Example Of Periodic Sentence In Snowflakes By Henry Longfellow

War is devastating and tragic. It affects the daily lives of the people that are involved in the war. In the excerpt from, A Long Way Gone by Ishmael Beah, it displays a man who is dreaming about war. When the man wakes up, he lays sweating on the ground, remembering the painful memories that the dream has brought. In the end, the man realizes that from now on he will have to live in three worlds; his dreams, the experience of his new life, and memories from the past. Meanwhile, in the image, “In Times of War” by The New York Times, there is an angel on a cloud looking over the dreadful war. Then the angel walks away because the view of people dying makes it sick. The theme of the excerpt A Long Way Gone, and the image, “In Times of War,” is that the war brings death, seriously injured, and psychologically broken people.

In the fourth and final stanza Frost uses the riming of all four sentences to draw the reader into the climax of the poem, “the woods are lovely dark and deep/ But I have promises to keep/ and miles to go before I sleep/ and miles to go before I sleep”. This grouping leads the reader to feel that

The first stanza introduces the poem through the usage of enjambment. By using enjambment, Frost allows the reader to become acclimated to the story. This acclimation is necessary due to the usage of imagery in the poem. End-stopped lines are used next to pull the story along. Frost then uses enjambment again to act as a reprieve before the stanza concludes with an end-stopped line. The second stanza, which coincides with the beginning of the second day, begins with enjambment as well. Three end-stopped lines conclude the last stanza. Both stanzas follow the same general pattern when it comes the poetic devices.

(O’Brien 152). The reader is constantly second guessing themselves. This experience allows one to relate to the feeling of the soldiers, one of constant wondering, “Is this alright?” and/or “What am I fighting for?” Thus, the soldiers experiencing the paradoxical nature of war in this story is mirrored and experienced by the

War is a horrible and devastating event that hurts many people in many ways. This something many people have to cope with. Authors are among those who have to cope with war as well. Many people cope different ways but authors cope by protesting war. To do this authors use imagery, irony, and structure.

Emotions can be a war all by itself, when mixed in oneself it can be a “deadly disease” and could lead to life changing decisions. For example, in Seabiscuit Red pollard had this “disease”, as shown in chapter twenty two. During his recovery, Pollard was having trouble accepting he may never ride again, instead he waged a war inside himself battling this “impossible” outcome. Dimintrasting his passion to get up and keep on going even when people and even the odds tell him no.

One prominent example of this is comparing how both Tim and Mary Anne say the war makes them feel. When he is in the hospital, Tim says he “missed the adventure....of real war out in the boonies” (183). Contrasted with Mary Anne who loves how war makes her feel. She says“you can’t feel like that anywhere else” (106). The way war makes someone feel is the common strand between these two parts of the book. Tim’s experience and the way war made him feel is again repeated through Mary Anne’s character.

At the beginning of the passage, the author used antithesis to attract audiences’ attention. Antithesis means putting two things

Many people say that war is worse than Hell because innocent people die in it. In Beah’s life, this is most definitely true. Throughout the war, Beah goes through many hardships and witnesses the deaths of innocent loved ones, and Beah’s writing reflects how he felt during these times. Beah uses rhetorical strategies like diction, imagery, and detail choice to convey the emotional process he had to undergo in order to survive.

In Scott Russell Sanders essay Staying Put: Making a Home in a Restless World he uses an antithesis to show Americans that move around a lot and tell Rushdie that his idea is wrong. Sanders antithesis's Rushdie's ideas that moving from place to place in good with his idea that moving constantly is bad so he can prove that Rushdie's is wrong. By contrasting both authors ideas in the same sentence Sanders is able to emphasize the difference between the two thus letting him prove why his is right and Rushdie's is wrong. By doing this he not only proves Rushdie wrong but it also shows the audience the flaw in their way of living from place to place so often.

Poets frequently utilize vivid images to further depict the overall meaning of their works. The imagery in “& the War Was in Its Infancy Then,” by Maurice Emerson Decaul, conveys mental images in the reader’s mind that shows the physical damage of war with the addition of the emotional effect it has on a person. The reader can conclude the speaker is a soldier because the poem is written from a soldier’s point of view, someone who had to have been a first hand witness. The poem is about a man who is emotionally damaged due to war and has had to learn to cope with his surroundings. By use of imagery the reader gets a deeper sense of how the man felt during the war. Through the use of imagery, tone, and deeper meaning, Decaul shows us the

The wartime lives of the soldiers who fought in the war were in a state of mind of mixed feelings. Happiness and devastating are two adjectives that can describe the soldier’s feelings in the war because at one second they can be happy that they succeeded on a mission, but on the other hand, it can be very devastating because one of their own soldiers could have been killed during the war. Aside from physical danger losing one of your own soldiers or having your family worry about you every day and night are some negatives and unpleasant parts about fighting in a war. For example, soldiers loved ones worried each day, and hoped that they would not get a knock on their door by someone who was going to tell them that their fathers, husbands, sons, or brothers have died in the war.

Winter is a time of cold, when forests die and animals hide from the shrieking winds and biting cold. Winter is a time for survival against the odds. How apt that the speaker is struggling against the "lovely, dark and deep" woods to remember that he has "miles to go before [he] sleep[s]." The "easy wind" calls to him, and the "downy flake" beckons him to a comfortable sleep. If the speaker had paused on a bright summer day, the sleep might be just a short rest, but the poem is set on the "darkest evening of the year" while the "woods fill up with snow," and any rest taken in the "lovely, dark and deep" woods would result in the eternal sleep of death (474).

Frost describes the little boy's work in the first two lines by saying the 'stove-length sticks of wood,' inferring the practical nature of his work. The mountains described in the next lines further add to the captive nature of the poem. Vermont provides a

The title is very simple and can cause any reader to think the same thing. Snow according the Merriam Webster Dictionary, the word snow has one main definition. Snow is “the precipitation in the form of small white crystals formed directly from the water vapor of the air at a temperature less than 32 degrees.” In other words, it is the frozen crystals that fall from the sky during the winter season. Just by the title we should be able to tell what the poem will be about, but MacNeice puts a turn on the wording of the poem to catch the reader off guard. This raises the question if MacNeice wanted the poem to be about a snowfall, or does he have a deeper meaning underneath the title? As the poem continues there will be more references at what the poem is about.