Natural Bridge Rogue River Canyon Literary Devices

Imagery means to use figurative language to compare one object to another object. An example that stood out to me was on lines 60-61,” He slid from their grasp like a rotten banana peel” (Rodriguez). I believe that this is an example of imagery because it is making an image in the reader’s mind comparing how his brother fell to a rotten banana peel. Another example that I would like to point out is on line 35, “ this abdomen of land” (Rodriguez). This line contains imagery because the use of the word abdomen is a metaphor and is comparing the middle of the land to the abdomen of a body. These examples helped clarify the statement and convinced me that this poem has

The imagery used in this verse appeals to the sense sight. This helps the reader visualise what the writer is taking about. It also allows the reader to relate and connect more to the poem.

Steven Herrick’s verse novel “By the River” is very successful in conveying the significant ideas about human nature. He uses key themes such as grief, environmental influence and coming of age to explore these ideas. To convey the themes Herrick uses multiple techniques such as imagery, repetition, personification and positive and negative influence throughout his text.

Imagery is used consistently right through the poem to evoke sensory experiences and to endorse the theme. For instance: ‘A stark white ring-barked forest’-‘the sapphire misted mountains’-‘the hot gold lush of noon’ and many more. All of these appeal to the readers senses and places brilliant visual image(s) in our minds by illuminating the various features of the country, from the perspective of the poems persona. This is attained using; adjectives, ‘the sapphire-misted mountains¬¬¬’, which gives us a picture of mountains with a bluish haze embracing it, this image would thus give an impression of a composed environment and evoke a sense of tranquillity. Additionally by using ‘sapphire’ to illustrate the mist surrounding the mountains we get a sense of Australia’s uniqueness as sapphire is a rare gem. Imagery is also displayed through a metaphor used to appeal to the sense of hearing. For example: ‘the drumming of an army, the steady soaking rain’. Here Mackellar depicts the rain as an army and allows us not only to visualize but get a sense of the sound of the rain, which is presented through the adjective ‘drumming’. This line also presents to us the intensity of the rain again through the adjectives ‘drumming, steady and soaking’.

The appreciation of nature is illustrated through imagery ‘and now the country bursts open on the sea-across a calico beach unfurling’. The use of personification in the phrase ‘and the water sways’ is symbolic for life and nature, giving that water has human qualities. In contrast, ‘silver basin’ is a representation of a material creation and blends in with natural world. The poem is dominated by light and pure images of ‘sunlight rotating’ which emphasizes the emotional concept of this journey. The use of first person ‘I see from where I’m bent one of those bright crockery days that belong to so much I remember’ shapes the diverse range of imagery and mood within the poem. The poet appears to be emotional about his past considering his thoughts are stimulated by different landscapes through physical journey.

As evident by the title of this poem, imagery is a strong technique used in this poem as the author describes with great detail his journey through a sawmill town. This technique is used most in the following phrases: “...down a tilting road, into a distant valley.” And “The sawmill towns, bare hamlets built of boards with perhaps a store”. This has the effect of creating an image in the reader’s mind and making the poem even more real.

The poem highlights the beauty and sensuality of nature. He uses the theme of nature to explore the pleasure he feels whilst taking in the sights and smells of nature. Montague uses broad vowel sounds to create assonance in the first stanza. This creates euphony and a sort of verbal music, possibly representing the noise of the river and the theme of nature.

and buttoned clothes, and nothing that she was called” describes what her grandmother looks like, she says her grandmother has ink-thin braids and she wears buttoned clothes, this gives us something to imagine. “One peppered, flaming autumn” is another imagery, this sentence describes the autumn that her grandfather go to find her grandmother. “I have touched his boots and moustache” is also an imagery because the sentence gives us a sense of touch. She says she have touched the boots and moustache means that she has some connections with her ancestors.

