Firstly, we will look at the simplest of these devices, that of figurative language. ... The poet resolves the difficulty of communicating her abstract ideas by making frequent use of figurative imagery, especially emotive imagery. Possibly the most emotive image in the poem is the reference to "part of my blood's country." ... Wright, in Woman to Man, chooses to use a great deal of figurative language in her expression of meaning. ... In any case, Wright's use of language such as "eyeless laborer in the night" "selfless, shapeless seed" and "intricate and folded rose" serves as an e...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Endearing terms, emotive language, metaphors and descriptive phrases have been used in lesser quantities as the poem focuses more on characters than ideals and the lack of elaborative poetic devices is evidence of this. ...

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" (5-8) The abnormality and eerily calm ambience about this poem is almost deliberate; so when you take a first look it over its' form, structure and language it deftly composes a simplistic poem with nothing out of place – complete with no apparent literary devices that the reader would have trouble comprehending. ... Frost wrote this as a statement – leaving no room for any emotive language, or shock attached to the words; which we can use to interpret as Frost's intent to make the protagonists seem indifferent to the sudden death upon them, which could have been ...

• Word Count: 943
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate