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*ALLUSIONS:
Allusion is a figure of speech, in which one refers covertly or indirectly to an object
or circumstance from an external context. It is left to the audience to make the
connection; where the connection is detailed in depth by the author, an allusion is
often called a reference. This can be real or imaginary and may refer to anything,
including paintings, opera, folk lore, mythical figures, or religious manuscripts. The
reference can be direct or may be inferred, and can broaden the readers
understanding.
Examples of Allusion:
-I was surprised his nose was not growing like Pinocchios. This refers to the story
of Pinocchio, where his nose grew whenever he told a lie. It is from The Adventures
of Pinocchio, written by Carlo Collodi.
-When she lost her job, she acted like a Scrooge, and refused to buy anything that
wasnt necessary. Scrooge was an extremely stingy character from Charles
Dickens, A Christmas Carol.
-He was a Good Samaritan yesterday when he helped the lady start her car. This
refers to the biblical story of the Good Samaritan.
*STYLE:
The style in writing can be defined as the way a writer writes and it is the technique
which an individual author uses in his writing. It varies from author to author and
depends upon ones syntax, word choice, and tone. It can also be described as a
voice that readers listen to when they read the work of a writer.
Types of Style:
-Expository or Argumentative style
-Narrative style
-Persuasive style
-Descriptive style
Function of Style:
A unique literary style can have great impact on the piece in which it is used and on
the readers. When authors write and put their ideas into words, they meet with a
large number of choices which include: words, sounds, logic, sentence structures.
However, different authors use different literary styles that depend on their distinct
expression and their utilization of these choices. And their choice creates their
niche.
Sow the seed, and reap the harvest with enduring toil,
Storing yearly little dues of wheat, and wine and oil;
Till they perish and they suffersome, tis whisperddown in hell
Suffer endless anguish, others in Elysian valleys dwell,
SIGNIFICANCE OF EXTRACT 2:
This particular extract from the poem The Lotos-Eaters begins with the sailors
describing the sensations and reactions of the Gods in response to the lament of the
sailors concerning the discriminating availability of rest as compared to other living
creatures.
The gods smile while they listen to the sad ("doleful") songs of the humans down
below. The noises of grief ("lamentations") come rising up to the mountain like
steam. This song of human misery is old and familiar, though the gods hear a kind
of music in it.
When the gods hear the song, it's not really the specific complaints that interest
them. They hear strong words, but it doesn't mean much to them. They hear a kind
of pleasant drone from the abused, beat-up folks down below as they toil in the
fields tirelessly in order to survive.
Human life goes on and on in a boring, painful routing. They plow, sow, harvest
every year, and get a few crops to store up, but even that doesn't seem satisfying.
What's important is that the "toil" never ends.
Eventually, these poor worn out folks die. Some of them go down to hell, where the
vicious cycle of unrest continues, whereas, some people get to go to Elysium (a
version of heaven in ancient Greek religion).
IMAGERY/SYMBOLISM EXTRACT 2:
IMAGERY:
Chanted from an ill-used race of men that cleave the soil
Sow the seed, and reap the harvest with enduring toil
SYMBOLISM:
Suffer endless anguish, others in Elysian valleys dwell,
Symbolizes a version of Heaven according to ancient Greek religion.
STYLE:
There are four types of Styles:
-Expository or Argumentative style
-Narrative style
-Persuasive style
-Descriptive style
The style in writing can be defined as the way a writer writes and it is the technique
which an individual author uses in his writing.
In the poem The Lotos Eaters the style of writing that is being implemented is a
Descriptive Style.
Descriptive style:
In descriptive writing style, the author focuses on describing an event, a character
or a place in detail. Sometimes, descriptive writing style is poetic in nature in, where
the author specifies an event, an object or a thing rather than merely giving
information about an event that has happened. Usually the description incorporates
sensory details.
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Ulysses
Myself not least, but honored of them all,
And drunk delight of battle with my peers,
Far on the ringing plains of windy Troy,
I am a part of all that I have met;
Yet all experience is an arch where through
Gleams that untraveled world, whose margin fades
Forever and forever when I move.
How dull it is to pause, to make an end,
to rust unburnished, not to shine in use!
As though to breathe were life!Life piled on life
Were all too little, and of one to me
Little remains: but every hour is saved
From that eternal silence, something more,
A bringer of new things; and vile it were
For some three suns to store and hoard myself,
And this grey spirit yearning in desire
To follow knowledge like a sinking star,
Beyond the utmost bound of human thought.
the epic poem that narrates his long journey home from the Trojan War. According to
Homer, once Odysseus made it home he still had to take one more voyage, though
that voyage is only mentioned, never made. Dante's Inferno, a much later work
about a poet's journey through Hell, actually describes this voyage, though in a
slightly different way; in Dante's account, Ulysses never returns home to Ithaca and
instead chooses to continue sailing, as he does in Tennyson's poem. But unlike
Tennyson, Dante condemns Ulysses for irresponsible adventure-seeking.
Tennyson famously claimed that the poem described in part his own "need of going
forward and braving the struggle of life" after his friend's death.
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