Emily Goodman ENGL 102-75 10/4/2015 “Simile and Metaphor Short Writing” Evaluating Literary Comparisons The poem “Harlem” by Langston Hughes uses detailed imagery to highlight the consequences of dreams not followed. The simile that stands out to me is "Does it stink like rotten meat?” (Hughes 6). This suggests that dreams can have an expiration date. I compare a dream forgotten like meat that has gone bad in the back of a refrigerator. Therefore, when a dream is left unachieved for too long one
While it is a short and simple poem, “You Fit into Me” by Margaret Atwood reaches out to readers because of its simplicity. With only four lines, there is not a lot of room for context and detail, yet in Atwood’s poem, context and detail are not needed. The opening lines, “You fit into me / like a hook into an eye,” are enough for readers to relate to the speaker already (1-2). At first, the line “You fit into me,” can be interpreted to be about loving someone and getting along well with them, yet
was for woman to survive in an environment were a man controls everything? If you are a man, I invite you to change of shoes and take the position of a woman. Would you be that woman? Who endure any humiliation? I hope your answer is NO. Nowadays we are still having problem of gender equality, sadly I am not a super hero who can go and change this problem, but I will incite you to continue reading, so maybe at the end you will have a better idea of why we should counter the problem of female equality
irony, and similes are all poetic devices that help give poems a more in depth meaning. Allegories can influence the meaning and depth of a poem. An allegory is a poetic device that uses narration or description to represent specific abstract ideas. You can see the use of allegories in the poem “The Haunted Palace” by Edgar Allen Poe. After initially reading this poem it appears to be about a happy palace that has been taken over by evil. Although this in itself may seem like meaning enough, the