Furthermore, this poem heavily uses a mixture of literal and figurative imagery. One of my favourite examples of imagery in this poem was “hands reaching out / fists raising up / banners unfurling / megaphones booming” (Jetñil-Kijiner 62-65). This quote allows the reader to imagine the protests and the movements that people are trying to do in order to save the planet. That was a case of extremely powerful and inspiring literal imagery as it shows people’s fight for change. This is an example of people who are fighting to save the planet for not only the current generation but for future generations as well. There are also several examples of figurative imagery, the most prominent is personification. An example of personification is “they say [the lagoon] will gnaw at the shoreline / chew at the roots of your breadfruit trees / gulp down rows of your seawalls / and crunch your island’s shattered bones” (12-15). In this example, it is talking about the repercussions of climate change and what the future will look like if people do not change. The use of personification helps the reader understand the awful things that can

The tone is the speaker’s attitude toward a certain subject (Johnson, Arp 887). When describing the tone of this poem many would say is it depressing or tragic. However, once encountering this poem and being through the very experience that the speaker is going through others would describe this poem as calm, relaxed, and tender. This poem is calm and relaxed because the speaker is ready for death to take over his body. The speaker is more relaxed than ever due to the very potent response that the speaker is ready to kiss the river. If this character in this poem was not contemplating suicide, then he would of never even wrote this poem. This speaker is ready to give up life as he/she dies. This poem is tender being the author implements a feeling of control for the reader, which makes you feel like if you do or say one wrong thing then the speaker’s life would come to an end. The author puts the life of the speaker into the audience’s hands to decide what they will do with it, thus why leaving the poem as an opened ended poem. The speaker portrays a tone of tenderness, but also helps portray mood throughout this also.

The last, the final poetic device that is used in the poem The Highwayman, is imagery. Imagery is mental images as produced by members or imagination. An example of imagery is, “The colorful rainbow over the the blue green ocean was magical.” Some examples of imagery in the poem The Highwayman, is “Wine red was his velvet coat. Road was a ribbon of moonlight. Down like a dog on the highway. The moon was a ghostly galleon tossed among the cloudy seas. The wind was a torrent of darkness.” Those are some of the things in the poem that you may be able to picture in your mind.

Imagery is a very vital aspect in most all poems. In “Design” and “Pied Beauty” they go through an extended amount of imagery. Both poems seem to point out unusual aspects in nature. For instance, in “Pied Beauty” Hopkins states “fresh-firecoal chestnut falls; finches’ wings” (4)1. In “Design” Frost mentions “I found a dimpled spider, fat and white, / on a white heal-all, holding up

To read the visual, one must look past the initial image and understand the context, meaning, emotions and events that are occurring within the image. We all subconsciously draw a meaning from what we see, we do this by identifying what is known and breaking that down into a simplified meaning. A majority of us see the world visually, yet some people have the ability to reiterate what they see in a visually poetic manner. A literary poem invites the reader to create an image in their mind, contrastingly

This poem represent a moment of perception of a maple leaf or dragonfly falling into the water , it goes a step beyond and expresses that uncertantly of not knowing wich was of the two of them, the “image” in this case the exact moment you realize that you are not sure of something. That moment of perception in wich you imagine the shape of the thing that it is falling into the water, that uncertainly ,its what the poem its tring to

Imagery is the use of language to create “mental pictures” in one’s mind through descriptions and “sensory perceptions” (Wheeler). In“Digging,” Heaney establishes the setting of the poem by describing that he is in what seems to be a room with a window that overlooks an area of green. He starts the poem off with “Between my finger and my thumb / The squat pen rests; snug as a gun. / Under my window, a clean rasping sound / When the spade sinks into gravelly ground: / My father, digging. I look down” (“Digging”). He uses the appeals to sound, as in “a clean rasping sound” and “the spade sinks into gravelly ground,” as well as appeals to sight, “I look down,” and appeals to touch, “[b]etween my finger and my thumb,” to create an image in the reader’s mind of what that day, or perhaps thought, looked like. The image that is created is one that shows contrast, in this case between an unidentified narrator and his father. As the poem continues, Heaney describes “But I’ve no spade to follow men like them. / Between my finger and my thumb / The squat pen rests. / I’ll dig with it.” The contrast that this furthers is the idea that the narrator is very different from his father, creating a divide that can be the start of tension. Because the narrator and his father cannot necessarily understand each other due to these differences, as each chooses his different approach to digging, the narrator seems to understand that not much can be done about the father’s choice to remain a