'You do not do, you do not do/ Any more, black shoe/ In which I have lived like a foot/ For thirty years, poor and white, Barely daring to breath or Achoo', is the opening description provided by Plath of her circumstances in 'Daddy'. ... Plath, representative of women, is forced into submission by the notion of her deceased father, the black shoe in this instance. This commonplace simile, combined with the diction of 'black shoe; and 'poor and white' contributes to sense of suffocation in the poems opening stanza. ... Plath describes Hughes as a metaphor...

• Word Count: 2183
• Approx Pages: 9
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This image of isolation is further developed by Hardy's use of the simile "like spectral lyre swept by as spectral hand". ... "A car comes up It has nothing to do with me" The use of the word "nothing" shows that it's not his wife approaching meaning that Hardy is once again left alone awaiting her arrival. ... The stanza develops by using pathetic fallacy, "leaving a blacker", to reinforce his loneliness, "I stand again alone". The use of the word "blacker" symbolises misery as well reflecting Hardy's negative emotions...

• Word Count: 545
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

When I first attended this class, I was eager to have the instructors show me the relationship between science and poetry, as I could not construct a meaningful connection between the two subjects myself. ... Based on her past experiences of cleaning fish, Bishop imagines this fish has "coarse white flesh packed in like feathers, the big bones and little bones, the dramatic reds and blacks of his shiny entrails, and the pink swim bladder like a big peony" (42). ...

• Word Count: 547
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Her letters, like flowers often enclosed, are the result of Emily's work and care and, like flowers, have a symbolic connotation. ... In fact, through the synesthesia, syllables and sentences are described by words generally used in describing petals, which compose the flower's cup like syllables and sentences compose a poem. ... The negative account of other, pedestrian speech forms, like the admission of naturally superior discourse , is not only a way of recognizing (and sharing one's recognition) of a reality that lies beyond ordinary words, but also of communicating a sense...

• Word Count: 2619
• Approx Pages: 10
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate