Poem: Reality Demands Personification/Hyperbole: " The wind rips hats from unwitting heads". The wind cannot literally rip hats. What the simile means is that the wind was blowing so hard that the caps of the people's heads flew off. Rips was also used as an exaggeration to give the simile a more dramatic effect.
"Letters fly back and fourth between Pearl Harbor and Hastings, a moving van passes beneath the eye of the lion at Chaeronea, and the blooming orchards near Verdun cannot escape." letter really can not fly back and fourth but, the author is indicating a form of personification/ hyperbole. The author uses this phrase to emphasize how quickly the letters were delivered within these two characters . Reality Demands by , Wistawa Szymborska Norma Pedraza
In My Apocalypse, the author Rae Armantrout is using allusions throughout the poem. The author does not give a clear description of what the poem means. She is leaving it up to her readers to determine what it means to them.
In this case, if she is being deliberately unclear, she would be using ambiguity (not allusion). The two are easily confused (they sound similar) but have different definitions.
"There is so much Everything/ that Nothing is hidden quite nicely./ Music pours/ from the yachts moored at Actium/ and couples dance on the sunlit decks." Comes from Reality Demands by Wistawa Szymborska, where I found Synesthesia in which an imagery that blends the senses, illogically. In this stanza i found "music pours/ from the yachts moored at Actium" realistically speaking music can not pour, but it is stating that the music was loud on the yacht. -Montzerrath Rodriguez
This could also be an implied metaphor: the music was being described as though it were a liquid that could be poured. In other words, the poet may have been using an implied metaphor to compare the music to water (or an alcoholic libation).
Poem: Reality Demands Hyperbole: "...you see the Ice Cream Man besieged by children." This phrase can be an exampled of a hyperbole as the word 'besieged' has more of an aggressive tone to it and means to attack, raid, or capture something with armed forces. Children would crowd around for ice cream but probably not to the extent of attacking the ice cream man; so 'besieged' was used to exaggerate the children's eagerness for ice cream.
" And the blooming orchards near Verdun cannot escape the approaching atmospheric front." Reality Demands by Wistawa Szymborska This is irony because for blooming orchards we see beautiful flowers and the trees full of life. Verdun is a city in France which was in ruins after the battle between France and Germans in WW1. The author uses blooming orchards to tell us that even though there is something beautiful we do not imagine something bad occurring later. To sum it all up, even though something is beautiful and great there is never enough preparation for a surprise. Victoria Din
In reality demands, "music pours from the yachts moored at Actium and couples dance on the sunlit deck" I took the part that said the "music pours" and interpreted it as the music was playing smoothly and the people were enjoying themselves. Also "beneath the eye of the lion at Chaeronea" I took that as someone in the spotlight. Like he is being watched intensely. -Sydney ericsson
In Reality Demands, "Perhaps all fields are battlefields, those we remember and those that are forgotten." This is an example of a metaphor as it compares fields to places where battles took place to explain how we easily forget or remember fields of grass and beauty just as we remember and forget the fields where war took place. -Gustavo Hernandez
Poem: Reality Demands- Wislawa Szymborska A hyperbole can be seen in the phrase "So much is always going one, that it must be going on all over. where not a stone still stands,..." This phrase can be seen as a hyperbole because of the deliberate exaggeration used to describe the large amount of movement occurring. Stones are objects that cannot move on their own. The idea that so much is going on that even the stones cannot stand still is an exaggeration that helps to emphasis the amount of movement happening. -Julian Ibarra
Metaphor: "Letters fly back and forth..." this comparing letter to a bird or some other flying objects, which letter can possible do. The author is giving a metaphoric example of the high frequency of letter that are being communicated between these two places during the war.
Metaphor: "Music pours from the yachts..." the author is giving a metaphoric example of how loud the music was and out you can hear off the yachts. By saying it is pouring its indicating that the music is loud, like the over pouring of something its too much.
Allusion: "The grass is green on Maciejowice's fields...." this is relating to a specific place that relates back to history that the author knows about personally.
Poem: Request In the poem Request by Amy Gerstler, I found a Simile "I can simply bite through with a delicate snap, like a rice cracker". The author is comparing two different objects by using the word like. Also the author is using the word "rice cracker" as a exaggeration to get his idea across and to show a visible image so that the reader gets a better understanding. -Sergio Mendez
“Where Hiroshima had been Hiroshima is again, producing many products for everyday use” is an example of allusion in the poem Reality Demands. The author is referring to Hiroshima, Japan, the city that was destroyed by the atomic bomb and how it has since been rebuilt and life continues on normally. -Crystal NesSmith
"Music pours from the yachts moored at Actium and couples dance on the sunlit decks." From Reality demands, I see that Wistawa Szymborskia uses personification when describing the music coming from the yacht. I thought of this as the music is so loud that you can hear it from miles away. "The grass is green on Maciejowice's fields, and it is studded with dew, as is normal grass." This one uses simile as a comparison between Maciejowice's field to grass.
