Persona

Who Gave Me Life’ by Gwen Harwood, both show a persona struggling to overcome their imperfections by exploring distinct ideas featuring remorse, loss and complexity of relationships, particularly motherhood, within both personas of the two poems, using poetic devices such as imagery and metaphors. Imperfection can be defined as a flaw or fault in the persona’s character, and in these two Gwen Harwood poems the main imperfections seen in both personas include their loss of innocence, guilt associated

Sri Chinmoy Poetic Device Analysis In the poem “Hope” by Emily Dickinson, persona described hope as a confident

Poetic Device Analysis In the poem “Hope” by Emily Dickinson, persona described hope as a confident and audacious bird that go against chillest land and strangest sea, with the bird that is in your inside. Different from that poem called “Hope” by Sri Chinmoy, persona associated hope with sun and happiness and created a different interpretation on hope by using different metaphors. With use of different metaphors, hope portrayed as a different kind of thing and this made poems interpretation

three personas he poses as a person and how they affect his life. The author has divided Whitman’s personality into three parts, which all play a significant role in the poem in Whitman’s life. Even Though, Whitman has painted himself a unique personality unlike others, he has based it upon three parts which are; the soul, me myself, and I. The ‘I’ persona in the poems is involved in all the daily activities of the poet, which are what the body is required to perform. First, the ‘I' persona is involved

with an online persona. In the article, Kiki creates an online persona in the hopes of finding friends. She makes a major mistake when she portrays herself as older and more outgoing then she really is. Those mistakes initially led to insults and threats, but eventually led vandalism and rape. The article is a little dated as the dangers involved with an online persona were not as well known. However, there are several lessons from the article that are relevant today. An online persona can be beneficial

way, Vance utilizes a childhood persona in his memoir Hillbilly Elegy to convey aspects of his childhood that were traumatic or revolting without forcing image of a self-pitying victim onto the reader. Using this childhood persona, which is wrapped in innocence and simplicity, the horrors and realities of his upbringing and hometown are put in sharp relief with the casual relaying of the information and

relationships with landscapes. This idea is revealed in the poem, ‘For New England’, where the persona experiences a crisis of belonging between the imagined landscape of her British heritage and the remembered landscape of her childhood in Australia. The personas internal crisis is shown through the use of fricatives in the phrase ‘fighting the foreign battle’, which displays the intensity of the personas decision and paired with battle like imagery helps reveal the internal conflict and the damage

These symbols demonstrate that spiritual discoveries can be shared throughout society, and influence new perspectives of the world. This is evident when the persona ‘witnesses the birth of new landscapes, future cities and temples.” The metaphorical birth represents the persona’s discovery of the world’s potential for future growth. The persona is transformed by the discovery of the world to

Furthering the persona’s introduction, lines two through four of the poem exemplify the narrator’s feelings of isolation, both spiritually and personally. Caused by the divine and men’s shame, the persona inhabits an “outcast state.” Isolated from peers and friends, the persona weeps when stating “I all alone.” The alliteration emphasizes the narrator’s emotion of complete desolation. Not only does he doubt his faith, but also feels distant from God. In line three, the poem reads, “Trouble

Browning’s poems present compelling monologues, which not only give us insight into the respective personas, but also make a comment on human nature. Discuss this statement referring to two of the poems. The poems ‘Porphyria’s Lover’ and ‘My Last Duchess,’ by Robert Browning both provide an insight into the personalities, vulnerabilities and thought processes of their respective key personas, through the use of dramatic monologue. The explicit exploration of the balance of power between men and