Brent Is At A Lion's Facial Expression

To begin with, Loomis uses visual imagery in lines 41-45. The poem states, " He opens the tailgate/ drags the quivering deer out by a leg/ you'd injured your head? You wanted to fix/ what you'd broken - restore the beautiful body," depicting that the poetic speaker feels regret (Loomis, 41-45). This instance of imagery contributes to the central idea because the tone of regret and sorrow, reflects on the poetic speaker's perception. In

In Richard Connell’s “The Most Dangerous Game”, readers learn that you never know how someone feels until your out into their shoes. In life you don’t know how someone feels until your put into a similar situations. For example if someone is getting made fun of and then someone else is getting made fun of both of these kids know how it feels. In Richard Connell story it takes place at Ship Trap Island where the protagonist Sanger Rainsford fights the antagonist General Zaroff. Rainsford doesn’t believe that animals don’t have emotions and don’t feel pain but when Rainsford is being hunted by Zaroff a tattented hunter Rainsford starts to realize that animals do have feel pain and they also have emotions. Richard Connell used foreshadowing, irony, and dialogue to show that Rainsford realizes that animals do have emotions and feel pain.

“Live with your head in the lion’s mouth” is a phrase his dying grandfather told him on his death bed. The lion represents white males on how dangerous they are. The lion also represents the world and how African Americans haven’t been accepted as humans yet. The mouth represents the terror and events that take place. As a lion is a predator and goes after what he wants. The lion is also a representation of white male society on the supremacy because they are the kind of the jungle. The head represents the physiological standpoint of an educated African-American male. His thoughts on what white

As Robert begins to spend more time around the horses, he “becomes intrigued with this world of horses, rats and bilge that are consigned to his care…. Robert soon becomes completely disengaged from the other life on the upper decks. He even goes below off duty”(56). Although Robert is done his task and does not need to be around the horses anymore he chooses to stay around them, which shows his love for the horses. Robert is choosing to surround himself by the horses as oppose to the other men, which shows how much he prefers the animals to men. Throughout the novel, a horse breaks its leg and Robert is ordered to kill it. Robert shoots the horse, but the horse does not die and Robert thinks to himself, “snakes. Snakes. Rattlesnakes. Its mane is a tangle of rattlesnakes”(68). The snakes are symbolizing an unethical act, which relates to the way Robert is feeling. Robert knows that killing the horse is against his morals because of his companionship towards animals but due to his role as a soldier it had to be done. When Robert rescues the horses from the cruelties of war, it is evident that he chooses to prioritize his morals opposed to his duties as a soldier. Robert begins to go against anyone who disrespects his love and care for animals; this is shown when he locks himself in the barn with the horses in order to protect them. When he is offered a chance to surrender himself by Major Mickle, he chooses to stay with the horses and declares, “we shall not be taken” (191). This is again showing how strong Robert’s bond is with the animals as he chooses not to abandon them and disobeys his superior. As a result, the extent Robert is willing to go to in order to protect the horses allows the readers to better understand Robert’s character and also his compassion for

The experience of the loss of youth known as puberty is symbolized in the beginning of the story as a lion. The narrator states “I was twelve and in junior high school and something happened that we didn’t have a name for, but it was there nonetheless like a lion, and roaring, roaring that way the biggest things do” (Ríos 333). In this instance, the boy notes how quickly and suddenly his childhood came to an end. The introduction of the symbol of a lion to represent puberty demonstrates that it was a moment so revolutionary to the boy and his friends that the only way they could describe it was as a fierce animal at the top of the food chain that could not be controlled just as puberty is an intense process that could not be controlled.

