Essays on Figurative

A. Six Samples of Figurative Language

Figurative language is the use of figures of speech to say something in a way that is not obvious. Samples of figurative language include the use of metaphors, similes, metonymy, paradox, irony, symbols, humor, exaggeration among other tropes in fresh new ways that appeal to the readers’ imagination. The use of figurative language in any piece of writing is very important for it serves a number of purposes. However, style is constantly affected by, among other things, language itself, culture and the tradition of a people’s rhetoric. For its effectiveness therefore, style should vary across cultures depending on ...

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This paper discusses the relationship between figurative and literal language as well as the differences. Also discussed in this paper are the forms of figurative language, their definitions and how to place them in context, highlighting respective examples. Misuse and misunderstandings of these forms are as well discussed.

The English language is characterized by numerous figures of speech some of which are comprehensible and self explanatory while others are confusing. This makes the language an interesting one since if everyone merely conversed employing literal vocabulary, the dialogues would be unexciting and dull. The solution to appropriate usage would be ...

FIGURATIVE vs. LITERAL LANGUAGE.

Introduction.

Literal language means using a word in its specific, concise, original, and direct meaning. For instance, using a phrase ‘she is literally five inches tall’ implies that the actual height of the subject is five inches. Figurative language uses analogous, descriptive, and metaphorical sense of words (Glucksberg and MacGlone, 2001). It means ‘as or by a figure of speech’; For instance, saying ‘dead from work’ has a metaphorical meaning of being extremely tired of work. Figurative language does not only provide facts about an idea, but also encourages the use of imaginations. Some of the ...

During the 17th century, around 1630, the puritans settled in New England. However, their main purpose was not to promote religion or religious freedom; rather they wanted to achieve freedom from the church and public officials in England. They believed the church and public officials prevented them from pursuing their religious beliefs as God intended them to. This essay focuses on the life of Anne Hutchinson and Roger Williams who were deeply religious individuals during the 17th century. Although they led separate lives, the two are linked together because of their religious beliefs that led to them being ...

Analysis of Figurative Language in a Poem

The poem that was chosen for the purpose of analyzing the figurative language contained therein is William Wordsworth’s “I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud” . This poem is selected because it is replete with elements of figurative language such as simile, metaphor, personification, hyperbole and symbolism. The type of figurative language in the form of a simile is evident through the use of words such as ‘like’ or ‘as’. For instance, in the first line, Wadsworth compared the narrator, who was speaking in the first person, with a cloud. It was evident that the narrator was described to be ...

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This is a paper that will define and illustrate the elements of figurative language. Misusing Figurative Language can be just as annoying or comical as misusing words; therefore it behooves the writer or the speaker to make sure that he or she is familiar with the term before using it. It is more acceptable to use bad grammar than to misuse a word; especially if one is in public. No one can truly say that he or she has never used figurative language. We begin to use figurative language the moment we learn to speak, albeit we do so ...

Figurative and literal language is a distinction in traditional systems for analyzing language. Figurative language refers to words or expressions which alter the conventional meaning of the component words. On the other hand, literal language refers to the original meaning or words which convey exactly what they mean. English language is at times considered as the most difficult language to learn due to the use of figurative language. This paper will define and give examples of different types of figurative language with their appropriate usage. The examples of figurative words are idioms, amphibole, metaphors, analogies, euphemisms, cliché among others.

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Poetry in Music presentation

Stanza three and ten tend to give the real meaning of the song “waka waka”. This is because of the motivating or words of encouragements used. Actually, the “Waka waka” song is some kind of encouragement songs that is set to show that everyone is able no matter the kind of challenges that lie ahead. The song apart from motivation has some teaching in it on how to face some challenges in life especially those that need competition or struggling. In the song, figurative language has also been used and these can be seen in the song lyrics. One ...

When World War I broke, earlier poets wrote poems celebrating the outbreak of the First World War. These poems reflected an over-optimistic, sentimental and unrealistic attitude to war that mirrored the attitude of the British people, who assumed that the war was chivalrous and heroic. Rupert Brooke's “The Soldier” is an example of such early World War I poetry, in which Brooke uses strong figurative language and symbols to romanticize and sentimentalize the horrors of war. By 1915, both the British people and poets began to realize how horrific and terrible the war really was, and poems thereafter began ...

Dr. Seuss emerged as a staunch opponent of isolationism in America in the late 1930s as well as early 1940s. He saw inaction in United Sates to German as well as Japanese expansion as appeasement and cowardice. While the world was in a war, America had isolated itself and just sat to look the other countries fight. Dr. Seuss felt the weakness and thought that Americans were leaving their victims exposed to Japanese and Nazi brutality. Again, just before the Pearl Harbor attack, Seuss used to depict isolationists together with appeasers as lazy, cowardly and unintelligent.

First Cartoon by Dr. Seuss

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The Middle East is predominantly an Islamic society. Muslim art and architecture is heavily influenced by the religious attitudes. There is prejudice against pictorial representation of animal figure and human being due to the Prophet Mohammed teachings that are against idols and idol worship. This attitude influenced the development of geometric and stylized designs. Muslims have excelled mostly in the fields of architecture and decorative arts (Choueri 88: Ham 176: Graber 1). Islamic artists draw their inspiration from many sources: inspiration was drawn from Byzantine, Indian, Chinese and Persian models. These craftsmen then made their models in original and ...

Literature

Literature just like art, fashion and film, is known to reflect the society. Literature describes the daily life describing its ups and downs in a well-documented medium. Through literature, humans can explore their experiences and use it to search deeply for the meaning of humanity. Literary criticism is a well-informed response that a reader makes as a response to how they feel about a piece of literature. The insights of this article can be better understood by using analytical approaches to describe and evaluate its meaning. The article “Reading Literature: Decline and fall?” immediately captures the interest of the ...

Tom describes Jim as “the most realistic character in the play, being an emissary from a world of reality that we were somehow set apart from” (Williams 145) in his opening speech. However, as an aspiring poet, Tom is being more symbolic. Basically, Jim is a representation of that one thing we believe is a source of our happiness that we wait so desperately for but it always tends to evade our grasp. The play serves as a medium to establish Laura’s figurative, and then Jim appears at the end of the play just to fulfill that need. ...

“The Addict”

Abstract This is an essay about Anne Sexton’s poem “The Addict,” It describes how Anne Sexton tried desperately tried to rid herself of mental illness and drug addiction. She wrote from her heart and her personal experience. The hymn “When Peace Like a River Attended my Way,” was written out of great despair; the writer whole family perished at sea and when he came to the area in the ocean he went to his cabin and penned this famous hymn. Like her counterpart, Anne Sexton’s poetry is born out of great depression; she began to write poetry ...

Many authors choose to write about nature because it is a universal idea and is timeless. Nature is something that is observed and experienced by everyone, and can therefore be understood by almost all people. Tess Gallagher is an author who has a tendency to write about nature, as seen through her poems, “Choices” and “Orange Sutra”. Gallagher’s symbolic use of nature can be seen in the poems “Choices” and “Orange Sutra”. Although the poems “Choices” and “Orange Sutra” have contrasting themes, they both use symbolic imagery of nature to help the reader understand the meaning of the ...

Introduction

Anne Bradstreet, is a big name in the world of poetry, she received a lot of attention with the kind of work that she had produced during the later half of the seventeenth century. Bradstreet’s most of the poems are lyrical, and the presence of craft in them is exquisite, she ensures that in all her poems she immerses herself into the glory of life and lives it to the fullest. In this paper we will look at few works from Bradstreet and our focus will be to analyze them from the various perspectives to ...

The two poems, Because I Could Not Stop for Death, by Emily Dickinson and Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night, by Dylan Thomas deal with the theme of death. Each poem looks at death in different ways. Thomas does not accept death readily, but implores his father to hold on to life. On the other hand, Dickinson accepts death calmly. Both poets make use of figurative devices such as metaphors, personification and alliteration as they explore ...

Louise Erdrich is an American novelist and native America who uses her fiction to relate stories, which speak to the human condition. In her story “The Red Convertible” tells the tale of a bond between two brothers that is torn about do to extenuating circumstances happening in the world that reach out and affect both brothers lives. Erdrich tells this story through uses the literary devices of symbolism, figurative language, and foreshadowing to relate this tale on a much deeper level. Stories can be told in a variety of way and through a variety of means. The story of ...

Immigration and Ethnicity in Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart”

Achebe’s “Things Fall Apart” is Achebe's response to the limitations and inaccuracy of the Nigerian customs and way of life that comes in many literacy pieces of the colonial era. Achebe does not present a pleasant analysis of the pre-colonial Africa, but in its place, he presents the Igbo society as one that has flaws and virtues. The tile of the novel comes from “The Second Coming” by W. B. Yeats. The issue of immigration and ethnicity comes amidst the arrival of the European colonizers to the country; and shows the impact that the factors have on the ...

A Comparative look at the theme of nature in the poems “The Oak” Alfred Lord Tennyson and “The Road Not Taken” Robert Frost Both Alfred Lord Tennyson’s The Oak and Robert Frost’s The Road Not Taken deals with the theme of nature. Both poets incorporate each word in a specific manner that adds literal and figurative meanings to the overall essence of the poems. Robert Frost and Alfred Lord Tennyson use symbolism, figurative language, and rhyme to convey their views of the road that Frost cannot choose and the oak tree that develops from a human perspective. ...

One of the most recognizable vehicles of religious teaching is the parable. It is significant that many of the teachings of Jesus are remembered today through the parables he told. Parables are used as vehicles to convey spiritual truths. It is crucial to understand what parables are through defining them and establishing their characteristics and purpose. Newman (70) asserts that a parable is figurative speech which has been given an extended meaning. He perceives it to be an elaborated simile. It describes an ethical, spiritual fact or rule. A parable utilizes common, everyday events, experiences or customs to deliver ...

Primary literary techniques of diction, imagery and figurative language are employed by only good poets in their work or poems. Nevertheless, mainly great poets are capable of employing these literal tools to convey an experience or understanding to the reader. William Blake, Emily Dickson and Robert Frost are all great poets of their time. Thus, it is important to note that they all embrace literal devices in their own way. In Emily Dickson’s “I felt a funeral, in my Brain”, the speaker explains in details how she lost her mind. Also, she utilizes various events in making sure ...

So what do you expect to find in a play written hundreds of years ago but is still read with unrelenting enthusiasm and interest as never before? What is that make this possible? Can you really tell the best way of presenting a play in which a character, cheered by his over ambitious wife, kills people mercilessly in order to gain power and safeguard it? These are some of the questions that you get answered as you read Macbeth, a Shakespeare’s play .In my analysis of this play, I am going to discuss some major characters ,themes and ...

A Comparison Of The Poems "Beauty And Sadness" and “The Force that Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower

Good poetry is usually written in sensual language to stimulate the readers’ senses; “Beauty and Sadness” and “The Force that Through the Green Fuse Drives the Flower,” are poems that describe the human body in vivid figurative language. Song’s poem is a description of beautiful women. In her first stanza she describes the women’s beauty; “He drew hundreds of women/ in studies unfolding/ like flowers from a fan” (lines 1-3). These lines suggest that there is a certain kind of innocence in these women until the unknown man touches them, then they begin to bloom but ...

Reading Audre Lorde’s poem “Hanging Fire,” the most immediate thing noticed is the emotion of anxiety in the speaker. The speaker is a teenager, experiencing typical anxieties like learning “how to dance/ in time for the next party,” disappointment about not being chosen for the Math Team, wearing braces, and what will happen if he or she dies (Lorde 12-13). The diction and tone of the poem increases the feeling of teenage anxiety, because it is in free verse, there is very little punctuation, which makes the words come in a rush just like worries whirl through the ...

Compare and Contrast Robert Frost’s

Robert Frost and Eudora Welty both writers, lived thirty years apart; whereas Frost writes poetry and Welty writes novel and short story, a comparison and contrast of these two works will show that the setting of their writings is nature.

The two works, “The Road not Taken”, and “A Worn Path,“ begin with a description of nature, and they are set apart by one season. Frost’s poem begins: “Two roads diverged in a yellow wood,” suggesting that it is fall. There are several yellow flowers that bloom in spring, however, it could not have been spring, since the ...

