National personification

understand part of the grief that wife’s, mothers and family members felt when being told there love one had passed away. When reading the lyrics of Dear Uncle Sam, Loretta begins by telling us she is writing to Uncle Sam. Uncle Sam is a national personification of the American government & the United States in general. It is the symbol that America uses to get men to enlist. When she says she is writing to him we can feel how desperate she must have been if she is writing to a fictional person.

Throughout both texts, the authors convey a similar theme, time brings change while using different literary devices such as figurative language. First and foremost, “Once More to the Lake,” by E.B White and “Forgetfulness,” by Billy Collins use personification and illusion (as well as a bit of an identity crisis) to bring a similar theme. In the text “Forgetfulness,” the author shows that as time continues, concepts once learned soon vanish from the mind. In the beginning of the poem, Billy

their goal. Frost presents the use of metaphors and the personification of a fallen tree to represent the obstacles that must be overcome to reach one’s ideal destination. The sonnet opens with vivid imagery of a fallen tree that blocks the journey of the protagonist. At first it may appear that the tree is there to permanently block the passage to the destination, when in fact it is “...to ask us who we think we are”. The example of personification demonstrates that this drawback is not just to prevent

Winning the Pulitzer Prize is like winning the Heisman Trophy. In that regard, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings is comparable to Nile Kinnick. Kinnick won the Heisman in 1939 for his hard work, dedication, and ability to play football. Rawlings won the Pulitzer Prize in 1939 for her novel, The Yearling, for her deliberate use of sensory details, figurative language, and artful syntax. The appliance of sensory details throughout the novel enhance the story by depicting a vivid image of the characters and

A boy feels trapped and isolated in his house. He wants to go outside with his friends and explore the landscape, but he can't. His mom isolates him inside making him study and do extra work for school. He wants to leave, breathe in the fresh air, but he can't escape his mother’s grasp. This scenario represents a similar idea addressed in the vignette “The House on Mango Street”: Isolation. In The House On Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros is able to incorporate details and characterization to illustrate

Personification: Giving human characteristics to nonhuman objects. Example: “Those hours, that with gentle work did frame” (line 1) “…For never-resting time leads summer on to hideous winter and confounds him there.” (line 5-6) Shakespeare, William. Sonnet 5. ED. Amanda Mabillard. Shakespeare online. 12 Nov. 2013. Retrieved from http://www.shakespeare-online.com/sonnets/5.html Function: In the first line of the sonnet

Regardless of the personification of death, we spend life ignoring the fear of the end. We ignore the fear through culture as it gives us a sense of life and value to the world. With culture, we make ourselves too busy for death and religion would make us believe death would “wait

In the short story "Prometheus," Prometheus personifies fire as an "ill-natured spirit" which "will eat everything is sight" and is "very greedy" (Evslin 59).  Evslin uses personification to explain fire's activity because it seems to have a mind of its own.  Much like a hungry beast, fire consumes its surroundings without hesitation.  In addition, a living being can either be useful or treacherous, similarly to fire.  The negative aspects of fire alone are personified to draw attention to them and

brothers and avenge their friend which was killed by Death. With that being said, Death is personified and irony is expressed throughout the story. The character of Death is personified in the tale. Personification is when human characteristics are given to non-human objects. The first example of personification in the story is when the three rioters hear of their friend's death from the tavern boy. They hear that Death killed their friend and see it as a person, or in other words, a serial killer (lines

The personification of death exists in almost every culture. The most common depictions of death, insist that death is not only frightening and evil, but inevitable as well. In a turn of events, individuals such as John Donne and Emily Dickinson, have embraced the idea of death and portrayed it in a way that challenges the social norm. Through “Death Be Not Proud” by John Donne and “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” by Emily Dickinson, both poets personify death in their poems, but in the Dickinson