Sir Ken Robinson once quoted, “Children are wonderfully confident in their own imaginations. Most of us lose this confidence as we grow up.” This exhibits how childhood is a time where children are consumed with their own imagination and the perception that everything is a magical fairy tale. They wonder their eyes on the outskirts of giant, rolling hills, and forests imagining all the wild phenomenons they could endure. They paint a clear picture of a forest or any other location they might be at, as a place of adventure, and to let their insane imagination run wild. However, as the years grow older, and we solemnly reach maturity, we see conditions, and places less vivid, and view it more as reality. As a result, time moves awfully fast, …show more content…
Although this is a shorter poem, it surly contains many examples of figurative language. To restate, “Time had whittled down to mere hills,”(ln 2) which is an example of personification, considering that time can’t whittle, but it emphasises the fact that the stages of life, can alter the surroundings. Another main literary device that was used in the last two lines is a hyperbole, “A hundred strong men strained beneath his coffin/When they bore him to his grave”(lns 12-13). This exaggerates how important, and meaningful the speaker’s father was to him, comparing it to the heaviness of his father, and how hundred strong men needed to lift his coffin, but truthfully hundred men are not needed to lift a coffin. This also represents the impact the speaker’s father had on him, and the role his father played, within the speaker’s life. An example of is a metaphor, “ Only the giant who was my father/remained the same”(lns 10-11) which portrayed that everything was once giant, and interchanged into something smaller, but like said before the only thing that didn’t get smaller was his father. This is why the use of this metaphor suggest that his father was the only quote on quote, “giant” left in his life. Lastly, on lines four and
The first aspect of language, which he uses is metaphor in the beginning of the poem when he is describing the dwarf sitting outside the church. He uses metaphor as he says, “The dwarf with his hands on backwards Sat, slumped like a half – filled sack On tiny twisted legs from which Sawdust might run.” The metaphor here of the dwarf sitting like a ‘half filled sack’ is describing the dwarf and how he has a deformed body. He is being compared to looking like a sack, which is slumped and half empty. This is effective as it seems as though the dwarf cannot help himself
Shrouded in a black cloak and a razor sharp scythe gripped in its callous hands. Feared by the bravest of men. It is the inescapable end met by all. This tends to be the common notion when it comes to death. In Markus Zusak’s extraordinary novel, The Book Thief, death is personified as the narrator. In contrast to the average perception, Death is an intricate and internally conflicted character with a lot to offer. Death’s perspective softens the harshness of the overall subject of the book and contributes a poetic view of the world. Death provides a complex knowledge of the characters and the human psyche, as well as future events and the outside world.
As Lindsay Wagner once said, “When we shift our perception, our experience changes.” (Lindsay Wagner) Similarly, in the “The Funeral” by Gordon Parks, the speaker matures, realizing the beauteous environment he once saw is nothing more than a couple streams, hills, and dirt roads. As a child, he remembers being in awe while looking upon the stunning world around him. He saw everything through an elegant eye valuing it almost more than life itself. However, when the speaker returns home “after many snows,” (Parks, line 1) his surroundings didn’t have nearly the same effect on him. The magical place that brings elation to his childhood no longer exists. In its place, the speaker now sees gently trickling streams where raging rivers once were,
Chris Van Allsburg grew up in a quiet suburban setting in Grand Rapids, Michigan. During the 1950’s, when he was a child, the town was a place that seemed like a haven for any young boy. There were open fields that provided places for the children to enjoy a baseball game in the spring. The houses were not separated by fences, but rather blended together by the yards. The setting in which he grew up provided activities and locations that fostered imagination. He used to go down to the edge of a river and tried to catch tadpoles. Walking around in the wilderness that surrounded his town could be very relaxing and allow for the mind to conjure up many ideas. The child’s mind has a great ability to make up stories, but when you are constantly “practicing” at make-believe, you tend to become better and better at it. You also come to develop your own unique style.
...his father, he has “no use for similes” with a follow up sentence that states that because of his father the speaker now hungers for his “own catalog of metaphors.” These statements signify more than the speaker’s style of writing, they signify the speaker’s opinion about who his father was. By not using similes the speaker avoids directly comparing his father to a variety of specific things because the speaker believed his father was unique, one of a kind like Christ or like a Siberian tiger. Instead, the speaker uses a series of metaphors to suggest a resemblance between his father and a variety of things. Due to the knowledge that the speaker is obsessed with his father, the reader can assume that the reason the speaker didn’t directly compare anything to his father is because his father is suggested to be a unique, influential, and aiding guide to the speaker.
