METAPHORS –SYLVIA PLATH I’m a riddle in nine syllables‚ An elephant‚ a ponderous house‚ A melon strolling on two tendrils. O red fruit‚ ivory‚ fine timbers! This loaf’s big with its yeasty rising. Money’s new-minted in this fat purse. I’m a means‚ a stage‚ a cow in calf. I’ve eaten a bag of green apples‚ Boarded the train there’s no getting off. Sylvia’s Plath’s “Metaphors” is about a woman feeling insignificant during the midst of her pregnancy. Striking imagery is used to explore
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Hawthorne manages to create many metaphors within his novel The Scarlet Letter. The rose bush outside the prison door‚ the black man‚ and the scaffold are three metaphors. Perhaps the most important metaphor would be the scaffold‚ which plays a great role throughout the entire story. The three scaffold scenes which Hawthorne incorporated into The Scarlet Letter contain a great deal of significance and importance the plot. Each scene brings a different aspect of the main characters‚ the crowd or
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“The Metaphor” Questions 1. The metaphors Charlotte makes for her mother and Miss Hancock are very accurate. Charlotte compares her mother to a “white picket fence” with “thorny bushes and barbed wire” on the other side (72). Charlotte’s mother is a very beautiful person on the outside. She has great hair and a great figure‚ but deep down she is not that good of a person. She is a very emotionless and stern woman. In the last few paragraphs of the novel she tells Charlotte that Miss Hancock’s
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In this assessment I will be evaluating and exploring the poem “follower” by Seamus Heaney. This poem is autobiographical as the poem examines the relationship between the poet Seamus Heaney and his father when he was a small boy. The structure of the poem is BAB rhyme scheme and 6 stanzas. The First 3 stanzas describe the father at his work; the last 3 stanzas are when the character enters the poem and controls the poem while the father becomes a secondary character‚ this could link to how Heaney’s
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Love Poem: Linda Pastan Have you ever been in love? Do you even know what love is? Love is a feeling that at times can feel indescribable. It makes you do crazy things. Love makes you blind and no matter your circumstances with that person‚ if you love them you will go that extra mile for them. In this essay I will talk about the “Love Poem” by Linda Pastan. In the following paragraphs I will go in depth and break down the poems to help understand the root of the poem.
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Irony and Metaphors: William Blake’s hidden talents In William Blake’s “A Poison Tree”‚ he takes on a simple approach at describing the different aspects and consequences of anger. The poem starts off by saying‚ “I was angry with my friend; I told my wrath‚ my wrath did end” (Blake 1‚2). Which is a very simple poetic way of saying he was angry‚ but he felt better after confessing his true feelings. When Blake continues‚ he explains how he cannot confess his anger to a foe‚ and goes on by creating
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not trueThe poem takes the form of a dramatic monologue in the voice of the returned soldier. It has five stanzas each of four lines which follow a regular metre and an ABAB rhyme scheme in each stanza. The first‚ second and last line of each verse is about six syllables long‚ while the third line is slightly longer at eight syllables. The regular metre gives the poem a ‘chatty’ tone‚ which helps to set the scene‚ as well as delaying the realisation that this is actually quite a dark poem. The only
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Cars as a metaphor for understanding obesity If we want to understand the accumulation of excess body fat‚ it’s tempting to focus our attention on the location that defines the condition: adipose tissue. Ultimately‚ the key question we want to answer is the following: why does fat enter adipose tissue faster than it exits? It follows that if we want to understand why obesity occurs‚ we should seek to understand the dynamics of fat trafficking in adipose tissue‚ and the factors that influence it
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The Wonderful Wizard of OZ Metaphor Frank Baum‚ the author of The Wonderful Wizard of Oz‚ claimed that his book was majorly a children story. Over time‚ his book would mark a major part of the American pop culture and was adapted into films to the delight of many people irrespective of their ages. Baum’s fairy tale would‚ however‚ be analyzed by to reveal that the book was actually a metaphor of the populist movement in the 1890s. As Taylor points out‚ the characters in the Wonderful Wizard of OZ
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* IM SORRY Every little thing that you do makes me fall in love with you why I did the things that I did made me feel like a silly kid Why did we always used to fight I just wanted to make things right when you left you struck my heart never thought we’d be apart so when I walk by everyday always smile in your special way I know you’ll be dying inside and I wish that you were mine I break down every night I cry myself to sleep and with all my might I know you’re not mine to
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