In the poem “On Virtue” is about how Phillis Wheatley is trying to understand virtue.Phillis Wheatley feels that god has her back and she has faith in finding what she want.She uses figurative language to show us how she is trying to get to a happy place. Phillis wheatley is striving to reach a goal but is facing struggles. She is striving to get to a place where she would be in a better place mentally and physically but it is hard for her.She enjoy talking to virtue then find a promise and happiness, guide her to heaven. “On Virtue” i find that there are metaphors and personifications lines in this poem. One of the lines that stood out to me is “O thou bright jewel in my aim i strive.” I find that this quote uses metaphor because she
As the poem progresses, Wheatley describes the gospel to her readers which includes the good news about salvation. She
As Wendy Martin says “the poem leaves the reader with painful impression of a woman in her mid-fifties, who having lost her domestic comforts is left to struggle with despair. Although her loss is mitigated by the promise of the greater rewards of heaven, the experience is deeply tragic.” (75)
The author uses imagery in the poem to enable the reader to see what the speaker sees. For example, in lines 4-11 the speaker describes to us the
An example of beauty is seen through the depiction of Amber Rooms and the mirror halls; the representation of this beauty evokes the reader to enable an understanding of James comparison with something of true beauty compared to something plain and lifeless. An example of a fragile resemblance to life is an innocent, vulnerable plant such as the Japanese maple, needs beauty in order for the plant to flourish. James reflects on a vulnerable plant in his poem ‘so much sweet beauty as when fine rain falls on that small tree’. James expresses his chemotherapy battle through words, which becomes a key element in creating emotion for the poem. An example is in the forth stanza ’come a autumn and its leaves will turn to flame, what must I do’, this small extract from the poem builds a relationship with his chemotherapy and a tree given to him by his daughter, the tree resembles life and the element flourishing over time through struggle or neglect and even resemble success. The tree can be referred to as a reflection of James’ life where he had struggles, might have neglected people close to him, but most of all there was success under all the struggles he
Throughout the poem, there is heavy use of metaphor for “poem”. For example, in the first stanza, “I ask them to
In Jonathan Haidt Chapter The Felicity of Virtue, I agreed with 2 ideas " a good life is one where you develop your strengths, realize your potential and become what it is your nature to become" ( pg.157). Another idea Haidt said, "Moral education must also impart tacit knowledge- skills of social perception and social emotion so finely tuned that one automatically feels the right thing in each situation, knows the right thing to do, and then wants to do it "(pg.160). These two ideas ties to my experiment, I am basically trying to be social to talk with people I haven't spoken to for awhile since I am unwilling to open to talk with them due to my lack of social skills. whenever I feel like I want to talk to the person I am just too afraid
. The use of his metaphorical description of this particular woman allows us to imagine that this woman's beauty is strong enough to brighten up the sky at nighttime.
Throughout the poem the tone is earnest. Wheatley expresses intense seriousness when she begins to discuss religion and the temptation of sin. For example, she uses phrases such as “suppress the deadly serpent in its egg” and
Although this is a short poem, there are so many different meanings that can come from the piece. With different literary poetic devices such as similes, imagery, and symbolism different people take away different things from the poem. One of my classmates saw it as an extended metaphor after searching for a deeper connection with the author. After some research on the author, we came to learn that the
From a moral perspective, In the Vindication, Wollstonecraft argues that women are naturally inferior to men. Whereas, individuals like Jean-Jacques Rousseau, in addition to most men believed women's virtues were different than men's. I think Wollstonecraft was trying to explain that while men were physically superior to women, their Creator gifted both sexes with souls. Both men and women are capable of logical reason and attempt to achieve a certain level of integrity. Virtue is not relative to sex but to individual differences, which means that everyone's conduct should result from the same moral principles and have the same kind of individual goals.
In the first few lines of the poem, the reader can already receive a feel of the irony as the poet describes the scene of a maiden left behind as her lover falls in battle. The poet illustrates a scene as to where most readers would feel sorrow and sympathy towards the maiden and perhaps have the speaker in the poem enlighten the
This poem was about very religious. In this poem she talks about her admiration of
In this poem there is a lot of figurative language. One of the biggest types of figurative language used in this poem is irony. The irony in this poem is how the mother wouldn't let her child go to march because she feared her child would get hurt. Instead she sent her child to church because she believed it was a safe and sacred place but ironically the church ended up being bombed. Another piece of figurative language that is very effective in this poem is imagery. The way the poem is written helps me create images in my head for example, "She raced through the streets of Birmingham." I can imagine her running around desperately, looking for her child. The metaphors and hyperboles in this poem also help with the imagery, for example, "...night dark hair," and "…rose-petal sweet." These metaphors make me think of the girls smoothly combed black hair and her fresh and beautiful rosy smell. A hyperbole that had a huge effect on the tone was, "But that smile was the last smile to ever come upon her face." This hyperbole really helps me understand the effect of a tragic moment like this and how it can completely ruin
In her poem, "Dylan" in lines 4 and 5, she writes, "Her hair was a halo of warm light / and color dripped off her tongue" (23). The reader can interpret just from those two lines the creativity and imagination not only in that one poem, but also in all poetry. The description of hair being a halo of warm light allows the reader to use his or her own imagination to perceive that image in whichever way they would like. Creative writing can be determined by many other things not only image or structure of how the poem is set into stanzas, but what is left up to the reader for interpretation. Jewel writes in "Cautious" in lines 23-29, "an open vessel / whose function it was / to be filled / until my consciousness / could return and / spit out / the bad seeds" (18). After reading these lines the reader can be left with different feelings and emotions that vary from disgust or simplicity. This is just another example of how poetry is creative writing.
In the sixth stanza he hopes that his daughter will be a "flourishing hidden tree", which is not rebel but kind and happy, but contains her happiness within a particular place. And additionally he wants his daughter to be not argumentative and aggressive, or perhaps quite and secure, "rooted in one dear perpetual place." When combined with the previous line, the last line clearly defines his hope fro daughter to live in a victorious life