* Poetic devices such as similes and metaphors are used within passage. Examples of these include: “So tedious is this day as the night before some festival” (Simile), “For thou wilt lie upon the wings of night, Whiter than new snow upon a raven’s back” (metaphor)…
“Listen to the mustn'ts, child. Listen to the don'ts. Listen to the shouldn'ts, the impossibles, the won'ts. Listen to the never haves, then listen close to me... Anything can happen, child. Anything can be.” On September 25, 1930, in Chicago, Illinois, Shel Silverstein was born to parents Nathan and Helen Silverstein. He attended the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, Roosevelt University, Roosevelt High School, Chicago College of Performing Arts ,where he was expelled, and then the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. When he was around twelve years old, he began to draw. He especially liked to draw cartoons. Growing up, he always wanted to be a baseball player, or at least hit it off with some of the girls. (www.thefamouspeople.com) Neither baseball nor girls worked out for him, but little did he know that he would become a famous poet.…
"If you are a dreamer, come in, If you are a dreamer, a wisher, a liar, A hope-er, a pray-er, a magic bean buyer…" With these soft angelic and often crazy words used in his poem "Invitation", Shel Silverstein opens up a world of his own. A world of flying children, turtles who fall in love and all kinds of creative things that have made Shel Silverstein the well known "multi threat artist" who composes, sings, draws, illustrates, and writes, that we all know today.…
Shel Silverstein was removed from the University of Illinois because of his lack in keeping his academic high ("Learnodo Newtonic", 2015). Shel Silverstein says it best in his words “What you’ve got to say, you say”("BrainyQuote"). Shel Silverstein was more than a poet, he was a songwriter, a poet, musician, composer, cartoonist, and a screenwriter. Shel Silverstein has sold over 18 million copies of book and it is 20 different kinds of languages. Shel Silverstein was a poet who wrote music and different types of stories.…
Washington Irving wrote a lot of metaphores in the story,"The Legend of Sleepy Hallow". If its the setting of story or maybe about the a metaphore about the charactors.…
Imagery functions as a poem’s five senses and is the language that transports the reader to a time, place or experience hand-picked by the author. It is of utmost importance in regards to inspiring feelings and manifesting the author’s ideas into a mental picture. Four poems, “My Papa’s Waltz,” “Bogland,” “The Lake Isle of Innisfree” and “Fire and Ice” explore the power of imagery in a way that allows the reader to mentally visualize the elements of the poem.…
Horatio is speaking to Marcellus; Horatio is referring to the ghost of Hamlet Sr. that they have just witnessed.…
The poem starts out with the observations of the tree, river, and sunny morning, which give us a sense of imagery. Personification is found within the imagery. An example of this is “ants stitching in the grass.” This poem sounds super personal because it is from…
Analyzing the poem by discovering how the author used literary elements usually is very essential to understanding the poem's theme. As one of the significant elements, extended metaphor may convey one of key ideas in poetry. Depending on the poem, extended metaphor may provide the opportunity to reflect on even more deep and hidden, but just as important concepts the author chooses to convey. Similarly, in the poem # 371, Emily Dickinson uses extended metaphor as practically the most essential element to convey her feelings in regard to The Antique Book held as fascinating and exciting volume.…
This stanza has a lot to say to me as a person. I don’t quite know what he means by “…I have no use for / similes…” (30-31) but I do, on the other hand, know what is meant by “…I hunger / for my own catalog of metaphors…” (31-32). When you lose a parent, there is nothing more angering than hearing those six words “I know what you’re going through”, you don’t. Even if you have lost a parent you didn’t have the same relationship with them that I had with mine. Yearning for a list of your own metaphors, your own words, to explain how you feel is natural, because no one but you knows what you’re going through.…
My first example of symbolism is “silver blade”. This symbolizes the purity of the water that this “silver blade” rests on and the strength of the children who found it. The “silver blade” impacts the poem because it represents the courage and perseverance of the children who searched for the water it laid upon. This is just…
Now consider similes and metaphors; what semantic areas do they belong? What is the poet’s aim in using them?…
Here are a few examples. First, when the aisles of goods and candles are tiered like bleachers which is a simile. Another example would be when cars are described as hissing past, which is a form of personification. And my last example would be when the fog is described hanging like old coats in between trees which is a simile and imagery. Gary Soto, the author, had a few experiences that I believe helped influence much of his work. To start, he is an American author and poet, with parents that are Mexican-American. As a boy he worked in the fields of the San Joaquin Valley. His father died when he was just five years old, so his family had struggled to find work. Because of this, he had little encouragement for his studies and school. Between his father dying and having to work very hard in his youth, he didn’t find much of anything that interested him in high school until he found interest in poetry through writers like Jules Verne and John Steinbeck. Those conditions really helped set forth his life as an author and…
My all-time favorite book ever since I was a kid would be The Giving Tree by Shel Silverstein. This is Silverstein’s most famous work; it is about a little boy and a tree grows old together. Whenever I read this book before, I was always angry at the boy for taking more than he should from the giving tree. The boy never seemed satisfied, despite being given all the needs he asked for until the tree is left with only its stump. Now that I read it, there are many ways that this poem can be interpreted. I believe that it is a metaphor for parenthood: Do not take things for granted and it is unethical to take everything from nature. As I reflect to this little passage, I have learned to be thankful to my parents for all the hard work they do for me and just appreciate all the things, especially the small things before it is too late.…
This device lets the author convey ideas to the reader about what is going on in the story. An example of a metaphor in the poem is in the father's “austere and lonely offices,” (line 14) acts of love performed against the elements so that the family would not encounter the cold. Like the fire that the father creates, the imagery moves from cold to warm: The father raised in the “blueblack cold; then with cracked hands that ached with labor,” (lines 3-5) he builds a fire to warm the house. Still in bed, the poet as a young child wakes and hears “the cold splintering, breaking.” (line 6) The cold is bitter, and can be heard as well as felt. The sensory images become much more auditory with the words splintering and breaking. When the boy rises, he can still sense the “chronic angers” (line 9) of the house. This metaphor compares the harsh auditory images to complaints. That is, as though the house complains as the father seeks to get it to warm up for his family.…