Another example were Rich uses symbolism occurs in the second stanza: “The massive weight of Uncle’s wedding band / Sits heavily upon Aunt Jennifer’s hand” (7-8). The symbol that is expressed in these two lines is the wedding band. The images that these lines portray are of a very heavy wedding band on the hand of a woman. Initially, you would think that the wedding band is very large and thick because the author explains that it is heavy on her hand. A heavy wedding band would be a problem for someone who enjoys weaving wool into tapestry, making it more difficult to maneuver your hand to do such intricate work. Yet, the underlying message of this symbol is that she has many restrictions in her marriage that are weighing her down, like a
heavy wedding band would during tapestry work. Restrictions such as how Uncle physically and emotional treats her and the constant burden of an oppressive marriage is what Aunt Jennifer feels the weight of. This example of symbolism is very effective in the poem because when the author implies words such as “massive” and “heavily” it allows the audience to understand the complications she is living through. It is like she is having a mental battle between trying to escape her reality through her artwork and every time she looks down to complete another weave she sees her wedding band and thinks of her depressing, violent marriage.
In the first stanza, the speaker sets the scene with "Damp earth of the cemetery," "City of winter," "mordant crusade." Especially when the speaker speaks of "the fragrance of the precious blood," we feel coldness, loneliness and death. All through this poem, the speaker uses symbols to connect us with Jesus. The "precious blood" is a symbol of Jesus giving his life for us. If you look at it in a different way, the precious blood is the blood that drips down from Jesus' forehead from the crown of thorns. The phrase "and emotion of fasting that cannot get free" represents hunger and death.
With this image, the speaker expresses that she wants the readers to experience the literary work. The narrator wants the readers to imagine a water buffalo working hard, then imagining people who work just as hard as the water buffalo. The poet uses this stanza to conveys her messages, ideas and thoughts through. Next, the speaker uses a rhetorical device, metaphor, which is found in stanza two line one: “I love people who harness themselves, an ox to a heavy cart,” (8). The speaker uses metaphor describing people who work hard, to an ox working hard. With this metaphor, it enhances images described by the speaker by making them more creative and interesting. It also makes the story sounds poetic without writing the story in verses. The last r...
The Princess Bride is a fiction within a fiction, toying with the levels of reality. To accomplish the ingenious insanity that is The Princess Bride, author, William Goldman, brought together a variety of variables. The book is literally layers of information to analyze. Everything is questionable and made to leave you in controversy. Though the book had many things that make it an outstanding piece, from Goldman's interruptions to its unique beginning, the thing that plays the biggest part is Goldman's use of symbolism. Every aspect of the book seems to stem from somewhere or have some deeper meaning. This could just be our own imaginations or Goldman's intent, but one thing is for sure- Goldman wrote the book to force our imaginations to take over and think for themselves in this fictional fairytale where everything you read is false.
One of the techniques Hart Crane uses is imagery to show how delicate and nerve-wracking the situation with the speaker’s grandmother appears to be. The first example, which is a part of the title, is her love letters. When they are first brought to attention, the speaker describes them as “...brown and soft/And liable to melt as snow” this shows that they have been forgotten and they have aged quite a bit over the years (10-11). The details may be used to represent how fragile the situation may be. The second line that shows rather than telling and helps set the scene of the delicateness of the scenario is about halfway through the poem. The line “It is all hung by an invisible white hair” shows the relationship between the grandmother and grandchild, as it appears to be so thin that it hardly exists (13). As stated earlier, it also shows the delicacy of the situation playing out in the poem, as hair is easy to destroy much like the bond they appear to share. The line that follows suit also uses imagery to help convey the feel of the poem. Crane uses the phrase “It trembles as birch limbs webbing the air” to help picture in one’s mind the uneasy and nervous energy that appears to be tied in to the situation (14). As a reader, there are other interpretations to t...
...s the writer of the essay. Rich criticizes and critiques her own poems to demonstrate the differences in her writing. She transformed language by breaking the traditional views and by writing about man's power over women. At first it prevented her from writing the way she wanted just because she was a woman. Society did not expect a women to have a job as a writer instead writing was considered as a hobby for women. Rich had been taught that society considered poetry to be "universal" meaning non-female. Because Rich had been taught that poetry was "universal" it was very hard for her to write the things that she wanted too. Rich lost herself to society, becoming a mother and a wife and not being able to write as much as she liked. After a couple of years she divorced her husband and found herself again. As a result, Rich is her own teacher. She taught herself to have the courage to rebel against society and become a conscious being.