Throughout In Cold Blood, Truman Capote represents animals as sub-human, symbolically dehumanising Dick and Perry. Nevertheless, Capote concurrently accentuates Perry’s human characteristics. Accordingly, examining animal references reveals salient details. For example, Dick “[ran] down a dog…whenever the opportunity arose” (120). Even so, Dick “wouldn’t harm the fleas on a dog. Just run over the dog” (234), demonstrating he kills dogs instinctually, and without remorse. Yet, Dick maintains “I’m no goddamn killer” (326) as he did not murder the Clutter family. Clearly, Dick does not believe killing dogs denotes a “killer”, thereby devaluing animal lives. Kenyon reinforces this devaluation, as he would regularly shoot “half a hundred rabbits” (50).

It represents the innocent lives disregarded in times of war. The image of the soldiers resting his hand on the deceased lion creates an emotional state for the reader to experience. The soldier’s dialogue states that the soldier understands the other had no choice but to adopt the life of an innocent life form. It displays empathy and a level of compassion for the horrific aftermath. The author attempts to reach out to the reader by showing them that soldiers often have to make split second decisions in a way that can have irreversible implications. This slaughtering of the animals, unknown to the human soldiers, undermined and took away the hope that lions had towards a new life. The newfound freedom and struggle the characters were forced to reconcile suddenly

Inner conflicts often dictate what the narrator wants, but cannot have, which creates the overall attitude of the poem. The narrator struggles to look at this woman because his "eyes take no delight to range/ about the gleam which on your face do grow" (3-4). He is not able to look at her even though she is beautiful due to the heartbreak that she left him with. This attitude carries on throughout the poem where he acknowledges her beauty but is unwilling to be hurt by her again. He is in agony from the emotions that she inflicts, and the readers see his mental process of working through it as he comes to the conclusion that he will "wink or else hold down my head" because it is her eyes that cause his "bale" (14-15). His attitude changes from being at war with his inner feelings to being accepted to the fact that if he looks at her he will be in danger of being hurt a second time. The irony being applied shows how his conflicted attitude is made clear by acknowledging that he will not give in to his desire despite what his repressed emotions are saying. Irony can be highly influential in discovering the narrator's hidden agenda and purposes, and the words chosen to reveal these purposes have an impact on the overall attitude of a piece of

In “For That He Looked Not upon Her” by George Gascoigne, the speaker displays the fiery anger of his beloved towards him. The speaker utilizes devices, such as form, diction, and imagery to explain the overwhelming conflict, while also showing the speaker has been betrayed by his beloved and is fighting to retain strength against her capturing beauty.

Atwood’s ironic tone is made apparent to the reader through the physical narrative structure of the poem. The speaker begins the poem with, “In that country the animals have the faces of people” (1-2) and indents the second half of the poem to represent a shift in the narrative structure of the poem, The indent of the physical structure in The Animals in that Country augments the physical distancing of humans from animals as the stanzas have a distance between them. The subjective and ironic tone of the speaker is evident when the speaker creates a contrast between the two worlds as the shift begins with, “In this country the animals have faces of animals.” (21-23) This repetition reinforces the distance between humans and animals as animals are not revered in “this country” but treated as just animals. They have neither been incorporated nor valued, and little attention is paid to their role in society in the speaker’s country, creating a subjective tone.. Atwood’s use of anthropomorphism in the first line of the poem illustrates that the animals are a part of that society and are more than just simple creatures as they connect humans to the spiritual world. The use of the word “that” refers to past European culture and the word “this” refers to modern North American culture. The speaker’s subjective tone towards North American culture is evident as they end the poem by stating that, “They [animals] have the faces of no one”. (28-29) This emphasizes the speaker’s hostility towards the West by reinforcing the belief that they have lost all ties to their spiritual

Humans, the compositional idea of man itself, are lonely, shameful beasts whose only grand possession is the heart pulsing within, propelling them along. No matter how it is dishonored, how much it is scarred, and the emotional beating it takes, it is the one object Man can declare, “This is mine and because of this, it is beautiful.” In the poem, “Untitled” by Stephen Crane, he examines the lack of integrity and joyous celebration that is impurity, through simplification of what being human is.

