YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :Metaphor in Cathedral by Raymond Carver
Essays 211 - 240
and white, life and death, happiness and sadness, rich (white majority) and poor (black minority) to express social injustice and ...
other words, Wordsworth bemoans the materialistic nature of his society, which is a feature of Western society that continues into...
Taken" and William Staffords "Traveling Through the Dark" are both poems about lifes journey and the choices that confront each in...
of recurrence and an admonishment not to expect recurrence immediately draws the reader in. The poet them goes on to describe "the...
Contrasting the images of fire and ice are repeated to emphasize the duality of human nature. They also reveal how love and hate ...
considering they are the only words that are linked/combined with dashes, which clearly emphasizes their metaphorical nature. Rill...
being which is so radically different from his original form that he is subsequently rejected by all who know him. He is no longe...
speech. King uses the words -- "Five score years ago" (Internet source) -- that millions of Americans recognized and understand t...
shining armor since he has redesigned his house to look like a castle. However, he does not bring this kind and generous nature in...
condition, maintaining his extended metaphor. "My reason, the physician to my love,/ Angry that his prescriptions are not kept, / ...
on her symptoms she has cancer. Soon, Hagar will be an angel. But, since she is such a tough old bird, difficult to those trying t...
are some of the values" that remain basic American ideals, throughout our history and today (Gannon, 1994, p. 306). In addition to...
scared woman. While she is now grown and teetering on the brink of emotional despair, she recalls both the idolatry and anger of ...
5 I have seen roses damasked, red and white, 6 But no such roses see I in her cheeks; 7 And in some perfumes...
people pity the dead, not Death itself. In the end Donnes message is that there is little reason to fear death and that in the end...
about having gone out in rain and back again, which represents sorrow and tears. In other words, he has seen many people pass away...
understand and come to terms with life as they know it. Their father is a small town minister. Fly fishing seems to be their only ...
fit into the structure of a country that essentially considers her Caucasian, to a point, and her familys adherence to their Japan...
/ And every fair from fair sometimes declines, / By chance, or natures changing course untrimmd; / But thy eternal summer shall no...
a big messy bowl of goop. In the same way, the placement of words, especially in the poem, can be said to be very important. There...
structure of the poem, providing a means by which to connect the words with organization and conclusion (Poetry Analysis: A Quick ...
some of lifes toughest questions, questions that are still asked by todays family. Those questions include family values, abuse an...
ways, black women had to endure two types of prejudice. They had the stigmatism of being slaves, and then, as if the issue of race...
theme (including any symbolism and imagery), and the technical aspects of rhythm, rhyme, and meter. Frost tended to use both categ...
and its complexities. If everything were taken at face value - that is on a very literal level - then language would be extremely...
to extract the universal truth from this poem, it would have to be that human condition which asks mankind to be quite careful wha...
However, if the book only presented this anti-establishment theme, then it would never have had the complexity and depth which hav...
the audience immediately. Edwards then frames four implications from the verse that begin with the lead-in sentence just quoted an...
the population in America at the time would have preferred to not know that a black woman was capable of such complex and abstract...
Chameleons prey primarily on insects but they also take other small animals as the opportunity presents itself. Their tong-like f...