Paul Revere's Ride By Henry Longfellow Figurative Language

Imagery: The imagery of the hymn is very rich and diverse. Longfellow uses a lot of personifications, similes, metaphors, and other literary figures to create the aesthetic atmosphere of the poem.

Longfellow influences the reader to feel tension and excitement through End Rhyme. For instance, in lines 78-80, “The fate of the nation was riding that night/ And the spark struck out by that steed, in his flight/ Kindled the land into flame with its heat.” The author uses the pressure of spreading the word to emphasize the stress of needing to warn the fellow patriots, This creates tension by expressing the troublesome passion Paul Revere feels to “save the nation”, or the group of rebels against the British. The author utilizes alliteration to influence feelings of excitement. In particular, in lines 67-69, “Lonely and spectral and somber and still/ And lo! As he looks, on the belfry’s height/ A glimmer, and then a gleam of light.” The author stresses the “glimmer, and then a gleam of light” to symbolize the uprising hope with the new information of the British’s travel. By describing the “...spectral and somber and still” belfry, the author contrasts the before and after of the lanterns in the archway. To clarify, the author influences the reader’s emotions through the use of sound

Within the text of (Hear.) a multitude of free verses can be found. In one example in the poem Whitman will, express, “The wood-cutter 's song, the ploughboy 's on his way in the/ morning, or at noon intermission or at sundown,...” (Whitman Lines 11-12). Found within this text is Whitman’s clear usage of free verse. One sign of this usage of free verse can be found in the fact that Whitman does not make his lines rhyme in any way; instead, he simply writes what he thinks and pays no attention to rhyme. In addition to this the lines also could pass as everyday normal speech, something that is a clear sign of free verse. To create a connection to Whitman, Hughes also used free verse in his poem (Too.). By using Whitman’s style of free verse Hughes was able to create a sense of connection between his poem and Whitman’s, truly driving the relation to be seen as legitimate. In one portion of Hughes text he will explain, “But I laugh,/ And eat well,/ And grow strong” (Hughes Stanza 2, Lines 1-3). In this text presented by Hughes it can clearly be seen the author 's usage of free verse, as in fact the lines are similar to normal speech. The line presented hold very little rhyme, in fact, none at all; in

The poem “The Laughing Heart” displays several examples of figurative language to convey the theme of the poem. The poet uses figurative language to tell the reader to take chances, risks, and to live life to the fullest. “You can’t beat death but you can beat death in life, sometimes” everybody dies at some point but that shouldn’t stop you from being lively and taking risks (Bukowski 12,13). Charles Bukowski is trying to tell the reader that life is worthwhile and to live up to your own life expectations. “There is a light somewhere it may not be much light but it beats the darkness” the poet is saying to not let yourself be taken by the struggles of life but, to pursue through the difficulties and find more opportunities that will be more worthwhile(Bukowski 5,6.7). “The Journey” uses figurative language to convey the theme of inner strength. “The wind pried with its stiff fingers at the very foundations” Mary Oliver uses personification to show that there are things trying to destroy what you had built (Oliver 14,15,16). Whether it be wind or an actual person the poet is stating that you must endure it until you are strong enough to fight it. “And there was a new voice which you slowly recognized as your own, that kept you company” your voice isn’t something that can physically keep you company (Oliver 27, 28, 29, 30) However, you can find your own words and voice as you find your own strengths despite what anybody says.

When writing a poem, a poet often takes advantage of the powerful effects of poetic devices and figurative language. This allows the author to create meaning in their work and to express their ideas in new ways. As they do so, they often include imagery as well as metaphorical language to provide catalysts for the reader’s imagination to view what is occurring throughout the text. By doing so, they are able to increase the reader’s understanding and add meaning to the poem. This becomes especially evident in “The Gift“, written by Li-Young Lee.

Early on in the poem Longfellow establishes his style through the use of personification. To illustrate, when the speaker is describing a British owned warship docked on the Charlestown shore awaiting a battle in the revolutionary war he/she tells the reader, “each mast and spar/across the moon like a prison bar...” (Lines 20-21). Fitting the definition of a simile the ships mast and spar are compared to a prison bar using the word like. Comparing components of the British war ships to a prison reminds the reader that a war for the american colonist is inescapable just like prison is inescapable for an inmate. Therefore, the use of stylistic techniques such as similes are exemplified through longfellows description of the british war ships.

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow was a famous American poet who was born on February 27, 1807 in Portland, Maine. He lived to be seventy five years old, and was best known for poems such as “The Courtship of Miles Standish”, “Paul Revere’s Ride”, and “The Song of Hiawatha”. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s writings were influenced because of his past experiences, and his writings influenced other writers and the thoughts of his readers.

In both of the poems “When I have fears” and “Mezzo Cammin” both are based on death and have a depairing tone. However in “When I have fears” is different from “Mezzo Cammin” because the man in the poem is trying his best to reach his goal, but ultimately fails making feel hopeless. They both have different shifts and endings that occur making both poems different from each other by the end result by the way they react to death. Both Keats and Longfellow have the same idea of death in the beginning of their poems. Keats’s beginnings in the first sentence “When I have fears that I may cease to be,” is similar to Longfellow’s “Half of my life is gone.”

In Edgar Allen Poe’s story, “The Tell-Tale Heart,” the author uses symbolism, point of view, and imagery as a method of building suspense throughout the story, setting a strong foundation of strangeness, and translating the unreliability of the narrator.

Randall’s use of irony, imagery, alliteration, assonance, metaphors, and tone all contribute to the intense effectiveness of the poem. The poem starts off with a young girl asking her mother

Many people in today’s society tend to only listen to the beat of the song rather than the meaning, and vise versa. They either like the lyrics or like the beat and do not fully understand the meaning. For example, Foster the People’s “Pumped Up Kicks” is a very catchy song with a good chorus but the meaning is misconstrued. The meaning and the musicality is not intertwined. It is a song about a a disturbed kid going on a killing spree. Unlike Foster the People, people adore Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, a nineteenth century poet, not because he had a good rhythm, but because he intertwines musicality and imagery. He merges sight and sound to establish a cinematic orchestra and paints a vivid image full of depth and personality. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow incorporates religion through the influence of nature and the strong presence of musicality in “The Cross of Snow”, “My Lost Youth”, “Autumn” and “The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls”.

By employing various kinds of rhetorical devices, the language becomes more rhymed as well as the ideas the writer wants to convey become more persuasive. In this poem, rhetorical devices can be found, such as alliteration, synecdoche and irony. First, alliteration is used. “Round the decay of that colossal wreck, boundless and bare, the lone and level sands stretch far away.”

Although long in length, this poem is also fluid in structure. “The Children’s Hour” follows the rhyme scheme ABCB. Longfellow’s use of rhyme scheme and structure help to utilize the emotions and childhood memories behind fairytale stories. The poem is consistent and there are no unusual breaks or

The beginning of the poem or the first stanza has a lighthearted tone and then as it progresses it begins to divulge into a deeper

“Life is too short to wait.” There won't always be time in life. People need to realize that time does not slow down, if anything it feels faster. Everyone needs to look at life one day at a time, because if you look and plan for just the future life will breeze right past you. Many people just look forward to their death instead of trying to see what they can accomplish on this earth. If people were to just see what their true potential is, then they would understand why life should not be wasted. Henry Longfellow was a man that was a poet, his was also a traveler and a romantic. He wrote what the old type of poetry, known to have rhyme and rhythm. He identified European literature and thoughts throughout his poet. In Henry Longfellow Poem A Psalm of Life there are three messages told about life.