Golden Glade Literary Devices

John Cheever’s “The Swimmer” is a beautiful, multi layered depiction of a man's unwitting downfall. The story follows Neddy Merrill, a somewhat alcoholic and adventurous man, as he takes a expedition to go home by pool hopping the country. Neddy is the source of his own undoing as he represses years of his life pool by pool and eventually he has to come to terms with his life. Cheever poetically uses symbolism to indirectly show the changing of Neddy, his situation, and the world around him.

The burning of all books that can give rise to self-thought is quite the outrageous act; this absurd idea is the premise that Ray Bradbury uses in his dystopian novel Fahrenheit 451. Within the book are many themes and among the themes are literary devices that help shape the theme further than just introducing them, making them more complex. One theme that is very prominent in the book is how censorship creates ignorance. There are many literary devices and elements that Bradbury uses to develop this theme; however, one element that reoccurs often is his characters and their point-of-view on the banning of books. Fahrenheit 451 is filled with many interesting characters, each with their own unique personality.

There was a gray house at Inlet’s End, Past the windy roads and right of the bend, Stood an army of scrub bushes planted to defend, Against the gale and gusts the sea extends. A mansion for a home; it stood tall and proud Like an old middle-earth castle stretching high above the clouds, A true diamond in beauty that man bowed, In the presence of the Sound’s gentle waves ploughed, The golden sand forced to kowtow.

Lord of the Flies is a classic literary novel written by William Golding, that depicts the adventure of a group of boys after being stranded on an island with no communications to the outside world.. In this novel, Golding uses literary devices to enhance his writing and to make it more appealing to readers. William Golding uses literary devices to enhance his writing but for what reason? One type of literary device that William Golding to enhance his writing is imagery. Imagery is when the author uses words that makes us the reader to visualize what is happening in our heads.

Growing up as a child, Roethke spent the majority of his time in his father’s greenhouses. During that time, Roethke discovered his love for nature as he challenged his imagination. Roethke was able to take the world of the greenhouse to the “inner world” of man by linking together flowers, creatures, and plants. For Roethke the greenhouse was symbol of unsureness “both heaven and hell” (Poetry Foundation 6). Also related to the greenhouse were the memories of Roethke’s father, who passed away when he was only 14 years old.

Archetypal literary criticism revolves around human consciousness, and typically expresses important lessons in life, and the utter emotion, passion, and turmoil which promotes feeling, and is what makes humans, humans. Set on a midsummer Sunday afternoon, the “The Swimmer”, by John Cheever, follows the journey of Neddy Merrill, who decides to get home by swimming across numerous pools in Bullet Park, the suburban neighborhood where he and his family reside. Neddy contributed the name of this route “Lucinda” after his wife (Cheever 2). Neddy’s journey home starts off positively as he “find[s] friends along the way” (Cheever 2) through socializing along the way, but around halfway through his route, the situation alters: Neddy begins to feel

There are numberless interesting factors and objects that appear in “Fahrenheit 451” by Ray Bradbury, but a unique tool is used in the story that seem to stand out among all other things. To begin with, the story describes a robot that seem to be a weapon or tool of sorts called “The Mechanical Hound,” that helps collect and track down criminals and illegal books in the surrounding area of the city. The Mechanical Hound is told to have eight legs like a spider and an incredible sense of smell. In addition, it is able to incapacitates its victims with a needle that protrudes out of the monster’s nose and injects them with both morphine and procaine. The injection can cause a rat, cat, or chicken to be killed in less than three seconds, making

In the text it states, “The children pressed to each other like so many roses, so many weeds, intermixed, peering out for a look at the hidden sun. It rained. It had been raining for seven years; thousands upon thousands of days compounded and filled from one end to the other with rain, with the drum and gush of water, with the sweet crystal fall of showers and the concussion of storms so heavy they were tidal waves come over the islands.” As you can see, through this use of imagery, the author shows the student’s need for the sun. By having the author show how the student’s need the sun, he also shows

In the poem “Ozymandias” Percy B. Shelley utilizes alliteration to reveal a focus that although power and the fame that comes with the exhilaration of creation may seem everlasting it will soon fade over time. Shelley uses alliteration in the occasion of describing the statue being “half sunk” and also included on the statue “a shattered visage lies,whose frown And wrinkled lip, and sneer of cold command” lie upon the statue in the midst of the desert. Shelley 's use of alliteration in his poem draws attention to the letter and sound of “S” which reveal a tone of eeriness to set the mood of strange depictions upon the statue of the statues belongings.

This shows that the plants are fighting so hard to not die and create new life that they would give up rest and things they need so they can continue fighting. Personification is used to emphasize a theme of powering

Beginning and ending with references to Troy, the poet of Gawain and the Green Knight, foreshadows the narrative with the paradox of failure being framed as greatness. Starting the poem with a discussion of the fall of Troy, speaks to the destined failure of Gawain and his quest, both literally and figuratively. Ending the poem with a reference to Troy’s greatness, presents the paradox of a fallen city, and with an army that lost the war, but, is still hailed as great. Gawain was destined to fail from the very beginning, it was an inevitable outcome.

Not to mention how the entirety of the title is a metaphor, little additions and comparisons strategically placed by Hawthorn expose readers to the much deeper meaning to each of the scenes. It is amazing to see Hawthorne’s ability to use metaphor in beautiful ways, such as comparing children to flowers, as well as dark serious ways, such as Chillingworth’s resemblance to Satan. As previously mentioned, there is high importance placed on the underlying meanings of the natural world within the novel. Comparisons to season such as Spring represent growth and plentifulness all while Hawthorne is not afraid to represent suffering and death through relation to the decay or a garden once abandoned. It is common for Hawthorne to use people on the other ends of a metaphor in order to give insight into their true personalities.

By personifying the progress of the meadow over the narrator’s experience, Marvell molds the complicated relationship between nature and humanity, and therefore highlights humanity’s incessant and subconscious urge to manipulate its surroundings to conform to its own personal preferences. In order to establish a relationship between nature and the narrator, Marvell uses vivid diction that

Anything can be beautiful at any moment. As time goes by, everything is constantly moving and changing like a flowing river and nothing remains still. The significance of nothing being permanent is that we as humans appreciate all things as they are now and as they were in the past. There are many different ways to witness the splendor of the world and each person may perceive it differently, but there is one thing that remains constant: beauty can only be captured by impermanence because if beauty did not fade, it would not be as important or awe-striking as it is now. Matsuo Basho sees the beauty in once-great places and goes to great lengths to witness them in his book The Narrow Road to the Deep North.

This personification suggests that freedom is impossible and that oppression is inevitable, and nature is a harsh, constant reminder of this. The naivety of the speaker in trusting there is hope in the sky and sea is the true horror of slavery. I perceive that this is an effective tool that Browning has used as the image of entrapment is truly unnerving for all