Maritime Allusion

The vehicle to explain the feelings are “little boats that sail towards” Matilde’s “isles”. While being a straightforward metaphor, creating the literal imagery of tiny boats develops possibilities for both the metaphorical imagery created and the meaning derived from the comparison. There is a sense of obscurity and abstraction in describing aromas, light, and metals as physical boats. Within this logical leap in the metaphor, a gap is created for the reader to fill, leading to

The theme of new beginnings and the harness of the past in another natural setting is discussed again in the second stanza, but now with a focus on time. The visual image presented my the passage as the sun hesitating and losing its direction show allow the reader to observe the symbolism of the sun. The sun universally represents time, the rise and set of sun symbolizing the beginning and ending of each day, days leading into months, years, and lifetimes. The rise of the sun is a new beginning, but it "seems to hesitate," and "lose its/ incandescent aim." The new beginning brought on by the rising of the sun was held back and lost "in that second." Hope and the fresh start were halted by the sun, who was not ready to let time pass and continue. The passage concludes with an affirmation of the symbolism, that "the past is brighter yet" than the sun who could not pull the new start cleanly into the future.

In the fifth stanza Becquer extends the time to the human emotions. He says that words of love will return and that in fact they will sound in the ear of the woman he loved. The ardent words will awaken her and even generate new feelings. But the speaker convinces us that the kind of love he gave her lover is beyond the cycle of nature and even her emotions and feeling. And by using the anaphora "by those", the writer help us to understand the condition that his love is beyond that cycle. In fact, the sixth stanza warns the lady not to fool herself because the love the speaker felt for her is not ruled by the temporary cycles that rule the nature. His love was idolatry. It's beyond nature. The repetition "those…will not return" that the poet uses in almost all the stanzas helps to support this idea.

“Love Poem” by John Frederick Nims is an excellent of example of an author using many types of literary terms to emphasize his theme of a love that is imperfect yet filled with acceptance. In, this poem Nims uses assonance, metaphor, and imagery to support his theme of “Imperfect, yet realistic love”.

Finally, the speaker compares himself to the glowing remnants of a fire, which lies on the ashes of the logs that once enabled it to burn. In contrast, the love between the speaker and his beloved remains strong even though he may not live long. Here the speaker employs another kind of figurative language, the paradox, to emphasize that their love, unlike the fire, is unalterable and everlasting.

Beginning early in the poem and used heavily throughout, imagery and personification are utilized to exemplify the lovers' argument. The belief that love is never ending is created through never ending connotations, "I'll love you, dear, I'll love you Till China and Africa meet, and the river jumps over the mountain and the salmon sing in the street." The lover uses images of the impossible such as fish singing, the laws of physics breaking, and distant continents meeting. This strengthens the original belief that love is eternal and superior to time itself. These tasks are nearly impossible and the idea of love one day ending is equated with them.

The second stanza creates a clear contrast between what each person receives in this relationship. When the speaker’s lover puts on their crown of wind-flowers, the only place it leads them is to the surging sea and blowing storms. This person is obviously getting the short end of the stick. Even though they are both receiving love, the effects of it are not always beneficial to both parties. In the relationship between these two people, one prospers while the other is left behind or led awry.

Through the use of poetic devices such as repetition or alliteration, the author originally describes what love is not capable of providing and defines love as unnecessary but by the end of the poem, the author reveals that love has some value.

Towards the end of the story, Janie comes to a conclusion on what love means to her. Janie states, “Love is lak de sea. It’s uh movin’ thing, but still and all it takes shape from de shore it meets, and it’s different with every shore,” (182), which conveys that throughout her adventure of finding love she has figured out that love depends on the person and the people around them. The way the author uses the comparison between love and the sea, shows that love does not stop, it is constantly coming and going during one's lifetime. The person is the shore and as every tide or relationship comes in it will shape them and create an entirely new experience.

Yet, upon further analyzation of the exact meaning of the symbolic sea, one is able to perceive that the sea itself doesn’t merely just portray

Biblical is a type of allusion used in this book because the old man carries the mast up the hill to his shed and Jesus carried his cross up the hill where he got crucified.

The Last Ship is a book, made into a musical, written by John Logan and Brian Yorkey. The music used in this play was written by, as he is more famously known as, music artist/singer, Sting. His real name is Gordon Matthew Thomas Sumner. This play has many songs of which use plentiful amounts of poetic elements in them, for example, the song, The Last Ship, in the play, The Last Ship.

Although Alfred Lord Tennyson's poem, ‘O-were I loved as I desire to be’, was written in 1842, the theme can be compared to Rostand's novel, Cyrano de Bergerac, written fifty-five years later. Both Alfred Lord Tennyson and Rostand are urging the reader to consider that love isn't as easy as it seems. However Lord Tennyson addresses this theme through the use of Imagery and Rostand relies on Personification. From Start to finish, metaphors are used to emphasize the theme of love in the book, “Cyrano de Bergerac” and the poem “O-were I loved as I desire to be.” For example, the author uses the quote “A little longer!

The next two lines, “Love alters not with his brief hours and weeks, / But bears it out even to the edge of doom” is an allusion to love standing its ground even in the wake of Doomsday. This quatrain effectively illustrates love as a thing that endures all hardship; reinforcing the extended metaphor of the previous quatrain.

Consequently, this picturesque poetic device helped communicate the theme of lost love by helping the reader associate the personas’ thoughts and beliefs with their own.