Summary Of The Poem 'Beginning' By James Arlington Wright

There are many ways figurative language can be expressed. One way of expressing figurative language is music. Taylor Swift’s song Mean is a good example of this because it contains similes and metaphorical elements. She expresses how other people’s words can emotionally damage ones feelings, “You, with your words like knives and swords and weapons that you use against me” (Taylor Swift, Mean). This simile is a direct comparison between weapons and words.

In chapter one of the novel, Anthem, by Ayn Rand, the author incorporates figurative language to develop the characters and the setting. The first example that portrays figurative language is, “The walls are cracked and water runs upon them in thin threads without sound, black and glistening as blood.” This example uses a metaphor to compare the water on the walls to glistening blood. In return, the readers can get a visual of the rooms setting and what the walls look like. Another example from chapter one is, “Their hair was white and their faces were cracked as the clay of a dry river bed.”

A great example of figurative language was on page 37, “We were withered trees in the heart of the desert”. This is one of the many metaphors the author uses throughout the text to give the reader a visual representation. He compared the Jews to withered trees to show how exhausted and drained they were. Instead of saying, “they were exhausted”, which is just a broad

First off, Figurative language can be said as a language that uses words or expressions with a meaning that is different from the literal interpretation. Although others may only hear the lyrics, if they were to dig far enough they would be able to see different forms of figurative language. One example at the end of the song, “it’s a cold and it’s a lonely hallelujah.” This is a form of personification which means taking something that isn’t human and making it human. Furthermore, there is also some alliteration, the occurrence of the same sound of closely connected words, in the middle of the song, “I couldn’t feel, so I tried to touch.” This is alliteration because of, “tried to touch,” since all three words begin with a T and also sound relatively the same.

The song Mirrors by Justin Timberlake has a lot of figurative language I will prove a couple cases where that is true.

Right near the beginning the author writes “Gusts of wind made bits of paper dance between the parked cars” which is an example of personification. This use of figurative language helps develop a gloomy mood and the fact neighborhood might be poor. Next the author writes “Father’s words like the distant thunder that now echoed through the streets of Harlem” which is an example of a simile. By comparing “Father’s” words to a distant thunder it makes the reader think his father is a big, strict, loud, and that the character and his father are probably in an argument. Finally, the author describes Lemon Brown’s voice as “high and brittle like twigs being broken” which is an example of a simile. By describing the voice as high and brittle it makes the reader think the voice may be from an older person who is potentially a woman. Walter Dean Myers makes great use of figurative language in the story Treasure of Lemon Brown.

Figurative Language is the art of using figures of speech, loaded words, appeals, etc. they are used to have more of an impact and to persuade the listeners to join your side. in his speech, Patrick Henry tried to appeal to the audience by bringing up God into

The text that will be analyzed is a short story called The Secret Lion by Alberto Rios. This text is jam packed full of figurative language such as symbolism and personification. The story is a memory from the author himself about when he was growing up as a kid in the border town of Nogales, Arizona. He has just reached junior high and he is in the early stages of becoming an adult. He does not like the fact that he is growing up and he wants to stay as a kid.

One example of figurative language is repetition. Although there were multiple lines of repetition the one that stood out the most was “piece by piece” which was featured in the most important parts of the song, which is the title of the song, part of the chorus and the bridge. One line in the song is “But piece by piece, he collected me” (line 7) which is part of the chorus. She is talking about how her father left her in pieces and her husband is the one who put her back together. Another important part is “Piece by piece, he restored my faith” (line 14). Her husband was the one to show her how a true man should act and how a good father should be, unlike Kelly’s own

The next example of figurative language is a hyperbole. “It isn’t a soul in this green world of God’s that you can trust” “she said” “and I don’t count nobody out of that not nobody” (O’Conner 1955) These statements were over exaggerated

The explication of the beginning of the poem is so bizarre. The first verse of the poem talks about the speaker’s loneliness. The speaker woke up from the sleep and he is trying to tell about his dream to his old friend. However, He addressed the darkness as his old friend and started to describe it which he had done before. Also, He is saying that when he was sleeping a vision left its seeds and it was deeply rooted in his brain. In this poem silence is the taboo, what he wants to speak about he cannot. The speaker is mentioning to all enlightened people in this poem. Its theme is man's inability to communicate with man.

In James Wright’s poem “A Blessing” it explores an outer body experience using personification, symbolism, imagery, and syllabic verse. I believe that Wright’s viewpoint portrays a new-found realization of love illustrated by two Indian ponies. Moreover, Wright begins to outline imagery throughout the poem which sets an almost calming but romantic aura. Wright writes, “Just of the highway to Rochester, Minnesota, twilight bounds softly forth on the grass (1-2). This quote sets a blissful setting as the sun is beginning to rise presenting a new day.

The poem ‘You Begin’ by Margaret Atwood is a deeply meaningful poem if interpreted in a certain way. Whilst on one level the poem may seem a cutting together of erratic ideas, for example ‘that is a fish, blue and flat’(4), on reading the poem closely the reader can delve deeper into its meaning. One interpretation of ‘You Begin’ could be that it is a simple poem on human life; however this interpretation could be viewed as superficial. Arguably a truer interpretation of the poem is that it is a criticism of what we are taught within society about the world and our life, and that what we are taught is merely the first step in discovering what human life is truly about. Regarding the physical structure of the poem, for example the metre, rhythm

Use of free verse in this poem creates a lack of structure that appears to parallel the soldier’s own lack of structure and direction in his own life after he leaves the war. The poem begins with the image of a soldier's and his squadron raiding a farmhouse:

An example : “you are like a red rose”, a red rose is a metaphor for beauty.