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similarities. The first poem I am going to examine is "digging" by Seamus Heaney. I will first comment on the title of the poem. "Digging" has both a metaphorical and literal meaning to it. The literal meaning is that his father and his grandfather are farmers. The poem talks about the men "Digging" and working, so this explains the literal meaning of the poem. The metaphorical meaning is that Seamus Heaney is "Digging" into his past and back round, which is farming. So, the title is rather effective

In Robert Frost’s poem “To the Thawing Wind,” in the literal sense, he is asking the Southwest wind to come, melt the snow and bring spring, but symbolically he is tired of the winter and wants warm weather. He wants to burst out of his cabin and have a good time, not thinking about poetry. The poet has been confined in his winter cabin and is wanting the wind and rain to melt the snow, so it will change his winter isolation. He has been longing for the “thawing wind” because that is when spring

of sight that we don’t use as much. Seeing the emotion in a person, seeing the beauty in something. Sight can have two roads, it’s literal sense, and the deeper more emotional and spiritual sense. And in Emily Dickinson’s two poems, “Before I got my eyes put out” and “We grow accustomed to the dark” she expresses her experience of losing her sight not just in a literal way but in that deeper more spiritual way because she is accepting the loss of her sight, she is adjusting to the new life of darkness

Literal or Nonliteral Approach to Genesis 1-2 One of the fundamental key aspects to Christianity is believing in one true God, and that God is the source for everything. He created the whole universe, and everything in it. There is one problem to this. How does one interpret the reading of creation stories in Genesis? A literal approach is described as taking the reading straightforward through young-earth view, while a non-literal approach is defined through old-earth view and through theistic

Mexican-born author, Octavio Paz, in his short story, “My Life with the wave” suggests the protagonist is symbolic and then remains a supernatural character best understood in literal terms. He supports his claim by showing the reader the speakers difficulty of finding a place for the wave out of the ocean, how the protagonist suffers imprisonment for a crime he did not commit, and of how through the death of the wave the protagonist is able to free himself from the pain and torment he faced when

of being relaxed and calm. This poem was hard in trying to really understand the literal meaning in order to dive in to find a deeper meaning. Let Evening Come by Jane Kenyon was a very interesting poem. It was very short, but had a lot of detailed sentences. Another interesting element of the poem was the repetitive use of the title phrase “let evening come” throughout the poem. My idea of this poem is that the literal meaning of this poem is someone being trapped. As the poem goes on, every stanza

Look up the word monster in multiple dictionaries in order to get a full understanding of what the word means. Discuss in both literal and figurative terms whether the Creation is a monster. The word “monster” means a being of unnatural size with unnatural features that is sometimes imaginary and often causes fear due to wickedness, ugliness, and cruelty. In literal terms, the Creation is a monster. Based on the definition, he is of unnatural size and features as the Creation is characterized

in our everyday communication. A euphemism is a nicer word or phrase that is used to make a sensitive topic less harsh according to dictionary.com (1995). Colloquialisms are words or phrases that are used to express something other than the words literal meaning as stated by vocabulary.com (year unknown). Most of the time we hardly know we use such terms or phrases nor do we know where they originate from. The usage of euphemisms and colloquialisms is a worldwide tendency. Not only is it a universal

also a busybody. She likes to move, learn, and understand different culture. While seeming like a slightly childish dream, ANna has been all over, from Georgia, to Mississippi, all the way to London, England. She does not just like traveling in the literal sense, but also through books. Anna’s aspiration to travel fuels her dislike of being back in beautiful, but familiar Lookout Mountain,

The Use of Symbolism in Robert Frost's Wind and Window Flower I interpreted this poem as a very sad one. A love unrequited by the pursued. In the first two lines the poem tells you to forget about the love you share and hear a tale of this. Not to literally forget, but possibly put aside. The man is a winter breeze, cold and rough and sort of roams the land. The woman is a window flower, shut off from the outside. This sets up the separation. They can "see" each other and are kept