Extended Metaphor

Correspondingly, the kitchen light, which is used as image technique, is also employed as symbol to give a deeper meaning to the story. In the beginning when her father leaves the kitchen, the light goes off. Successively, after killing the coyotes “her father came back in, turned the kitchen light out.” (59) The light symbolizes the good and the warmth of the house. When the light goes off, the author represents the disruption well-being and happiness, consequently, when the father turns the light on this gesture represents the return of

The poem uses connotation within images to help drive home the emotion of the experience. Images such as the lighthouse give you a feeling of strength and security but as pointed out the inside is hollow. This emptiness gives the pervious feelings an air of false-ness and frailty. Thus how the characters own strength feels frail and their security false. The speaker also uses the image of bolting doors to show how she creates an image of an unbreakable seal.

One a different level, the personification of the loss demonstrates it has a mind of its own that the speaker cannot control as he is forced to idle watch by. The complexity of the loss leads to the desire for the narrator to bring life back into something damaged beyond repair. The loss of the house and the loss the narrator feels switches creates a desire within the narrator to make use out of something terrible that has happened to him. The juxtaposition of harsh d sounds in “discarded or damaged” (20) paired with the positive and airy “lift” (21) reveals the large shift the narrator would have to make to achieve his dream. The specification of “even gone” (20) by the speaker indicates he recognizes the absurdity of his

In James Baldwin’s short story “Sonny’s Blues,” one of the most pertinent themes throughout the story is the contrast and duality of light and darkness. More specifically, the author explores this theme by using light and darkness to explain the characters coming to terms with their realities and the realities of many people who live in their community. The theme also is key in explaining the relationship between Sonny and the narrator. In this paper, I intend to explain the significance of the tension of identifying one’s reality in “Sonny’s Blues,” by exploring the many instances that Baldwin uses light and darkness to explore one’s reality.

"Although there was evening brightness showing through the windows of the bunkhouse, inside it was dust". This shows that the light tries to get in but never manages to penetrate the darkness. This is important to the themes of the story because workers' hope for a future farm is just like the light while the cruel reality is like the darkness. Their efforts to realize this plan is just like the light trying to penetrate the darkness, but their dream

7. The setting is used as a reflection of the woman's inner emotions. The sun shines and birds sing with no sign of gloom because she is not actually mourning as she thinks to herself. The lack of sorrow from the woman cause the setting to seem even more lovely to her as she realizes she is feeling joy. The details used by the writer portray a sense of well being and positivity. The woman reaches out towards the window as if her joy is tangible, this is a vey important

The interplay of dark and light motifs underlies the narrator’s most recent hardship. On his way home on the subway, the narrator comes across his brother’s name in a newspaper and “stared at it in the swinging lights of the subway car, and in the faces and bodies of the people, and in my own face, trapped in the darkness which roared outside” (Baldwin). Riding in the light of the subway car, the author makes the non-suspecting narrator subject to suffering, unguarded by the protective cloak of the outside darkness. Made vulnerable by the exposed light and people surrounding him, the narrator is hit harder by the unexpected news than if he had read it in the darkness of his private room. Under the “swinging lights,” the narrator is not prepared to cope with the troubling news. This emphasizes the importance of light as a symbol for one’s need of camouflage to properly cope with tragedy.

The third and final stanza leaves the reader to come up with his or her own conclusion as to what has happened at the farmhouse. Nonetheless, the narrator does state that “Something went wrong” thus reintroducing the ominous tone presented in the first stanza and informing the reader that something bad happened (Kooser). The description of the house as ‘empty’ solidifies the theme of abandonment and presents the idea of isolation again.

The challenge of this assignment was to carry out a unique, extended metaphor. The biggest challenge that goes along with an extended metaphor, is ultimately trying to carry out the metaphor itself, throughout the assignment. It is challenging to find little examples within each overall metaphor to compare to each other. For example, in my assignment it was challenging for me to pick apart the game of water polo, and try to compare the events that happen in a game to the events that happen in a battle. Another challenge was coming up with a unique, extended metaphor. It is always tempting to use a generic metaphor, however it is beneficial to find a unique metaphor to use. Personally, I have a very strong connection with the

The use of symbolism and imagery is beautifully orchestrated in a magnificent dance of emotion that is resonated throughout the poem. The two main ideas that are keen to resurface are that of personal growth and freedom. Furthermore, at first glimpse this can be seen as a simple poem about a women’s struggle with her counterpart. However, this meaning can be interpreted more profoundly than just the causality of a bad relationship.

The passage explains the thought process throughout an interrogation of the person that is suspected of in the situation; then it goes on to explain the entire act of interrogation as a whole with the interrogator and suspect. Throughout the passage the author uses multiple extended metaphors to express the thought process of suspect in an interrogation room. In the passage it states, “More to the point, they like to imagine their suspects imagining a small, open window at the top of the long wall. The open window is the escape hatch, the Out.” The author uses the window to symbolize a suspect trying to find an escape route that tends to be filled with lies to get out of any type of punishment of the crime. This is directed to those that lack knowledge on the subject of things in relation to interrogations; although, the audience can be generally anyone because the passage is made to widely understood by most people.

It is no exaggeration to claim that the prototypically-established theorizing on metaphor since the days of Aristotle has really found its realization with the publication of Lakoff and Johnson's seminal work Metaphors We Live By (2003 [1980]). Within it, Lakoff and Johnson refute the long-entrenched view that metaphor is basically a matter of language, a mere rhetorical flourish confined to literature. Rather, they strongly suggest that metaphor is ubiquitously widespread through everyday language; it is so integral a part of the cognitive system we all have and unconsciously use everyday to perceive the world. Revolutionary as it seems, this new approach to metaphor opens the gate wide for a series of cognitive enterprise attempting to take

An element of craft and structure impacts the text’s title “Turn the Lights Back On” by Billy Joel, which uses a metaphor that compares lights to love. The author explains that the lights are off, which means the love he had was no longer there for the girl. The creative songwriter sings, “Did I wait too long to turn the lights back on?” (Joel 15-16). As the author uses this metaphor comparing lights to love, he is indicating and is pondering if he waited too long to show the girl his love as he has been waiting too long.

The speaker uses personification and extended metaphor to create theme and mood throughout the book. “On the warm stone walls, climbing roses were just coming into bloom and great twisted branches of honeysuckle and clematis wrestled each other as they tumbled up and over the top of the wall. Against another wall were white apple blossoms on branches cut into sharp crucifixes and forced to lie flat against the stone. Below, the huge frilled lips of giant tulips in shades of white and cream nodded in their beds. They were almost finished now, spread open too far, splayed, exposing obscene black centers. I’ve never had my own garden but I suddenly recognized something in the tangle of this one that wasn’t beauty. Passion, maybe. And something

As seen in the analysis, the lyrics represent melancholy through the themes of longing, loss and despair. In addition, the analysis brought up few significant topics which will be briefly discussed here. The contrast of light and dark is evident in various instances, for instance, in “The Heart of a Cold White Land” this interplay refers to the narrator’s own feelings of hope and sorrow, but then extends to allude to the North. Similarly as in “The Heart of a Cold White Land”, in “Away” the use of juxtaposition of light and dark characterizes the different feelings of the narrator. Light seems to refer to hope and relief whereas dark relates to feelings of pain and fear.