Alliteration And Symbolism In Browning's Meeting At Night

Alliteration is a procedure which points out how word sounds in connection to one another. Alliteration was used to produce a tuneful action. For example, “The delicious singing of the mother, or the young wife at work, or the girl sewing or washing” Whitman Walt (1819-1892, p 750).The author meant that no matter the task at hand everyone went about it with happiness and satisfaction in fulfilling their daily task. It contributed to the tone of the poem by making it a joyous and happy moment despite the fact that each individual

Another technique this poem takes use of is alliteration. The alliteration used helps to express the themes importance through repletion of sound devices. A specific example of alliteration

Alliteration was also evident throughout the poem in the first line of the first stanza when he said “ south of the bridge on seventeenth”(Stafford, page 805, stanza 1). The alliteration is “south” and “seventeenth” because both words start with an “S”.

Spaulding begins her essay with a detailed personal testimony that describes the deep emotional connection she feels for darkness. In part of the second paragraph she states, “the sky and shore and water were all one inky darkness though stars sparkled on the watery surface,” (83). This description of the

Imagery is used in this poem an abundance of times, such as how Ray used music as a form of art to describe certain visions. In the lines 9 and 10, it explains imagery clearly by saying “A vision exquisite. Yet who can match…”(9). In this sentence, it's going back to an image or vision in one's mind that is beautiful and like nothing else seen before. The following line saying “The sunset’s iridescent hues? Who sing…” (10). This finishes line 9 saying how can a vision match like the sunsets luminous colors that seem to change when you look at it from different angles, almost referring to the rainbow. For example, whenever we go with our loved ones to the beach, we usually sit together and watch the sunset go down; it brings a wave of emotions like love, life, happiness, and for some maybe even sadness, however, once the sun sets all those emotions to disappear with it because it was for that split second that we felt a certain type of

The men of Reserve Police Battalion 101 were just ordinary men, from a variety of backgrounds, education, and age. It would appear that they were not selected by any force other than random chance. Their backgrounds and upbringing, however, did little to prepare these men for the horrors they were to witness and participate in.

In the first poem called We grow accustomed to the Dark, the speaker finds her way through the dark night, as her eyes adjust to the darkness, she notices there’s “a road,” and specs of light where her curiosity grows. She notices things you cannot see in the daylight like the specs of stars and the bright moon. But before she was aware of her

-The author uses alliteration in this early sentence of the book to emphasize the darkness

"There are no extraordinary men... just extraordinary circumstances that ordinary men are faced to deal with" (William Halsey). The same can be said about volatile men. This is the quote Christopher R. Browning thought of when he named this book. The men of the 101st battalion were rarely faced with decisions. Even if it had been proposed by Trapp the morning of Jozefow that "any of the older men who did not feel up to the task that lay before them could step out" (Browning, chapter 7, pg. 57), he didn't actually allow them any time to truly think about it. He brought it up moments before they were about to go out to the slaughter. They were blind-sided and the men who didn't want to risk the future of their jobs as policemen or the men

The word “night” in these two lines is used as a noun. Ross personifies the word as is “strangles the travelling lamp.” The lamp being the sun is overcomed by the fact that even in the day, the suns light and warmth is taken away, for the “deed that he has done is so dark that he

What allusions do is to make reference to something. In the poem, Poe uses many types of allusions, for him not to say words directly. Allusions also depend on the way people see it, because I can make allusion to something but someone else can take it literary or give it another meaning. In the poem, for example, Poe uses the "Night's Plutonian Shore" as a reference to the underworld. I

At the very beginning on the poem in stanza one it starts off with "midnight dreary, while I pondered weak and weary" right off the bat Poe puts us right where he wants us with words like dreary, weary. Other alliterations include, "sucrease from sorrow, sorrow" which is used to exemplify his pain and his desire to bring it to an end. "Doubting, dreaming dreams no mortal every dared to dream", one of my favorite examples of alliteration in this poem not only does it flow perfectly but forces the reader to read slowly; the emphasis of the d-sound and the words he uses brings about a manifestations of what dreams us mortals cant dream from or imagination. It engages not only our minds, but souls into what darkness the speaker may experience in his dreams. “For Freud, most symbolism was sexual, and he believed that dream imagery was rooted in our deepest emotional drives” that Poe makes us dig deep into our conscious with that all (Goodwyn

In the short story “Young Goodman Brown” by Nathaniel Hawthorne, there is a certain uncertainty, deviousness, and a riddle of wrongdoing living within the citizens of Salem. Young Goodman Brown, a very naive person, is ruined when he realizes the hypocrisy of his religion as he witnesses the truth in the middle of Salem woods. His own people worshipping a being that is not God! Ironically, when Brown confronts his fellow townspeople, he is angered by their responses; they seem to have no recollection of what occurred in the woods. Thus leaving him in a state of insanity, where all Brown senses around him are lies. The natural impulse to keep secrets and lies can harm others. This is embodied in Young Goodman Brown, who goes from a typical puritan to an unkind, judgmental, depressed man.

“Acquainted with the Night” by Robert Frost dramatizes the conflict that the speaker experiences with the outside world, which has rejected him, or perhaps which he has rejected. The poem is composed of fourteen lines and seven sentences, all of which begin with “I have.” Frost’s first and last line, “I have been one acquainted with the night,” emphasizes what it means for the speaker to be “acquainted with the night” (line 1; 14). The speaker describes his walk in the night as journey, in which he has “walked out of rain—and back in rain” and “outwalked the furthest city light” (line 2-3). Through the depiction of the changing weather conditions, Frost signifies the passage of time, perhaps indicating that the narrator has been on his journey for a lengthy period of time and has traveled through many cities. Furthermore, the imagery of the rain at night creates a forlorn atmosphere in the poem.

Browning uses conventional styles to create his poem. He constructs his sentences to rhyme in twos. It is written in free