Figurative Language In The Tide Rises Tide Falls

In the poem, “Paul Revere’s Ride,” the author, Henry Longfellow, uses figurative language, and sound devices to create suspense and tension within the poem. The way he uses the figurative language and sound devices makes readers want to keep reading to find out what will happen next. In Longfellow’s famous poem he uses devices such as rhyming, rhyme scheme, and repetition to allow the readers to feel fear and push them to the edge of their seats. Some figurative language the storyteller uses is personification, and similes to compare objects, and fearful moments to something more dramatic.

Mourning and mortality is a constant concern that transcends time. Slessor’s poetic treatment of these ideas continue to engage readers as it evokes a sense of awareness. This is evident in Kenneth Slessor 's poem Five Bells as the persona 's grief for his deceased friend, Joe Lynch causes him to realise the significance of time and the strength of spiritual attachments. This further leads him to question the purpose of human life.

The day returns,but nevermore returns the traveler to the shore,and the tide rises,the tide falls(Long Fellow). The meaning is showing that your adventure may not take you where you want to go. In the book “Walk Two Moons” written by Sharon Creech, Sal goes through a lot in her life as it goes on.

In “Every Little Hurricane” by Sherman Alexie, the story takes you through a damaged, poverty suffering, Native American family through young Victor’s eyes. This story opens the reader’s eyes to those who may not have the luxury of money. Poverty can definitely take a toll on a family. The effect of poverty also brings alcohol. Victor’s family definitely has a major issue with addiction to alcohol. This has become the normal for Victor because his parents drink a lot. You can inference this from the story. The author of this story has used many pieces of figurative language to enhance the theme and also improve the story and keep the reader’s attention. One example of figurative language in the story was Alexie’s word choice and dialogue. One example of this from the text is, “Goddamn it, one Indian yelled at another as the argument began. “You ain’t got shit, you fucking apple” (pg. 2). This example from the text shows how Alexie uses specific words of the Native Americans and uses it to impact the reader. He also uses some harsh swear words to give the text a tone/mood. He makes a unique and ragged tone with his word choice. The swear words represent the harshness and how bad of a shape Victor’s family is in. The author also uses the insult “apple” in the example earlier. “Apple” is an insult used by Native Americans to call someone who is Native American on the outside but acts white on the inside. This is added to the story to give the dialogue more importance. These words strongly impact the characters of the story and you only get why if you know what it means. This makes the reader think deeper into the story. Another example of dialogue and word choice is, “They always fought. Had been fighting since the very beginning. “Well, tell them to get their asses out of my house,” Victor’s father yelled again, his decibel level rising to meet the tension in the house” (pg. 2). This shows a good example of Alexie using word choice and dialogue throughout his story. Because the words chosen give a vibe of how intense the scene is. When the author mentions that the father’s voice reached the amount of tension of the house, this made the reader almost hear how loud the

People in the real world have huge abilities past what is thought to be conceivable, and the ability to take advantage of one’s greatest potential originates from his/her identity. Throughout a person’s life, it is important to find what defines him/her and figure out how he/she can gain more independence and self-sufficiency as a human being. An overcoming and conquering tone is created throughout the novel to portray the main character’s “awakening” during her life and to show that life is hard at times, but can be regained as she unleashes her inner self. In The Awakening, author Kate Chopin uses revealing details and figurative diction to establish a triumphant tone when discussing Edna and her capability to gain her own individuality,

In Peace Like a River, I had annotated a lot looking for specifically allusions, motifs, characterization, and figurative language. I found a lot of allusions made in chapter one, but that is a pattern I find in everything I annotate such as Tale of Two Cities and Scarlet Pimpernel. I am finding a consistent amount of motifs, such as miracles, dreams, war, and wind. I am also paying close attention to the indirect characterization. When applying what I learn about Davy and Jeremiah I came up with the conclusion that everything Davy does compliments what Jeremiah would do, such as Davy taking care of Israel and Tommy in a violent way and Jeremiah handling the same situation with words instead of bullets like he does with the very annoying people

