The speakers of both poems reflect on their mornings with similar types of figurative language, but implement those types using different techniques. “Five A.M.” uses flowing syntax, peaceful diction and positive imagery, while “Five Flights Up” uses choppy syntax, bland diction and negative imagery. The different uses of figurative language in the two poems creates opposing ideas. The speaker in “Five A.M.” suggests that with a new day comes a refreshed, inherently good humanity. In contrast, “Five Flights Up” focuses on how humans have generally missed the mark of perfection. Both poets use syntactical techniques to further the speaker’s beliefs. This syntax between the two poems is contrasted directly in the first lines of each poem. The …show more content…
By further continuing the sentence, as in the first poem, the poem is started off with a flowing feeling. Sentences are fluid and connect with one another, bringing about light and fresh feelings. The stark stop of the sentence at the beginning of the second poem gives the poem a more biting feel. The shorter, broken sentences frequently used in “Five Flights Up” in comparison with the flowing, descriptive sentences of “Five A.M.” provide contrasting feels that play a hand in the poems’ contrasting themes. Another form of syntax implemented by both poets is the use of questions. “Five A.M.” asks the question, “Where are my troubles”, suggesting that the morning has a care free nature. Rather than asking a question about life, as in the first poem, the speaker of “Five Flights Up” states that the morning provides “questions...answered directly, simply, by day itself.” This particular use of questions shows that the speaker of this poem still has troubles and questions that need to be answered with the coming of day, such as, “what had he done” in the third stanza. The speaker in the first poem is satisfied with humanity and with what the morning has brought, while the other speaker feels anxious and …show more content…
“Five A.M.” expresses charitable and kind imagery throughout the second stanza highlighting the inherent good of people around the world, like “saints have built sanctuaries on islands and in valleys”. When paired with the poet’s choices of tone and syntax, this imagery gives of powerful thoughts of positivity and peace. “Five Flights Up”, however, focuses much more negatively on humanity. The imagery used in this poem presents people as dreary and destructive. The poet of the second poem emphasizes the care free attitude of animals, possibly showing the standard set by nature, but goes on to show man’s crass attitude even in the waking hours of the morning. By setting a standard through the innocent, “little black dog” and the content bird, the poet makes the harsh man stand out and really fail to be an ideal person. The bird and the dog live life without a care, knowing that “everything is answered, all taken care of”, although the speaker has worries about life and cannot escape the ideas of yesterday. Instead of being okay with the present moment, the speaker is stuck in a time that he can’t change, rendering him unable to focus on the positives that the morning has to offer. The poems “Five A.M.” and “Five Flights Up” have contrasting ideas. While “Five A.M.” tends to focus on the increasing possibilities of humans to be great, “Five Flights Up” takes a different approach to the early hours
When I first opened my book to start reading Easter Wings, I was taken of guard by its shape as well as the fact that it was side ways. I did not understand why this poem, reading, was different form all the other ones we had read in the past. However, once I finished reading it became a bit clearer as to why this one was different from all the rest. Easter Wings is a two-stanza poem's built on a back-and-forth between hopelessness and optimism. First comes the disappointment; in the first half of each stanza, Herbert describes the downward spiral of human life.
Through punctuation and allusions, Bishop manifests her theme that one can be hiding anxiety that no one else but the early mornings see. By using dashes, ellipses, and parentheses, Bishop conveys that the poem is simply what the speaker is thinking. “Questions- if that is what they really are-” proves that she is doubting everything running through her mind. While in “Five A.M.” the speaker release his worries as they occurred to him, here the speaker clings to her worries and multiplies them, a sure sign of anxiety that not everyone sees. “Of glassy veins…” shows getting lost in one’s own head.
The first day of anything is always going to be hard, that’s just the hard truth. In the short narrative “First Day” by Robert E. Murphy, the struggles of a first day are shown through the eyes of a medical student. Murphy used amplification, pacing, and tone to explore the struggles of a medical student first day at the clinic. Murphy uses amplification in order to show how over enthusiastic the student is to start their first day at the medical clinic. Amplification is when sentences are enriched with excess information in order to increase the worth of the sentence.
Similes in the poem such as ‘till he was like to drop’ are used to create a more descriptive image in the reader’s mind. Metaphors when saying ‘He lifted up his hairy paw’ and in many other sections of the poem to exaggerate areas to give the reader a more interesting view. So the poet can express what he is trying to prove through and entertaining way. The imagery device enhances the poem to make it stand out more so it grabs the reader attention. The poem was a very entertaining and humorous.
