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Diction in poetry analysis
Diction in poetry analysis
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“The Mouse’s Petition” “The Mouse’s Petition”, written by Anna Barbauld, main character is a mouse who lives in captivity. The mouse’s capturers perform for experiments. On a deeper level, the poem portrays the social and working conditions of the Romantic Period. Barbauld use of vivid details, diction, symbols, and metaphors allude to both the literal and metaphorical meanings of the poem. The first two lines of “The Mouse’s Petition” sets the tone for the poem. “Oh hear a pensive prisoner’s prayer / For liberty that sighs,” (Barbauld 1-2). “For liberty that sighs,” is an example of personification and also, the line is symbolic. A liberty that sighs makes the reader believe that the freedom is a sadness that will never be obtained. The captive mouse has given up hope of ever being free. Likewise, a woman in a male dominated Romantic society never saw an end to her oppression. This sets the tone, despair or hopelessness, of the poem. …show more content…
The quatrain of “The Mouse’s Petition” consists of the following lines.
“For here forlorn and sad I sit / Within the wiry gate; / And tremble at th’ approaching morn, / Which brings impending fate,” (Barbauld 5-8). In these lines, Barbauld used “morn” as a double entendre because it sounds like “mourn”; however, she intended the word to mean morn, a shorten of the word morning. These lines portray the mouse’s notion, that with the rising sun, she will die. The mouse grieves for the mice who have died previously. Likewise, a woman during this time period could not free themselves from their
oppression. Then the speaker creates depth with a clever metaphor that explains the double meaning to the poem. “If mind, as ancient sages taught, / A never dying flame, / Still shifts through matter’s varying forms, / In every form the same,” (Barbauld 29-32). These lines contain a metaphor which compares the mind to a never dying flame. Barbauld is saying that even if the person changes physically, their ideals or mind set is the same. From the mouse’s perspective, all the scientists will hurt the mouse. They may all physically look differently but their minds are all set on one goal: research. From a woman’s perspective, all men or dominant leaders are the same; they all want the woman to be submissive or a follower and never want the woman to question authority. “The Mouse’s Petition,” is a poem which contains well crafted metaphors and symbols. Barbauld wrote the poem trying to evoke empathy for the mice being sacrificed in a laboratory. She hoped the scientists would take pity on the mice and free them from their deaths. However, on a deeper level, she was hoping that the oppressors of society would become “angels” and remove snares or obstacles from the oppressed victims’ path. To free the oppressed from the cages which kept them from climbing the social ladder.
Would you be able to kill your lifelong companion? George Milton had to make that choice in John Steinbeck’s novella, Of Mice and Men. After a whole bunch of misadventures with his mentally handicapped giant, Lennie Small. Lennie accidently murdered a woman out of innocence. While the ranch men search for Lennie, George made the decision to give Lennie a merciful death. I believe that George should have killed Lennie because he would have been put in an institution, Curley would have been cruel to him, and George had to give him a merciful death.
“The Black Rat” explores the days during and after World War Two. It also honours Iris’s father as a war hero. The poem has described how the soldier lived during the war and the effort he demonstrated when fighting for his land. The phrase, “He lived in a tin hut with a hard dirt floor. He had bags sewn together that was his door,” gives the reader an
A voice for voiceless which she finds from nowhere. Rarely a "homeless Man under the Bridge" could arouse such an inspiration to make him one of the most widely read poem of recent times. She tries to find the unwritten pages of life of a man who almost delivered a judgment on the masked masses of Britain.
On the surface, the protagonists of Silko's "Yellow Woman" and Chopin's "Story of an Hour" seem to have little in common. Yet upon closer inspection, both stories relate tales of women who are repressed by the social tenets that define their roles as wives.
