Comparison Essay

language and metaphoric comparisons to communicate observations about the cycle of life and the pattern of replacement. In the main body of her poem, Olds lists a sequence of three key metaphoric comparisons between the woman and her daughter’s changing bodies. Both characters are experiencing small “previews” of their futures through developmental transformations, the younger a preview of womanhood and the older a preview of aging and ultimately future replacement. The comparison is made in the same

The act of people comparing themselves to others, determining which one is completing, reacting, and acting ‘better’ seems to be a part of human nature. While becoming obsessed with comparisons can be detrimental to a person, it can admittedly provide beneficial understandings between what (or who) is right or wrong, good or bad. In William Shakespeare’s “Hamlet,” comparing the complex characters often seems necessary in order to better analyze them. This is especially true in the case of Hamlet

advert for the Mercedes-Benz is very personal, and is constantly putting the reader in the driver’s seat. It is laid out like a cinema screen, and that comparison continues throughout the advert. The picture is very passive and immediately places the reader at the centre of the advert, and the whole layout is calming. In comparison, in the Chrysler Voyager advert the attention of the

As Confidence is generally described as a state of being certain either that a hypothesis or prediction is correct or that a chosen course of action is the best or most effective. Or as Self-confidence is defined as having confidence in one's self. More than a million people in the United States suffer with Obsessive Comparative Disorder, which will lead to anxiety, and Depression. As these forms of lack of confidence drags people down into the abyss only showing them in the darkness. While millions

metaphor, juxtaposition, and point of view to describe the writing process in comparison of building a house, which shows that Oliver sees poetry as something that involves mental labor which is a different challenge than physical labor . Through the use of extended metaphor, Mary Oliver is allowed to express both the mentality and physicality when writing a poem, which is able to show the differences and similarities by comparison. The extended metaphor works to compare the process of writing poetry to

Relationships, Comparisons, Assumptions, and What Lies Beneath As time passes in a relationship, it is inevitable that confrontations are bound to occur. Whether small disagreements created from minor issues, to mediocre arguments based on daily matters, to serious incidents that can reflect relationship taboos, it is a couple’s perception and understanding of each other that can strengthen or weaken their union. The poem “How It Will End” by Denise Duhamel portrays two couples involved in similar

instilled a healthy fear in his army and, as a result, has remained victorious and united in the face of war. By using these techniques, he effectively argues that the impacts of being feared are far better than those of being loved. This method of comparison is different from Nietzsche’s because Machiavelli assumes the definitions of his terms and goes right ahead to showing causes and effects of love and fear. Nietzsche

Judging one's worth in the world through social comparisons is central not only to human psychological functioning, but also critical to the survival of individual animals in many species (O’Brien) I have caught myself on many occasions making comparisons at the gym. I hate that I do it, but it is natural. I do both though, I compare downward and upward. If I see a girl that is skinny at the gym I am automatically making those upward comparisons thinking that she is better than I am. I also catch

we as readers love it. Metaphors making comparisons to nature are often used to show the beauty of something when writing. William Shakespeare’s “Sonnet 130,” makes the same comparisons, however he makes the metaphors in favor of the natural features rather than his mistress. Shakespeare isn’t being rude to his mistress by doing so; he is taking things at face value and being blatantly honest. The sonnet has been included below for easier comparison. Notice that each negative metaphor in the

9-10) are an example of the constant repetition of realistic comparisons made by the speaker in the poem. Shakespeare mocks the Petrarchan tradition by taking a popular notion for comparison, which is music and twisting it around. Shakespeare averts the imagery away from the notion of comparing a female voice to music, to a more commonsensible comparison. He does this by saying that he loves his mistress’s voice, but counterarguments “that music has a far