Literary Devices In Nuns Fret Not At Their Convent's Narrow Room

Sue Monk Kidd has carefully crafted a book rich in symbolism with special emphasis on bees. Each section’s heading features the inner workings of this communal society (Emanuel, Catherine, B. 3). An epigraph at the beginning relating to bees sets the tone for the each chapter. The first chapter epigraph states: The Queen, for her part, is the unifying force of the community; if she is removed from the hive, the workers very quickly sense her absence. After a few hours, or even less, they show unmistakable signs of queenlessness.” Man and Insects.

many types of imagery throughout his poem that depicts more negativity than positivity, however both are present. For instance, the poet says “ The whiskey on your breath Could make a small boy dizzy; But I hung on like death” (lines 1-3). This pinpoints one example of negative imagery in the poem because whiskey on his breath, dizzy, and death all provide unfavorable images in the reader’s mind. Another representation of this, is when the author states “ You beat time on my head ” (line 13). This also portrays negative imagery in the poem because it reveals an abusive image to readers. Lastly, a contrasting illustration of imagery is when the author conveys “ We romped until the pans Slid from the kitchen shelf” ( lines 5 & 6). This encourages that there also is positive imagery present in the poem because the father dancing with his child which provides love and security for the reader's mind.

The imagery used in this verse appeals to the sense sight. This helps the reader visualise what the writer is taking about. It also allows the reader to relate and connect more to the poem.

Throughout the poem the extended use of imagery by the writer allows the reader to relate and sense how we might view the world if we had lost our sight. We are able to see the world in a different manner. In addition to the imagery of the world we read about throughout the poem we also see the writer uses imagery to describe the characters. For example, the writers use of imagery for the description of the blind girl gives the reader a vision of a warm hearted girl, that views the world through all of her other senses. As described by the speaker upon their first encounter in lines 18-21

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

The author uses different types of imagery to describe the setting of the passage. For instance, he uses a mix of visual imagery and metaphor to describe how "squares were cut into the dim morning earth as house lights winked slowly on." The author was comparing the house lights to squares being cut into the earth while also describing what it might've looked like. Bradbury also uses olfactory and tactile imagery. The "warm scent of fried batter" filled the "drafty halls." He's painting a picture of what the house smells like and what it felt

Sugrue Thomas describes that homeowners movement was first lunched by the organizations or ‘civil associations’ founded by 192 white neighborhoods. The “color blind manner” describes the white homeowners’ reaction after U.S. supreme count ruled on Shelley v Kraemer for the unconstitutionality of restrictive covenant. (Tomas 220-221) In Shelley v Kraemer, U.S. Supreme Count held the decision of “racially restrictive covenant is unconstitutional” and is constituted state action. Because state enforcement of restrictive convents is discriminatory and violated the 14th Amendment, private owners could voluntarily agree to restrictive convents. (bostonfairhousing.org) Homeowners could not ask judicial power to enforce the covenants that are binding

As the traveling bee (Janie) once again meets spring, the sense of hope is reborn within the heart its being, carefully trying to deviate from any pear tree that calls to its attention. But seemingly enough, temptation lurks, and gets into the natural sense of the bee (Janie). Within the novel, Their Eyes were Watching God, the pear tree that caught Janie’s heart one last time with its “crushing scent” (pg. 127) was Tea Cake, the young tree that intoxicated the bee (Janie) with its utter peaceful ways. But this was no ordinary pear tree, for this being gave Janie what the others never thought to give…an equal relationship. This equivalence initiates from the first time Tea

When the narrator was confined to her room, she also physically suffered. The room that she inhabited was both simple and dull with not much furniture and nothing to pass the time. The narrator had a clear lack of power and control as she

In the first paragraph, she describes the cold weather and claims that it is impossible to walk outside. She applies imagery to illustrate that she is trapped inside and there is not outside activity. Another example of imagery is in the last paragraph, "...were the clear panes of glass, protecting, but separating me from the drear November day." The glass panes illustrate a barrier and represent how she feels imprisoned

Not only does Wordsworth change the structure of his poem, his diction also deviates from what’s considered normal. The first four lines of the octave describe five different occupations and the restrictions each entails. The restrictions, being narrow rooms; confinement to a cell; studying in a pensive citadels; working at a maid’s wheel or a weavers loom, are either physical, or offer little to no sensory stimulation. The second part of the octave further emphasizes this point, by nothing that even insects, things we thing of having infinitely more freedom than humans, are also harnessed to the same chains. A bee which is free to fly wherever it chooses,

The poet experiences the sense of loneliness deep within himself and writes about the experience. The feelings of solitude have deeply planted roots including both factors of time and personal experiences. It also had a significant impact on the poetic theory of Wordsworth. As a poet always against tradition, Wordsworth fearlessly abandons all the shallowness of extreme classism, and chooses to describe plain and mediocre things, which urges people to return to the roots of genuine life, and also enlightens them through nature and its subliminal

In "Lines Composed A Few Miles Above Tintern Abbey", Wordsworth uses imagination to help him and others to live in the physical world peacefully. He recalls playing in Tintern Abbey, a forest nearby there and played in it when he was young. Now he comes back for different reasons. He escapes the world which is individualism and goes to the forest to get away from all the burden. He tells his young sister that she can always come here to get away from her problems as well. In the poem, Wordsworth uses nature to solve problems in life.

Lines 79-84 represent loss and decay and are another set of themes in this poem. These lines show that his poem itself is a memory; memories can never contain the original content of an experience as it did the first time. Wordsworth's intense emotional pain is displayed throughout these lines. A particular line is: "That time is past/And all its aching joys are no more". The poet clearly tells his reader's that he is extremely upset at the fact that he no longer feels that joys he has felt before, and even though he hears in nature the still, sad music of humanity, he still prefers memory and the sense of nature over intellect and actuality. Wordsworth senses his mortality and realizes that nature ("their colours and their forms...") can not renew his pleasant spirits as much as he wants them to. "Tintern Abbey" also presents the poet to an exploration of identity and self understanding; Wordsworth is in conflict with the natural landscape that is painted in front of him and his mental landscape, two major different forces, and he is trying to find an equal path to both forces so that he can find his self or his destiny. Another explanation of these lines could be that Wordsworth comprehends the way nature functions --the death and renewal of all things– and that nature will one day also play a part on him. He is accepting that one day that, like his memories, he will fade and pass

His desire to mend his ways was brought about "Through no disturbance of my soul,/ Or strong compunction in me wroughtŠ/ But in the quietness of thought" (33-4, 36). The poem's devotion to an abstract concept exemplifies the willful internality of the poet's decision. This internality leads the poet to "supplicate for thy control," an act that shifts the poem into the religious territory of reverence. Indeed, Wordsworth subtly raises his travel conceit from the earth to the heavens. "In the quietness of thought," a time that is often reserved for prayer, he decides that "Me this unchartered freedom tires;/ I feel the weight of chance-desires" (37-8). The unmapped liberalism of random urges weighs him down and bounds him to the earth; the austere and personified guardian of duty, on the other hand, steps lightly between the earth and the sky: "Nor know we anything so fair/ As is the smile upon thy face;/ Flowers laugh before thee on their beds/ And fragrance in thy footing treads;/ Thou dost preserve the stars from wrong;/ And the most ancient heavens, through Thee, are fresh and strong" (43-8). The craving "for a repose that ever is the same," a constancy that may, in the future, hold for him "a blissful course," is made salient in the comparison to stars, long regarded as shapers of destiny (40, 21). The "repose" here means "sleep," whereas in the fourth stanza "reposed my trust" means