Garley, Matt, Slade, Benjamin and Marina Terkourafi. “Hwaet! LOL! Common Formulaic Functions in Beowulf.” Proceedings from the Annual Meeting of the Chicago Linguistic Association 45 (1): 111-126.

This paper identifies six different formulaic functions that appear both in modern blogs and in Old English poetry. These six are discourse-structuring, filler, gnomic, epithetic, tonic and acronymic. The commonality of these linguistic features is interesting given the amount of time that has passed between the two genres. This shows that the purpose of communication has remained constant, at least in these areas.

Godfrey, J.E. “Beowulf as Martial Epic.” Unpublished dissertation, ...

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The Book of Revelation is a complex text, and it has very complex symbolism that is difficult to parse today. It takes a historical understanding of the life and times of the authors of the Bible to really understand the meaning behind the passages—and even with years of study, there are still arguments that commonly occur about the meaning of different passages. However, it is important to understand that there are lessons within this text too—the Book of Revelations is not merely an apocryphal text, it is a pastoral text as well. Revelations is interpreted a number ...

It’s about living in the now. It’s about not taking life too seriously. It’s about going out with a bang. This is pop art and it exploded through classical and traditional art. Pop art is modern, ironic and colorful with a twist of reality. While looking at pop art, instant gratification burst and it caused a release of endorphins. It’s fun, sassy, and bright. It is art with an attitude. Pop artists created their works using vivid images of everyday modern life. It was art that society could easily relate. The pop culture was able ...

Analysis of Political Speech in Linguistics: Obama’s Inauguration speech

Introduction Language is an important tool used to access knowledge as well as to influence behavior and perceptions. Words evoke emotion and cause strong psychological impacts on the audience. Linguistics is the scientific study of language and is generally descriptive. It explains and describes different language features without subjecting any judgment on whether a particular feature is used in a good or bad way. A political speech relates to matters concerning governance, as opposed to individual or organization affairs. Political speeches provide insight into the political picture of the speaker. Depending on its characteristics, a speech may either move ...

CRITIQUE OF “THE ALGEBRA OF INFINITE JUSTICE”

The Algebra of infinite justice is an article written by Arundhati Roy. Arundhati was born on Novemeber 24, 1961 in Shillong to a Bengali Hindu father and a Christian mother. She won a Booker Prize for her first novel-The God of Small Things in 1997. After that she wrote on many topics on politics, nuclear weapons s in India, corruption among others. One of her writing is “The algebra of infinite justice” where she criticizes the role of USA in the beginning, propagation, and methods to fight terrorist. She claims the USA is created terrorist and is attempting to ...

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A useful lesson to illustrate a major pedagogical theory in education involves a close reading lesson given in the ninth grade English class. Many high schools English teachers report that their students lack the skill of reading a passage, whether fiction or non-fiction, and successfully draw inferences and figurative meanings or even critically analyze the readings. These figurative meanings are crucial to understanding the rhetorical argument of the piece, making this a vital skill. Furthermore, writing is also as complex a learning activity as reading that fosters the act of critically arranging the words to make perfect ...

The following paper highlights the role of words or language in the life of the major character Liesel. The introduction shows that general background of the paper and the overall setting of the novel. Zusak integrates his voice in the novel as he use Liesel to show the difference that word make in the lives of individuals. The paper also compares the way that Hitler uses words to manipulate the German people against how Liesel uses language to ease the burden of the characters she interacts with. In addition, there are the influential factors that play an integral role ...

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Introduction The poem talks about the unconditional and selfless love that a brother can give to his sibling. In this scenario, the reader feels the straight brother’s remorse when he faces the death of his HIV positive brother. It is painful to watch a loved one dying and feel helpless since it is impossible to provide him with any kind of treatment. When reading the poem, the reader is able to feel the true love of the brother who tries to understand the dying sibling’s way of life despite he is desperately against it. The issue of ...

