... and it's aptitude to triumph over man's attempts to defy her (like the building of an unsinkable ship). Hardy uses such poetic devices as metaphor and diction throughout the work and the title to express his thoughts on the, "august event." Metaphor usage can be observed in several different stanzas and adds a ... tragedy of the Titanic. In addition to metaphor, "The Convergence of the Twain" also harbors bountiful amounts of diction within its lines. Stanza XI, for example, maintains its meaning solely through the use of diction. The choice of words in the line, "and consummation comes,...

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... agony of captivity. He uses many devices such as metaphors, repetition, simile, imagery and Anthropomorphism to support his theme. Paul Laurence Dunbar also uses diction to link back to his theme. He uses a particular structure to link it to the theme of his poem. Paul Dunbar uses many examples ... trying to gain freedom. Lastly, Paul Laurence Dunbar uses a closed format structure to link back to the idea of being captivated. Dunbar uses hopeful diction in the first stanza such as "bright", "soft" and "flows" to demonstrate the motivation and optimism of the ... African American to lea...

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... is very honourable, and glorious. As both poets have different opinions about war, in fact, almost opposite opinions, each poet uses different types of diction, figurative language, imagery, sounds, and tones to achieve his purpose. In The Soldier, Rupert Brooke uses both fluid and long, yet well-linked ... and "But limped on, blood-shod." The tone and atmosphere used and created by the two poets are also different, with each of them using diction and poetic devices, thus creating a tone and atmosphere to put across their point. For The Soldier, Rupert Brooke, uses a tone of controlled...

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... her feeling of love. The imagery of coldness is mostly mentioned in the first stanza, as it is Madeline's first state of isolation. In the first stanza the choice of diction in the sentence "Bitter chill it was" shows the coldness being bitter which explains that her first state at the time of innocence is bitter or filled with sorrow, frustration ... her chastity. Bitter also gives a feeling of chill because of the alliteration sound of "T" that creates a harsh tone. "Was a cold" in the first stanza also described the coldness. And the diction "frozen grass" and "frosted breath," expla...

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... the immense suffering and pain that soldiers must undergo. A helpless tone underscores the downtrodden and mentally feeble condition of the soldiers, who struggle to survive through an arduous battle. Ironic diction is employed to highlight the truth about war over the false impressions of its honorable status. The author beings by introducing the deterioration of the lives of the young and ... longer maintain the high energy and spirit they initially had. They are exasperated by the endless violence of war, which has quickly stolen away their innocence and youthful souls. Ironic dictio...

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... many mechanisms that Shakespeare has manifested in A Misummer Night's Dream is the unreliability of time, and how it has a tendency to lose its fluidity within a dream. Perhaps the structure and diction of the poem, which Duffy retains incredibly succinct, can be equated to represent the unusual mechanism of time in a dream, and how it seems to lose its normal gist of ... fluidity in the context of a dream. Duffy's distinctive spacing, meticulous diction and intermittent phrasing can be perceived to represent the intricate concept of time in the poem. Duffy ends the stanza in quite a su...

• Word Count: 1990
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... "rebels" died fighting for something that was so near to their heart; they would sacrifice their lives for it. Upon hearing Phillip Levine's recitation, the true power of Yeats's brilliant diction and truly captivating rhyme scheme literally jumped out at me. The way that Levine recites the repetition of words in Easter, 1916, allows one to fully grasp all that Yeats ... ends up standing out as a powerful poem in its own right. Whether it is through the emphasis on Yeats's rhyme scheme and the intonation on the repetition of Yeats's powerful diction, or the contrast between the beginnin...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

... . The larger imager is of the author and perhaps Felicity eating watermelons by a bonfire. However a closer analysis reveals violent images of war. This idea is supported by the choice of diction used in the third and fourth stanza. "Black bullet seeds, to be spit out in rapid fire/ Against the wall/ Against the wind/ Against each other." The description ... ...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate