Essays Tagged: "vivid description"

John Steinbeck's novel, "The Pearl".

juice goes down you cherish the moment and enjoy it. John Steinbeck's novel, The Pearl, is full of vivid description, the juicy part of the novel. His rich language makes mental pictures showing the ... age makes mental pictures showing the beauty of nature and Kino's people's way of life. Steinbeck's vivid description lets you understand the deep meaning of nature in relation to Kino's people. Imagi ...

(7 pages) 68 2 4.4 May/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors

"To Build a Fire" by Jack London.

al time or place in a storyWhat impresses me most, when I read this novel in the first time, is the vivid description of the environment by the author."The Yukon lay a mile wide and hidden under three ... and narration about cold, London made use of the hero's action to make extreme cold seem to be more vivid and believable."As he turned to go on, he spat speculatively. There was a sharp, explosive cra ...

(12 pages) 187 2 5.0 May/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

"The Open Boat" by Crane.

litary reflections of the characters in consideration of their demise.The story possesses amazingly vivid description. This attention to detail affords the reader the greatest degree of reading pleasu ...

(1 pages) 100 2 3.5 Oct/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

The importance of setting within Mama Day by Gloria Naylor.

for Naylor's significant characters. The importance of setting within Mama Day is shown through the vivid description of the island of Willow Springs, the use of New York City as an opposing world to ... so small, and word spreads quickly the way people gossip. Naylor makes elements of the setting very vivid and natural, and images of the butterflies, woody forests, and mysterious graveyard seem more ...

(6 pages) 59 0 5.0 Nov/2003

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Imagery and Perceptions in "Filthy Landscape and "August"

finds that this piece of literature has nothing to do with litter at all. It is actually a sexually vivid description of a summer landscape.The sexuality in "Filthy Landscape" appears to escalate from ... prelude to sex. The third stanza is sex. The first and second stanzas tease the audience with their vivid descriptions of beauty in nature. The third stanza does not tease its audience at all; rather ...

(3 pages) 14 0 1.0 Feb/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry

An explication and commentary on Poe's "Premature Burial"

by Edgar Allen Poe is a brilliant work of true rhetorical mastery. Poe utilizes such strategies as vivid description and aims this passage at a wide array of readers.Poe's purpose is quite exceptiona ... acts and opinions from credited doctors to assist in strengthening his argument. His utilization of vivid description is by far the most valuable rhetorical tool. He describes the woman's appearance w ...

(1 pages) 22 0 5.0 Mar/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry

A Dream Deferred

ntertain us while we are in a state of slumber. In a poem, ?A Dream Deferred?, Langston Hughes uses vivid description and the imagination of the reader?s own mind to create a sense of what happens to ... own mind to create a sense of what happens to the fulfillment of a dream. The uses of the author?s vivid descriptions, similes, as well as irony, help prove to the reader, that dreams are worth fight ...

(2 pages) 91 0 3.3 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry

The Life and Work of Richard Wilbur: a Great American Poet

erpretation of his works.Richard Wilbur:A Great American PoetRichard Wilbur used rhyme, rhythm, and vivid description to implant acolorful, clear, and almost interactive images. He is a post-modern wr ...

(5 pages) 51 1 4.6 Apr/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Jest and Earnest Essay by David Woolf

n creation and how even seemingly complete opposites have something in common. She depicts for us a vivid description of an occurrence and then justifies that occurrence. The imagery in her essay move ... resses towards a more "earnest" situation where a frog is violently eaten by a giant water bug. She vividly describes the gruesome meal. The giant water bug first grips the frog and then devours it by ...

(2 pages) 15 0 5.0 Jun/2004

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Authors > Ernest Hemingway

TARGET AREA by peter roberts

with the entry of the bomber into the target area and ending with its escape. Peter Roberts gives a vivid description of the bombing raid from the perspective of the bombardier. Roberts describes what ...

(2 pages) 43 0 5.0 Sep/2004

Subjects: Art Essays

Book review on The things they carried

nd feelings about the Vietnam War through a collection of stories. Each narrative is comprised with vivid description telling us about one of the soldiers of the Alpha Company in Vietnam. One of the s ...

(6 pages) 100 0 4.5 May/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American

Women In Love: The Chair by D.H. Lawrence

places visited in the novel unless they are somewhat filthy or poor. The chapter begins with a very vivid description of the market place in which they visit. It is small, poor, dirty, and meager, and ...

(5 pages) 24 0 3.0 Jun/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Comparing "Living like Weasels" (Annie Dillard) and "Nature" (Ralph Waldo Emerson).

wilderness. When reading this second chapter you begin to feel as if you are there. Dillard uses a vivid description of the landscape to draw you into her adventure. She then continues on to tell of ... f her actual sighting of the weasel.The description of the weasel in front of Dillard is also quite vivid. She claims to have related to the weasel in whole new way. Their brains were intermingled. Di ...

(5 pages) 49 0 5.0 Nov/2005

Subjects: Literature Research Papers

Gandhi and Kheda.

nd also to sell their products at a very low price. All such harassment meted out to them has found vivid description in Tarashankar Bandhopathyay's novel Neel Darpan. These distressed indigo farmers ...

(2 pages) 19 0 3.0 Dec/2005

Subjects: History Term Papers

How is Kenneth Slessor effective in conveying his thoughts and ideas? (William Street, Country Towns, Beach Burial, Night-Ride)

f imagery and other literary techniques that help readers sense the environment, Slessor achieves a vivid description of the area. But when contrsasting content with purpose, it is up to the reader to ...

(5 pages) 52 0 4.3 May/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry

A quick analyis of the play "Child's Grave, Hale County, Alabama" by Jim Simmerman

This poem struck me with its vivid description of the hard life that people during the Depression suffered. This is not just a st ...

(1 pages) 7 0 0.0 Aug/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > North American > Poetry

"Perfume" by Patrick S

A Story of a Murderer - a Story of FranceIn this very essay I am going to reflect on the vivid description of historical and cutlural contents in the novel "Perfume" - the recognised master ... tronly associated with the name of Voltaire - dramatist, publicist, historian and philosopher. Such vivid personalities of that time like philosopher and writer D. Didreau, thinkers J.J. Rousseau and ... plained, if to look at the condition of the French capital. The scene of Grenouille's birth gives a vivid picture of it - stinky, dirty, with contaminated air and water, with cemetries and cesspools c ...

(6 pages) 26 0 0.0 Dec/2006

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature

Summary Of Fires Of Jubilee

y is constructed in an incredibly accurate and historically chronological style. Oats begins with a vivid description of Southampton, Virginia. He continuously personalizes the reader with the setting ...

(1 pages) 53 0 0.0 Oct/2001

Subjects: History Term Papers > North American History

An Analysis of John Keats's "Ode to Autumn"

strong imagery submerges the reader in sights, sounds and the feel of autumn. Much more than just a vivid description of a beautiful autumn day, Keats employs a range of poetic techniques that only se ...

(8 pages) 32 0 0.0 Jan/2008

Subjects: Literature Research Papers > European Literature > Poetry