In order to comment on the significant use of illustrations with reference to their textual matter and explain the relationship between them and I have chosen two works: “The Giving Tree” by Shel Silverstein and “Hana’s Suitcase” by Karen Levine. For the first book “The Giving Tree” we have clear and explicit illustrations who success to compliment the readings quite well, in order to support the main idea of the text and to improve it with simple but effective drawings. The second book “Hana’s Suitcase,” is a slender book, easy to read, illustrated with heartbreakingly happy family ...

Numerous artists in both the traditional and modern world have continued to influence the perception of art in many ways. My favorite artist is Hassan Athman who is a Fine Art Painter from Mombasa, Kenya. This artist is one of the youngest and successful painters in Kenya and Africa. He is famous because of his distinctive inclination to specific thematic approach, which include social background particularly, the African, politics and poverty among others. The author of this article is unknown. The article is published in the ProQuest as an interview with the artist. The date of publication is 31 ...

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John Hubley was an innovative American animator. He worked for Walt Disney and UPA, but his greatest work is seen as an independent filmmaker. He is one of the rare filmmakers who gave the audiences a glimpse into the lives of those that were often ignored by other animation studios. He was born in1914 in Wisconsin, and into an artistic family. His mother attended the Art Institute of Chicago, and his grandfather was a painter. Growing up, he knew that he would be a painter, and studied painting at the Art Center in Los Angeles, California for three years. ...

In the essay “Hashish in Marseille”, the author shows his responsibilities in bringing social change, which is used to compare his hashish writing as a form of radical engagement. The central argument of the essay is the use of drugs in the modern society. The essay focuses on drug literature, which is a revolutionary approach that is used to bring social change to the society. The author’s narration of his experience with drugs is aimed at showing the effects of drug abuse. “With the absolute certainty, in this city of hundreds of thousands where no one knows me, ...

Social, Political and Economic Factors in the Film

The social, political and economic aspects on which the film is based paints a picture of misfortune, disadvantage and neglect of the helpless by those who are in authority. Similarly, it as well paints a picture of discrimination and inhumane treatment of the less fortunate in the society. Healthcare workers are mean to patients and unfeeling or uncaring to patients especially the unfortunate ones who had no health insurance or access to medical cover. The film is also reminiscent of an American society that cannot be able to afford the rising cost of healthcare in the country. It also ...

In order to comment on the significant use of illustrations with reference to their textual matter and explain the relationship between them and I have chosen two works: “The Giving Tree” by Shel Silverstein and “Hana’s Suitcase” by Karen Levine. For the first book “The Giving Tree” we have clear and explicit illustrations who success to compliment the readings quite well, in order to support the main idea of the text and to improve it with simple but effective drawings. The second book “Hana’s Suitcase,” is a slender book, easy to read, illustrated with heartbreakingly happy family ...

Assignment 1: Article summary

The article “Canon unveils the SELPHY CP900 compact photo printer, allows you to scrapbook from the backseat”, written by Billy Steele, was published July 10, 2012 in the Engadget online. Steele says the new Canon SELPHY CP900 compact printer will make printing on the go much easier. The printer’s WiFi capabilities allows people to print images from memory cards, as well as the Easy Photo print app for Android and iOS devices. The canon picture printer limits persons to 4 X 6 snapshots but features a 2.7 inch LCD Screen which enables photo adjustments, optional battery or charger ...

I have chosen the concept of metaphor for analysis. Metaphor – is a figure of speech, a word or an expression used in a figurative sense, which is based on an unmentioned comparison of object with another on the basis of their common trait. It is a figure of speech consisting of the use of words and expressions in a figurative sense, based on some analogy, similarity, comparison. An example of metaphor from everyday use may be the following: Your voice is music to my ears, and you are my sunshine in the sea of blackness. (In other words, it ...

This is My Letter to the World is a poem written by Emily Dickinson. She has written a lot of poems but This is My Letter to the World is a relative short poem with only eight lines. Emily’s poem has deep meaning behind it as she set out to withdraw from the society that has failed to notice her; she writes “This is my letter to the world, That never wrote to me.” She resents and begrudges her visibility as she accuses the world of not communicating with her. She was passing information to the world and ...

