Essays on Simile

Burns, “A Red, Red Rose,” analysis

This poem solely focuses on the type of love that is above everything even the earth. “A Red, Red Rose,” is a typical love that would compel the speaker to walk thousands of miles to meet with his lover with no issues. Red Roses are usually associated with love. The repetition of red depicts the paradigm of not just the seriousness but also the emphasis put by the man. The speaker introduces the poem with a simile: his love is like a recently sprung red rose. The poet also utilizes other literally devices such as alliteration. “And I will” ...

William Blake’s Songs of Innocence and Songs of Experience were written in the 18th century. Blake used parallel versions of his poems to construct an ideal form of human existence which he later compared against the contemporary society. His works, which were sometimes considered deeply spiritual, caused some of his critics to dismiss him as a Lunatic and his work as the rantings of a lunatic. Blake was also an artist and his images accompanied most of his poems. Blake used parallel poems to respond to the decay in the human values in the society (Vines 116). Many ...

The poem states that the grandmother and the mother start singing in joy, but they end up crying even though none of them stops crying (Lee 50). The scenario shows that the poem has some mixed feelings of both joy and sorrow. This explication attempts to explain the pertinent issues presented in the poem through analyzing its deeper meaning. The explication investigates why the two women start singing in joy and happiness but end up crying. In the first line of the poem states, "she begins, and my grandmother joins her" (Lee 50). The sentence highlights that the mother ...

The best recipe for a dish to be delicious is preparing it with love – Tita, the heroine of “Like Water for Chocolate” by Laura Esquivel, is sure. That is certainly the formula Esquivel resorts to creating her novel, where love is a key ingredient, and the food for thought produced by the book is savory, hot and rich. “Tita remembered that Nacha had always said that when people argue while preparing tamales, the tamales won’t get cooked. They can be heated day after day and still stay raw, because the tamales are angry. In a case like that, ...

Pat Mora is an Hispanic-American author. She was born in El Paso, Texas in 1942. While growing up, Mora attended Catholic schools, although her religion is described as “Ecumenical.” (Gale n.p.). She was raised in a bi-lingual family, and her works have been written in Spanish and English. Mora has received many accolades for her writing of children’s literature, which speaks to young Hispanics. Her poem, “Gentle Communion,” reflects her Hispanic heritage, and Catholic upbringing. One cannot discern by reading the poem, if the persona is male or female. Since the author is female, further gender description, when ...

Milton's Satan is perhaps one of the most hotly discussed literary characters, as generations of critics over the last three hundred years have kept the battle over the issue of the primacy of Satan in Paradise Lost not only alive but also enduringly animated. It appears as if every generation has found its own reading and interpretation of this highly complex character created by Milton. The critical pendulum swings from one extreme to another: While some hail Satan as the hero of the epic, some find him a lowly creature worse than a worm (Vijayasree, 68). Milton presents Satan ...

Love is a wonderful feeling, an experience that a human being cannot resist. The song entitled “Stereo Hearts” is a song full of questions, yet, it brings assurance to the one he or she loves. The writer is apparently inspired and adored someone whom he offers and expresses his or her love through his or her music and willing to give everything. A true love knows no boundary, willing to apologize, forgives, and forever protects a special someone. Both the figurative language from the lyrics of the song that says “My heart’s a stereo” (a metaphor) and “Hear ...

Stephen Crane, the author of A Dark Brown Dog, weaves a short story filled with vast amounts of imagery and symbolism. He creates an in-depth comprehensive description of an adopted dog, a young boy, and the growth of their relationship. Although the title suggests that the story will be about a dog, it does not reveal the cycle of abuse that plays out with the characters. Therefore, the seemingly innocent title of the story does not lets the audience know that there is an underlying theme within the story. This essay will examine the various literary devices that Crane ...

Introduction

In poetry, every piece of work is unique in its own way. However, most pieces of poems follow standard forms. Poems can be entertaining and or educating, depending on the poet’s choice of the role of the poem. The special characteristics that are shared by all poems include:

In poetry, there is the emphasis of important words, which may lead to creation of rhythm or repetition. In this work, I have analyzed four ...

In his three poems, “The Negro Speaks of Rivers,” “I, Too, Sing America,” and “Harlem,” James Langston Hughes explores the struggles through which African-Americans had to endure in the first half of the twentieth century to be considered equal to white American citizens. James Langston Hughes was born on February 1, 1902, and died on 22, May, 1967. He was a central figure of the 1920s Harlem Renaissance (Langston). Hughes lived as an African-American, and experienced the racism that existed in America in the early twentieth century. However, despite his suffering, he retained love and compassion for all races ( ...

Part of the enjoyment of poetry is the acceptance that some poems or parts of poems cannot be pinned down to a single meaning. Explore this view of poetry, and the ways in which poets use of language and from invites different readings.

In this essay I will be exploring ‘Blackberry-Picking’ by Seamus Heaney, ‘Two Scavengers in a Truck’ by Lawrence Ferlinghetti and ‘I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings’ by Maya Angelou. In different ways they show that poems cannot be pinned down to a single meaning.

The structure of ‘Blackberry-Picking’ is essentially that of two, not-quite-equal halves. The first 16 ...

‘Proposal’ is one of the poems that were written by Raymond Carver. In this poem, there are several poetic devices that have been used to describe various situations. Similes and metaphors are the most common devices that have been used. Also there are personification, irony and tones that have been used by Raymond in the poem. These devices are specifically meant to bring out a clear picture of what was happening in the poetry. This poem talks about the two lovers who were longing for their wedding day. The man wanted to have a romantic relationship with his lover. The entire ...