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- 81: Maya Angelou - Tragedy To Triu
- ... is one of Angelou’s more difficult works to understand (Angelou 18). This poem doesn’t have a lot of literary devices. The rhyme scheme of this poem is ABABCDED. Angelou uses literary devises like similes in the phrase, “He’s so much like his daddy when he cries” (Angelou 18). The style of Maya Angelou can range from complex symbolical ideas to easy, straightforward concepts. Firstly, her style is like ...
- 82: Dulce Et Decorum Est: Analysis
- ... the irony of “the old lie,” of the title. In stanza one, Owen describes the soldiers as they set off towards the army base camp after a spell at the battle front. His use of similes such as “Bent double, like old beggars,” and “coughing like hags,” help me to depict the soldiers’ poor health and depressed state of mind. Owen makes us picture the soldiers as ill, disturbed and utterly ...
- 83: Response To Civil Disobedience
- ... strong advocate of reform in the American government. I think that if he did not use such examples, his call for reform in the government would not be as strong. In addition, Thoreau uses multiple similes to convey his point. He describes the American government as "a tradition, though a recent one, endeavoring to transmit itself unimpaired to posterity, but each instant losing some of its integrity? It has not the ...
- 84: The Adventures Of Huckleberry
- ... in the story the impression of Huck that the reader has is one of a wild, uneducated boy running away from home. The reader does not expect Huck to analyze nature by using thought provoking similes Huck's use of action words contribute greatly to the descriptiveness of his account of the summer storm. These words add to the thrust and movement of his description. "Directly it begun to rain...rained ...
- 85: Plato Versus Aristotle
- ... in The Republic that Philosopher Rulers who possess knowledge of the good should be the governors in a city state. His strong interest in metaphysics is demonstrated in The Republic various times: for example, the similes of the cave, the sun, and the line, and his theory of the forms. Because he is so involved in metaphysics, his views on politics are more theoretical as opposed to actual. Aristotle, contrarily, holds ...
- 86: Archibald Macleish
- ... lights above the sea- A poem should not mean But be. ANALYSIS The poem Ars Poetica is a lyric poem that uses perfect rhyme and an AABB rhyme scheme. MacLeish uses much figurative language, especially similes, and he uses iambic biameter throughout the poem. MacLeish uses a lot of symbolism to get his message across such as; A poem should be wordless as the flight of birds. (MacLeish 49) A bird ...
- 87: Plato Vs. Aristotle
- ... in The Republic that Philosopher Rulers who possess knowledge of the good should be the governors in a city state. His strong interest in metaphysics is demonstrated in The Republic various times: for example, the similes of the cave, the sun, and the line, and his theory of the forms. Because he is so involved in metaphysics, his views on politics are more theoretical as opposed to actual. Aristotle, contrarily, holds ...
- 88: William Butler Yeats
- ... his rival is a cause, Irish nationalism, and that it is in her nature to follow such causes. She is noble, single-minded, but for these very reasons, she is also predestined for destruction. The similes used to describe her , beauty like a tightened bow a mind that nobleness made simple as a fire equate her with destruction. Hence, the title - No Second Troy, which is in answer to the final ...
- 89: Sylvia Plath's Poetry: Feminine Perfection
- ... situation. "Since my woman's world is perceived greatly through the emotions and the senses, I treat it that way in my writing and am often overweighed with heavy descriptive passages and a kaleidoscope of similes." (32) With this statement she automatically associates her faculty writing with being a woman, that her writing is "overweighed" because as a woman, she is perceiving information through a screen of emotions. The situation that ...
- 90: Escaping Harlem
- ... setting compliments the story because had it not been such a difficult area to grow in, Sonny’s brother might have been more forgiving of his brother’s involvement in music. The narrator uses several similes to reveal the tone of the setting. “…the killing streets of our childhood.”, “…housing projects jutted up out of them like rocks in the middle of a boiling sea.” When the narrator first learns about ...
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