Impersonation is one of the techniques in the literature. It is used when people’s habits, movements, or even speech and emotions are attributed to inanimate objects, animals, or nature. Therefore, I agree with the post: with the help of impersonation, objects seem to come to life. Both metaphor and personification are tropes: turns of speech built on imagery. Their main meaning is to give beauty and liveliness to the language. In Emily Dickinson’s poem, the phrase “Wind complains all Day” is a vivid personification (Liu, 2020). Such personification shows the closeness of nature and a man and emotionally engages the reader.
A metaphor is a trope, likening two objects or phenomena based on their similarity. The author who uses the metaphor is not speaking literally. He finds common features between the two concepts and compares objects with each other. I agree with the previous poster: in the poem Of the Threads that Connect the Stars, the metaphor is used both for emotional involvement of the reader: for example, “the language of galaxies” (Sharon, 2021). All these qualities help metaphor manifest itself most vividly in poetry, where the volume of the work is relatively small and requires maximum concentration to express its main idea.
I agree with the previous poster but I find another topic. This poem by the American poet Robert Frost is about life, about the chosen paths. The lyrical hero is, perhaps, already in adulthood at a crossroads and cannot choose which of the two paths to go forward (Febriani, 2020). And finally, chooses in favor of the path that seems less well-traveled and difficult. It is because it will be more difficult to follow it, and a choice is made. Thus, we can say that the poem’s main idea is as follows: a person should always choose the most difficult path, as this makes him more experienced, checks his human qualities.
The fate of The Tiger is a happy exception to the general tragic fate of Blake’s works, which were doomed to a protracted misunderstanding. This poem contrasts with the poem The Lamb from the Songs of Innocence, where the lamb embodies spiritual gentleness, gentleness, and purity. The tiger is the personification of evil, terrible, and at the same time beautiful in its power.
I agree with my classmate and his post. The plot of Poe’s short story “The Barrel of Amontillado”, like most other stories by this author, has a high degree of tension. Even though murder is the story’s central theme, it cannot be attributed to the detective genre. A Cask of Amontillado does not describe the investigation of the crime, the criminal himself tells about it. The story’s mystery is that the motive for the murder remains unknown to the reader (Elhefnawy, 2018). Although Montresor does not disclose the reasons for his action, he mentions the “thousands of humiliations” that he allegedly suffered from Fortunato.
I liked The Story of the Hour by American writer Kate Chopin. In addition, it is a pillar of feminist literary research. This story documents Louise Mallard’s complex reaction upon learning of her husband’s death. This story hides something even more unthinkable: Louise’s growing awareness of the freedom she will get without Brantley (Paudel, 2019). At first, she consciously does not allow herself to think about this freedom. Knowledge reaches her without words and symbolically through an “open window” where she sees an “open square” in front of her house. The repetition of the word “open” emphasizes the possibility and absence of restrictions.
References
Paudel, K. (2019). Existential Angst in Kate Chopin’s The Story of an Hour.NCC Journal, 4(1), 97-99. Web.