Analysis of Simon Ortiz’s Poems

I would like to say that Simon was one of the greatest native poets whom America has ever had. He has made a lot of contributions in the literary field by writing a lot of poems and other book publications which have helped transform USA. His careful selection of the theme and informed use of stylistic devices made his works be so exemplary. As a professional writer, he has often reflected the society in most of their poems. Having understood the role of literature as a mirror of the society, he dedicated hi time to publish numerous poems which ...

The poems entitled “To a Daughter Leaving Home” written by Linda Pastan and “Learning the Bicycle” by Wyatt Prunty focused on the main theme which was guiding a child to learn how to ride the bicycle and eventually accepting that the parent or the teacher needs to let go. The current discourse hereby aims to present a comparative analysis of these two poems through a closer evaluation of literary elements, such as: points of view, themes, language use and any figurative or rhetorical elements. There were similarities in the two poems with regards to the points of view of ...

- Appropriate Words: - Instead of using the word because many times, I will opt to replace it with other words such as since. To me, it is sweet sounding, more formal and can make my work be more appealing. Such terms are not appropriate in all forms of writing because they do appear quite informal. - I will replace some statements with questions. The use of rhetorical questions will make my work be so lively and thought provoking. It will challenge the audience and make them more attentive than they could otherwise be. Besides, it will enable them ...

Hugo Suarez

Abstract Alfred Lord Tennyson was perhaps the greatest poet of the nineteenth century Victorian era. While ‘In Memoriam,’ was written in honor of his best friend who died at a young age, some of his other famous works included ‘Ulysses,’ and ‘Morte d’ Arthur,’ which were again written in memory of his fond friend. The tones of these poems are nostalgic and reflect the mood and sentiments of a poet who had witnessed the unceremonious arrival of death from the outside. Emily Dickinson, a contemporary of Tennyson, was born in the United States. Her poem ‘Because I could not ...

This poem celebrates the life-affirming excitement of an irresponsible seven-year-child, and equally suggests that the educational principles often applied by teachers might tend to stifle creative energy. According to this poem, teachers perceptibly suggest that “rules”, and not creative impulse or the emotional energy of the learner’s observation of the surrounding world dominate a child’s early education. The poem describes a boy named David. He lives in a Hispanic society, and the first line of the poem indicates that his mother is at work. According to the descriptions in the poem, his family is not a well-to-do ...

“When we read Dickenswe are reading all sorts of other things at the same time—plot, character, moral dilemma, historical predicament, and so forth—but we can see all these in their full complexity only if we attend to the illuminating play of style” (Alter 1996). Indeed, Charles Dickens is a master of style and a versatile genius. He weaves magic with his words that takes the readers into a rapturous world of imagination. The power of his words and imagination manifested in his depiction of simple stories and building of characters make him one of the most popular ...

An Analysis of Langston Hughes’ poem. “The Negro Speaks of Rivers.” Langston Hughes and “The Harlem Renaissance” are synonymous: he is hailed the greatest writer in African American Literature. His poem, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers” is his most famous poem; this short poem is loaded with figurative language and feelings. The name Langston was Langston Hughes’ mother maiden name; Langston Hughes has a rich heritage; his ancestors are white, African American, European, and Native American. He was born February 1, 1802 and died in May 22, 1967. He began writing in high school and was class poet. He ...

Analysis of “A Rose for Emily”

“A Rose for Emily,” written by William Faulkner is a story written in flashback by an unknown limited third person narrator. Its main character is Emily Grierson whose selfish, possessive father was one of the last generations of the “Old South.” By the time of his death all he had was his pride, and his house, his daughter was left improvised, he knew that he had nothing to leave to her yet; he drove away all her suitors. Miss Emily was in quite a shock when he died and refuses to even admit that he is dead. Miss Emily ...

Frozen Moments Serves as Reference in a Timeless Land

People always take picture to capture places they have visited. Emil Sher captures his memories of Bobonong in his mind and through his story he is sending a message to his audience Bobonong is a place to visit. Emil begins his story with details, vibrant descriptions, if one has been to South Africa and or Zimbabwe he or she would be able to visualize the little village about which Emil is talking. Africa was not somewhere he has been and he says so in the pre reading: “Africa you were just a name to me.” And he goes on ...

