Literary+Examples

by Robert Frost** Nature's first green is gold, Her hardest hue to hold. Her early leaf's a flower; But only so an hour. Then leaf subsides to leaf. So Eden sank to grief, So dawn goes down to day. Nothing gold can stay.
 * Example of Analogy Poetry Type **
 * Nothing Gold Can Stay


 * __Analysis__:** By use of analogy the third term in the poem takes on the character of the first two thus gold is green, flower is leaf and Eden is grief. --- -- --- -- --- -- --- -- --- -- --- -- --- -- --- -- --- -- --- ** Similes **** : **
 * “The rain crust broke and the dust lifted up out of the fields and drove gray plumes into the air like sluggish smoke.” //The Grapes of Wrath// by John Steinbeck.
 * “The full green hills are round and soft as breasts.” //The Grapes of Wrath// by John Steinbeck.
 * “A hot wind was blowing around my head, the strands of my hair lifting and swirling in it, like ink spilled in water.” //The Blind Assassin// by Margaret Atwood

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 * __ Purpose __** : Basically author’s purpose is to convey diction and vivid imagery throughout his or her own works as well, and to basically fullfill the author's purpose which is to compare dissimilar objects.
 * The Road Not Taken

Two roads diverged in a yellow wood, And sorry I could not travel both And be one traveler, long I stood And looked down one as far as I could To where it bent in the undergrowth.

Then took the other, as just as fair, And having perhaps the better claim, Because it was grassy and wanted wear; Though as for that the passing there Had worn them really about the same.

And both that morning equally lay In leaves no step had trodden black. Oh, I kept the first for another day! Yet knowing how way leads on to way, I doubted if I should ever come back.

I shall be telling this with a sigh Somewhere ages and ages hence**:** Two roads diverged in a wood, and I-- I took the one less traveled by**,** And that has made all the difference

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 * __ Purpose __** : Used to emphasize the qualities of something by saying they are like another, or to exemplify imagery and to state relationships between things or categories of objects by using our ideas about these items. The explanatory power of metaphor lies in that its use allows us to present our ideas about a little known category in a language appropriate to some other, and presumably, better understood category. In other terms, a metaphor is used to emphasize the qualities of something by saying they are like another.