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“Feet, September 1948” from “Reading in the Dark” (1996) by Seamus Deane “Feet”, an extract from “Reading in the Dark” by Seamus Deane, depicts the death of a young girl, Una, from the perspective of her unnamed older brother. It focuses upon the narrator’s observations, of both his sister and the adults around him, as well as the emotions and reactions of the narrator. Throughout the extract, Deane crafts an atmosphere of intimacy, and innocence, through his word choice and use of perspective.

In the poems, “Home-Baked Bread” by Sally Croft and “The Joy of Cooking” by Elaine Magarrell, cooking becomes a metaphor for something completely different than creating food. When taking a closer look at the poems, the culinary arts become extended metaphors for ideas completely different than the surface meaning. Magarrell uses cooking to express her feeling towards her siblings while Croft illustrates the power and sexual desire of women. Both pieces use imagery, metaphors, and the senses that

Bakhtin describes dialogism as the ‘multiplicity of perspectives and voices’. It can also be understood as something that is ‘double-voiced’ or ‘multi-voiced’. In a dialogic piece, each character has their own final word, but on some level, it interacts with and relates to the voices of the other characters. ‘Dialogue’ does not progress logically or analytically, rather it does so in an interactive fashion. This makes dialogical works a lot more ‘objective’ and ‘realistic’ in nature. Bakhtin’s discussion

In the poem “Holy Thursday”- songs of experience and in the poem “The Chimney Sweeper”, William Blake makes use of various literary techniques to portray the theme of cruelty towards children. The poem ‘Holy Thursday’ refers to the wretched condition of children in charity schools. The poem ‘The Chimney Sweeper’ refers to the poor children who were used as slaves in England. My aim for this essay is to explore how William Blake made use of various literary techniques to portray the theme of cruelty

Module 3 A symbol is a literary device that is supposed to represent something as something else. The short story “The Cask of Amontillado” made use of several symbols throughout the story. The name of a character, Fortunato, sounds very much like “fortunate”. Moreover, even more meaning is given to the name because Fortunato actually means “the lucky one” in Italian. The name of the character is used symbolically and ironically because the fate that the character faces is very unfortunate due

A Scrivener is a clerk, a copyist, a regular conforming 9 to 5 day job, get paid, get old, a life well planned, however; what if ones views and determination about life start colliding with others, then what becomes life for both the conformist and nonconformist as seen in Herman Melville's, “Bartleby, the Scrivener, A Story of Wall-Street.” Melville uses of direct characterization with his own description of Bartleby and indirect characterization through scenery, names and dialogue create a dense

Deeper than the Surface “Beauty” by Tony Hoagland was written in 1998. In this poem, Hoagland expresses his feelings on how women care too much about physical appearances. Throughout his poem he tells the story through the eyes of a brother of a girl who learns to love herself for who she is. Hoagland’s poem stresses the importance that beauty goes deeper than the surface. Throughout his poem, Tony Hoagland uses many literary devices to perfect his poem. These devices include the message, tone, imagery

In the novel, Parrot in the Oven, written by Victor Martinez. Manny Hernandez, a fourteen-year-old boy, through a series of life events and struggles faces a constant dilemma of finding himself while growing up struggling with an alcoholic father, a vanishing brother, a sister absorbed into her own world, and a distracted mother. This contributes to the conditions he grows up to, such as poverty, pressure, and repressed love. Manny believes that he could obtain what he wants by accompanying a gang

narration and relates it to the fascism present in the world at the time. This was a very important observation as it links Atonement to its World War 2 setting. These articles are all very valuable as they offer differing perspectives on the narrative style and narration as a whole. The different opinions and points come together to better characterize the narration in Atonement as one filled with structure, misreadings, and

Looking at the title of Marge Piercy’s “A Work of Artifice,” readers can break it down and sense the foreshadowing. In the Oxford dictionary, “artifice” is defined as “clever or cunning devices or expedients, use to trick or deceive others.” This foreshadows the deception that the writer exposes in the poem. Piercy describes a global dilemma the the use of metaphor (a bonsai tree). A bonsai tree is “an ornamental tree or shrub grown in a pot and artificially prevented from reaching its normal size