The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes is a fantastic poem. It really gets you pulled in when you hear about this forbidden love, that the highwayman and Bess have. The poem is about a highwayman (robber) and Bess, which is the landlord’s daughter and it’s about their relationship. The story goes on and there is a man named Tim and he likes Bess and he hears them talking. He turns the highwayman into the king. They go to Bess’s room and ties her up so when the highwayman comes back they can catch him and kill him. She shoots herself a warning for him to know not to come. But he comes back mad about her death and they kill him too. At the end it tells us we can still see their love story because they are ghosts. I think this poem is fantastic because …show more content…
Some parts of the poem isn’t understandable, but with the similes and metaphors you can image what it looks like if it gets compared to something you know well. Here are some examples of similes and metaphors in the story. “The road was a ribbon of moonlight over the purple moor. “ If you don’t understand they compare the road to ribbon, which means the road was like a ribbon thin,little and has rolling hills with swamps. Here is another example of similes and metaphors in the poem. “His eyes were hollows of madness, his hair like moldy hay.” Most people know what moldy and hay means which means you can picture his hair gross and nasty and his eyes frightening or scary. It gives you better pictures of imagery too. If they wouldn’t have put moldy or madness then it would have been just hair and no emotion. Which is boring and that’s no fun. One more example “His rapier hilt a-twinkle, under the jeweled sky.” You think of jewels as sparkling, shining objects, and pretty. So you can think of that when you do imagery. So a very pretty, shining, and sparkling sky shining above him and his sword. You can see there are millions of similes and metaphors and they have lots of description in them. Its very easy to compare the words in the similes and metaphors to words you know, so you can image what it looks like so you can understand
"He had…split purple lips, lumped ears, welts above his yellow eyes, and one long scar that cut across his temple and plowed through a thick canopy of kinky hair…" Imagery is very effectively used by Knight in order to illustrate Hard Rock and incidents in the poem. Phrases such as "bored a hole in his head," "handcuffed and chained," "the jewel of a myth," and "barked in his face," paint vivid images in the readers mind. Knight's use of imagery keeps the reader interested in the poem while slowly drawing the reader into the story (emotionally). This element ultimately proves to be very useful to convey the motif of the poem.
To begin, the poem Callum written by Milton Acorn has a variety amount of poetic devices, which helps the poetry have more meaning and depth. Throughout the poem, the author was able to use similes, alliteration, assonance, onomatopoeia, imagery, and hyperbole. Furthermore, the author uses similes and imagery to illustrate Callum’s handsome appearance, since he had hair like mustard-weed;.../that tangles inside his head.” (Acorn 1-6). This demonstrates that Callum’s hair stood up in tufts of yellow like a mustard-weed plant and his shoulders were probably brawny and boxy like a scoop, thus using imagery as well. Also, it is clear that Callum had clear, bright eyes, since he is referring to a lake which is transparent, in which one can see the
INTRODUCTION – (1 paragraph) STRUCTURE 1. Opening sentences which introduce the poem, its author and its form.Explain why the poem is of a particular form (either a ballad or lyric poem). 2. Thesis statement: A general statement about what the poem communicates about life and life experience. 3. Signpost: briefly outline the more specific reasons for how/why the poem conveys this life experience and / or message. (Introduce the main features which will be explored in more detail in the body of your essay).
The imagery used in this verse appeals to the sense sight. This helps the reader visualise what the writer is taking about. It also allows the reader to relate and connect more to the poem.
To elaborate, the reader can not truly hear what is taking place in the poem, but does get a sense of being able to hear what they are reading. For instance when the speaker says “While his gills were breathing in” (22), the reader can almost hear the fish breathing. The speaker again stimulates the auditory senses when she says “and a fine black thread, / still crimped from the strain and snap” (58-59). Again the reader can virtually hear the sound of the line snapping. The next aspect of imagery that needs to be examined is the sensory imagery. An excellent example of sensory imagery is found when reading the lines “It was more like the tipping, / of an object toward light” (43-44). These lines can give an almost unbalanced feeling to the reader as they conceptualize these words. Imagery is not the only important element used in this poem. As stated earlier, irony is an important component involved in “The Fish”.
