In "Sonnet 73"‚ the speaker uses a series of metaphors to characterize what he perceives to be the nature of his old age. This poem is not simply a procession of interchangeable metaphors; it is the story of the speaker slowly coming to grips with the finality of his age and his impermanence in time.<br><br>In the first quatrain‚ the speaker contrasts his age is like a "time of year‚": late autumn‚ when the "yellow leaves" have almost completely fallen from the trees and the boughs "shake against
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The Seventh Man In the story “The seventh man” Murakami primarily employs techniques such as figurative language through the use of flashbacks and a feeling of foreboding to characterize the deadly wave. After several attempts to get K to make a last second escape‚ the wave finally makes its first appearance with a bang being depicted as “a wave like a huge snake with its head held high‚ poised to strike‚ was racing towards the shore” (Murakami‚ 178). Through the use of simile and personification
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Poetic Devices and Forms Line - equates a spatial measure or words or sounds‚ a fundamental conceptual unit. Stanza - a grouping of two or more lines of a poem in terms of length‚ metrical form‚ or rhyme scheme. Figurative language - Expressions or statements that are intentionally not literally true. Metaphor - A comparison between two objects with the intent of giving deeper meaning to the second. Forms of the "to be" verb are often used; "is" or "was". All the world’s a stage And men
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Sonnet 116 “Let me not to marriage” This Poem by William Shakespeare talks about the immortal beauty of his beloved against the destruction caused by time. In the first line of the poem he propagates the union between two minds which is another different representation of love. In this poem Shakespeare talks about true love which in the poem is treated as a centre which the poet and his poetry orbit. “ It is an ever fixed mark” ‚ He refers to the solidity and steadfastness and the permanent centre
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In the story Self-Reliance by Ralph Waldo Emerson‚ Emerson uses aspects of figurative language that are compelling. This language is established when Emerson compares roses to the present. In the text it says‚ “These roses under my window make no reference to former roses or to better ones; they are for what they are; they exist with God to-day.” People are obsessed with the past that they typically neglect the present. Society is referenced because we compare the past to the present‚ even when
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The poem Nighttime Fires by Regina Barecca explains the speaker’s complex view of her father. The speaker uses imagery to describe her father’s strange behaviours after losing his job. Figurative language is used strategically to explain the memories of this young girl’s strange adventures. The diction in this poem is also used very well helping us to understand why these nighttime fires left such a lasting impact on this grown woman from when she was only five years old. All of these things are
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Edmund Spenser Sonnet 30 (Fire and Ice) ! My love is like to ice‚ and I to fire: a how comes it then that this her cold so great b is not dissolv’d through my so hot desire‚ a but harder grows‚ the more I her entreat? b ! Or how comes it that my exceeding heat c is not delayed by her heart frozen cold‚ d but that I burn much more in boiling sweat‚ c and feel my flames augmented manifold? d ! What more miraculous thing may be told e that fire‚ which all thing melts
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The poems‚ “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” by Emily Dickinson and “Is My Team Plowing” by AE Housman have their own perception of the idea of death which they further emphasize with the use of figurative language and style. To begin with‚ “Because I Could Not Stop for Death” is a poem about a person‚ most likely based on the views of Dickinson‚ who is too into her own world that she does not acknowledge her own death. This poem uses style to emphasize the idea of love. For example‚ on the second
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In Emily Dickinson’s poem‚ “Because I could not stop for Death‚” she extensively uses figurative and connotative language to produce precise meaning in her poem. One example of figurative language she uses is personification‚ when she says‚ “Because I could not stop for/ Death‚/ He kindly stopped for me;” (“Because I” 1-3). In this example‚ the author refers to Death as one would a person‚ by using the word “He”. When she speaks of Death‚ she speaks with positive connotation understood through the
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Sonnet 129 is an interesting poem in Shakespeare’s set of sonnets‚ supposedly‚ addressed to his dark mistress. This sonnet is full figurative language and other poetic devices that let the reader know exactly how the poet feels about the emotions and dangers associated with lust. He also uses interesting punctuation choices that create the flow and tone of the poem. As the readers‚ we do not know who this poem is addressed to due to the lack of thou‚ he‚ or she in the poem. It does seem to be describing
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