If a picture is worth a thousand words im turning in a gallary for my final

Figurative language is one of the cornerstones of poetic writings, and The Red Wheelbarrow is no exception. Though one may not think of The Red Wheelbarrow as a poem filled with figurative language it is to me. Most consider figurative language to be when the author uses over the top words to create an image that English majors can look at for years and pull a different meaning and picture out of it, yet to me figurative language is any use of language that creates vivid images in ones head. Though so few words are used in The Red Wheelbarrow, they leave you trying to figure out the rest of the scene, it leaves you with an image. With a mere 16 words Williams leaves us with a picture and wondering about the rest of a picture.

so much depends
upon

a red wheel
barrow

glazed with rain
water

beside the white
chickens.

We can vividly see the red wheelbarrow glazed with water, we can imagine that this is a farm, and from this a picture of our own creation spreads. To give such detail about one simple object Williams successfully involves the reader into his story, it lets them fill in the blanks to a story which is already complete. We are left in amazement by the first part, "so much depends/upon", because we are left with such a concrete description of the wheelbarrow, yet nothing is told to the readers why everything seems to depend upon this particular wheelbarrow. The fact that the author is vague in communicating their ideas is what makes this poem so special, if all of the details were included it would simply be a description of a house, but through this vagueness the author opens a door to our imagination letting our own images about this poem flow freely. Williams simultaneously uses images in the best of and worst of ways.

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T. S. Eliot's "The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock" and Robert Browning's "My Last Duchess" are dramatic monologues. Both of these speakers are very different, yet the fact that they are portrayed through dramatic monologues seems to instantly make them seem vain. In fact both of them are quite vain, but in different ways, and they both also have their unique, quirks. J. Alfred Prufrock is an interesting character indeed, in all aspects of life he simply fails, he cannot seem to accomplish anything and he laments upon the past thinking about what he did wrong and what he could have done. Prufrock is indeed vain, he believes that if he were younger he would be able to accomplish the things that he couldn't not when he was younger, he keeps going back to the idea that his younger self could accomplish so much more. He is vain to believe that with youth he could accomplish things he has already failed at. However the Duke is vain in a completely different way, he needs things to be centered around him, he needs to be in control, for when he looses control, he looses control. The Duke thinks he is the be all to end all, that he is the center of everything, and it needs to be maintained this way for him to remain sane. All of life around the Duke is feeding his vanity. The Dukes vanity causes him to act to stay in control of things, Prufrocks vanity causes him to simply wish.

And so it begins

Hello, i am taking the easy way out here...by choosing a random paragraph, which just happens to be the first one, then i will proceed to analyze the hell out of it and hope to receive a good grade.

LET us go then, you and I,
When the evening is spread out against the sky
Like a patient etherised upon a table;
Let us go, through certain half-deserted streets,
The muttering retreats
Of restless nights in one-night cheap hotels
And sawdust restaurants with oyster-shells:
Streets that follow like a tedious argument
Of insidious intent
To lead you to an overwhelming question …
Oh, do not ask, “What is it?”
Let us go and make our visit.

Straight from T.S. Eliot's "The Love Song Of J. Alfred Prufrock"
I shall be reading and analyzing this paragraph alone, without the rest of the story/poem, so if i say this part might show this, and it doesn't happen, well too bad that's what i analyzed and thought would occur from using only this part of the story/poem.

The speaker wants to take the person being spoken to out at night, late night when everything is dark and the stars cover the sky. The speaker wants to take the person being spoken to, all over the place, not the best of places, but everywhere he can afford.

The speaker is trying to get the receiver (easier then person being spoken to) to sleep with him, this can be seen in several ways. The title of the story/poem is "The Love Song..." makes one believe that there will be some loving going on. One night cheap hotels, probably more like the one hour cheap hotels. Of course there was the "argument of insidious intent", and where are they going to make their visit, the one hour cheap hotel?

The form of this paragraph is interesting, it does not fit most common writing styles, yet at the same time it is not very free. There is no set amount of syllables to each line, and it seems like the stresses are not set from line to line. However there does appear to be some end rhymes, while they don't always match up perfectly, there are a few sets of lines with rhymes at the end.

The poetry form of a writing always "seems" to be enhanced when compared with the standard prose version. That is because there are often numerous extraneous words to fill the poem with "fluff" however at the same time this allows the creative side of both the writers and readers to take the poem to the next level.

This is the opening paragraph to the story/poem, it is where we are introduced to the story and where we get our first glimpses of the characters and can see some character development, even in a poem there is character development. From this point we are able to come up with several ideas on how the poem will proceed, this could be one of the most important parts of the poem, unless of course there is a dramatic plot twist.



Oh and by the way..... 3. Finally, it should put that sustained reading of a section of the poem in conversation with teh rest of the poem....i did itz with teh rest of da poem lolz (can't blame me for doing that to an English teacher)