The author uses imagery in the poem to enable the reader to see what the speaker sees. For example, in lines 4-11 the speaker describes to us the
As evident by the title of this poem, imagery is a strong technique used in this poem as the author describes with great detail his journey through a sawmill town. This technique is used most in the following phrases: “...down a tilting road, into a distant valley.” And “The sawmill towns, bare hamlets built of boards with perhaps a store”. This has the effect of creating an image in the reader’s mind and making the poem even more real.
This paper will define imagery, metaphors, rhyme and structure and will also discuss the importance of figurative language in poetry and how it communicates to the reader.
One of the most frequent figurative language used in this poem is imagery. In fact, imagery is used throughout the whole poem. For example, in the first poem the reader can imagine a man jumping into the river and sinking, since the stanza states, “I went down to the river, I set down on the bank. I tried to think but couldn't, So I jumped in and sank.” There is also imagery in stanza two, when the speaker says, “I came up once and hollered! I came up twice and cried! If that water hadn't a-been so cold I might've sunk and died.” From this quatrain, the reader can imagine a person drowning. They can also infer that the man was shivering, considering the water felt
The way the story properly delivers itself is by the vivid descriptions and rhetorical devices used by Golding. In this novel, his style of writing focuses on imagery and symbolism. Golding uses imagery constantly throughout the novel to portray his direction for the readers focus. Whether describing the environment where he writes something like, “it was roughly boat-shaped: humped near this end with behind them the jumbled descent to the shore. On either side, rocks, cliffs, treetops, and a steep slope: forward there, a tamer descent, tree clad, with hints of a pink tail.” (29), or the characters in ways like, “Inside the cloak he was tall, thin, and bony: and his hair was red beneath his black cap. His face was crumpled and freckled, and ugly without silliness. Out of this face stared two blue eyes, frustrated now, and turning, or ready to turn, to anger.” (20), Golding’s descriptions are always straightforward, leaving just enough to the imagination.
The use of imagery can be seen throughout the poem. The title of the poem itself is an example of imagery. “Natural Bridge/Rogue River Canyon” gives an image to our brain of some bridge formed naturally from rocks and sparks off our sense of sight. Similarly, “And my reflection is dominated by water” arouses sense of sight and touch too. There are other several examples of imagery in the poems like “hard stone”, “dark”, “high hills”, “mark”, “asunder”, “pressed”, etc. All of these words in the poem ignites at least one of our senses. All of these imagery contributes to the poem by creating images in our head that let us interpret the poem in same way as writer does. These imageries
These three lines are perfect examples of the imagery within the poem because they contain an image of a river with its small peeks and waves trembling and glistening in the afternoon sun. All the while it equates the natural beauty of the river to the beauty that the young man sees in the youthful maiden.
Imagery is a good source to help the readers better understand what is happening in the poem. There are several examples of different kinds of imagery. One example is “crouching over the hot coals of desire” (Wallada 5). This shows the use of kinetic imagery and visual imagery. It shows kinetic imagery because it shows the image of a character bending over hot coals. Visual imagery is used by having the reader visualize someone bending over something. Another example of imagery being portrayed in this poem is “there may be winter rains pelting copiously down” (Wallada 13-14). Tactile imagery is used
"The Highwayman" is a narrative poem written by Alfred Noyes that portrays ill-starred romance between the highwayman, a thief and Bess, the landlord's daughter. Everything is going well until Tim calls the authorities and sets a trap to catch the highwayman, because he's a thief. Tim, Bess’s father's ostler is in love with Bess and goes out of his way to ensure that Bess’s relationship won't last. After Tim tips off the authorities Bess warns the highwayman and in the process she perishes.
The poets also use metaphors when writing poems. Metaphors refer to the use of certain words to mean otherwise in the context of the poem. However, metaphors are sometimes hidden in the poem such that they require the reader to figure out their existence in the poem. This will be easy when the poet employs the physical environment that is well understood by the reader. In addition, metaphors will strengthen the ideas that the poet wants to pass across. Metaphors will therefore make it easier for the readers to interpret and understand the meaning that the poet intended to communicate. Shelley has used a metaphor in his poem where he states ‘…Pestilence-stricken multitudes’. He states this to indicate to the reader that he is not just addressing a pile of leaves. Therefore, this helps to understand the deeper meaning of the poem.