forces. However, the male-female love still exists in the world because the world in reality is a play where each being can write their script. In poetry reality holds no limitations. Even though the lover’s love is not true, it exists in the world because of the human being’s fight to preserve it. True love may only be able to exist in the female-friendship as shown in the play, but love in relationships still exists because the world allows any being willing to become a poet to be one. Any person can preserve a dream of false love and turn it into true love is they are willing to believe it possible. True love can only exist without penetration, domination, desire, or loss of identity, which exist in male-female love. However, love exists in this relationship because poetry has the ability to transfer this love away from a dream and into existance.
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