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- 1: Homeric Simile In Paradise Lost
- ... Both Homer (the originator of the extended/epic simile) and Milton found it necessary to stop short of the complex metaphors that served the dramatists as instruments for psychological exploration and symbolic statement. Homer’s similes provide a respite from the steady surge of heroic action, and broaden the scope of his poems. Into the simile could be introduced familiar scenes which would remind the listener of the world living on ... the plains of Troy or Odysseus’ storm-beaten vessel. This precedent was followed, or at least honored nearly universally, by epic poets up to Milton. In Paradise Lost, tradition is modified to weave the long similes more closely into the poem’s structure and meaning. “Milton’s purpose was to absorb mythological themes into their myths, reassembling Truth as, in his figure, Isis reassembled the body of Osiris” (MacCaffrey, 120). His similes descend from the universals of myth to instances in history, legend, and nature, and so show something of the life-history of the archetypes. Therefore Miltonic similes, like Miltonic diction, contribute to the tightly- ...
- 2: An Examination Of Similes In The Iliad - And How Homer's Use Of Them Affected The Story
- An Examination of Similes in the Iliad - and how Homer's Use of Them Affected the In the Iliad, Homer finds a great tool in the simile. Just by opening the book in a random place the reader is undoubtedly faced with one, or within a few pages. Homer seems to use everyday activities, at least for the audience, his fellow Greeks, in these similes nearly exclusively. When one is confronted with a situation that is familiar, one is more likely to put aside contemplating the topic and simply inject those known feelings. This would definitely be an effective tactic ... conspicuously quiet, sans Hector of course. It could almost be assumed that throughout time most of the knowledge of the battle from the Trojan side had been lost. Considering the ability to affect feelings with similes, and the one-sided view of history, Homer could be using similes to guide the reader in the direction of his personal views, as happens with modern day political "spin". These views that Homer ...
- 3: Analysis Of Similes In The Ill
- ... opening the book in a random place the reader is undoubtedly faced with one, or within a few pages. Homer seems to use everyday activities, at least for the audience, his fellow Greeks, in these similes nearly exclusively. When one is confronted with a situation that is familiar, one is more likely to put aside contemplating the topic and simply inject those known feelings. This would definitely be an effective tactic ... conspicuously quiet, sans Hector of course. It could almost be assumed that throughout time most of the knowledge of the battle from the Trojan side had been lost. Considering the ability to affect feelings with similes, and the one-sided view of history, Homer could be using similes to guide the reader in the direction of his personal views, as happens with modern day political "spin". These views that Homer might be trying to get across might be trying to favor Troy. ...
- 4: Analysis Of Similes In The Ill
- ... opening the book in a random place the reader is undoubtedly faced with one, or within a few pages. Homer seems to use everyday activities, at least for the audience, his fellow Greeks, in these similes nearly exclusively. When one is confronted with a situation that is familiar, one is more likely to put aside contemplating the topic and simply inject those known feelings. This would definitely be an effective tactic ... conspicuously quiet, sans Hector of course. It could almost be assumed that throughout time most of the knowledge of the battle from the Trojan side had been lost. Considering the ability to affect feelings with similes, and the one-sided view of history, Homer could be using similes to guide the reader in the direction of his personal views, as happens with modern day political "spin". These views that Homer might be trying to get across might be trying to favor Troy. ...
- 5: Analysis Of Similes In The Ill
- ... opening the book in a random place the reader is undoubtedly faced with one, or within a few pages. Homer seems to use everyday activities, at least for the audience, his fellow Greeks, in these similes nearly exclusively. When one is confronted with a situation that is familiar, one is more likely to put aside contemplating the topic and simply inject those known feelings. This would definitely be an effective tactic ... conspicuously quiet, sans Hector of course. It could almost be assumed that throughout time most of the knowledge of the battle from the Trojan side had been lost. Considering the ability to affect feelings with similes, and the one-sided view of history, Homer could be using similes to guide the reader in the direction of his personal views, as happens with modern day political "spin". These views that Homer might be trying to get across might be trying to favor Troy. ...
