Gwen Harwood Figurative Language

Lauryn Hill’s poem “Motives and Thoughts” sheds particular light on the follies of society including overlooking the evil motives of its leaders and even its citizens through the use of poetic devices and figurative language. This 51-line poem touches on the subject of conspiracy and requires the reader to take a look at herself to determine what her motivation is for engaging in types of activity to gain power or desires and to look at the motives and thoughts of the leaders whom she follows. Hill uses several poetic devices and figurative language to enhance the meaning of her poem by placing emphasis on certain words to capture her audience’s attention including repetition, rhyme, allusion, metaphors, paradox, and oxymoron to reveal the central issues of deception while uncovering minor themes of downfall due to pride and spirituality. Hill uses allusion and metaphors throughout

I can tell you the authors style in the book In November by Cynthia Rylant. The style in her writings are mostly personification or figurative language. I know this because on page 4 it says "spreading there arms like dancers" based on what I read Cynthia Rylant uses personification also uses a simile. The book In November Cynthia uses tree limbs as dancers. She give a descriptive look as what the tree looks like. Cynthia Rylant uses a human action to a non human thing.

Parents cling to their children wanting them to stay young forever, wanting endless memories and nothing to change, yet they must be able to part from these feelings to allow the child to grow. In the story “A Private Talk with Holly”, the author, Henry Felsen, uses symbolism to convey the central idea that if you love someone you have to let them go. When Holly, the main character of the story, talks to her Dad about changing her plans, he is faced with a difficult decision, but in the end he allows Holly to chase her dreams for her own good.

Introduction The book, The Unwanteds, by Lisa McMann, is an adventurous story about a creative boy named Alex, and his very bland and boring twin brother Aaron. Alex and Aaron are split apart because Alex took the blame for something that Aaron did, and at the Purge, when they were both thirteen years old, Alex was sent to his death, and Aaron was sent to the university of Quill, where he would become a governor. Alex, however lived because of a man named Mr Today, and the secret world of Unwanteds. Aritme was full of talking statues, magical creatures, and lots and lots of colors.

When we are still children, running around the playground with our friends, our goals in life and what we want to be when we grow up are much different than later in life. We want to me mermaids, princesses, astronauts. When we get older though our values change. Instead of going after what our heart really wants to do, we go after the jobs that offer the biggest paycheck. Our culture’s minds have been warped and bent towards the desire to have a bigger house, a cooler car, and fancier clothes. We put what we think is right in our minds over what we truly love to do deep down in our hearts. The novel Tuesdays With Morrie by Mitch Albom, is about a sociology professor, Morrie Schwartz, who has been given his death sentence. He reconnects with his former student and current sports journalist, Mitch Albom, to try to remold his mind like soft clay to resist the pull of money and fame that today’s society provides. In this story, the author uses descriptive language, figurative language, and repetition for effect, to capture the theme that money will never

Cynthia Rylant style in the book, In November is enjoyable. She uses a type of figurative language called personification. She uses different amount of figurative language. The type of figurative language she uses the most is personification. In the story the author states that the birds that were moving were serius. The birds that were not moving were still being serious. This example of personification is saying the birds were being serious, but they can't. The author used a human quality to describe the birds. I think the author's style is very good. Personification is when you give a nonhuman object a thing that only humans do, like a bird being serious.

Harwood uses “Daybreak:” as the opening into the poem, representing a new beginning, a new experience, which foreshadows the events to come. Negative descriptions such as, “horny fiend” are used by Harwood when the persona is describing herself taking her father’s gun at dawn, which is juxtaposed by the idea of the father at rest dreaming of an “obedient, angel-mind” child.

The appreciation of nature is illustrated through imagery ‘and now the country bursts open on the sea-across a calico beach unfurling’. The use of personification in the phrase ‘and the water sways’ is symbolic for life and nature, giving that water has human qualities. In contrast, ‘silver basin’ is a representation of a material creation and blends in with natural world. The poem is dominated by light and pure images of ‘sunlight rotating’ which emphasizes the emotional concept of this journey. The use of first person ‘I see from where I’m bent one of those bright crockery days that belong to so much I remember’ shapes the diverse range of imagery and mood within the poem. The poet appears to be emotional about his past considering his thoughts are stimulated by different landscapes through physical journey.