The three titles of Maurice Sendak’s famous picture book trilogy, Where the Wild Things Are, In the Night Kitchen, and Outside Over There, name what Judith Butler calls “zones of uninhabitability,” places of abjection that form the borders of the self as both its constitutive outside and its intimate interior. These are dangerous places in the geography of childhood, places where the child’s very life and sense of self is threatened. More frightening still, they are present places, places that exist in the same time that the child inhabits, rather than the once upon a mythical time of fairy tales and legends. Hence they are places that beckon the child to trespass the boundaries of their current lived social and material landscapes and explore. What does happen where the wild things are? What goes on in the night kitchen? What fascinations lurk outside over there?
When comparing the terms fantasy and reality, the adult mind categorizes the respective events of the two perspectives. Fantasy relates to the impractical while reality pertains to the facts and our experiences. In the mind of a child, there isn’t necessarily a distinction. Rather the lens in which children see through is an unrestricted view of the world that is not constrained by the rules of practicality. None better depicts the power to fantasize and imagine than the two films Beast of the Southern Wild and Pan’s Labyrinth.
...t is arguable that the birds fight is also a metaphor, implying the fight exists not only between birds but also in the father’s mind. Finally, the last part confirms the transformation of the parents, from a life-weary attitude to a “moving on” one by contrasting the gloomy and harmonious letter. In addition, readers should consider this changed attitude as a preference of the poet. Within the poem, we would be able to the repetitions of word with same notion. Take the first part of the poem as example, words like death, illness
Personification is an important theme throughout this poem. In lines 1-2 it says, “The mountain held the town as in a shadow I saw so much before I slept there once:.” Also in lines 3-4 it says, “I noticed that I missed stars in the west, where its black body cut into the sky.” This is an example of personification. In lines 5-6 it says, Near me it seemed: I felt it like a wall behind which i was sheltered from a wind.” Most of the examples showing personification in this poem, are displayed in the first couple of lines of the poem.
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Growing up, we have all been told fairy tales, whether it had been tales of princesses and princes or about about religious figures who we are meant to admire for their accomplishments. But as children, we never saw the true meaning behind these stories, we simply considered the tales as amusing stories that our parents would read to us to satisfy our boredom or curiosity. Little did we know that the same stories that were told to us served as a warning for children just like us. Most of us have heard of Little Red Riding Hood, the sweet little girl who had been told to give sweets to her grandmother to make her feel better. We had thought that she was such a grown up, walking all alone all the way to her grandmother's house, and to some
In the second quatrain, the speaker depicts a moving image of a twilight that can be seen fading on him as the sun sets in the west and soon turns into darkness. Symbolizing the last moments of life the speaker has. In the third quatrain the speaker depicts an image with a similar meaning as the previous, except for one distinct last thought. The speaker depicts a living image of a bonfire extinguishing and turning into ashes, ashes that may represent his well lived youth. The image gives the idea that ashes represent what once was a beautiful life to the speaker.
Although it is saddening when you lose a loved one, it is also a chance to celebrate the amazing life they lived and bring their friends and family together. Honor their life and show the world how valuable they are with a meaningful, well-planned funeral. Adzima Funeral Home in Stratford, CT, a family-run, century-old home, will give you the careful attention you need to plan a funeral that leaves friends and family with beautiful memories. So what are the elements of a meaningful funeral? Music: Music is important because it allows people to fully experience whatever it is that they are feeling, whether it be love, happiness, grief or sadness.
Even though we don’t understand how it works and we can’t control it, we have all looked back and wished time would slow down because the moments and memories that we gain from it are much more valuable than anything it has in store for us.
Funeral Blues by W. H. Auden is a short poem that illustrates the emotions that he is dealing with after the love of his life passes away. The tone of this piece evokes feelings that will differ depending on the reader; therefore, the meaning of this poem is not in any way one-dimensional, resulting in inevitable ambiguity . In order to evoke emotion from his audience, Auden uses a series of different poetic devices to express the sadness and despair of losing a loved one. This poem isn’t necessarily about finding meaning or coming to some overwhelming realization, but rather about feeling emotions and understanding the pain that the speaker is experiencing. Through the use of poetic devices such as an elegy, hyperboles, imagery, metaphors, and alliterations as well as end-rhyme, Auden has created a powerful poem that accurately depicts the emotions a person will often feel when the love of their live has passed away.