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

humans act and ignore the beauty of the natural world around them by acquiring materialistic things, thus showing not only his irritation and disappointment in society, but also his irritated tone he has throughout the sonnet. Through his use of personification and imagery, Wordsworth is able to communicate that humans, in general, have become detached from nature and it’s beauty because of their infatuation of materialistic objects. The first section of this sonnet begins with a powerful statement of

examples of figurative imagery, the most prominent is personification. An example of personification is “they say [the lagoon] will gnaw at the shoreline / chew at the roots of your breadfruit trees / gulp down rows of your seawalls / and crunch your island’s shattered bones” (12-15). In this example, it is talking about the repercussions of climate change and what the future will look like if people do not change. The use of personification helps the reader understand the awful things that can

Donne uses personification to describe Death, in fact the whole poem is written as though it was a speech to be given to Death, an impossible idea if we could not think of death as a person. This contrasts with Thomas' idea of death which he describes, ironically, as