Analysis of Raphael’s Madonna and Child with book

The Madonna and Child with Book, c. 1502-03, by Raffaello Sanzio also called Raphael Italian, 1483-1520, is an oil on panel, with dimensions 21-3/4 x 15-3/4 in. (55.2 x 40 cm), and is displayed at Norton Simon Art Foundation. The Madonna has been a preferred subject for hundreds of artists through the centuries, and while Raphael has painted more than one, the Madonna and Child with Book resonates with certain innocence--something commonly found in the early paintings by Raphael. Raffaello Sanzio, or Raphael is a creative genius, recognized for his paintings. His father, Giovanni Santi, trained Raphael in his ...

Marjane Satrapi’s book Persepolis: The Story of a Childhood, published by Pantheon Books of New York, NY in 2003, tells the author and artist’s own story of her childhood in Iran during the 1970s and 1980s during revolutionary times in her home country. Told in graphic novel or comic book form, Satrapi’s book illustrates what it was like to be a young girl growing up in Iran as regimes and social standards underwent monumental change. Presented from a young girl’s point of view, she navigates not only the typical hazards of growing up, but also ...

Bernard Malamud’s short story, The Last Mohican, follows American Fidelman in his travel to Rome, Italy, and his conflict with the itinerant Shimon Susskind. Fidelman, a self-described “failure as a painter,” arrives from New York to Italy to do a critical study of artist Giotto (417). Before he can even begin, his encounter with Susskind interrupts his precisely laid and budgeted plans for his studies and travels in Italy. He thinks Susskind is stalking him because Susskind wants one of his two suits. However, after his briefcase with his writing is stolen from his hotel, Susskind is suddenly ...

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Bag of Bones of Stephen King is a most fascinating and impressive story of misery and a vanished love's lasting connections which the readers deeply feel, that of the new love emerged by the disclosures of the history, of the guiltless child seized in a awful crossfire. The readers of the story analyze that in the Maine area King has created mythic, so Bag of Bones relates the dilemma of 40 years bestselling novelist Mike Noonan, who is incapable to end grieving still 4 years after the abrupt death of his wife, Jo, as well as who could no ...

The poem entitled “The Brain - is wider than the Sky-“ written by Emily Dickinson uses different literary elements that would assist readers in understanding its meaning. At the start, the reader could perceive that Dickinson uses simple vocabularies that are easy to comprehend. However, when taken in its entirety, the reader needs to examine the structure, form, symbols, choice of words and figurative language to enhance audience appeal and to solicit the use of cognitive and analytical skills to unveil the author’s meaning. The structure of the poem perfectly conformed to a numbered pattern: eight syllables for ...

A Critical Analysis of “She dwelt among the untrodden ways” by William Wordsworth

A Critical Analysis of “The Pool Players” by Gwendolyn Brooks The poem entitled “The Pool Players” written by Gwendolyn Brooks was particularly interesting due to an interplay of three literary elements: the form, the content, and the figurative language used. The current discourse hereby aims to provide a critical analysis of this particular poem using these three elements. Likewise, one would eventually assess how these elements affected one’s response to the poem, in its entirety. The form was unique since the diction (“the term that describes the use of words in written and oral expression” and style was ...

Analysis of Volar by Judith Ortiz Coffer

Introduction Volar embodies a story of freedom from the confinements of human life. The author of the nonfiction story narrates of a life imagined in a dream where she was able to live life devoid of the inhibitions brought about by living life as a human being. Throughout the story, various aspects of the language and emotion employed in narrating the story helps the readers steal glances and sneak previews into the author’s desired life. In the analysis of the tone in the story, the paper will highlight the different ways that the personality of the author manifests ...

Shakespeare, Hughes, and Blake to

Evoke Strong Feelings in Their Readers

Good poetry should tantalize the senses; the reader should be able to feel, see, and taste as the poet does. In their poems, the following poets, Shakespeare, Hughes, and Blake write tributes to someone dear and use figurative language to bring their poems to life and hold their readers in the same realm as they when they penned their poems.

“Shall I compare thee to a summer’s day,?” is how Shakespeare begins sonnet eighteen, with a simile. Clearly Shakespeare is addressing someone special, someone he really cares about and admire. Shakespeare ...