Every choice you take with ultimately impact your life. In “The Laughing Heart” by Charles Bukowski the author creates a theme of; your not living until you seize opportunities in life. In “The Journey” by Mary Oliver the author creates a theme of; you have to take the journey to find yourself. In each of these poems the authors use tone and figurative language to develop the overall message. 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 …show more content…
In “The Laughing Heart” the speaker reveals a sense of encouragement. “... the gods will offer you chances. know them “(9-10). The author is motivating the reader to take every opportunity. This impacts the theme because it impacts the feeling of what the reader is left of with. In “The Journey” the author portrays a feeling of determination. …”and their was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own, that you kept company as you strode deeper and deeper into the world” (27-31). By going on “The Journey” the reader is faced with new experiences that changed them for the better, making the reader determined to go on more. In both the poems the reader is left with being determined and encourage to do more and take every chance in
The language of the poem holds five of the eight languages to poetry. Allegory, personification, symbols, figures, and metaphors. In the beginning of the poem she uses Allegory, Personification and a metaphor. “Allegory- related symbols working together with characters, events, or settings representing ideas or moral qualities” (Sporre). Paula compares the silence in the air to describe how clear the air was. Going on to using personification and a metaphor, “Peaks rise above me like the Gods. That is where they live, the old people say.” Personification is the figure of speech in which abstract qualities, animals, or inanimate objects take into many forms of literature (Sporre). Metaphors, are figures of speech by which new implications are given to words. Metaphors are implied but not explicit comparisons (Sporre). She goes on to imply that the Gods lives above us in the peaks, that’s where the old people say that they live. Using Symbols, “Which is critical to poetry, which uses compressed language to express, and carry us into its meaning (Sporre).” Ending the first line she writes “I listen and I heard”. Going on to explain how she heard the voice in the wind and by giving us the emotion of that feeling set the understanding of what the poem was all about. Following the next line Paula uses a form of Imagery. A verbal representation of objects, feelings, or ideas can be literal or figurative. figurative imagery involves a change in
In this poem called “Creatures” by the author Billy Collins there are three examples of figurative language helps convey the meaning that the author Billy Collins is conveying. The three examples of figurative language that the author Billy Collins uses are a metaphor, enjambment, and imagery. These three examples of figurative language help illustrate Billy Collins” theme in this poem called “Creatures” that he is writing because these three examples of figurative language help emphasize the theme of the poem. These three examples help emphasize this poem called “Creatures” meaning because it makes the theme of this poem have a deeper meaning. The theme of the author Billy Collins poem called “Creatures” is that the reader has to imagine
In conclusion, I have found that both poets are successful in presenting their particular ideas about what a journey is to them. For Plath, a journey represents a desire for freedom and a metaphorical escape from the insecurities within her own life and it is clear to us that her escape is pivotal in her journey of self acceptance. Larkin has also shown that journeys are an escape from life, but unlike Plath he is running away from society and the oppressions he feels bound by, whereas Plath wants to escape from the shackles of her thoughts.
In the poem pride, Dahlia Ravikovitch uses many poetic devices. She uses an analogy for the poem as a whole, and a few metaphors inside it, such as, “the rock has an open wound.” Ravikovitch also uses personification multiple times, for example: “Years pass over them as they wait.” and, “the seaweed whips around, the sea bursts forth and rolls back--” Ravikovitch also uses inclusive language such as when she says: “I’m telling you,” and “I told you.” She uses these phrases to make the reader feel apart of the poem, and to draw the reader in. She also uses repetition, for example, repetition of the word years.
In the end, the journey the speaker embarked on throughout the poem was one of learning, especially as the reader was taken through the evolution of the speakers thoughts, demonstrated by the tone, and experienced the images that were seen in the speaker’s nightmare of the personified fear. As the journey commenced, the reader learned how the speaker dealt with the terrors and fears that were accompanied by some experience in the speaker’s life, and optimistically the reader learned just how they themselves deal with the consequences and troubles that are a result of the various situations they face in their
Looking back at the narratives and the significance of the poems in them is that many of the poems are inspired by nature around the authors. Also, the poems provide more of the voice of the authors instead of just the voice of the narrator and helps present the emotional tones of the characters in the narratives to the reader so that there can be more of a connection to it when it is being read. The poems make for a simple addition to the narrative and allows for a much more meaningful experience for a reader and makes for a much more engrossing story, thus adding to the to experience as a whole.
This poem has used the variety of figurative languages such as rhyme, rhythm, mood and personification. Line two and line four of all three stanzas rhyme. Stanza one says “A dream can grow in
“Sometimes it's the smallest decisions that can change your life forever.” by Keri Russel. This quote states the theme here of the two poems “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost and “Song of the Open Road” by Walt Whiteman. The thesis is that both the poems themes are similar as they both show how decisions affect your life.
Poetry is an art for literature that is written or can be spoken in a rhythmical way for the reader or listener(s) to experience many thoughts and emotions while reading a particular poem. However, if a reader wants to comprehend that certain poem, then, there are the elements of the poems that offer the reader a better understanding or also known as the Figures of Speech. The elements or figures of speech can include metonymy, synecdoche, paradox, puns, and in this particular passage, we will discuss personification, metaphor and simile. Of course, in order to learn more about personification, metaphor and simile precisely, we shall take a look at two poems by two poets by the name of James Joyce and Ted Kooser. Those
Myths and allusions can be useful in poems, however they are not fundamental elements of poetic language. Shown through the two poems, Social Notes II and Poetry, that poems without the use of myths and allusions can easily hold an argument, be equally as emotional and present a message by using themes and imagery
“The Laughing Heart,” written by Charles Bukowski and “The Journey,” written by Mary Oliver have many similarities as well as a few differences. The underlying messages proposed by the poets have some noteworthy similarities. Both poems convey the darkness in life and overcoming its obstacles. Bukowski’s theme is to live life to the fullest. Death is inevitable; however, one should not live life in fear. Oliver’s words share the importance of finding one’s own voice and to break free from society’s voice. The darkness expressed in these poems ends with an uplifting and hopeful feeling of warmth.
The poem uses powerful language to achieve effect. It often makes use of imagery, exaggerated language and onomatopoeia to create an atmosphere of the English autumn, for the reader. Language such as this excerpt from the first stanza,
This shows the allegorical aspect. All in all, these are some of the beneficial ideas to keep in mind while reading the poem.
Through alliteration and imagery, Coleridge turns the words of the poem into a system of symbols that become unfixed to the reader. Coleridge uses alliteration throughout the poem, in which the reader “hovers” between imagination and reality. As the reader moves through the poem, they feel as if they are traveling along a river, “five miles meandering with a mazy motion” (25). The words become a symbol of a slow moving river and as the reader travels along the river, they are also traveling through each stanza. This creates a scene that the viewer can turn words into symbols while in reality they are just reading text. Coleridge is also able to illustrate a suspension of the mind through imagery; done so by producing images that are unfixed to the r...
The main theme of the poem that Frost attempts to convey is how important the decisions that one makes can be, and how they affect one’s future. In lines 2-3, he expresses the emotions of doubt and confusion by saying, “And sorry I could not travel/ And be one traveler, long I stood”, which explains how the speaker contemplated their decision of which road to take. In the closing, line 20 of the poem further reestablishes the theme when it states, “that has made all the difference”, meaning that making the decision of which road to take for themselves is the important key for a successful future. Frost helps to express this theme by using symbolism to portray a road as one’s journey of life. Using symbolism, Frost suggests that the speaker of this poem is taking the harder of the two roads presented before them, because the road the speaker chooses, “leaves no step had trodden black” (12...