In her poem, "I Like the Look of Agony," she affects the reader by her use of literary devices. With these devices, such as imagery, personification, and connotations, she reveals her contrasting enjoyment of the expression of agony. ... Dickinson uses irony, and literary devices to grab the attention of her readers and focus it on agony. ...
In this poem, the literary devices of tone, allusion, and trope, all build on each other to express the frustration and anger that a woman's relationship with god is dependent on her marital status. ... A literary trope uses language to give off the recurrent theme of the poem. ... by Emily Dickinson has many literary devices working together in order to explain the meaning of the poem. ... This is the significance of any literary device. Through close reading of this poem, and intently analyzing the way the literary devices work together, the poem was able to relay the frustration of ...
Through the poet's literary devices and use of language, a poem comes to life, the quality which is lacking in most translations of the same. ... " However, behind the literary devices and imagery that this translation presents, is lacking depth and pathos. ... " However, Kunitz goes the extra mile in that his poem truly preserves some of the beauty of the original, through his literary devices and his ability to spin the poem to give it meaning. ... Within the authentic literary devices and verse form lays the true meaning of Voznesensky's poem. ...
Robert Lee Frost was born in San Francisco, Mar. 26, 1874. He was one of America's leading poets and a four-time winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Being known very well in rural England, he wrote his poems with meaning and dimensions. As being a master in rhythm and meter, his writings seemed to be ...
Meaning is gained from a literary text at both a literal and also a symbolic level. Literary devices are the most direct way in which an author reinforces the themes of a novel. ... In the novel, one of the most significant literary devices used by Winton is symbolism, which plays upon the aesthetic sensibilities harbored by the text's audience and provides insight and deeper understanding to the themes of the novel. ...
"To The Virgins, To Make Much of Time" "To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time" by Robert Herrick is a poem that can be interpreted in many different ways. The theme is "Carpe Diem" or "seize the day", which means to make the most of life, when you are young and able to do so. "To the Virgins, to...
Right then I realized that other literary works can easily misinterpreted, because the meaning of the metaphors, symbols etc. can be misunderstood to have another meaning which is the exact argument Perrine is making that the meaning of a poem and other literary works is what limits its amount of interpretations. ... The other rhetorical device Perrine makes use of is Juxtaposition, he uses this to compare and make his argument and his example seem better. ...
Life is virtually an empty void that humans try to fill with their own beliefs and definition of meaning. Many pieces of literature written in the mid 20th century recognize this concept. In "A Clean Well-Lighted Place," by Ernest Hemingway, the ultimate futility of life is expressed through the use...
" (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. ...
