Jim Stevens Figurative Language

The home as a place of comfort does not exist for the narrator; companionship with her husband is lost. Her only real conversations occur on paper, as no one else speaks to her of anything other than her condition. She is stripped of her role as a wife, robbed of her role as a mother, and is reduced to an object of her husband's.

The poem begins to address the state of an imperfectly built house to explain the difficulties of life to his potential wife. The first line by saying, ‘Nothing is plumb, level, or square.’ (Dugan 1) Although he is describing the imperfections of a house he is figuratively alluding to his personal mistakes. However, through the next lines the “studs are bowed, the joists are shaky by nature, no piece fits any other piece without a gap, or pinch, and bent nails, dance all over the surfacing, like maggots”(Dugan 2-6) is a grim aspect of the life and how nothing seems to be going right. To further explain why it is grim is because the imagery is like the house is about to feel apart and the speaker feels the same way in life. In a house if your nails are bent, studs are bowed, and the joists are shaky the foundation and structure is not well designed much like how the speaker feels like his life is caving in. Through the next metaphor like maggots it gives an image of decay and makes you feel a sense of desperation. The statement, ‘No piece fits any other piece without a gap or pinch’ continues to reveal how incomplete the speaker finds the way he has lived his life in lines three through five. In this section. The speaker is unsatisfied with everything about himself because there is not a single thing he feels is, perfect about his past, everything has been a disaster.

The context of Craig Silvey’s Jasper Jones influences different aspects such as language, values and attitudes within the text by using techniques such as figurative language, metaphors, grammatical aspects and structuring, with many more. This creates context for the story and pushes along the true intentions that Silvey wished to portray helping readers understand the story better.

The strongest usage of metaphor in this poem is in the first stanza in the line “write their knees with necessary scratches”. While scratches cannot be written, words can, so this insinuates that children learn with nature, and that despite its fading presence in today’s urban structures, it is a necessary learning tool for children. The poet has used this metaphor to remind the reader of their childhood, and how important it is to not just learn from the confines of a classroom, but in the world outside. This leads to create a sense of guilt in the reader for allowing such significant part of a child’s growing up to disintegrate into its concrete surroundings. Although a positive statement within itself, this metaphor brings upon a negative

Jim Stevens “Schizophrenia” is open to interpretation. The title “Schizophrenia” sticks out because it is a mental disorder that affects how a person feels, thinks, and acts; it leads the reader to believe this poem has a dark undertone. Each line gives a story of how a family deals with the issues of two people in a relationship. For instance, in the last line of the poem, "It was the House that suffered the most" (Stevens line 1), Stevens indicates the relationship was not a happy one and the house suffered for it. He sets up the image with this opening line and repeats it in the close of the poem. Throughout the poem, the house transforms from a symbol to a person.

"Schizophrenia" by Jim Stevens is a poem depicting the way a schizophrenic person 's brain works. In the first line of the poem Jim Stevens says "It was the house that suffered the most". Although he is using the visualization of a house, I believe that he is really just using imagery to portray a human. I believe that each stanza portrays a different symptom of Schizophrenia.

As sentimental tone becomes evident frequently through the story, the author uses determination to display the struggles and growth that the author experiences. One of the major quotes that shows determination through a sentimental tone can be displayed as the hotel burning down where the Walls currently lived. Walls stated, “I wonder if the fire had been out to get me. I wonder if all fire was related . . . I didn’t have the answers to those questions, but what I did know was that I lived that at any moment could erupt . . . It was the sort of knowledge that kept you on your toes” (Walls 34). This excerpt explains that the author and her family struggle through life to find a decent home--that they can afford. Jeannette spills her emotions through this quote; her struggles become strengths, as she narrates her childhood. The author displays the theme of struggle and the sentimental tone when “. . . the whole family stretched out on the benches and the floor of the depot and read, with the dictionary in the middle of the room so [the] kids could look up words [they] didn't know. . .” (Walls 56). This quote really tears at the reader’s heart strings, as the family copes with their living situations. Jeannette exceeds with describing the story; adding imagery to the situation creates the sentimental tone. The idea of struggle and growth portrays the main point of the overall

