Norton uses the sonnet's structure, rhyme, punctuation and use of diction to create a vehicle for her appreciation of books. ... Through her choice of diction, Norton romanticises the sonnet, allowing the reader to confuse this, with a sonnet intended for a lover. ... This use of diction imbues the books with the adoration and love that is typical of the exchanges between lovers. ... Norton creates this tone through her use of rhyme and punctuation, which is used to reduce the tempo creating a languescent response, and her gentle use of diction where personification and words such a...

• Word Count: 379
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Paul Laurence Dunbar also uses diction to link back to his theme. ... Dunbar uses hopeful diction in the first stanza such as "bright", "soft" and "flows" to demonstrate the motivation and optimism of the African American to leave that cage and experience the outdoors like a free bird. The second stanza Dunbar use strong and harsh diction for instance his use of the words "beats", "blood", "cruel", "pain", "scars" and "stings" suggests that the bird, the African Americans, have tried to escape the impris...

• Word Count: 692
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

This commonplace simile, combined with the diction of 'black shoe; and 'poor and white' contributes to sense of suffocation in the poems opening stanza. ... Finally, Plath uses aggressive diction to analogise Hughes to 'a vampire', a fairy tale character likely familiar to her audience. ... The German diction of Herr, meaning Mister, is significant in portraying the nonchalant, everyday nature of oppression which forms an inescapable challenge to feminine identity. ... In this opening, Hughes makes use of the religious diction of Plath's worship to suggest an a...

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

As both poets have different opinions about war, in fact, almost opposite opinions, each poet uses different types of diction, figurative language, imagery, sounds, and tones to achieve his purpose. ... The tone and atmosphere used and created by the two poets are also different, with each of them using diction and poetic devices, thus creating a tone and atmosphere to put across their point. ... The diction as used by Rupert Brooke in The Soldier, is plain and non-descriptive, but calming and peaceful, for example, "washed by rivers", "blest by suns of home", "dreams happy as her day" and "he...

• Word Count: 1482
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

These two lines are an irregular use of diction, suggesting that this person's soul is lost. ... In the bigger picture when an individual really tries to visualize, this is just an enchanting use of diction. ...

• Word Count: 1766
• Approx Pages: 7
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The blissful, enthusiastic tone of this poem derives from the diction of words such as "sweet joy" and "pretty joy". ... Not only do the two poems have different perspectives and diction, they are also constructed differently. ... The first lines of the first stanza and the first couplet of the second stanza are identical in each poem; however, the way the poems develop is in sharp contrast due to the different use in diction and imagery in each poem. ...

• Word Count: 1939
• Approx Pages: 8
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

During the time of Augustus, the Latin lyric poet Quintus Horatius Flaccus (later known as Horace), wrote a poem titled, "Pro patria mori, " which we translate as "It is sweet and proper to die for one's country." The central narrative of the poem, describes the death of an anonymous soldier who was...

• Word Count: 801
• Approx Pages: 3
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The poet, John Tobias, explores the tension between a highly blissful and idealized childhood and the harsh realities of a far more corrupt present in the poem 'Reflections on a Gift of Watermelon Pickles Received From a Friend Called Felicity.' Alongside the character's loss of innocence, oth...

• Word Count: 809
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

These people were to reform the literature of their time and to shape modern language, literary styles, poetic diction and verse. ... They believe that this publication marked the maturity of the 20th century poetic revolution, as the reformation of verse rhythms and poetic diction at large really started to take off. ...

• Word Count: 1915
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Perhaps the structure and diction of the poem, which Duffy retains incredibly succinct, can be equated to represent the unusual mechanism of time in a dream, and how it seems to lose its normal gist of fluidity in the context of a dream. Duffy's distinctive spacing, meticulous diction and intermittent phrasing can be perceived to represent the intricate concept of time in the poem. ...

• Word Count: 1990
• Approx Pages: 8
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Bierce describes this scene with clear focus on details "A sentinel at the each end of the bridge stood with his rifle in the position known as "support", that is to say, vertical in front of the left shoulder, the hammer resting on the forearm thrown straight across the chest – a formal and unnatural position, enforcing an erect carriage of the body. [1]" Bierce's use of specific details presented in the story and the diction used is important to the style of realism as compared to Edgar Allan Poe's poems of romanticism. ...

• Word Count: 959
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

Gerard Manley Hopkins - To what extent do you agree with Robert Bridges view that his poetry is "some of the most musical ever written" Gerard Manley Hopkins is one of the greatest 19th-century poets of religion, of nature, and of inner anguish. In his view of nature, the world is like a book ...

• Word Count: 1414
• Approx Pages: 6
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

We can hear a different voice to the first stanza in the diction of the yarner who narrates his story in the first person and animates it with his own comments on the characters: "I give him a wink" and "he went like a luny". ...

• Word Count: 1047
• Approx Pages: 4
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

The Essence of Man In William Wordsworth's sonnet "The World Is Too Much with Us," the author's techniques enhance a feeling of not only hopeless despondency, but also forlorn dejection. Wordsworth presents first humankind's existing botched relationship to nature and quickly follows with his nosta...

• Word Count: 1163
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: Undergraduate

When, however, imitation is used as a form of diction, Plato comes to the conclusion that any such imitation which mimics men who are not of upright and intelligent nature is undesirable in the ideal city. ...

• Word Count: 5585
• Approx Pages: 22
• Grade Level: Undergraduate