Furthermore, in this song, the poetic devices that are used are metaphors, personification, enjambment, repetition, idiom, rhyme, and alliteration. Examples of metaphor in the text are “We're the song inside the tune”- the song inside the tune is compared to something that is inside them, that is part of them, and “The piece is gone and the puzzle undone" which shows that the puzzle compares to their lives and “the puzzle undone” is because something is missing in their lives. The poetic device, personification is used in some lines, an example of this is “Trying hard to fill the emptiness” because it is giving the emptiness a characteristic of filling. An example of an enjambment is “Every day is so wonderful…Then suddenly it's hard to breathe” and this is an enjambment because it is an expression without a pause at the end of the line. Another poetic device which is called a repetition occurs with the lines “No matter what we do (no matter what we do)” or “…beautiful no matter what they say” where the lines repeat in the song multiple times. Furthermore, the next example of a poetic device is an idiom and a direct statement from the song is “So consumed in all your doom” because the person in this situation is experiencing sadness, but not
E- There are analogies like the slaves wanting to have the Great House Farm. There is a metaphor in the second paragraph of weaving. Parallelism with the saying the highest joy and the deepest sadness. I didn’t see any allusions anywhere.
During Shakespeare's time, the wedding and engagement rings indicated commitment. The rings Portia and Nerissa gave to Bassanio and Gratiano, that they were never to remove, were just that. "I give them with this ring, Which when you part from, lose, or give away, Let it presage the ruin of your love And be my vantage to exclaim on you" (3.2.171-4). The rings stood for the man's commitment to his wife just as rings Bassanio and Gratiano would give to Portia and Nerissa at their weddings would stand for the wives' commitment.
Nukkin Ya goes into complicated messages about teenage years, and sometimes feeling different among others at school. Symbols revolve around messages of belonging and self-knowledge. The main symbols are a Rasta neckless, a ketch a beached whale and the tides. These symbols support the messages about, having to move on and feeling like an outsider.
The most prominent literary devices used in this poem are parallelism and imagery. In lines 1, 3, and 5, Dickinson wrote “Her breast is fit for pearls” (Dickinson 1), “Her brow is fit for thrones” (Dickinson 3), and “Her heart is fit for home” (Dickinson 5). The repetition added rhythm, divided the poem into three sections, as well as drew attention to the three imageries listed: breast, brow, and heart. Breast is often associated with maternal qualities, which hints at the comfort and protection Susan brought to her solitary life. Moreover, pearls are sought after for their exquisite beauty. Dickinson showed the breast’s allure by describing it as suitable for pearls. Besides being a
Her not standing straight signifies how weak and feeble she is. Not being able to stand straight signifies that the woman is not complete with her. Wearing white dresses signifies that the woman is a virgin, which is stereotypically feminine. Most people used to see women as innocent virgins.... ... middle of paper ...
The imagery is effective to demonstrate a heavy mood. The poem suggests the idea of pain and suffering that is still lingering and has no intention of leaving. Heaney talks about the stains
Alliteration is clear throughout the entire poem,"prancing,proud" (12), indicates the tigers are confident in themselves and fears nothing or no one. According to the sonnet, Aunt Jennifer 's, "fingers fluttering" (6) is an example of alliteration that shows the reader that she is serious about finishing the artwork. Rich uses a lot of constants in a repetitive motion in lines 6 and 12, she wants theses lines to grab the reader attention. As the reader moves along in the poem they will notice a rhyme scheme that is easy and gentle to follow. "Uncle 's wedding band" (7) and "Upon Aunt Jennifer 's hand" (8) are the example of rhymes in this poem. The rhyme scheme continues in a lyric verse, such as, AABBAABBAABB. Imagery 's are used to create the tigers that are proud and unafraid; dissimilar to Aunt Jennifer. She will never be strong, vibrant, and free as the characters in her panel
“Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers” is a perfect example of Adrienne’s use of writing to confront matters of women’s oppression and the need for women’s liberation from a world dominated by males. “Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers” by Adrienne Rich is about a woman, Aunt Jennifer, struggling to accept the indignities of her daily life. In the poem when Aunt Jennifer got married it can be inferred that she became unhappy and had to become submissive to her husband. The second stanza, “The massive weight of Uncle’s wedding band/ Sits heavily upon Aunt Jennifer’s hand,” suggest the negative emotional effect Uncle, Jennifer’s husband, is having on Jennifer. Symbolically, the “massive
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