- 6: Iliad By Homer
- ... opening the book in a random place the reader is undoubtedly faced with one, or within a few pages. Homer seems to use everyday activities, at least for the audience, his fellow Greeks, in these similes nearly exclusively. From the heroic effortsin the Iliad itself it is clear that the populace of his timewere highly emotional creatures, and higher brain activity seems to be in short, and in Odysseus' case, valuable ... conspicuously quiet, sans Hector of course. It could almost be assumed that throughout time most of the knowledge of the battle from the Trojan side had been lost. Considering the ability to affect feelings with similes, and the one-sided view of history, Homer could be using similes to guide the reader in the direction of his personal views, ashappens with modern day political "spin". These views that Homer might be trying to get across might be trying to favor Troy. It ...
- 7: Iliad By Homer
- ... opening the book in a random place the reader is undoubtedly faced with one, or within a few pages. Homer seems to use everyday activities, at least for the audience, his fellow Greeks, in these similes nearly exclusively. From the heroic effortsin the Iliad itself it is clear that the populace of his timewere highly emotional creatures, and higher brain activity seems to be in short, and in Odysseus' case, valuable ... conspicuously quiet, sans Hector of course. It could almost be assumed that throughout time most of the knowledge of the battle from the Trojan side had been lost. Considering the ability to affect feelings with similes, and the one-sided view of history, Homer could be using similes to guide the reader in the direction of his personal views, ashappens with modern day political "spin". These views that Homer might be trying to get across might be trying to favor Troy. It ...
- 8: Paradise Lost
- ... Book I; they include the simile of the sea monster (lines 192+), the autumnal leaves (lines 300+), the son/sun (lines 594+), and the swarming bees (lines 768+). Linda Gregerson points out that "the Miltonic similes portray knowledge as problematic; they do not suggest we throw away the tools we have and wait for grace as for rain" (137). She continues, saying that the similes do a number of tasks: they "convey real information about the tenor, or locate it in an experiential realm"; they do this by "stimulating the sensual memory," perhaps inducing "in the reader an experience which characterizes the subject, " she adds (138). They also may, she notes, "be proleptic. . . . They often prefigure subsequent events in the story. Thus Satan is compared to Leviathan . . ." (139). The similes, she continues, "put is in training of a sort, give us sometimes a running start and sometimes the edge of the cliff . . ." (140); they "focus attention upon the act of perception itself and make ...
- 9: Hymn To Intellectual Beauty
- ... and the self. In the first stanza, the concept of the "unseen Power" – the mind – is put forward, and Shelley states his position on the subject. Throughout the stanza, extensive use is made of profluent similes. "As summer winds… | Like moonbeams… | Like hues… | Like clouds… | Like memory…"; these intangible elements of nature and, significantly, memory (which here is a human quality) is aiming to create the air of this Power as something beautiful that is at one with nature and yet is transient and somehow beyond human reach and grasp. Similes such as "Like hues and harmonies of evening" are used to state that this Power has an equilibrium, an intrinsic, inevitable concordance. The five similes in this stanza are all intangible; the first four are all an intrinsic part of the Romantic’s love of, and preoccupation with, nature. Through these similes Shelley constructs an image of the Power’ ...
- 10: Exploring The Theme Of Premature Death In Three Poems
- ... knelling” (2) “informed”, “coughed”, “tearless”, and “sighs” to describe the sorrow of the family, and it uses words such as “snowdrops”, “candles”, “soothed”, and “poppy” to describe the gentle innocence of the dead child. Metaphors, similes, and other figures of speech used by these authors convey ideas and emotions otherwise too difficult to express. On My First Son contains only one metaphor, the speaker compares the child to his best piece of poetry (10), a rather dull image. Death of a Young Son by Drowning contains many evocative metaphors and similes. The speaker uses a “dangerous river”(2) as a metaphor for the dangers encountered while giving birth, and also as a metaphor for the dangerous river that is life. A bathysphere is used as a ... the boy was, his eyes and head thin breakable glass. The speaker also refers to the body of her son as a cairn. (18), or in other words a lifeless monument. The speaker also uses similes to set the tone. She says that her son was hung in the river like a heart (17) after the accident with the air supply. This gives us an image of his struggling helplessness. ...
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