Animal symbolism

evident in the works of William Butler Yeats, whose collection of poetry, The Tower, reflects his fascination with mysticism and the days of yore. The poem “Sailing the Byzantium” illustrates how William Butler Yeats use of artistic diction and symbolism reveals the parallels of ancient civilization and the cycle of life and communicates the dual themes of obsolescence and perpetuity. Yeats’ elegy, details a metaphoric spiritual journey of renewal to “the holy city” seeking intellectual refuge

somehow, turned into animals. They both may have turned into animals, in one way or another, but those ways are different. In ”The Rememberer,” Ben first turns into an ape, but then turns into a sea turtle, just to turn into a salamander. Whereas, in “Jealous Husband Returns in Form of Parrot,” the only animal he is turned into is a parrot. Another difference between the two circumstances is, Ben is going through reverse evolution, so he is turning into many different animals, and the husband went

Color Symbolism in Blue Hotel, Black Cat, Night, Alfred Prufrock, Red Wheelbarrow       Symbolism of colors is evident in much of literature. "The Blue Hotel" by Stephen Crane, "The Black Cat" of Edgar Allan Poe, "Night" by William Blake, "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" by T. S. Eliot, and "The Red Wheelbarrow" by William Carlos Williams encompass examples of color symbolism from both the prose and the poetry of literature. When drawing from various modes of psychology, interpretations

Symbolism In Tennessee William's The Glass Menagerie      Symbolism is a major aspect in Tennessee William's famous play, "The Glass Menagerie." On the surface, the short slice of life story seems to be simple. However, if the reader digs deeper they will find that there are several symbols that give the play a deeper meaning. Each character defines each symbol in a different way. Aside from character symbols, there is overall symbolism in this play. It is set in a memory, so it creates a soft

much greater aspect throughout the film. Peter Jackson implements personification, symbolism, and foreshadowing in his movie in order to point his audience towards the bigger message, greed is the root of all evil. To provide his message with further reasoning, Jackson employed the rhetorical device of personification. This device is prevalent throughout the entire movie as he gives human characteristics to animals and also different species. By doing so he not only added another rhetorical device

Comparison Visual Analysis In the previous writings I wrote about Hendrick van der Burch, “An Officer and a Standing Woman”. I wrote on how well he composed the figures, the use of color and light throughout the image, and the amount of symbolism. I ended the paper saying I will compare this painting to another, and I chose Van Eyck’s Arnolfini Wedding. The contrast and the similarities are great between the two the artist. First of all they’re both oil painters and from Northern Europe, specifically

villagers. Though this sounds cruel and unusual, the practice was a tradition of the village and of other surrounding villages as well. In this short story "The Lottery," Shirley Jackson, the author, uses symbolism to emphasize the absurdity in upholding some traditions. One item that Jackson uses as symbolism in the story is the rocks that are picked for the lottery and are later thrown. The children of the town are the first to arrive at the meeting place of the lottery. Because of this, they are the ones

Symbolism is a feature that poetry could not exist without as it is a main feature in the author portraying a story. Colors in a poem could symbolize something new and shiny or they could also symbolize something faded and worn. In the story “The Wizard of

to become one with the animal. While this turns him savage, it also disguises the little civilization he has left, making the island worse and worse. The mask is established to symbolize facade, the means of hiding one’s identity. With the mask Jack puts on, he is able to hid his civilization and true human characteristics. Although Jack was simply trying to hide himself from the pig and become one with it, so he does not scare the pig away, he does much more. This symbolism can be seen in real society

The Scarlet Letter: Symbolism in the Forest "The path strangled onward into the mystery of the primeval forest"(179). This sentence displays just one of the multiple personalities that the forest symbolizes in The Scarlet Letter written by Nathaniel Hawthorn. As seen in the epic story Wizard of OZ, the forest represents a place of evil and delight, but in the Scarlet Letter the forest symbolizes much more then that. Each character brings out a different side of the forest, however the forest