The poet conveys the complex relationship through the length of each stanza, Throughout the poem the number of lines in each stanza increases which represents the escalation of varying emotions within the father. The first three stanzas introduce the situation with an average of three lines in each stanza revealing the father’s rise in emotions. As the poem progresses, the father starts to generate an imagination where he loses a relationship with his son due to his disappointment. He has thoughts such as “he thinks the boy will give up on his father,” revealing a sense of lost hope in the father because he can’t recall a single story. Despite the son calling him “Baba,” this emotional connection remains complex because he can only imagine his son leaving. As the narrator’s tone grows in anxiety, the amount of lines in each stanza also increases. The last three stanzas express a steady accumulation of fear and rage and then a transition to a decrease in apprehension. The level of sentiment attached to each stanza lengthened them as each line represented a higher level of emotion causing a new level of intensification within each stanza. The last two stanzas increase from four lines back to five lines because the father becomes less anxious and seems to realize that the complex relationship between him and his son is distinguished by emotions of love in a world with insufficiencies. Cumulatively, the father’s

The protagonist faces an internal conflict of his sanity vs. his alcoholism. The anonymous narrator also is in external conflict with Pluto because the cat symbolizes the struggle the narrator consistently endures in his alcoholism. Initially the narrator was very fond and had an “intensity of gratification” for his cat Pluto, but this could be perceived as the pleasure that alcohol brings when someone has the idea of drinking being “fun”. However, as the narrators’ feelings towards Pluto grow more resentful, and angry that can be attributed to the intense decline of his personality once he starts to become more of an alcoholic. Based on the validity of this assumption, then the central idea directly links to Pluto’s symbolism because the narrator mistreating the cat represents how the narrator is also ill-treating himself with alcohol. Accordingly, the many terrifying deeds the narrator pursued upon Pluto illustrated the insanity that has been induced on the narrator due to the ill-effects of his alcoholism.

The boy’s innocence is displayed as he fails to recognize that many barriers will and can stop him from achieving his goal. The boy is in this misconception that he can be the master of every aspect of his life. This mentality is setting him up for a major shock as he will soon realize that he can not control everything i.e. the death of the buck. When the boy is reflecting on how he stayed up for three days, to prove that he does not need sleep. The boy wishes to prove a point to himself and says, “Luxury of warm rested body, with the arms and legs and fingers waiting like soldiers for a word of command!...And now sleep seemed to him a servant to be commanded and refused” (Lessing 1). The boy’s vanity is showing as he feels like he does not have any weaknesses nor does he need to rely on anything. Once the boy comes across the buck, he will experience a major shock of irrelevance as he will begin to think that he will fade into nothing. Before the event with the buck, the boy is immature and conceited. The lesson the reader is learning is that having weaknesses is okay because if you accept the flaws, you

Assonance, onomatopoeia, and simile were used in the first stanza. The use of the assonance with the words “yawn and adore” (1), helped strengthen the onomatopoeic use of the word ‘yawn’ which. This created an image and the sound associated with the apes. The “shriek of the parrots” (2), also helped to create an image for the readers. The poem then went on to show the tiger and lion fatigued with indolence, which readers could interpret as the animals having nothing to do and they got accustomed with being confined in cages. Lions are he king of the jungle therefore, one would expect the lion to be energetic going back and forth in its cages however, this was not the case. Hughes choice of the words, “tiger and lion, Lie still as the sun” (4-5), can be interpreted as the tigers and lions are interesting animals however, because they lie as still as the sun the zoo has drawn all their energy and life from them. Therefore, they no longer do anything but lie still. The sun is a symbolic representation of the energy that is being used to introduce the Jaguar. It can also be a representation of all frustration the jaguar showed in the cage. The way in which Hughes introduced all the animals before the Jaguar made it seem as if all the animals were the same, “Cage after cage seems empty” (6), which confirms that all the animals in the zoo were average and had no defining characteristic. As the poet