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Nevertheless, in the poem ‘Nesting time’, Stewart interprets a personal experience in first person of the appearance of a bird that lands upon his daughter and forgets the thought of the harsh world. Stewart’s descriptive language repeatedly explains the poem as if seen in his viewpoint, beginning with an interjection, ‘oh’ communicating of his incredulity of an ‘absurd’ bird. Symbolizing the bird with strong coloured imagery its ‘mossy green, sunlit’, described to be bright and joyful, with sweetness shown with the type of bird, ‘honey-eater’, Douglas Stewart takes the time to describe its admiration juxtaposed to the dangerous world surrounding it. While visualizing the birds actions, ‘pick-pick-pick’ of alliteration and repetition of its

In I Know Why The Caged Bird Sings by Maya Angelou, Angelou uses various stylistic devices and rhetorical strategies such as similes and metaphors. Angelou’s use of similes are used in order to describe her own character. In this, Angelou remarks “For nearly a year, I sopped around the house, the Store, the school and the church, like an old biscuit, dirty and inedible” showing that Angelou's inner feelings of not being good enough to be picked or loved. Correspondingly Angelou felt her skin looked “dirty like mud” showing her inner insecurities of her skin colour being unattractive. The sense of Angelou’s insecurities can also be seen with the use of metaphors regarding Angelou's skin as she remarked “I was described by our playmates

“The free bird thinks of another breeze….a caged bird stands on the grave of dreams…” The two literary works “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” by Maya Angelou and Harper Lee’s “To Kill a Mockingbird” can be seen as mockingbirds that have flown over fields of prejudice and repeat what they have seen for all to hear. Jem Finch, a young boy and lawyer’s son from “To Kill a Mockingbird” clearly symbolizes a mockingbird because of his youth and innocence, and because of his innocence he cannot fully understand the racism in the story. Jem also has many similarities to the caged and free birds in “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings”, whether it be Jem’s

The lines in the poem all connect to George and Lennie’s dream, and how it lived in them through different points in the book.

Thus, through the initial impression of the man of the bird’s brave and challenging movements by the utilisation of poetic techniques, the reader is able to visualise the bird’s characteristic it inherits and gain a deeper understanding of nature and the impression of humanity distinctively.

In “The Great Scarf of Birds” by John Updike, he describes the power of nature to impact people by using structure, diction, figurative language, and imagery. By incorporating all of these literary devices, Updike constructs an authentic poem and a great read. The author is truly able to chronicle all the emotions that come with having a change of heart. Every literary device he uses is equally important in construction of the poem and the meaning behind it.

In the poem, “Backwards,” by Warsan Shire the poem dramatizes the conflict between the long for the past and the hatred of the present. This poem highlights the rough situation that the speaker is in as well as a need for what life was like before. One can easily see that the speaker in this poem is a child in the family, because of the context of line 3, “that’s how we bring Dad back.” This is referring to the longing for their dad before they were in the situation they currently are in. Although, there is not line to line rhyme scheme the poem is written backwards at the beginning of the second stanza. This is likely showing the reader the need for the past and emphasizing the importance of the current situation. The overall theme of this poem is showing what life was once like and what it is now.

Because of the supposed similarities between humans and birds, birds are a useful tool for authors wishing to symbolize human emotions or thoughts. Mynott offers that birds are often “distinguished partly by the different human emotions they seem to be revealing” (Mynott 282). He references several examples of the use of human-specific traits in the description of birds, such as “kind,” “stern,” and “astonished” (282). It is not such a huge leap from the attribution of such human characteristics, to “anthropomorphic misdescription” (282). The birds in The Ant of the Self are said to be looking “as though they [had] placed bets” on who would lose Spurgeon’s and his father’s confrontation. While Spurgeon is taking a stand against his father by ordering him out of the car and onto the shoulder of the road, the birds’ curious glances are exposing Spurgeon’s own thoughts. The birds, a symbol for Spurgeon, wonder whether he or his father will “go down in flames” (Packer 95). The caged birds, which are so capable of human expressions, are expressing Spurgeon’s thoughts. ZZ Packer endows the birds with a look of human quizzicality, having them glance from the nervous Spurgeon to his angered father. Spurgeon wonders whether he or his father will win, and the birds, as his symbol, express this.

