Essays Tagged: "Onomatopoeia"

Isaac Rosenberg dead man's dump - critical essay

brains splattered on a stretcher bearers face."The word "splattered" is effective in that it is an onomatopoeia that sounds truly horrible in this context.Even the title, "Dead Man's Dump" suggests a ...

(2 pages) 42 0 5.0 Nov/2002

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

Poetry is worthwhile for reading and writting! This was submitted the 1st of June, 2003.

g, giving the created picture life. Poetry can awaken our senses. The writer is able to demonstrate Onomatopoeia, "Bones, bones, bones, bones!" This creates sound into the poem, fusing reality into th ...

(2 pages) 73 4 4.2 May/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

This is about boyhood relationships.

house and listen to the sound the hammer makes "pung, pung, kapung, kapung." This is also known as onomatopoeia. The point of view of passage one is friendship is needed in today's society to live on ...

(1 pages) 33 0 1.8 Jun/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing

The Style of James K Baxter with reference to at least two of his poems.

from other poets - most of his writing is very simplistic. He heavily relies on similes, metaphors, onomatopoeia, paradoxes, alliteration and allusions.In the Wild Bees, he talks about a situation whe ... the red sky and that he is waiting for dark before they smoke the bees out. Again, an example of an onomatopoeia is seen that comes from nature - 'crickets chitter'. This are only a few of Baxter's im ...

(4 pages) 30 0 5.0 Jul/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

Explication of phllip larkin's "cut grass"

In Cut Grass, Philip Larkin uses onomatopoeia, color and flower symbolism, and punctuation to show that death is inevitable, and is u ... le simultaneously providing a sense of hope once death does arrive.In the first stanza, Larkin uses onomatopoeia to create a vivid image of mown grass. The sharp sounds of "cut grass" imply fierceness ... ef is the breath," and "exhale," whose sounds resemble their respective actions. Through his use of onomatopoeia, Larkin connects the reader to the grass, and thus evokes sympathy. While the reader is ...

(2 pages) 44 0 3.0 Jan/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

How Seamus Heaney Evokes the Sensations and Emotions of Childhood by Comparing any Three of his Poems.

with great effect making you feel as if you are in the poem.In "Churning Day", Heaney uses a lot of onomatopoeia, even the title is onomatopoeia, 'Churning'. 'Plumping' (Line 7) is also using onomatop ... nug feeling. 'The plash and gurgle' (Line 33) and 'pat and slap' (Line 34) is Heaney's other use of onomatopoeia in "Churning Day". These make you imagine more than the other two in my opinion that yo ...

(13 pages) 72 0 3.3 Jan/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

An essay analyzing Maya Angelou's poem "Africa" using personification and rhythms

ates vivid images of the land. In line 21, Africa "screams loud and vain." This personification and onomatopoeia suggest that the continent was devastated when people were taken from their homeland. A ...

(2 pages) 20301 0 5.0 Feb/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry

Early Theories in Language Origination

in of human language.The sound mimic theory is probably best known as the "bow-wow theory," or the "onomatopoeia theory." This theory states that human speech originated when early man started to imit ... 't normally use onomatopoetic words. Many of those languages have only recently acquired the use of onomatopoeia, and they are phonetically based in that language.The interjection theory, or "pooh-poo ...

(2 pages) 54 1 4.8 Apr/2004

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Linguistics

"Anthem for Doomed Youth" Wilfred Owen

s a gloomy, negative outlook on the war. The poem uses a lyrical format and combined with plenty of onomatopoeia there is a musical tone to the poem. This is why he has called it an anthem. The musica ... fering from intense anxiety and "shell-shock" as suffered by Owen himself. His use of alliteration, onomatopoeia and personification in the following quote represent this torment and the nature of the ...

(4 pages) 126 2 4.4 Jun/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

"Little Boy Crying" by Mervyn Morris.

r realises that there is an inner evil in his son which needs controlling. There is frequent use of onomatopoeia such as when he describes his son as an "ogre", despite his size. The boy still wants r ...

(1 pages) 97 1 3.9 Aug/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature > Poetry

Essay on Poetry.

people do, and this is why poetry has universal appeal. Key strategies these poems use are, rhyme, onomatopoeia, and rhythm. These make a poem brighter, fun, and happier. Out of all the reasons why p ...

(2 pages) 74 0 4.0 Nov/2005

Subjects: Art Essays > Drama

Kenneth Slessor Synthesis Task - Short but concise

choanalytical and feministic viewpoints.In Beach Burial, an especially effective sound technique is onomatopoeia, used so that the readers can almost hear the deathly sounds of the battlefield. In sta ...

(2 pages) 22 0 0.0 Jun/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature > Poetry

In speaking for those who have no means of speaking, Bruce Dawe has succeeded in writing poetry that has universal appeal.

e brought home as dead soldiers. Through the use of persona in a dramatic monologue, vivid imagery, onomatopoeia, deliberate repetition and other poetic techniques Dawe reaches the moral conscience of ...

(5 pages) 30 0 4.7 Jun/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature > Poetry

Essay: "Hindspring" by Margaret Drabble

starts out with the "strange howling" of wild animals. The howling is a good example of imagery and onomatopoeia combined to develop the imagery in the story. The clearer situations allow the readers ...

(1 pages) 3539 0 3.3 Sep/2006

Subjects: Humanities Essays > Linguistics

The music of 'Anthem for Doomed Youth.'

illiam Owen, the theme is the sadness and chaotic of war. His use of sound symbolism, also known as onomatopoeia, relates to the musical image in the poem and therefore relates to the poem's theme.... rt of the theme which is a song about the funeral and mourning for the young men who died in war.Onomatopoeia, or sound symbolism, is used throughout the poem "Anthem for Doomed Youth" to relate a ...

(2 pages) 19 1 5.0 Dec/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

Black

 The environment in which the boy collects the frogspawn is described using vivid imagery and onomatopoeia to create an appealing and attractive scene to the boy: "Bubbles gargled delicately, bl ...

(2 pages) 1046 0 0.0 Sep/2001

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

Wilfred Owen Poetry analysis

e harsh sounds of war. This concept is first raised at the end of the first quatrain with the noisy onomatopoeia of the "rifles' rapid rattle". The use of the adjective 'rapid' and the assonance on 'a ... med' to slaughter, but rather the environment they endure and the likelihood of death just as real. Onomatopoeia and personification are used to show the bullets, shells and shrapnel that death 'spits ...

(4 pages) 56 0 0.0 Jun/2007

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Creative Writing > Poems & Short Stories

Ars Poetica Vs Dream Deferred

s words to encourage imaginary visuals. "Or crust and sugar over--like a syrupy sweet?". The use of onomatopoeia in Langston Hughes peom describes in taste an unrealized dream. Both authors are capabl ... are capable of explaining emotions, feelings and untouchable objects through means of similees and onomatopoeias. Archibald Macleish as well as Langston Hughes are linking their own emotions towards ...

(2 pages) 10 0 5.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

The title of Wyatt Prunty?s poem, ?Elderly Lady Crossing on

?eyes locking you down?(line 9)), which reveals that she inflicted pain on others purposefully. The onomatopoeia in the last stanza ?she?s done a million times before? supports this by saying that thi ...

(3 pages) 1 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry

Sounds for Description (an essay about Prosody)

nciation of a poem, and it usually includes elements such as sound, rhyme, alliteration, assonance, onomatopoeia, rhythm, stress, and meter. These effects can take poetry to a completely different lev ... l, beyond only imagery. In the poem, ?The Word Plum,? by Helen Chasin, examples of alliteration and onomatopoeia are used to bring her subject, a plum, to life.In the first line, Chasin begins with a ...

(3 pages) 8 0 0.0 Feb/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry