Fire And Ice Figurative Language

In Vergil’s The Aeneid, imagery and description of fire is used heavily throughout each book. It is sometimes seen in moments of love and creation, but is most frequently seen at times of destruction and rage. The common thread of each appearance is that fire is the catalyst that prompts the characters to make a decision or to further an action when otherwise there likely would be no change.

The symbol of fire ultimately represents the relationship with her family and how it affects her. One way this is shown is with her fascination and appreciation of fire. She is captivated with the fact that it can provide warmth and yet be destructive. She would

The title, “Hanging Fire,” made me think of the question, “Does the speaker of the poem have serious problems, or is she just an ordinary teenager who had a random dark thought?” There were no words I was not familiar with and the connotation of the words, “Hanging Fire,” expressed a delay in thought.

Ice is prone to being friable which is a prime example that indicates its relatability to the girl in the poem as she was also very vulnerable and fragile. The young girl in the poem showcased a state of fragileness “in tears” because when an individual is dealing with sorrowful circumstances if another thing equally as disconsolate was to happen there mental state of mind would typically break. Not only that but, ice is also an ideal symbol for representing the hardships the girl was going through as it is a form of pain and coldheartedness. In this piece of literature, the verse “The first ice of human hurt” supports and reinforces the theory of ice symbolizing pain. The extremely cold temperature of ice placed on humans can essentially inflict an unpleasant thrilling or sharp ache all throughout the body. Even though this is the literal effect of ice causing pain to the human body, when one interprets this definition to the phrase “The first ice of human hurt” it can be insinuated that the girl felt a resemblance between the sharp and thrilling discomfort of ice with her breakup. Perhaps not physically but the author certainly tried to convey this idea of sharp pains being inflicted on her emotionally. Many more verses throughout the poem had the word “ice” embedded into them which display different yet similar variations of the main concept they are symbolic to. Thus, it is safe to place

This poem matters because it talks about how humans are ruining the world. The fire, or human desire, will take over because humans are becoming greedy and selfish, fulfilling their own desires even if it means the world falling apart. The ice, or hate, will take over

Fire represents a lot of the things in this novel. A woman name Mrs. Schachter was howling, pointing through the window. “Look! Look at this fire! This terrible fire! Have mercy on me!” (pg 25) Elie said him and the other saw a real fire this time. “This time we saw flames rising from a tall chimney into a black sky.” (pg. 28) Elie said they stared at the flames, “We stared at the flames in the darknes, A wretched stench floated in the air.” (pg. 28) And in front of them the the flaming smoke was the smell of burning flesh.

Another aspect to this poem that is very important would be the figurative language. The author uses a lot of similes and metaphors throughout further illustrate this father’s ridiculous ways. The speaker uses the simile “snaked like dragons” to describe the fire engines, this was a good choice in comparison because when you think of a dragon you automatically think of bright fires and then when you continue on the thought you think of their crouched down tiptoes

For the Fire conveys the themes the violence of nature or survival of the fittest. The Poems theme is displayed through the violent and aggressive descriptive language for example in the third stanza “kookaburra hacks with it’s axe-blade beak”. The language in this quote gives a visual image of the violence in nature that occurs. In the fourth and fifth stanza enjambment is placed to create a sense of violent imagery and emphasise the violence for example “ it’s legs arched; and claws clutching at the air”. In both of the quotes John Foulcher uses alliteration to focus the audiences attention to the more violent words generating further visual imagery.

In this case, the fire could represent the intense anger, the cat feels towards the narrator for destroying their peaceful family life. The cat has also sensed the character change of the narrator, how the once innocent and kind man, who took care of a lonely cat, had turned into an alcoholic, mistreating his family, attempting to kill the cat and even taking the life of his wife. Example 2: '' The fury of a demon instantly possessed me.'' (ln. 51-52).

The speaker’s decidedly abusive romance is affected by fire, danger, suspicion, shame, mourning, doubts, and troubled sense. Each path she could possibly take is impeded by something negative. In line three, Wroth says, “If to the right hand there in love I burn”(3), and refers to love as fire, whether symbolic of passion or literal burning. In the symbolic sense, Wroth is speaking of “burning” as sexual desire, which for a woman of her time would ultimately lead to the “shame” mentioned in the sixth line. In the Renaissance, women referred to love as virtuous and romantic. They did not refer to romance as abusive and torturous, making Wroth’s sonnet revolutionary and scandalous. If “burn” is taken literally, considering Wroth is already comparing love to a strange, intricate made to trap sacrifices as food for a monster, it makes sense that she would also explain it as burning; more or less torture and pain (Abrams 1692).

Unlike other forms of literature, poetry can be so complex that everyone who reads it may see something different. Two poets who are world renowned for their ability to transform reader’s perceptions with the mere use of words, are TS Eliot and Walt Whitman. “The love song of J Alfred Prufrock” by TS Eliot, tells the story of a man who is in love and contemplating confessing his emotions, but his debilitating fear of rejection stops him from going through with it. This poem skews the reader’s expectations of a love song and takes a critical perspective of love while showing all the damaging emotions that come with it. “Song of myself”, by Walt Whitman provokes a different emotion, one of joy and self-discovery. This poem focuses more on the soul and how it relates to the body. “Song of myself” and “The love song of J Alfred Prufrock” both explore the common theme of how the different perceptions of the soul and body can affect the way the speaker views themselves, others, and the world around them.

It echoes development of pre-historical civilization or Prometheus in Greek mythology. Hereof the using of fire symbolizes the domination over the world more than the method of survival. Aftermath, the monster is ready to march to the next period of self-education, studying language.

The symbolic meaning of fire is demonstrated throughout the book in many different fashions but mainly it is portrayed as a symbol of life and social order. If

In the second stanza it is the semantic field of cold: ‘winter’, ‘ice’, ‘naked’, ‘snow’. All these lexical items give us a feeling of cold which evokes loneliness, unknown, fear.

     Fire is used frequently in The Iliad, but Virgil utilizes this image in his poem as well. Fire symbolizes both destruction and desire in Virgil’s poem, much like it did in The Iliad. In Book II, Aeneas uses the image of flames to describe the fate of Troy. “But now the