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Annie Matheson And Emily Dickinson's Use Of Figurative Language In Poetry

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There are so many beautiful pieces of poetry that people write to express how they feel and their purpose in the world. Annie Matheson and Emily Dickinson write poetry to explore who they are with words of intelligence. Poetry gives people a way to express themselves with figurative language which Matheson and Dickinson use a lot in their writing. Poems have themes, a tone, characters, irony, symbolism and much more significances to why poems are inspiring. The poems Sleep by Annie Matheson and from X and XXI by Emily Dickinson demonstrates a lot of different figurative language and symbolism that makes these poems so valued.
These poems are similar by their use of figurative language but also have different moods and tones. First the poem …show more content…

To start off, the Sleep poem shows personification in lines eight, thirteen, and twenty-nine. Personification is when you give human qualities to an object or animal. Some examples in this poems are, “Tired roses, Kind sleep, and the quiet stars look down with steadfast eloquence”. Roses do not sleep, sleep is not kind, and the stars do not have eyes or talk. The personification in the poems from X and XXI are, “His knowledge to unfold and old volumes shake their vellum heads” found in lines ten and fifteen. People’s knowledge do not unfold and old volumes do not shake people’s heads. Next, the poems use metaphors. Metaphors are which two things are being compared. Matheson’s poem uses metaphors when he says, “He ate and drank the precious words and Nor that his frame was dust” in lines seventeen and twenty. The author is comparing food and drinks to words and is also comparing the mortal body to dust. This poem also has alliteration which is the occurrence of the same sound or letter. For example, “mutual mind, knew no, and danced along the dingy days”. These words repeat the letter M, D and a sound. From all these figurative languages these poems explain objects and animal which, makes poetry great to

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