... song. Therefore the bird's song cannot make us "happy or unhappy," it has no value. In the last line of the third stanza, Stevens writes, "The bird sings. Its feathers shine." Plainly, Stevens is restating the facts that humans are able to accept. This is the reality of our perception of the bird. Although the bird could be interpreted as a symbol ... the reader to set free their imagination of the legendary Phoenix which exists "on the edge of space," while reminding us that the bird is merely singing, its feathers merely shine. Despite its implied importance, Stevens" golden bird is "...

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... his use of personification and onomatopoeia. These literary devices showed great importance of diction used in order to express one's feelings. "What candles may be held to speed them allshall shine the holy glimmers of good byes." This is a metaphor, showing what use of ritual ceremonies is necessary to show grief when so much had been loss. You can see straight ... are used in order to compare. Dead people and "cattle" is a comparison of the young soldiers going to war, like lambs that are being led to slaughter; "their eyes shall shine the holy glimmers of goodbyes" can be replaced f...

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... end of the poem then transcends the traditional way, where the dawn is represented merely as an intrusion on love. But it is also instructed to shine its beams onto the lovers to warm them: "shine here to us thy sphere" but if the sun is unable to do its duty that will not matter, because it has already been reminded that ... ...

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... being infinite in number. The word "host," when speaking of the golden daffodils, create a feeling of infinite numbers of the flowers, which then enables the comparison to the "stars that shine" (Kirszner 1008). "Associating the shining profusion of stars with flowers clearly lends them a similar magnificence" (Brennan 141). The imagery generated by using this diction gives reader the sense the speaker ... , and "jocund" being such an odd word, creates the feeling the word could only be appealing because of its ability to create such an assonance. Lines 7 and 24, "stars that shine...danc...

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... like property and I know if I were in that situation I would feel the same s Sexton. ƒ Work Cited Sexton, Anne. "Her Kind. " The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women. 3rd edition. Gilbert, M. Sandra and Reynolds, Benjamin. New York: Noton & Company Inc, 2007. 919-920. Print....

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... , Maya Angelou also chooses to use literary devices that are present throughout this poem. Some of them include apostrophe, personification, consonance, and others. Examples of usage of apostrophe are: "shine on me, sunshine rain on me, rain". An apostrophe is the use of non-existing objects to represent a certain idea or person. By using the apostrophe, the speaker is ... ...

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... lover and that it isn't as big and powerful as it thinks. As the title suggests, this poem begins during the sunrise as the first beams of sunlight begin to shine into the speaker's bedroom. The speaker addresses the sun as a noisy intruder, upset that the sun has come through both his window and his curtains, which are meant to be ... ...

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... ;dance". Wordsworth used similes as well, for example the title of the poem is a simile itself "I wandered lonely AS a cloud" or "Continuous AS the stars that shine." Sound devices are included in this poem too. Some sound devices that Wordsworth used in this poem to give a better sound are : alliteration, assonance and repetition. The alliteration is ... ...

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... lines and the moon. In the next stanza, the speaker shows how the light brightens the colors of the church "in the light colors of morning brown- stone and slate shine orange and dark blue"" (33- 36). The speaker points out how the light brighten up the colors of the stone and slate. In the last stanza has two ideas in ... ...

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... and blood" (576). However in "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" Wordsworth strays ever so slightly from his "flesh and blood" diction. He describes the daffodils as "Continuous as the stars that shine and twinkle on the Milky Way" (6-7). The waves "dance" as the flowers toss their heads "in a sprightly dance." Before the reader can pass judgment on Wordsworth for leaving the realm ... ...

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... an example of this mood occurs: You look a long time till you find the right ears. Till then, there are birds and lamps to be spoken to, A patient cloth rubbing shine in circles, (7-9) The use of the word "patient" in the second line represents great diction by Nye. Patience is exactly the type of mood presented at this point in the ... ...

