Agard then uses the image of the sky to show the feeling of injustice by comparing the word "half-caste" to the universally beautiful image of the sky due to its constant changing of light and dark. ... Light represents hope and clarity and the prejudice people are seen as the darkness, shunning the light. ... In the second stanza the narrator referred to specific images which everyone can relate to and recognise the irony in John Agard's words. ... The poet uses irony as he is saying that because the boy is only half a person he must only cast half a shadow. ... John Agard uses humou...

• Word Count: 881
• Approx Pages: 4

Through the use of metaphors and similes, Shapiro is able to swing the mood of the poem into a dark, pessimistic view of death. In the line, "Pulsing out red light like an artery" (3), the author references to a strong, beating heart, and subsequently life. ... (34-37) Shapiro suggests the irony of the crash, and focuses on the fact that the death in the car crash had no logic or meaning to it. ...

• Word Count: 522
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

It insinuates that although the town is vast and dark like a shadow, it is not real. ... Larkin uses irony in the phrase 'screen groves with custard' to represent how the adverts temporarily allow people to forget the reality of their own lives. ... There is a contrast between the concept of the 'well balanced families' and the 'boy puking his heart out'. ... Larkin describes 'the boy', 'a pensioner', 'dying smokers' and 'going dark' to describe a progression from young to old age. ... However, it isn't until their live...

• Word Count: 2501
• Approx Pages: 10

Something disturbing is felt in the imagery of darkness created metaphorically by comparing memory to a darkened theater coupled with the masturbatory stroking by the man. ... The irony here is in the royalty metaphor as her father had no castle or kingdom but was a simple working class man. ...

• Word Count: 3020
• Approx Pages: 12
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School