Poetic Devices In Pale Fire

Mikhail Lermontov’s ‘A Hero of our Time’ is set in the 1840s, a crucial time in Russian history. Pechorin was a revolutionary character in Russian literature due to his cynical and amoral personality that alienates him from all social strata. ‘A Hero of our Time’ generated a large amount of outrage from the public due to Lermontov, claiming Pechorin to be the ‘hero’ of our its time. ’Bela’ is a framed narrative portrayed from the views of an old friend, Maxim Maximych, however, the story told by Maxim Maximych suggests it is an unjust and biased view of our ‘hero’ thus we as readers are to depict the true ‘hero’ Pechorin is. Examining the chapter ‘Bela,’ his actions signify his capability to damage a society, demonstrating him to be the callous and manipulative character he is.

The short story,”Barn Burning”written by William Faulkner is about a 10 year old boy named Sarty, who gets called to the stand of the court; his father, Abner Snopes, is accused of burning a barn down. Sarty knows that his father is guilty of arson and wants justice to be served, but, his father wants him to stay loyal to his family and blood. The conflict of morals vs. family goes on for the entire story,Sarty’s moral beliefs are embedded in justice and peace, while his father wants him to protect his family no matter the circumstances. Literary devices used in the story are symbolism and diction, the symbols of blood and fire being, family and a chain.and being told from the perspective of a timid ten year old boy. One of the major themes present throughout the story is courage, wanting to tell on his father for arson but, being shot down by his intimidating father. William Faulkner illustrates the theme of courage through the use of symbolism and diction

The poem Nighttime Fires by Regina Barecca explains the speaker’s complex view of her father. The speaker uses imagery to describe her father’s strange behaviours after losing his job. Figurative language is used strategically to explain the memories of this young girl’s strange adventures. The diction in this poem is also used very well helping us to understand why these nighttime fires left such a lasting impact on this grown woman from when she was only five years old. All of these things are very important to the progress of the poem and the engagement of the reader.

The imagery of fire in Edwidge Danticat 's short story “A Wall of Fire Rising” possesses a very powerful meaning and also continually changes throughout the entirety of the story. Fire was a very sacred thing to have, especially during the time this story has taken place.

In the memoir Night, Elie Wiesel goes through the worst experience of his life along with his father- they are taken to Nazi-German concentration camps during the Holocaust. Wiesel turns his painful story into an acclaimed work of nonfiction. The Jews lost their humanity through prolonged periods of starvation, beatings, murders, separation of families, and theft of their belongings. Throughout the book, dehumanization grows and slowly begins to exhaust the Jews while they are also drowned in fear and witnessing millions of deaths taking place. He does this by conveying how the fire not only consumed the lives of many but their fears and hope as well, dehumanizing all Jews. Through the symbolism of fire, Wiesel conveys how the violence of the

“Words of Fire,” by Anthony Collings, details the lives of different journalists in regards to free press and covering potentially dangerous stories. Anthony Collings is a former CNN reporter who shifted his focus from reporting to telling the story of journalists who have come under fire in a power struggle between government and free press. Collings puts free press into a spectrum, on one side there is the United States, where the press is largely free, and on the other side there are places like North Korea or China where press is largely restricted by the government. Collings does not focus on these extremes, but rather the places in the middle where there is an ongoing struggle between state power.

Before reading this poem one doesn't completely realize the details and stories behind an object as basic as a shirt. I had no idea that so much detail could be found in such a simple object, much less an entire poem. This poem presents a very good example of how we can easily overlook terrible things which happen, but choose to ignore. Even though we know bad working conditions exist in small countries which produce products we need, we choose to buy these products and support the inhumane working conditions. The poem does a good job of making us aware of the hardships people when through in the past years and opens of eyes in part of history for example, the Triangle shirtwaist fire.

The motif that is the most identifiable in chapter two of Night by Elie Wiesel is the motif of fire and heat which contributes to the theme of hope. Furthermore, this motif becomes obvious when Mrs. Schachter continues to cry in distress about her hallucination of fire while the Jews were progressively nearing Birkenau. Additionally, on their journey to that location, the author describes their poor surroundings and environment. This is displayed in the quote “The heat, the thirst, the stench, the lack of air, were suffocating us.”(Wiesel 26). This quote reveals the harsh conditions the Jews undergo and may represent their hope and sanity vanishing as they travel towards the unknown. Furthermore, this quote supports the theme due to their negative

The symbolism of the flames illustrates the dehumanization of the Jews, as they slowly kill themselves, in the memoir Night by Elie Wiesel. In the recent event of the transportation of the Jews to the concentration camp, they became anxious and nervous of their future. During the transport, one woman kept on shouting repetitively claiming that she saw flames, however they discarded what she said. However, the Jewish saw “in front of [them], those flames.

In discussing fire imagery in the Aeneid I will attempt in the course of this paper to bring in an analytic device to aid in assembling the wide array of symbols into a more uniform set of meaning. Consistently throughout the Aeneid, fire serves to provoke the characters to action. Action which otherwise it is not clear they would enter upon. Fire clears the way for the juggernaut plot to advance. Juno, first of all, described as burning - pondering (with her hatred of the Dardans) goes to Aeolus with the idea of sending the winds to create an under-handed storm to destroy the Trojans, at the sight of their fleeing ships and successful escape from the Greeks (I.75)1. Fire from the Greeks burns down

Ilan Stavans says that Juan Rulfo’s book, The Plain in Flames, is best represented by the phrase realismo crudo. Stavans defines this phrase as “a type of realism interested in the rawness of life”, meaning that he characterizes Rulfo’s writing as an unfiltered view into the lives of the average Mexican (Stavans, xi). By writing in this style, Rulfo is able to provide “an image—instead of just a description—of our landscape” as stated by Octavio Paz (xv). To create this image, Rulfo broke his story writing the process down into three separate steps. As paraphrased by Ilan Stavans, the first step “is to create a character”, the second step “is to place him in an environment where he might move around” and the third step “is to discover how the character expresses himself” (xiii). Rulfo was able to repeatedly crafted stories that were filled with high levels of realismo crudo by using that special three-step process. By creating his protagonist, crafting an environment for said protagonist, and allowing the character to express themselves within this environment, Rulfo crafted a three-tier image of post-revolutionary life in Mexico that has never been seen before.

Even early on in his childhood, Nobokov found those “comfortable products of Anglo-Saxon civilization” as nothing more than useful necessities. The extinct “tradition learning” that is taken on by him is private multilingual tutorship, even if now it seems like a very pluralistic one as it included both Russian, English and French—at the same time. It is this because of this multilingual education that Nabokov encounters less wonder in terms of cultural conflicts that usually plights other exiles. Nabokov’s traditional aristocratic background accentuates many of his experiences abroad, he internalizes spiritual deteterritorialization and finds enjoyment within it.

How can a poem still have rhythm without rhyme? There are certain tools of rhythm that

As a matter of fact, in “A Letter that Never Reached Russia”, Nabokov uses short-direct phrases and avoids run-on sentences, especially when he contemplates in paragraph 3: “It is night”, “At night I go out for a stroll” (Nabokov, 1925, para.3). In addition to the structure of sentences, punctuation is heavily used: “And so I enjoy watching, in the cafes dansants here, how “pair after pair flick by”…” (Nabokov, 1925, para.10). In the latter example, the author seems to be perfectly acquainted with the use of commas, as well as the use of quotation marks. Moreover, present tense is abundant in the short story: “I am so lighthearted”, “I even enjoy...” ,“But fashion is…” (Nabokov, 1925, para.9). Furthermore, because of his use of romantic expression, amorous adjectives fill the story, especially when the author starts recollecting memories of the mysterious woman who he loves: “Charming, dear…”, “Glorified snuffbox”, “ardently we kissed”, “dazzled we were…”, “hear the cheery, avid, deep-fetched grunts of soldiers…” (Nabokov, 1925, para.1). Lastly, personifications and metaphors were rich in the text, making his descriptions even more alive: “Fashion breathes through the centuries”, “Fashion is a creature of man’s mediocrity” (Nabokov, 1925, para.9). In “America”, however, the exact opposite style of expression is used. First of all, Ginsberg ignores all the rules of punctuation when he wanted to show how disordered his mind is: “America two Dollars and twenty-seven cents January 17,1956” , “America stop pushing I know what I am doing” (Ginsberg, 1956, p.1). Thus, the author uses this style of sentence structure extensively in his work. The most obvious example is in line 61, where the author tells a story of how his mom used to take him to communist parties: “America when I was seven momma took me to Communist cell meetings…Everybody must have been a spy” (Ginsberg, 1956, p.2). Also, Allen

“To Build a Fire” by Jack London is a short story about a man traveling through the Alaskan Yukon to meet up with his friends for lunch. The author keeps the character nameless and refers to him only as “The Man” which is used to show a connection between humanity and nature. The story shows the hardships the man goes through to get to his destination through the Alaskan Yukon, yet unfortunately doesn’t make it. The conflict is a man versus nature theme which contrasts strong and direct relations of the hardships in nature. Throughout this analysis, I am going to explore the conflict between the man and the merciless nature he has to go through before his death.