Storm Warnings Poem Analysis

The overall theme of the poem is sacrifice, more specifically, for the people that you love. Throughout the poem color and personification are used to paint a picture in the reader's head. “Fog hanging like old Coats between the trees.” (46) This description is used to create a monochromatic, gloomy, and dismal environment where the poem takes

The entire poem is referencing a tornado. Pat uses personification to describe how powerful this woman is. Her primary focus is her strength. "she scratches," "she sighs clouds," she spews gust and thunder.

The best way the author demonstrates this is with the use of dialogue. In the text, the protagonist’s father explains how “[He] wouldn’t be surprised if [they] had a storm this afternoon” (471). It is clearly foreshadowed to express how there is going to be a disaster sometime in the story. Nothing ever ends well with a storm, and this is quite apparent in the story. Another example of the use of foreshadowing

Ray Bradbury’s “There Will Come Soft Rains,” tells the story of a self-regulating house that is all that is left of the world. Through the use of diction, the reader is able to understand the shifts in tone throughout the story. In the beginning of the story, we are introduced to the house. Bradbury uses terms such as “ruined city,” “radioactive glow,” and “rubble and ashes,” (Bradbury 1) effectively creating a dark and forlorn atmosphere. The author’s word choice creates an image in the reader’s mind of how desolate the house’s surroundings are, ultimately contributing to the somber tone.

The author uses the weather to really make the reader feel sad and scared for Katniss. The author uses this to make the reader feel how sadness can really control you. The reader gets to experience it first hand, showing that sadness can control you in bad ways. Also, in Insurgent, Tris starts to throw her life away because she doesn’t care anymore. Tobias doesn’t want her to die and warns her that what she is doing isn’t a good idea.

In this scene, the impending storm is more than just a comment on the weather, It is symbolic of the burden of a hidden affair that Hester and Dimmesdale are carrying, and the impending doom, or storm, to come. Actions, objects, and images can all be symbolic. There is an association built between events that occur during the day or in light versus during the night or in the dark. Socially unacceptable interactions occur only where they can be hidden.

The author proves the one of central conflicts of the book by using symbolism and figurative language. In chapter eighteen of the book Janie, Tea Cake, and Motor Boat are seeking to find safety from the hurricane. The author uses the word, “triple fury” to describe the storm. This is a word that is not normal used in our everyday vocabulary, so it then grabs the reader’s attention to how powerful this storm was.

Throughout the novel, The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald, the weather reflects the mood and serves as a foreshadowing for the events that come later. Fitzgerald makes a point of describing the weather patterns and conditions towards the beginning of the chapter as the weather always has some symbolic meaning. For example, a large storm hits while Gatsby is awaiting his meeting with Daisy. This sets a dark mood that eventually leads to uneasy feelings between Daisy and Gatsby, which eventually wears away. In literature, rain is used to symbolize a cleansing and in the case of Gatsby and Daisy, their uneasy feelings are swept away with the rain.

The impact of the weather scene is a way to indirectly relate to the murder of Victor’s young brother, William. The author, Shelley utilizes weather to convey the Victor’s emotional feelings about the murder of his bother William. Through imagery in the quote, Shelley is able to utilize words to describe the weather relating them to both the storm and what has happened to our protagonist. To me, the flashes of light illuminate the lake which is his brother. William’s illumination is the light of his life is soon quenched when the author describes the “pitchy darkness”

Storms are used in plots to represent a variety of things, but generally show a changing of perspective and allows for a revelation. True to form this is when David becomes the “hero” he is meant to be and finds out Elijah’s villainous scheme. The rain is used as a progressive set to push the hero into self-awareness of what's going on around him. David’s journey ultimately sets polarity between the characterization between hero and monster, since the journey always surrounds the hero in test of morality and heroism and the villain is in the background and

Carol Shield is makes a relevant statement to modern society, as well as, human nature through the story “weather”. The story is based upon the idea that the little things we take for granted can gravely impact our day to day routine. This lesson is intelligently hidden behind meteorologist going on strike; ultimately, leading to the disarray of a couple's life. Without someone predicting the weather the couple feel like the weather is fictitious; furthermore, their love life beings to suffer as does their metal

The strong winds blow the leaflets around, “flashing white” like lightning (Doerr 3). The coming ‘storm’ is a metaphor for the approaching bombers and the tragic events that are to occur throughout the novel to both Marie-Laure, Werner, and their friends and family. Marie-Laure

As mentioned, The Storm is very risqué based on the century in which it was written and even now, years later may be considered so in many societal circles.

The nature of the storm represents the characters’ isolation from one another, but also the deterioration of relationships and family structures. The storm emphasises the isolation that is already present in the characters lives. As a result of the dismemberment of the family unit, it is evident that Elena, Paul and Wendy try to counteract and find comfort for the feeling of isolation through traditional media forms. For example, Elena finds comfort from isolation through reading books in the library: “Reading was a brave spiritual journey for Elena Hood, and little piles of books were for her like the stacks of rubble—the Tibetan prayer walls—that marked the progress of pilgrims” (Moody, 52). Paul finds comfort through his comic books by comparing his family to characters he so often reads about.

The short story I chose to respond to is “The Storm.” The title of “The Storm” appears to me, to have multiple meanings. The aptly titled story, essentially revolves around this one meteorological event. The very occurrence of the event is what has brought Calixta and Alce together, on the day of their adulterous encounter. In addition, the title could be seen as a metaphor for the passion that exists between Calixta and Alce.