Sunset Descriptive Language

The first ten lines of the poem describe a setting sun and establish the framework in which we are expected to view the monarchy’s fall. Detailing the “glorious” (1) sun’s “double brightness” (4) while he dips below the horizon, Philips portrays the sunset as something both beautiful and terrifying. As the sun “[p]uts on his highest looks in ‘s lowest state” (6), he compels observers to hate him while “ador[ing] his Fall” (8). This section not only characterizes the sun’s shining sunset as a response to his fated end, but evokes the idea of war with words such as “magazine” (as in a magazine of bullets) to refer to the sun’s light (1).

In the story of “Total Eclipse”, the spectacular total solar eclipse is one of the most wonderful phenomena in nature, revealing the serenity of nature. When the total eclipse is occurring, the sun is entirely covered by the moon, then the world turns to dark and silent in front of Dillard. She wrote, “You see the wide world swaddled in darkness; you see a vast breadth of hilly land, and an enormous, distant, blackened valley” (20). By describing the sudden darkness, Dillard tries to express her unexpected feelings to the nature and to the world. The world is unfamiliar to

Vivid images can be found abundantly throughout the novel and helps to portray scenes to the point where the audience can actually imagine, smell, touch, and hear everything that is going on. “No matter how they scrubbed their hands, the residue of Red Hot Mama had a way of sticking round, as pesty and persistent as a chaperone at a high school dance.” (158). In some instances the audience can acquire a sense, based on the description whether the characters are self absorbed, considerate, or overly concerned about their appearance. “I ought to be shot for looking like this” she’d tell the mirror in the front hall before going out the door. “I look like I’ve been drug through hell backwards,” she would say on and ordinary day. “Like death warmed over. Like something the cat puked up.” (103). The emergence of the images presented in the novel can help present a better understanding and in some cases, a connection to one of the

In the story, danger is unpredictable, unexpected, it can occur anywhere. By her use of the setting and symbols, the author plays with contrasts and opposition, making the danger and threats appearing slyly, insidiously. To this end, the story is set in a calm little town, on a sunny summer afternoon. Nothing indicates the disturbing turn of event awaiting Connie. All throughout the story, the author refers to the sun which usually symbolizes a positive matter, light as opposed to the definitely dark side of this story’s event. The strongest use of the sun as a symbol comes at the end of the story, when Connie “[moves] into the sunlight where Arnold Friend waited.” (333) Whereas sunlight is supposed to represent some kind of good enlightening the world, Connie follows Arnold to the ultimate danger she will face, leaving in the unknown. The use of setting and the sun as a symbol demonstrate how danger is unpredictable and can happen in any circumstances.

In the poem “Stars Over the Dordogne” by Sylvia Plath, the author illustrates a message by using different techniques. The message slowly develops as the readers go throughout the piece, however all the techniques are effective and leave an impact on the audience. Moreover, it causes the audience to have different views throughout the piece. The message in this poem is about how everyone has a different perspective on the world. The author shows this, by using imagery, personification, and shift to develop a message.

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 in this poem an abundance of times, such as how Ray used music as a form of art to describe certain visions. In the lines 9 and 10, it explains imagery clearly by saying “A vision exquisite. Yet who can match…”(9). In this sentence, it's going back to an image or vision in one's mind that is beautiful and like nothing else seen before. The following line saying “The sunset’s iridescent hues? Who sing…” (10). This finishes line 9 saying how can a vision match like the sunsets luminous colors that seem to change when you look at it from different angles, almost referring to the rainbow. For example, whenever we go with our loved ones to the beach, we usually sit together and watch the sunset go down; it brings a wave of emotions like love, life, happiness, and for some maybe even sadness, however, once the sun sets all those emotions to disappear with it because it was for that split second that we felt a certain type of

    As the time passes she can clearly see the woman in the paper. The woman in the paper is quiet and peaceful during the day, but at night she is imprisoned by the bars in the paper. This is reflection helps the narrator identify her own bars--her husband John. He is away during the day and at home in the same bed with her at night. She also identifies with the woman in the paper by sharing their similar routine. "At night in any kind of light, in twilight, candlelight, lamplight, and worst of all by moonlight, it becomes bars! The outside pattern I mean, and the woman behind it is as plain as can be"..."by daylight she is subdued, quiet. I fancy its the pattern that keeps her so still. It is so puzzling. It keeps me quiet by the hour".

After Romeo is warned of his banishment he meets with Juliet and tells her that because “night’s candles are burnt out, and jocund day stands tiptoe on the misty mountain tops,” he “must be gone and live, or stay and die”. She replies that the “light is not daylight” but rather “some meteor that the sun exhales”. They beauty of the morning, as illustrated by light imagery, is negated by Romeo’s need to leave or face death and by Juliet’s comparison of morning light to a catastrophic meteor. Dark imagery allows the reader to imagine the swift act of candles ceasing to burn, and how visualisation enhances the negative connotation of the phrase “burnt out”, which is attributed to their anguish over the end of night. By stressing the adverse nature of light, imagery contributes to the couple’s strong desperation for each other, and dark’s continued protection.

relate to the characters’ feelings, by providing vivid descriptions of the setting, as well as

One of the literary devices used in this short story is Imagery. Maupassant uses imagery in the text, "On an autumn afternoon when the sky, reddened by the sun cast reflections of its scarlet clouds on the water...” This text shows imagery because Maupassant is using details to support a view you will be able to picture in your head by reading the text. Autumn afternoon is telling you a description of how the day is supposed to be looking. The sky reddened by the sun shows the setting and impact of the sun against its scarlet clouds on water.

Circularity is also evident when the beginning of the story is compared with the final paragraph. Consider the alliteration in lines 3-4: "summer," "streets," "shuttered," "Sunday," and "swarmed" and the ending (p. 71), where the "s" sound is repeated once again: "stared," "smiling," slowly," "small," and "shone." In addition, the image of a lamp plays a key role in each situation: to expose the "shape and hue" of the crowd in the opening (lines 4-6) and to expose the sovereign Corley holds in the final scene.

The movements of the sun are realistically used to calculate time and bearing, this recalls the naturalistic tone, returning the responder once more to the wilderness of the persona’s mind. It also depicts another burden of the journey, an infinity, without chronological order. “Words pointless as calling in a vacant wilderness” here the persona experiences the isolation and remoteness of her mind scape, cutting her off completely from all social interaction, adding another expense to the journey. Alone, physically and linguistically, verbal communication is futile invoking a sense of helplessness, words can no longer help her delve into her psyche, she must substantially navigate her mind

It was almost to good to be true I thought while I sat at my customary seat at the spades table. Only one day left until the date arrives that had consumed my every thought for six months. Around me were three metal picnic tables(one of which I was sitting at), four large concrete walls, five black telephones anchored to the walls, eighteen cell doors and thirty-four women that found themselves in the same predicament I was in. It had been the same scene I observed every single day since I was placed in the county jail six months prier. I was only 18 when I was arrested. I celebrated a years worth of major holidays and my 19th birthday behind these doors. It would be these same doors I walk out of at my final court