National personification

Neruda expresses two different concepts of our demise, portraying the inevitability and inescapability of death, while questioning the true meaning of life. In ‘Death Alone’, the chilling and frightening atmosphere is vividly portrayed through personification. Death’s stealthiness is depicted as it “comes to shout without a mouth, a tongue, without a throat” (L.27), conveying a sense of devastation that Death

In the poem “Death be not proud,” by John Donne the poet personifies death as a person not worthy of the respect and feat that he receives. From the words used in the poem, the reader gets the idea that it was written a long time ago, that being said it does not take away from the meaning nor is it hard to understand what they mean since the poet uses them in the literal meaning. The poem constructed in a way that is looks and sounds as the though the speaker is talking to Death in person. It sounds

Word Sentence where word is used Part of speech/context clues/meaning New sentence Synonym Antonym Exorcise “They even exorcise spirits who refuse to be moved, who wreak havoc on humans’ lives. The word luiseach means ‘light-bringer’ in Celtic-“ Exorcise means to get rid of an evil from a place or a person. It’s a verb. The context clues help me by telling me The context clues help me by telling me that the spirits wreak havoc on the human’s, so she is ridding of the spirits I thought that I exorcised

Emily Dickinson Emily Dickinson’s poems are shorter than most, but that does not mean that they lack depth or skill. Dickinson uses many brilliant literary techniques in her poetry such as allusions, personification, juxtaposition, metaphors and so many others. Her unique use of symbolism throughout her poems really makes the reader think twice on what they are reading. And since the majority of her poems are short, it makes it easier to reread the poem numerous times. In Emily Dickinson’s Poem

Counting by 7s Reading Record Title: Counting by 7s Author: Holly Goldberg Sloan Genre: Realistic Fiction Setting: The setting is Bakersfield, California in present time. Some of the settings within Bakersfield are the Gardens of Glenwood apartment complex, Sequoia Middle School, Jamison, Happy Polish Nails, and the Bakersfield Courthouse. The settings are significant because many important events in the story take place at various locations. For example, at the courthouse, it is revealed that

The Other Lover In the Shakespearean sonnet, “The Sonnet-Ballad” by Gwendolyn Brooks, the speaker uses such techniques as: repetition, metaphors and personification to show how her relationship is doomed because of war. The poem shows how war can change a man who was once confident and unaffected by pain, into one who accepts death without a struggle.      In this sonnet, death is personified and shown as the speaker’s opponent in a struggle for her lover. Death is described

natural world. “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d” best captures Whitman’s notion what it means to be human: the common understanding of the never-ending cycle of life and death through the form of the elegy, the symbol of the lilac, and the personification of death. The elegy is written in free verse; it does not rhyme or have any regular meter, not employing a consistent pattern. The poem has no structure and is free throughout, which emanates Whitman’s attitude throughout the elegy: the embracement

The poem “Saturday’s Child” and the book The Secret Life of Bees have many things in common. In “Saturday’s Child” Countee Cullen uses the personification of death and imagery to portray the loss of innocence, which relates to Lily Owens in The Secret Life of Bees by Sue Monk Kidd. Throughout the poem, the speaker uses the personification of death, which relates to Lily Owens experience with death early on in her life. In “Saturday’s Child”, Cullen describes “Death cut the strings that gave me life

forty-three year old Jocelyn reunites with Rhea, another high school friend, and ponders the impact that time has had on their lives. This passage suggests the destructiveness of time on characters and relationships. Using setting, word choice, and personification Egan presents time as truly being a goon. To start, Egan employs setting to reveal the separation time has created between characters and the characters and their former

In one’s lifetime, there are moments where one may have feelings of youth or old age. The two texts, “Forgetfulness” a poem by Billy Collins and “Once More to the Lake” a passage by E.B. White both share a similar purpose and theme about aging in one’s life. Between the troubles of a middle-aged father who revisits his childhood and one who often struggles with forgetfulness, the reader will understand the shared concept of both texts. Altogether, the authors both use concise syntax and pleasurable