Essays Tagged: "Simile"
The Pitiful Prufrock. Speaks of T.S. Elliot's 'The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock,' a melancholy poem of one man's frustrated search to find the meaning of his existence
to follow him through his self-examination. The imagery of this invitation begins with a startling simile, 'Let us go then you and I/ When the evening is spread out against the sky/ Like a patient et ... and I/ When the evening is spread out against the sky/ Like a patient etherised upon a table.' This simile literally describes the evening sky, but functions on another level. Prufrock's description o ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Analysis of J alfred prufrock by T.S. Elliot. Rough draft needs footnotes and proofing, but a very well written essay.
to follow him through his self-examination. The imagery of this invitation begins with a startling simile, 'Let us go then you and I/ When the evening is spread out against the sky/ Like a patient et ... the evening is spread out against the sky/ Like a patient etherised upon a table.' (Line 1-3) This simile literally describes the evening sky, but functions on another level. Prufrock's description o ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry
Langston Hughes' poem "Dream Deferred"
es of speech, tone, and a unifying theme to show how black people's dreams were delayed.Hughes uses similes and metaphors--figures of speech--to portray that often times their dreams never came true. ... at," or if they "crust and sugar over like a syrupy sweet." All of these statements are examples of similes. Even though he is using similes as comparisons, he is actually asking what happens to a "dr ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry
The Flower, essay on the poem by George Herbert, detailed analysis.
pring"(2) and thereafter writes of himself as if he were such a flower. This clear statement of the simile makes it plain to the reader that everything written about the flower is to be understood as ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
Agamemnon: Power and Vengeance An analysis of Zeus's role in cycle of violence and revenge in Aeschylus's Agamemnon
lear that this war is also one of divine justice. In a passage describing the war the chorus uses a simile to make the king's vengeful war seem justified and even holy.Ten years since the great contes ...
Subjects: Humanities Essays > Classical Studies > Greek Language & Literature
"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" by William Wordsworth. An Analysis
Upon closer examination, I realized that most of this imagery is created by the many metaphors and similes Wordsworth uses. In the first line, Wordsworth says "I wandered lonely as a cloud." This is ... rim of petals in the middle that could look like a halo. Later in the poem Wordsworth uses another simile, saying the dancing of daffodils in the wind is "continuous as the stars that shine and twink ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
Thoreau's views on life in Walden
Thoreau believed human life mimicked that of nature. Thoreau used the simile of how a day is like a year: "The night is the winter, the morning and evening are the spring ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Native Son: analysis of rhetorical strategies- max's final speech
poverty. He achieves success in articulating his points by employing various rhetorical strategies: similes, cause and effect, and comparison.The speech is punctuated with similes. He uses them to ... es of men have stained this symbol, like a germ stained for examination under the microscope." This simile shows how the white public looks down upon the African American population as a "germ" or pla ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors
Macbeth, by William Shakespeare
."signs of nobleness like stars will be rewarded"this is highly ironic that king Duncan starts this simile as later on in the play when Macbeth plots to kill King Duncan, Macbeth forces light out from ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Macbeth
"I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" by William Wordsworth
the poem many times I had realized that most of this imagery is produced by the many metaphors and similes. In the first line, Wordsworth says "I wandered lonely as a cloud." This is a simile compari ... rim of petals in the middle that could look like a halo. Later in the poem Wordsworth uses another simile, saying the dancing of daffodils in the wind is "continuous as the stars that shine and twink ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry
Usage of the terms 'image', 'art' and 'artists' and the Medieval and Early Modern periods.
on or memory. 2. the appearance or impression given to the public by a person or organization. 3. a simile or metaphor. 4. the representation of a person or thing in a work of art or literature. There ...
Subjects: Art Essays
"All the King's Men" by Robert Penn Warren.
r belief in the Great Twitch, now believes that the "world is like an enormous spider web" (188), a simile which presents the idea that a "web" completely interconnects the whole world. Jack then link ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American
Critical lens on the powers of emotion.
Although Lennie gets George and him in to all sorts of trouble but George was still his friend. The simile of George and Lennie is that they are like rabbits always on the run when there is danger. Th ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Authors > Shakespeare > Macbeth
"The Universe, And Everything" by Douglas Adams.
he had more fun writing the books than I did reading it. He also uses many literary devices such as simile and personification. Another great thing about these books is that Douglas puts in what seems ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature
Running in the Family.
mily is descriptive and poetic. The variety forms of figurative languages (especially metaphors and similes), vivid imagery, and unusual sentence structure Ondaatje utilized elaborate the sentences ma ... poem than a novel. For instance, the description of Hetti Corea's voice is written as a poem using simile and imagery: "Your voice sounds like a scorpion being pushed/ through a glass tube/ like some ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > World Literature
A Biography of Gianni Agnelli.
nel frattempo ammassare una fortuna di $5 miliardo (nell'anno 2000), la vita di Gianni Agnelli era simile ad una fiaba, ma non una fiaba di buon termine. La storia del uomo più influente dell' ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > Biographies
This essay is all about discipline in the classroom, how students behave and how a teacher can resolve their issues.
arn self-discipline. He remembers the classroom management suggestion he learned in college. "Don't simile until Christmas and be tough on the first day". Therefore, he commands everyone to sit and ge ...
Subjects: Social Science Essays > Education
Book review of "Brooklyn Cop" by Norman McCaig
scription of the cop leaves the reader in no doubt as to his aggressive appearance. McCaig uses the simile in the first line of the cop being "built like gorilla." This immediately allows the reader t ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers
How 'The Great Gatsby' opens effectively and prepares the reader for the rest of the novel.
hown in the opening of the book. "In his blue gardens men and girls came and went like moths." This simile subtly introduces the symbols importance. Gatsby throws all his lavish parties in the hope th ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors
Imagery is one of the most potent instruments which a poet can use to awaken the feelings of a reader. Compare the nature and effects of images in two or three poems you have enjoyed.
nifies all the sensory perceptions referred to in a poem, whether by literal description, allusion, simile, or metaphor. Like senses such as reflex movement, which occur due to a reaction to something ... er agony for us, like Death, our death"The "Hard and bitter agony... like Death" is an example of a simile that means that the journey for the Magus was like dying to him, because he had gone from the ...
Subjects: Literature Research Papers