For example, Sharon Olds uses various similes to describe her night. She states, “Love? It was more like dragonflies in the sun, 100 degrees at noon, the ends of their abdomens stuck together, I close my eyes when I remember.” She uses a simile to compare her sexual experience to dragonflies mating. It seems, like, a weird comparison, but it fits the poem perfectly.…
Imagery is also shown with similes throughout the poem, such as “in their sterile housing they tilt towards these like skiers.” The poem also acts upon our senses, sight when it states “Surrounding them like their last movements (the mash, the…
Cormier, the author of the short story “Another of Mike’s Girls”, believed that love had a strong influence over the lives of those who are impacted by it. Not all love is romantic, and, often times, love is felt by a parent to their child. That kind of love, as mature as it may be, makes people as intransigent as the typical teen romance. Affection causes people to be irrational in their thinking, but it also can consume people. It can bring people up to the point”…of triumph and pride,” but it can also damage spirits and ”…lack motivation.”…
Compare the ways in which Valentine and Love’s Dog explore the theme of love The author of Valentine, Carol Ann Duffy, utilises the idea of fragility and delicacy in order to express the multiple connotations and symbols of love. Valentine continuously makes use of references to love to display the gentleness and tenderness within romantic motif’s/conventions. Carol Ann Duffy refers to the figurative onion being peeled “like the careful undressing of love”, emphasising the compassionate and affectionate nature of love portrayed by the physical/sexual intimacy in “undressing”. This elucidates the physical and emotional exposure that is an attribute of love.…
“Fishhawk” was the first poem of the Classic of Poetry, the earliest poetry collection of East Asia (p.1322). In contrast to many poems in the “Airs of Domain” that propagated Confucianism, “Fishhawk” is a simple love poem. The poem revolves around a young man who was “tormented by his desire for a girl”(p.1322). While this poem is labeled as a “romantic folk song”(p.1322), the good use of literary elements, syntax, and language added a bit of tint to the love story.…
In the poems, Valentine by Carol Ann Duffy and Let me describe for you her eyes by Glenn Colquhoun, the writers have used many different language techniques to show their thoughts on relationships. In Valentine, Carol Ann Duffy uses metaphors and personification to communicate her ideas about love. She thinks that love isn’t always good and joyful and can be miserable and heart breaking. In Let me describe for you her eyes, Glenn Colquhoun uses metaphors and similes to let the readers know his ideas and perspective on love. He shows that love can cause a lot of pain and it doesn’t always turn out the way you want.…
1. In this ode, Neruda includes similes. For example, “it’s as soft as woman’s hip” (Neruda 17). A simile is a comparison using the words “like” or “as”. Similes create imagery, so that the reader can better understand an object or a character.…
Introduction The short story ‘Only Ten’ by Allan Baillie is a heart touching novel which relates to a 10 year old kids called Hussein ‘The Shah’. In the story, the protagonist Hussein is a refugee who has come to Australia from a war zone country. He is an intruder at his new school, where he is seen differently by other kids in both appearance and behaviour. As the time passes Hussein makes the first move towards acceptance when he offers comfort and sympathy to a fellow students whose sister has died.…
Kurt Vonnegut helps create a futuristic idea of what the world could be like, and portrays it through his dystopian short story, “Harrison Bergeron”. Using Irony, simile and personification, Vonnegut enlightens readers about how power isn’t always used properly and to spread a better idea and to show that misusing power with therefore leave society worse off. Several examples of this can be found in the short story, in an effort to create a “perfect society” they blindly follow certain practices. Such as making everybody equal. The handicapper in charge of dumbing down and disabling those who are above average.…
McKay’s use of simile in the second line of his poem, “I am sharp as steel with discontent” shows his anger towards the government that don’t care about the African Americans. Also, the speaker shows that as you set barriers, we in unity grow bigger and stronger against your…
Author, Nathaniel Hawthorne, in an excerpt from his novel, “Egotism; or The Bosom Serpent,” recounts a puzzling condition that Roderick Elliston suffers from. Hawthorne’s purpose is to convey the idea that, love can also be a force of destruction that brings harm to the people who express it. He adopts a despairing tone through the use simile, repetition, and imagery which appeals to the emotions of the readers and supports Hawthorne’s purpose. Hawthorne begins his excerpt by addressing the assumed cause of Roderick Elliston’s puzzling behavior. He supports the tone of despair through the simile that implies the power that the condition has over him; “…his associates had observed a singular gloom spreading over his daily life, like those chill,…
Another metaphor used is when the poet compares the sun to an eye, ‘the eye of…
A Critical Analysis of Richard Siken’s Crush Crush by Richard Siken is a phenomenal collection of poems that uses confessionalism to explore the speaker 's experiences with love and homosexuality. Siken uses strong imagery and diction to discuss the themes of abuse, love, and violence throughout the collection. For this essay I chose to analyze two of Siken’s poems “ A Primer for the Small Weird Loves” and “The torn-up road” . In both poems Siken is able to convey very powerful messages, and he uses his poetic ability to transform so much violence and abuse into beautiful art in the form of poetry. “ A Primer for the Small Weird Loves” epitomizes the struggle of a coming of age gay man/boy.…
In the essay Love’s Vocabulary by Diane Ackerman the figurative language that the author uses is analogy to support that love is not monotone and uniform through the lines 60-62. As Ackerman is explaining about love she mentions, “ Like a batik created from many emotional colors, it is a fabric whose pattern and brightness may vary.” This stipulates that batik is representing love for the reason that it expresses different emotions and colors through the whole batik. Also as Ackerman is talking about feeling when you go into an elevator she claims “ People search for love as if the desert dunes, where pleasure is the the law the streets are lined with brocade cushions, and the sun never sets.” This indicates that people look for love in a…
Love Sometimes love can be wretched. And other times it can be exciting and charming. In these works of literature, love can be interpreted in many ways. Depending on certain situations that the writer is trying to express, changes how the characters see love.…