Schizophrenia is responsible for life-long mental illness that presents an abnormal reality to those diagnosed with it. It can cause hallucinations, delusion, decreased motivation and judgement, erratic behavior, substance abuse, among other symptoms. Schizophrenia and mental illness, in general, can be a tricky subject in terms of an accurate portrayal. However, even inaccurate portrayals can help readers understand its implications. The way that authors write schizophrenic characters and their relationships in their works can leave an enduring impact. Considering only the following story of a likely schizophrenic protagonist, readers are presented a sensible mentally ill character who may not have a happy ending but does leave a lasting impression in those readers who become familiar with him. In Young Goodman Brown, Hawthorne touches on the reality of those inflicted with such mental illnesses as schizophrenia and does not shy away from showing the dark implications it may have on their life.

“Schizophrenia,” written by Jim Stevens depicts how a person with mental illness behave. The author uses the house to symbolize the suffering that people around the sick person lives every day. In my personal experience I know that this disease is more serious than it seems to be. The affected person does not realize the harm is causing to others, and do not want to assume that is sick. Most of them refuse to receive treatment and they find people around them guilty for what is happening. Schizophrenia affects the way people interact and make them be extremely aggressive. The author portrays how the house was destroyed, and although he does not mention any specific character, the house is being destroyed with people inside of it. The author

The poem dramatizes details using imagery regarding how the colonel suffers from severe post traumatic stress disorder. As a former colonel he has past events bothering him mentally. These events take on a life of their own through the speakers use of personification “The moon swung bare on its black cord over the house”(5-6). This statement shows how the speaker feels towards what’s inside the house and a sense of despair and loneliness in the colonel persona. There could also be a double meaning, explaining how the colonel interrogated somebody and then hung him with a black cord from the top of the house. The poem shows horrific imagery towards the reader “the broken bottles embedded in the walls around the house to scoop

While political views and guns are differences that lead to an unnecessary conflict, the divided house is an effect of this. This can be seen through how the daughter and father have their own domains that are in the house which the other is not allowed to enter. These rooms both show comparison despite them showcasing their differences. One room for the father would be his gun workshop which is “a messy disaster area”, and for the daughter, her “cramped, cold space known as the music room” which is scattered with instruments, settled in obscure places. Both of their “spaces” are a mess, showing their commonality in behaviour and mannerism. However, since they only focus on the different items contained in their rooms a hostile environment

To start off the analysis, the setting of the entire poem is significant. Though the poem takes place in a house, the atmosphere the house is set in is also important. The month is September which is a month of fall which can be seen as a symbol for decline. It definitely insinuates that the poem is leading towards death. Line 1 has “September rain falls on the house” which gives the feeling of a dark and cold night with a storm on top of that. To further develop that, Bishop gives us the failing light in line 2 to also give us an idea of the grandmother’s struggle. Bishop uses the cyclical theme of changing seasons to show the unending nature of what is transpiring within the

This poem is about an abusive parent. I say that because if you read the poem once you would think it was about a loving son and father, but theres more to it. If you go back over it in stanza 2 line 4&5 it says "We romped until the pans slid from the kitchen shelf". Why would they be having fun so much that it would be destroying the kitchen. That doesnt happen often, which also brings you to the conclusion that the story could be about something darker. The author used waltzing as a metaphor to represent his abusive father. This poem also couldnt be about a loving father and son when the poem starts with "The whiskey on your breath could make a small boy dizzy: but I hung on like death: such waltzing was not easy". You can tell that the boy

Extending the house metaphor throughout the poem, Dickinson adds the metaphorical use of doors and windows to represent poetry’s openness. Supporting language was used to suggest that poetry is better and more open than prose with

First, the poem is consistent when it comes to its usage of images. The poem repeatedly makes use of locked rooms in order to take a peek at the inner mechanisms of the mind. Each locked room is representative of the different doubts, insecurities, and/or urges that one tries to repress and hide from