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... never really in the lover's favor. He compares her eyes to the sun, saying that "My mistress" eyes are nothing like the sun," giving the impression that they have no shine or spark to them. The speaker goes on to say that her lips are not red like "coral" and her hair is like "black wires" on her head. The speaker ... ...

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... . But there are no palm trees on the street, and dishwater gives back no images." This is a part of the song "When it Looked Like the Sun Wasn't Going to Shine Anymore, God Put a Rainbow in the Clouds",1 which she sang to open a lecture she gave at Weber State University. The beginning of this song shows what Angelou is saying in ... ...

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... the speaker knows that God does not work in this way. He acknowledges that God has acted upon him already in subtle ways, "for you/As yet but knock, breathe, shine, and seek to mend." In other words, God has knocked upon his heart, the gate to his walled fortress, asking for a response. He has breathed upon him in an effort ... ...

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... the name of the remembering wine, and he explains it will be used to save the loss of men and himself. "The memory of ages quenched; Give them again to shine; a dazzling memory revive;". He spiels about the time taken over the years to compile such a vast expanse of knowledge that quenches the great, and will always be there for them ... ...

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... how that beauty is able to corrupt the most essential things of nature. The olive leaves tend to represent liberty and peace, however as she stands next to them they shine as well and therefore they lose their freedom and modesty. Additionally, "the lustre as of olives" is an ironic line. Olives do not have a lustre that is worthy of being ... ...

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... I have met." In lines 22 through 24, Ulysses is saying that it is boring to stay in one place, and that to remain stationary is to rust rather than to shine. The second part of the poem, lines 33-43 are devoted to the contrast between father and son , one can feel the heavy sarcasm in the words " slow prudence" "blamelessness ... ...

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... the rhythm and echoes the sound of the waves. In the next line Dipoko states that their "lustre gave the illusion of pearls". Luster is a is a strong word to describe shine but the "illusion of pearls" suggests its irony, that these invaders, although rich, are anything but pearls. Clear anger is carried through the second part of the stanza as the ... ...

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... a part of all that I have met" (Arp /18). Ulysses declares that it is boring to stay in one place, and that to remain stationary is to rust rather than to shine; to stay in one place is to pretend that all there is to life is the simple act of breathing, whereas he knows that in fact life contains much insight ... ...

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... all need each other. On the show for ratings, but aside from the metaphor, to make the other true. How can one know joy without pain, does not the sun shine brighter after a storm or something gaily poetic like that? We should pursue melancholy, sorrow, and sadness to better appreciate happiness, joy, and life. It makes everything a little more complete like ... ...

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... , so his enemy would want to eat it. The next stanza describes how the poison tree grows an apple. It is very tempting as shown by words like "bright" and "shine". It makes the poets enemy feel tempted to eat the apple and jealous that the apple was not his. In stanza four it says "And into my garden stole," which ... ...

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... " (line 17), but she wonders if her parents weep; "Do father, mother weep?" In the Eighth verse, Lyca goes to sleep in the desart wild. She wants the moon to shine over her and protect her, because the night is so dark. In the ninth verse when Lyca lies asleep, the beasts of prey come out of their caverns to find ... ...

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... the poem he beautifully says: Wide as they call the heaven and earth, For me they have shrunk quite small; Bright though they call the sun and moon, they never shine for me. Was Yamanoue no Okura describing his own state? As a general his financial state would not have been so low as to end up eating only salt, so most ... ...

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... , which is represents the greed and tainted morals of the exploiters, can be cleansed when he says, "Then down a green plain, leaping laughing they run/And wash in a river and shine in the sun" (15-16). Through this use of symbolism, Blake manages to set up a clash between the widely held belief that the Industrial Revolution is a great thing and the ... ...

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... late school-boys and sour prentices". Whereas in the last stanza he tells the sun to stay, "since thy duties be to warm the world, that's done in warming up. Shine here to us". With in the course of the poem, he achieves to change the argument by the use of clever syllogism, rather then commanding the sun to leave he ... ...

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