In discussion of the poems, “Fish” by Elizabeth Bishop, “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost, and “The Noiseless Patient Spider” by Walt Whitman, there was a distinct theme within them; life and our purpose. In “Fish”, the narrator during the beginning catches a fish “with [her] hook fast in [the] corner of his mouth (Bishop 3-4).” The fish being out of water gives the narrator a different perspective after coming upon his features more closely, later breaking free from the hooks “like medals with their ribbons frayed and wavering (Bishop 61-62).” In the poem “The Road Not Taken” the narrator indicates that with the options that lay ahead of him, he has doubts swaying his decisions but ultimately comes away with “the better claim (Frost 7).” “The Noiseless Patient Spider” begins with a spider alone in his surroundings, but is encompassed with

In literature, themes shape and characterize an author’s writing making each work unique as different points of view are expressed within a writing’s words and sentences. This is the case, for example, of Edgar Allan Poe’s poem “Annabel Lee” and Emily Dickinson’s poem “Because I could not stop for Death.” Both poems focus on the same theme of death, but while Poe’s poem reflects that death is an atrocious event because of the suffering and struggle that it provokes, Dickinson’s poem reflects that death is humane and that it should not be feared as it is inevitable. The two poems have both similarities and differences, and the themes and characteristics of each poem can be explained by the author’s influences and lives.

The power of the poet is not only to convey an everyday scene into a literary portrait of words, but also to interweave this scene into an underlying theme. The only tool the poet has to wield is the word. Through a careful placement and selection of words, the poet can hopefully make his point clear, but not blatantly obvious. Common themes of poems are life, death, or the conflicting forces thereto. This theme could never possibly be overused because of the endless and limitless ways of portraying life or death through the use of different words.

…as the sun declined towards the horizon, the wind died away into a gentle breeze and the sea became free from breakers. But these gave place to a heavy swell; I felt sick and hardly able to hold the rudder, when suddenly I saw a line of high land towards the south. Almost spent, as I was, by fatigue and the dreadful suspense I endured for several hours, this sudden certainty of life rushed like a flood of warm joy to my heart, and tears gushed from my eyes. How mutable are our feelings, and how strange is that clinging love we have of life even in the excess of misery (211).

There are many poets that have been writing some of the most amazing poems in the world for years upon years. Poetry is a great way to write about some of the most meaningful things in one’s life, without directly having to state what you’re trying to say some of the times. A lot of poets write about events within their lives as well as things in everyday life in the lives of everyone in the world. The poems “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” by Dylan Thomas (1914-1953) and “Psalm of Life” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) both use great diction and varying tone in their poems to portray their individual perspectives about life.

Collins uses words that are fused with loss and melancholy when he says “night” and “war” which indicate a tonal shift. He then also mentions the moon “drifting out of a love poem,” an emotional memory that one will never be able to recall again. The tone shift is also seen specifically through the words denoted in the poem; such as “slip” and “float” which imply a sense of a gradual and smooth process of forgetting.

In 1968 there was a war going on in Vietnam. The war was called the Vietnam War. In the U.S, there was a shortage of people who volunteer to fight in the war so to cover the shortage the U.S used the draft process. The government sent out a draft notice to Tim O’Brien telling him that he was drafted to fight in the war. O’Brien had a choice to flee the U.S to go north to Canada or fight it the war. In the O’Brien considering leaving running away to Canada section of “On the Rainy River” by Tim O’Brien, the author makes the structural choice of first person POV and uses figurative language, such as hyperbole to emphasize the story's message that people run away from problems due to difficult decisions.

In this research, the researcher discusses the figurative language based on Perrine’s perception. According to Perrine (1977:61-109), figurative language consists of 12 kinds, they are: simile, metaphor, personification, apostrophe, synecdoche, metonymy, symbol, allegory, paradox, hyperbole/overstatement, understatement, and irony.

In Walt Whitman’s collection of Leaves of Grass, he includes many poems that are a compilation of his musings and thoughts. One thing that he does throughout his collection is that he creates goals through each poem to get different messages across. Some of his common messages, or underlying themes, are the Self, democracy, and the individual, but an interesting common theme found scattered throughout Leaves of Grass is the cycle of life and death, especially in comparison to the United States, the Civil War, and life itself. In “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d,” does such thing. Published in 1865, the pastoral elegy was written after Abraham Lincoln’s assassination. This is the best way that Walt Whitman mourns a beloved public figure in his own modern world, and also the way he copes with the natural world. “When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom’d” best captures Whitman’s notion what it means to be human: the common understanding of the never-ending cycle of life and death through the form of the elegy, the symbol of the lilac, and the personification of death.