John Steinbeck, the author of the novel Of Mice and Men uses many stylistic devices and description in chapter one to give the reader a deeper understanding of what may occur throughout the novel. Firstly, the name of the city the two protagonists, Lennie and George, are heading to is called “Soledad,” which means loneliness in Spanish; this is symbolism and foreshadowing because it can mean that as they get closer to the city, their relationship as friends may deteriorate and they may end up alone towards the end. Furthermore, this could also mean that there can be major problems in further chapters because of Lennie’s unpredictable behaviour due to his mental disabilities. In relation to Robert Burns’s poem, “To a Mouse,” the author may be
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Firstly, I am going to talk about Lennie who was known as a man with
It is not told from the mouse’s perspective, but from the destructive man’s point of view, which becomes apparent when the man refers to himself in one line of the poem, stating, “ But oh! I backward cast my eye.” When a work of literature is told in first person, the reader does not get to see the whole story. The view is very limited.
In “Hills Like White Elephants” and “The Story of an Hour”, the woman in each story imprisons in the domestic sphere. In “Hills Like White Elephants”, the woman in this story conflicts between keeping the baby or getting abortion although the relationship with her boyfriend would not improve as he said. In “The Story of an Hour”, even though Louise Mallard, an intelligent, independent woman understands that she should grieve for Brently, her husband and worry for her future, she cannot help herself from rejoice at her newfound freedom. The author of this story, Kate Chopin suggests that even with a happy marriage, the loss of freedom and the restraint are the results that cannot be avoid.
Overall, it expresses the love and affection of Collin about this poem. This poem is basically looked at, or listened to, and the rodent tested. Such imagery used in poem supports the central ideas of Collin in poem, that the reading poetry must be, just like a good exploration, a discovery act. The poem has a very conversational effect and scholastic feel in it. First stanza directly linked to the second stanza while the third and fourth stanza of this poem has distinct thoughts in them. Similarly, the six stanzas come in a follow-up way but the mood actually changed in the last two stanzas of the poem. In short, Collin has written this poem in a very special and artistic way which really changes other’s minds about how to better understand a poem by knowing its actual meaning.
Though the way it relates to people in the 19th century and the way it relates to the modern world greatly differs, the symbolism in the poem and shift in tone throughout it shows a great appeal to human nature, and how desperate one can be to change it. The symbolism in the poem paints a ghastly picture of a man’s life, falling apart as he does his best, and worst, to keep it safe from himself. In lines 1 through 8 (stanza one), he gives a brief description of an incident in his life where things have gone wrong. “When the tiger approaches can the fast-fleeting hind/Repose trust in his footsteps of air?/No! Abandoned, he sinks into a trance of despair,” He uses these lines to show the lack of control he has over his actions, how his will to change his circumstances has weakened.
5.) Crooks- Crooks, the black stable-hand, gets his name from his crooked back. He is isolated from the other men because of the color of his skin. Soon, Crooks becomes fond of Lennie, and even though he claims to have seen countless men following empty dreams of buying their own land, he asks Lennie if he can go with them, because he wants to hoe in the garden.
A Woman Far Ahead of Her Time, by Ann Bail Howard, discusses the nature of the female characters in Kate Chopin’s novel’s and short stories. Howard suggests that the women in Chopin’s stories are longing for independence and feel torn between the feminine duties of a married woman and the freedom associated with self-reliance. Howard’s view is correct to a point, but Chopin’s female characters can be viewed as more radically feminist than Howard realizes. Rather than simply being torn between independent and dependant versions of her personality, “The Story of an Hour’s” Mrs. Mallard actually rejoices in her newfound freedom, and, in the culmination of the story, the position of the woman has actually been elevated above that of the man, suggesting a much more radically feminist reading than Howard cares to persue.
In Cortazar’s Letter to a Young Lady in Paris, Cortazar uses the symbolism of the bunnies to represent repression of the main character and concealment of suck repression. In the story the main character moves into the apartment of a young lady who is away and in Paris. Instead of providing a description of the woman and her connection to the main character, Cortazar provides descriptions of the apartment. Such descriptions act as a representation of the woman herself. For instance, as the main character states, “It hurts me to come into an ambience where someone who lives beautifully has arranged everything like a visible affirmation of her soul…” (Cortazar, 39). With the apartment as a representation of this woman’s soul, the main character feels as if he and the bunnies are encroaching upon this w...