Flying Tigers is the name of a mercenary group of American pilots that helped defend China and the Burma Road from the bombing of the Japanese during World War II. The name of their planes was Tomahawks, but the Chinese called them Fei Hu for the sharks teeth painted on their planes. Flying Tigers were known as the American Volunteer Group of the Chinese Air Force. The Flying Tigers did not see combat until December 1941 when the Japanese started bombing China.…
Because dialogue is used so much throughout the poem it could be suggested that the third person narrator feels…
Initially Princesse does not know much about art’ but as she learns more she wishes to leave something beautiful behind for when she is no longer here. “ it struck Princesse that this is why she wanted to make pictures, to have something that showed what she had observed in a way no one else had…”(pg.140). it is inspiring that even in a hard life were violence such as daily cock fights that happen around her, however she finds beauty in a cruel world and wishes to share it with the world. “The cock fight had just begun. Princesse heard the shouting from the school yard as she came out of class. The roster that crowed the loudest usually received the first blow. It was often the first to die” (pg.125). Despite the violence in her life you admire the beauty she finds surrounding her. “Standing there, Princesse wished she could paint that. That all the night skies that she had seen, that the full moon and the stars peeking down like tiny gods acting out their will… Princesse thought that she could paint that”(pg.137). The character’s way of finding beauty in a drack world creates a feeling of hopefulness that the world has light even in the darkest of places. This happens in having her find beauty in the cruel world she finds herself in and her want to share that beauty with the rest of the…
The young girl in this poem is faced with a hard decision of whether facing her uncle's anger or going against her own morals. The first stanza starts off with the young girl gripping a branch in stress, as she was left by her uncle to forcibly kill a fox. Beveridge uses metaphors to express the girls churning with fear such as “terror barrel-rode through my stomach” in line…
Shimerda, committed suicide. The news of his death was a surprise to the Burdens family, the neighbors, and the grandfather states, “Old Mr. Shimerda is dead, and his family are in great distress” (p. 69). The diction of “great distress” emphasizes how dramatic Mr. Shimerda’s death was to his family. It caused unhappiness and sorrow in the Shimerda family because they were now without a husband and a father. Cather emphasizes how painful Mr. Shimerda’s death was to Antonia when the main character, Jim Burden, came to visit: “When she saw me she ran out of her dark corner and threw her arms around me…It seemed to me that I could feel her heart breaking as she clung to me” (p. 83). The image portrayed from how Antonia “ran out of her dark corner” to Jim represents how Antonia’s father’s death had caused her extreme grief. Antonia metaphorically escaped the deep depths of sadness this death had put her in by the comfort of seeing, her good friend, Jim. The diction of the “dark corner” represents the deep misery Antonia was in because of the death of her father. This is one type of distress Antonia learns to deal with as being an immigrant. The fact that Jim “could feel her heart breaking” as Antonia held onto him emphasizes how hurt she was inside. The detail of “heart breaking” figuratively represents that Antonia was falling apart inside from the misery and agony of her…
Vivid imagery is used through out the poem to demonstrate where Trethewey’s resentment towards her stepfather comes from. The last line of the poem reveals why her mother is suffering and gives us the explanation in a very powerful, yet subtle way. She states “what’s inside—mother, stepfather’s fist?” (line 15). Here she’s telling us…
The first line of the poem begins the dark theme (By this he knew she wept with waking eyes), showing how the husband has seen his wife's suffering; as well as painting a memorable picture through the use of alteration. The alteration serves another purpose as well. It's smooth deliverance shows just how used to the situation the husband is to his wife's tears. In line 2 we see just how helpless the husband is to help, his hand “quivers” out of nervousness, and in line 3 we see the extent of the wife's sobs (Shook their common bed). The dark selection of diction continues as metaphors are employed in lines 5&6 (And strangled mute, like little gaping snakes, dreadfully venomous to him). The truly telling word in these lines is “Strangled,” this extremely active verb implies force. This describes the situation of any willfully married wife during the time the poem was written. They had little choice in not only their husband, but also in the lifestyle handed to the by that husband, not to mention that divorce during this time period was early unheard of. The next lines hint at the wife's feeling of death, (“Stone-still”) showing her complete hopelessness at the situation imposed on her. Lines 8-12 have the same dark imagery (“Pale drug of silence”, “Sleep's heavy measure”, “move-less”, “Dead black years”), but those same images fit into another, larger image. The author uses them to describe her “Giant heart of memories and tears.” Meredith clearly shows the long lasting nature of the wife's pain,…
