Kabul By Saiz

Throughout the poem the extended use of imagery by the writer allows the reader to relate and sense how we might view the world if we had lost our sight. We are able to see the world in a different manner. In addition to the imagery of the world we read about throughout the poem we also see the writer uses imagery to describe the characters. For example, the writers use of imagery for the description of the blind girl gives the reader a vision of a warm hearted girl, that views the world through all of her other senses. As described by the speaker upon their first encounter in lines 18-21

As evident by the title of this poem, imagery is a strong technique used in this poem as the author describes with great detail his journey through a sawmill town. This technique is used most in the following phrases: “...down a tilting road, into a distant valley.” And “The sawmill towns, bare hamlets built of boards with perhaps a store”. This has the effect of creating an image in the reader’s mind and making the poem even more real.

"He had…split purple lips, lumped ears, welts above his yellow eyes, and one long scar that cut across his temple and plowed through a thick canopy of kinky hair…" Imagery is very effectively used by Knight in order to illustrate Hard Rock and incidents in the poem. Phrases such as "bored a hole in his head," "handcuffed and chained," "the jewel of a myth," and "barked in his face," paint vivid images in the readers mind. Knight's use of imagery keeps the reader interested in the poem while slowly drawing the reader into the story (emotionally). This element ultimately proves to be very useful to convey the motif of the poem.

. The author conveys a very cautionary yet distressing tone when elaborating about the hardships of Afghanistan women’s love life. According to the thesis statement of “Afghanistan : Where women have no choice”, Sieff interprets his distressing tone when he said “ For an Afghan girl dreading marriage to a man she hates, death is of

The author uses imagery in the poem to enable the reader to see what the speaker sees. For example, in lines 4-11 the speaker describes to us the

Imagery is used consistently right through the poem to evoke sensory experiences and to endorse the theme. For instance: ‘A stark white ring-barked forest’-‘the sapphire misted mountains’-‘the hot gold lush of noon’ and many more. All of these appeal to the readers senses and places brilliant visual image(s) in our minds by illuminating the various features of the country, from the perspective of the poems persona. This is attained using; adjectives, ‘the sapphire-misted mountains¬¬¬’, which gives us a picture of mountains with a bluish haze embracing it, this image would thus give an impression of a composed environment and evoke a sense of tranquillity. Additionally by using ‘sapphire’ to illustrate the mist surrounding the mountains we get a sense of Australia’s uniqueness as sapphire is a rare gem. Imagery is also displayed through a metaphor used to appeal to the sense of hearing. For example: ‘the drumming of an army, the steady soaking rain’. Here Mackellar depicts the rain as an army and allows us not only to visualize but get a sense of the sound of the rain, which is presented through the adjective ‘drumming’. This line also presents to us the intensity of the rain again through the adjectives ‘drumming, steady and soaking’.

Imagery is shown in many parts of the poem but particularly when he is describing the barber.

The imagery used in this verse appeals to the sense sight. This helps the reader visualise what the writer is taking about. It also allows the reader to relate and connect more to the poem.

The book is divided into five parts. Part one is titled “Before the Taliban.” It is comprised of eight chapters. In this first part of the book, Malala introduces the reader to her family and talks about many aspects of her life. She starts with the day that she is born, this emphasis on her birth is important beacause it reflects a major arguement that is depicted through the entire book, the

In this poem, I would argue that the imagery suggested provided great support for the poems content. "It is a cold and snowy night. The main street is deserted". This line best describes the poems setting and triggers a specific image

These three lines are perfect examples of the imagery within the poem because they contain an image of a river with its small peeks and waves trembling and glistening in the afternoon sun. All the while it equates the natural beauty of the river to the beauty that the young man sees in the youthful maiden.

Growing up and living in Afghanistan as a woman has its challenges. Parents choose who can marry you and they choose everything for you. In this book, Laila and Mariam both show the struggles it is to be a girl, and how much disrespect they get in Afghanistan. Both Mariam and Laila are married to the same man, and he is abusive to both of them. They also live under Taliban rule, and the rules that they set are very unfair for women. In Khaled Hosseni’s novel, he has many different themes but the most prevalent one is of woman inequality, and that is shown through multiple accounts of abuse, disrespect, and unfairness.

The first literary device that expresses the theme that Kabul is beautiful is personification. Throughout the poem Kabul is addressed as a female and given female characteristics. In line one in the poem Tabrizi states, “The beautiful city of Kabul wears a rugged mountain skirt”(Line one). In fact, Kabul is simply surrounded by mountains. The use of personification allows the reader to see Kabul as a woman wearing a skirt, many would agree that saying that Kabul is beautiful and wears a skirt seems more appealing than saying Kabul is surrounded by mountains. The use of this example of personification gives the attributes of feminine beauty to a region of land to express just how beautiful it truly is. Another example of personification is found in stanza six, line 2. This line reads “Even the Tuba of Paradise is jealous of their greenery” (Line 22). The Tuba Of Paradise is heaven in the Islamic faith and it is saying heaven is jealous of the greenery of the gardens in Kabul. By saying that a heavenly place is jealous of the appearance of an place on earth, one gets the impression that Kabul must be very

Throughout Khaled Hosseini’s novel, The Kite Runner, the reader observes many injustices committed due to the presence of the Taliban and cultural conflict in Afghanistan. One of the most concerning issues in Afghanistan is the mistreatment and inequality that women face on a daily basis due to Taliban mandates. Women in Afghanistan are treated as inferior beings to men and are unable to stand up for themselves due the laws the Taliban enforces. Hosseini uses the wives of Amir and Hassan, Soraya and Farzana, to represent the injustices to which women in Afghanistan are subjected.

“The Taliban are a group of fundamentalist Sunni Muslim militants living today mostly near the border between Afghanistan and Pakistan” (Johns). The Taliban emerged in the early 1990’s ("Who Are the Taliban?"). The Taliban are a serious issue in today’s world. They are not only affecting people in Afghanistan, but people all over the world even the United States. They are a threat to others and are feared all around the world.