The poem suddenly becomes much darker in the last stanza and a Billy Collins explains how teachers, students or general readers of poetry ‘torture’ a poem by being what he believes is cruelly analytical. He says, “all they want to do is tie the poem to a chair with rope and torture a confession out of it”. Here, the poem is being personified yet again and this brings about an almost human connection between the reader and the poem. This use of personification is effective as it makes the

In the opening of the novel The Street, author Ann Petry carefully establishes the bitterness and stressfulness between Lutie Johnson’s, and her relationship with her environments’ urban setting. Petry develops this relationship through the use of imagery, personification, selection of detail, and figurative language. With the use of imagery Petry establishes the stressfulness in which the wind causes between her, and the pedestrians around her. In the beginning of the opening Petry commences her first paragraph with a lengthy sentence which causes a stressfulness in a reader's breathing; similar to the way in which the wind causes in a person’s breathing.

The main purpose of Beyoncé’s songs is to emphasise feminism and invigorate gender equality through her lyrics. She does so by using by conveying feminist philosophy in her lyrics. In Run the World, Beyoncé sings “strong enough to bear the children, then get back to business.” Figurative language is used to express be that women give birth however then after they proceed to work. Throughout the song used is both repetition and rhetorical question as this is how Beyoncé portrays the women empowerment theme, domination as well as confidence in her tone whilst preaching the line “Girls, we run this motha (yeah!)” and “Who run the world? Girls!”. Having expressed the line “My persuasion can build he nation” Beyoncé is building women up by speaking

Betsy Byars is commonly known for writing memoirs in American Literature. She uses detailed sentences with imagery, mood, repetition, structure, hyperboles, and personification to grab the reader. Her style of writing memoirs makes her stories unforgettable and appealing. In the memoir, “The Moon & I,” Betsy Byars incorporates figurative language in order to piece the memoir together.

The structure used the punctuation and word choice to bring across the dark theme. Using the semicolons and commas, as well as words such as rage, forked, grave and meteors gave the poem its dark feeling. The darkness was also represented by the use of the same sentence four times, “Do not go gentle into that good night.” This line has a very dark tone, and that darkness repeated over the six stanzas, gives the poem its deep

For example the word “groaned” (Line 4) in the poem effectively alludes the actual torment that the soldiers had suffered. Furthermore, pararhyme and assonants at the end of each line were cleverly used as these conventions allowed a more natural flow to the topic of war compared to rhyming words and for the audience to convey the poems meaning in a clearer motive. Imagery is a poetic device in which Owen has put in place to depict a vivid image of the killing and torture of warfare for example, “Yesterday through me as you jabbed and killed...but my hands were loath and cold” (Line 42). He brought conflicts of the past back to life when referring to the tragic accident of the titanic and the topic of war, therefore creating “titanic wars” (Line 3) by using a mythical allusion. Finally, the last line of Strange Meeting that Owen wrote, “Let us sleep now…” suggests an unfinished ending meaning there is more to come in the future. Through these poetic devices, Owen reinforces the reader of the struggles and darkness of

the sibilance in this line forms a heavy and oppressive tones that make this line flow. then Owen continues by explaining the attack of nature., dawn massing in the east her melancholy army attacks once more in ranks on shivering ranks of grey. this metaphor shows that dawn is attacking the British soldiers, and the clouds could represent the lines of the German soldiers. the enjambment of the two lines creates a quickness which we can relate to the attack. moreover the violent sound in attacks ranks and again ranks make the war scenery sound more dramatic and emphasize a dying scene of natural dominance. the last stanza of the first half of the poem starts off with sudden successive flights of bullets streak the silence. the sibilance sounds of the line evoke the speed and the sound of streaking bullets. the trembling air is then personality in the next line which says less deadly than the air that shudders black with snow. the air is shaking so much that it seems like it is shuddering like shock waves. the second part of the poem continues with pale flakes with fingering stealth come feeling for our