For example, when describing the people who worked for them when they were children, a maid was described as, “skinny brown woman in the black uniform...tiny braids coiled into rounds and pinned down with bobby pins…” (p. 4). The family was wealthy back in their home country, so they had maids and servants around to do the chores. The girls, Carla, Sandra, Yolanda and Sofia played as children and did their studies, but they never really had to do anything else other than be kids and enjoy life. Another use of imagery is found when Yolanda wrote an essay to read in front of the school: “Carlos’s toothless mouth had collapsed into a dark zero” (p. 144). Yolanda was chosen to read an essay in front of the school, and she, along with her mother, had written it. Her mom wanted to show it to the dad and thought he could exhort their child in making the best essay ever. The dad’s advice was to not read it. Why? Read the book to find out what left his mouth…
One such example of the relationship between art and life and the differences in its perceptions came in the form of a whistled tune from the lips of a high school student. The narrator of the story (a high school algebra teacher in Harlem who is upset after discovering that his younger brother, Sonny, was arrested in a drug bust) describes the tune as “at once very complicated and very simple, it seemed to be pouring out of him as though he were a bird, and it sounded very cool and moving through all that harsh, bright air, only just holding its own through all those other sounds” (Baldwin 2). This tune embodied the artist’s life’s experiences. The narrator described the high school students as growing up quickly and finding themselves restrained by the possibilities their lives offered (Baldwin 1). He saw them as enraged, living in darkness, and “at once more together than they were at any other time, and more alone” (Baldwin 1). The paradoxes of the whistler’s life—growing while restrained, and together while alone—display themselves through his art, which managed to be both very complicated and very simple. Of course, this is not to say that the artist intended to convey these things through his song. The narrator’s perceptions were shaped by both his experiences and present emotions.…
Poems have always been hard to interpret and decide what the true meaning of them really is. In the poem “Behind Grandma’s House” we see the writer share his experience about…
In contrast to her parenting method, I would observe my child and help him develop his own interests and talents, instead of pressuring him into doing something against his will. Furthermore, I strongly believe that…
Williams uses irony and imagery from the beginning of this literature. It is ironic that the character has to experience so much grief and heart ache during such a beautiful season as spring. The visual imagery that he has created gives the reader a compassionate view to the wife’s emotional grief while surrounding her with a fountain of newly born life. The sharpness of the white flowers is in stark contrast to her cloudy and dark feelings. Everything is coming to life as she feels her life cannot go on without her husband.…
In the poem, the reality revealed is that we will someday fade away from people and this…
In “Solitude” Ella Wheeler Wilcox crafts an overall realistic tone through her use of imagery, details, and syntax to that it is relatable to the reader’s emotions. First, the author displays imagery throughout the poem to display the realistic tone. For example, the author writes, “Feast, and your halls are crowded; Fast, and the world goes by.” (Wilcox). In this example, the readers can clearly imagine this event taking place. In addition, the readers can visualize a person feasting, while a large delighted crowd joins, crowding there halls. Consequently, the readers can picture a lonesome person fasting; however, no one accompanies them, as the world goes by. Since the reader can envision the situations in the poem, there is a realistic tone, and the readers can distinguish the variety of emotions. In this particular quote as well as throughout the whole poem, the author uses imagery to establish the evident tone.…
The poetry of Adrienne Rich is indeed communicating powerful feelings such as regret , sadness, fear, desire, desperation ,despair ,constriction , oppression, loneliness, hope and many others. She is challenging us ,the readers using thought provoking images and symbols all throughout her poems ,I will mainly focus on: ‘Aunt Jennifer’s Tigers’, ‘The Roofwalker’,’ Trying to talk with a man’ and lastly ‘From a survivor’.…