The first element our writers used to express their message of wanting to be free is form. The narrator for ‘The Caged Bird” feels alone and wishes to be able to snatch the chains that keep her tied down. Also, in the poem “Sympathy” by Dunbar as well an in “The Caged Bird” both authors used a bird to symbolize the captivity and aspiration for freedom. Both poets wrote their piece in lyric form because of obvious reasons. A lyric poem is defined as a poem that expresses personal and emotional feelings. Writing poems with this form shows the amount of deep emotion that the narrator feels toward this work. In addition, both authors wrote their poems in iambic pentameter to make the poem sound like a natural flow of speech to really show the deep feelings the poets are feeling.

The Conference of the Birds is an epic Sufi poem, owing to it long length and the narrative that it attempts to knit together. One of the rhetorical devices used frequently by the poet Attar in his works is that of “anaphora, which is the repetition of a certain word or phrase over and over again within an extended paragraph or few lines.” (Darbandi & Davis 9). Moreover, “Attar also uses the common masnavi metre of Persian narrative poetry; where the rhymes occur within the line and each line has a different rhyme thereby, rendering it almost identical to the English heroic couplet.” (Darbandi & Davis 9). Not only that, “he also makes use of Persian metaphors in his work which are quite different from that of the metaphors found in the English poetry, as the former juxtapose words in such a way so as to deepen the meanings implied by the passage.” (Darbandi & Davis

In the poem, “The Pigeon, Icarus” by Ann Goldring had positive and negative attitudes toward the pigeons. The positive attitude that the speaker gives the conflict of attitudes toward the pigeons such as the speaker admires the pigeons, the speaker speaks the beauty of the pigeon, and the speaker sees he wants to be pigeons. The first example, in lines 4-5, “Their perch, strives their into beating, collect in clouds sweeping together.” This shows that the speaker admires the pigeons, while they are flying. The speaker expressed like an artist who paints a picture. Another example, in lines 8-9, “White to silver, grey to silver.” The speakers speak the beauty of the pigeon, the speaker stating that their feathers as white to silver, then grey

The imagery of the short story “The Birds”, by Daphne du Maurier, illustrates that nature will always overcome man. In the story the birds there are many examples of imagery but one of the main ones is “The birds had been more restless than ever” 52. This is letting the reader know that the birds are acting up. This also shows the reader that there is also a little foreshadowing in the story. Another part in the book where there is imagery is in the first sentence “On December the third the wind changed overnight and it was now winter”50. This tells you that it is now the coldest time of the year and it might explain why the birds are acting up. This also shows that mother nature is really throwing everything at them. The

	The entrapment of women is another element that’s represented by the birds. It’s characterized by the "pigeon-house" (Chopin, 99) that Edna moves into. It "stood behind a locked gate, and a shallow parterre that had been somewhat neglected." (Chopin, 99) The pigeon house represents inequality that women had to face in Chopin’s times. The locked gate shows that women were anything but free during that time period. The two parrots that are in a cage further support this. They are just like Edna hoping to escape from society’s rules and standards. She relates herself to a "bird winging its flight away from [Léonce]." (Chopin, 27) She does this because he treated her like a

In the poems, "Caged Bird" and "Hope is the thing with feathers", Maya Angelou and Emily Dickinson develop their themes through the characterization of non-literal characters. In the poem "Caged Bird", Maya Angelou illustrates the idea of hope as always being by one's side during the best and worst of times in life. It characterizes hope as caring and giving while not asking anything in return. In the poem "Hope is the thing with feathers" Emily Dickinson portrays the idea of freedom and imprisonment through the use of characterization and an extended metaphor. While one bird is able to roam free and have a good life, the other is forced to be confined in a cage where the only thing that cannot be caged is its singing.

It is certainly true that one of the distinguishing features of poetic texts is the use of figurative or non-literal language – this essay highlights the fact that metaphors do contribute to the understanding of a poem. Ted Hughes’ poem, Sketching a Thatcher, is loaded with vivid imagery and ample metaphorical constructions which aids to validate this fact. In order to uncover the message behind this poem, one must take a closer look at the arguments, focus expressions and tenor/vehicle constructions of at least six local metaphorical constructions