The poem, "Fog," by Carl Sandburg, and the poem, "Dusting," by Julia Alvarez, show literary elements including imagery, figurative language, sound, rhythm.
"Fog" by Carl Sandburg starts off right with a metaphor, he says, "The fog comes on little cat feet," it is also imagery because he wants us to imagine the fog in a catlike way. In this poem, he is straightforward with his ideas, getting right to the point he is trying to make. The line also gives us the idea that the fog is moving slowly towards us creeping its way through, just like a cat is very slow and cautious. In line 3, "It sits looking over harbor and city," tell us it has taken up more space now. It's here. We imagine the metaphor in the first stanza as a fog looking catlike, but not the fog is, "sitting," just like a cat would, with their body spread out like fog does. The mood of this poem is kind of frightening, interrogating. The fog is, "over," us, like it is watching over every move. The word, "city," in this poem describes that maybe we aren't the only ones experiencing it. There are others that are also anxious to see what is in store. Lines 5-6, "on silent haunches and then moves on," extending the explanation that the fog looking catlike is sitting and looking, "on silent haunches" (cat's thighs, parts that enable a cat to jump and pounce as far as they'd like to). There is also repetition of the word, "on," in this poem. The poet seems to be keeping his metaphor fused unto the one image of a cat-fog. .
"Dusting," by Julia Alvarez, the poet uses her imprints as symbolism in the poem. This is because they represent her mother wiping them away, meaning, her mom wipes away all her dreams that she wants to pursue. "Each morning I wrote my name/ on the dusty cabinet, then crossed/ the dining table in script, scrawled/ in capitals on the back of chairs/ practicing signatures like scales" (lines 1-5).
The 1930's Dust bowl was a windy drought that caused clouds of dust to form in the Southern plains which lasted about a decade. ... Winds soon came and the dust made by the hooves were swept up into huge dust clouds. ... Skies darkened with dust. Dust storms would come from the North and looked like fog across the horizon. Homes were filled with dust and soon layers of dust were seen on the furniture. ...
Images of fog are featured in Thoreau's poetry to present the bridge between Nature and heaven. ... In addition, the fog serves as an "ocean branch- that flows to the sun, suggesting the fog serves as a link between the physical and spiritual realms. The line "spirit of lakes and rivers- is also featured in the poem "Mist,"" but in "Fog- the speaker is calling for the fog to revisit him. ... In Thoreau's poetry fog serves as a metaphor of a semi-obscured realm where man and nature may unite. ... "For Thoreau the world was not a pasteboard mask hiding the golden Over-Soul [but] the ba...
This is achieved through the symbol of the fog machine and the motif of invisibility. The fog machine makes Chief feel as if he "[was] safe from the enemy, but awfully alone."... This is then supported by the way that Chief acts around the fog, he often wants "to be safe" (pg. 163) by concealing himself in the fog. ... At the start of the novel Chief is "creep[ing] along the wall quiet as dust" and "hide[s] in the mop closet and listen[s]"(pg 6). ... The comparison to a factory suggests that the ward's purpose is to churn out free individuals and suppress their in...
The nitrous fogger is two and three quarters of an inch in length. ... Figure 1 Nitrous Fogger Discussion A nitrous fogger has six parts: nozzle, shaft, threads, main body, two regulator jets, and two removable fittings. ... Regulator Jets This portion of the nitrous fogger is not seen. ... Conclusion Nitrous Foggers save time and money in two ways. First nitrous foggers allow easy adjustment through jet changes. ...
The poetry of Carlos Williams is some of the most intriguing yet odd works of literature that I have ever encountered. ... In conclusion, I think that to take all of Williams" poetry at face value is a tragedy. ... His apocalyptic attitude encompasses his work like a dense fog of impending doom. ... His struggles with his own inferiority and skepticism is painted within hauntingly beautiful poetry. The way he used metaphors, like his comparison of the growing population to the destructive properties of fire was truly genius. ...
Snaking their way up the road, the column of 36 ton desert camouflaged howitzers kicked up a massive amount of dust. ... The heads of the drivers stuck out from the hatches, dust coating their lips and teeth. ... A cloud of dust and smoke shot into every direction. ... The dust and smoke still left floated lazily away across the barren plane, the mass reminiscent of a New England fog. ...
His writings helped usher in a new era in poetry. ... "Yellow fog" and "yellow smoke" rubbing itself against window panes makes the streets seem gloomy, bleak, forbidding and poisonous. ... The kinaesthetic imageries like, "the yellow fog that rubs its back" and "the yellow smoke that rubs its muzzle." ... Modernism is characterized by a self-conscious desire to overturn traditional styles of poetry and verse. ... Irony, satire, and comparisons were used to mark society's ills. ...
For many, interpreting poetry can seem like mind-boggling experience. ... In this brown husk a dale of hawthorn dreams, A cedar in this narrow cell is thrust That will drink deeply of a century's streams, These lilies shall make summer on my dust. ... In order to properly analyze this poem, other literary works such as To Blossoms, by Robert Herrick and also, Intimations of Immortality, by William Wordsworth will be used in comparison with The Seed Shop. ... Sometimes, poetry is just to short too know exactly what the author trying to say. ...
