Beruflich Dokumente
Kultur Dokumente
Rhetorical questions
Use of Creole
A curious tale that threaded through the town through graying women sewing
under eaves
Christian witches
Repetition of I wish to show that he can only hope and dream of a better,
unlikely future; he is powerless
Choice of speaker
Contrast dignity of birds and cowardice of the boy; natures beauty and
sorrow and pain caused by the boy
Like two sorrowful high flutes can no longer fly but sing only sad songs
Pun clement (nice weather and merciful people) and brutal sentences
(sentence to death and sentence made of words)
Extended simile or punctuation imagery of brutal sentences and
apostrophe to pain; apostrophe shows physical shape, omission and
possession
Personification (city now doth like a garment wear the beauty of the
morning, river glideth at his own sweet will, the very houses seem
asleep)
Metaphor and all that mighty heart is lying still
Symbolism this college on the hill above Harlem; I take the elevator up
to my room
Broken syntax mid-line breaks and run-on sentences
Repetition I/you/me
Personification
Metaphor life compared to the seasons e.g. I would have it ever spring,
my fate would know no winter
Pun beds of earth (soil and grave)
THE WOMAN SPEAKS TO THE MAN WHO HAS EMPLOYED HER SON by Lorna
Goodison
Similes like old beggars under sacks, his hanging face like a devils sick
of sin, obscene as cancer, bitter as the cud
Contrast between the old lie and the truth
Regular rhyme scene; mid-line breaks; run-on lines