No word or writing technique was included for aesthetic purposes only, but to enhance the reader's ability to understand what the poet intended to say. ... "Unemployment" by Tom Wayman Wayman uses metaphor and onomatopoeia to express the feelings of resentment, bitterness and impatience that one may have when unemployed. ... The way in which he describes this act is similar to a set of instructions one would use while assembling something, or in other words, what one does when working on an assembly line. The use of onomatopoeia also highlights the characters impatience and resentment w...

• Word Count: 1140
• Approx Pages: 5

It is apparent that the wife has developed resentment towards her husband. ... Thus, further the tension boils as the husband tries to see his wife and what it is that makes her suffer. ... The exclamation point in this phrase signals to the reader the husband's sudden realization of what is the root of his wife's emotion. ... The husband will not give up trying keep his heart beating, his life afloat in his wife's sea of grief and resentment. ...

• Word Count: 1183
• Approx Pages: 5
• Grade Level: High School

I thought that the poem, with its line structure and its broken form, helped develop the distasteful resentment that the author has for the other person. ... The child's intuition and ties with nature seem to me at least, in the past, to have been on what the Native American culture was based. This disregard for and refusal to believe in nature and its related spiritualism is what has slowly led to the dissipation of Native American culture. ...

• Word Count: 652
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

She explains these feelings of resentment, humiliation, pride, affection, and commitment with the use of many poetic devices. ... Through her struggles with perfection, she still loves and admires her "child" no matter what its faults are. ...

• Word Count: 459
• Approx Pages: 2
• Grade Level: High School

What begins as a seemingly humorous cat and mouse hunt, soon develops into an insatiable lust for blood. ... This first stanza sets the stage for what would appear to be a humorous battle of wits between the speaker and the woodchucks. ... Aside of them has been exposed that has remained dormant for what appears to be the duration of their life. ... It's obvious that the speaker has taken some sadistic pleasure in killing their adversary, yet what price has been paid for such satisfaction? ... This statement is indicative of many things, one being the speaker's resentment towards th...

• Word Count: 819
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

The following stanza uses metaphor to describe his resentment for how the factory had come to end. ... All aspirations, faith and happiness seem to be lost with the loss of their factory; For what does it matter if it rains all day? And what's the good of knowing Which way the wind is blowing When which ever way it blows it's a cold wind now?' ...

• Word Count: 805
• Approx Pages: 3
• Grade Level: High School

John Donne's "The Sun Rising" is certainly not a typical love poem. The poet uses imagery, structure and omission to indicate the egocentricity of the lovers. Through the use of these devices, the poet persona is attempting to convince the reader that the private world of lovers is superior to th...

• Word Count: 991
• Approx Pages: 4
• Has Bibliography
• Grade Level: High School