Concrete Details/Imagery Gallien starts to notice the settings around him while he is on his way to drop Alex off. “For the first few miles the stampede trail was well graded and led past cabins scattered among weedy stands of spruce and aspen. Beyond the last of the log shacks, however, the road rapidly deteriorated” (Kraukaur 2). This quote creates of visual of the quick change from rural civilization to deep and dense forest.
One of the aspects of “Wild Geese” that truly struck my fifth-grade self was its use of imagery—I was drawn in particular to the extensive visual imagery in lines 8-13 (“Meanwhile the sun…heading home again”) and awed by the ability of text to evoke images of such clarity. Moreover, in addition to the intrigue of its use of literary devices and the complexity of its recitation, interpreting “Wild Geese” and finding meaning within it was a process that continued well beyond the end of my fifth-grade year, and the connotations of that poem continue to resonate with me. While the entirety of this story is too personal to share herein, “Wild Geese” was a poem that spoke to me on a very personal level. As I sometimes have a tendency to hold myself to unrealistic standards, “Wild Geese” was to me a reminder of the relative insignificance of the trivial matters with which I would preoccupy myself; nature became a symbol of that which existed beyond my narrow fixations and the wild geese a reflection of the inexorable passage of time—in essence, a reminder that “this too shall
There are similarities and differences between the poem and the article in authors propose, text structure, and facts.
Each stanza also makes the readers question their opinions and their understanding of the poem and the street. While analyzing Kenneth’s poem we see his use of imagery , personification, metaphorical language and repetition. With the end of each stanza repeating the words “you find this ugly, I find this lovely” the use of repetition gives the audience the sense of how the poet is displaying his message with this literary technique. The repetition also gives insight in how he see’s something that everyone calls ugly as something beautiful. The readers are also always drawn back to processing their opinions with his use
Judith Harris proposes that Jane Kenyon’s poem “Let Evening Come" is a motion of light which is a “balance of upward, downward, rising and falling” (Harris, J. 2004) movement. Harris interprets this poem using sunlight as an indirect influence and an antecede need for beauty which is influenced by Kenyon’s faith. Darkness is a form of uncertainty and is unpredictable. When darkness comes it metamorphosis our spirits and souls into something “yet to be named.”
Two pieces of lyrical work, the song “Bad Day” by Daniel Powter and the poem “Casey at the Bat” by Ernest Lawrence Thayer, direct attention to non-ideal situations through similar and different lights. While both of these pieces have different literal aspects such as setting and type of situation, “Bad Day” and “Casey at the Bat” both emphasize similar ideas about life through themes and a multitude of literary elements including narration,
The writer talks of when daylight begins and what he thinks about the beginning of the day. The hopeless lines of the poem are not describing
Both poems use these descriptions to create a scene for the reader to understand that the world was created
The essence of childhood often creates a preconceived notion of inherent innocence, however, the concepts prevalent in William Golding’s novel Lord of the Flies and Stephen Crane’s poem “I Stood upon a High Place” present an unorthodox depiction of instinctive human behavior. Characters within these writings discover the true characteristics of human nature as their view of morality morphs to adapt to their surroundings. The two pieces of literature function to epitomize the heinous nature instilled within man, which depends upon the interactions between members of a society and environmental influences. In Lord of the Flies, Golding portrays the innate depravity possessed by mankind through a group of stranded children left to the task of
Swan Dives Are More Graceful Morning was like death in Montana, most often avoided and never pleasant when it arrived. My skin seemed to freeze to the already frosty nylon of my sleeping bag and all the goose down that lay inside felt clumped together like a flock of frozen geese would if it were stuffed in a nylon sac. The first light of morning crept through the weathered tarp that draped the pole shack. The light then pleasantly began burning “Good Morning” on my retinas, something to this day I have trouble looking past.
In this poem Henry Longfellow describes a seaside scene in which dawn overcomes darkness, thus relating to the rising of society after the hardships of battle. The reader can also see feelings, emotions, and imagination take priority over logic and facts. Bridging the Romantic Era and the Realism Era is the Transcendental Era. This era is unusual due to it’s overlapping of both the Romantic and Realism Era. Due to its coexistence in two eras, this division serves as a platform for authors to attempt to establish a new literary culture aside from the rest of the world.