"I hope, at that moment of gradual, future warming, that your resistance to my well-intentioned advances has thinned to an obstacle I can simply bite through with a delicate snap, like a rice cracker." - Request
In the last three verses of this poem the author uses a simile. In these few verses I could see that the author wants to get the other person to fall in love. In my opinion, the simile is used to express the feeling of being able to conquer the significant other and conveys the desire of wanting to breaking through the obstacle of rejection as easy as a snap of a rice cracker.
Poem: Reality Demands by Wistawa Szymborskia In this poem, the speaker alludes to many places around the world where battles or attacks happened. The speaker notes famous attacks, such as Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima, as well as lesser known battles, such as Cannae and Borodino. The speaker uses these lesser known examples to support the idea that "life goes on" and bloody battles are forgotten over time.
"...that suddenly becomes visible through tattered mists. There, leaning against some well-curtained inner sanctum's red doorway..." - 'Request'
Within these lines, there is a slight antithesis with the phrases 'tattered mists' and 'well-curtained'; both giving off a sort of conflicting views of the same type of idea: some kind of fabric or veil. The first part describes something that has been providing a kind of protection even though it is inefficient while the second portrays something that is well off enough that it is protected above and beyond what is normal. -Jayme Reyna
“LXII” by Neruda contains symbolism where it states “What does it mean to persist on the alley of death?” The alley of death can symbolize a person’s bad decisions or wrong life path. The alley can also symbolize the idea of a dark place, in which a person finds it hard to escape.
"We'd stand motionless as the seasons changed, as our hearts..." -Amy Gerstler This quote is an example of a simile. The comparison is between the seasons and our hearts. The author is implying we as humans have changing "hearts" or emotions like different seasons such as fall, winter, spring. You never know when we will be happy, sad, or in love. Elleyse Williams
In Reality Demands by Wistawa Szymborska, I found an example of a personification in the line, "On tragic mountain passes the wind rips hats from unwitting heads and we can't help laughing at that." This is an example of personification because the author gives an aggressive amount of strength to an element such as the wind to emphasize how powerful the wind was, "the wind rips hats from unwitting heads." -Dalia Pardo
In "Request" by Amy Gerstler, "it takes you forever to notice" is an example of a hyperbole. A person cannot literally wait "forever" due to events, such as death. Her use of a hyperbole creates a more dramatic effect in order to show the intense level of passion between the two people.
"Now that the bones are gone, Who lives in the final dust?" is a question that provokes thought through the use of symbolism. In the excerpt LXII from Pablo Neruda's, "The Book of Questions," he poses this question as the last and final question, in my opinion, because it reinforces the connection between the end of life, and the end of the poem. By stating that the bones are gone, and asking who lives in the final dust, it makes me believe that bones are symbolic of the person's soul/spirit since the only semi-logical belief would be that a spirit would reside where the bones lay beneath the ground. It reinforces the ideology that we are created of dust, and return to dust; perhaps it even enforces the idea that although our flesh may not be physically present on this earth, our souls still are. Therefore, something must have happened to the bones (or soul), (perhaps the apocalypse), for someone to be asking who will live in the final dust (post-apocalypse).
In "Reality Demands" by Wistawa Szymborska personification is being used in the title itself. Reality cannot literally demand anything it is a non-tangible concept. -Elias Teutimez
In "Reality Demands" parallelism is used in, "the birch forest and the cedar forest, the snow and the sand, the iridescent swamps and the canyons of black defeat," the author uses parallelism when describing that any type of field can be used as a battle field. -Patricia Vargas
In the poem "LXII" symbolism is used in the verse "In the sea of nothing happens" this is used to represent being surrounded by absolute nothingness and maybe a sense of drowning. It is really impossible to be surrounded by nothing even if you are in the ocean because you are surrounded by water. It's just a sense of being completely alone.
In the poem "Reality Demands" by Wistawa Szymborska personification is used in the line "the wind rips hats from unwitting heads". This is personification because wind is not strong enough to actually rip a persons hat. The author gave an object like the wind the ability to do something that a human can do. -Rebecca Caraker
In the poem "Reality Demands" by Wistawa Szymborska a hyperbola is used in the line "Letters fly back and forth between Pearl Harbor and Hastings". This line use a hyperbola because letters can fly with the wind but not such a large distance as it would be from Pearl Harbor in Hawaii and Hasting in the continental US and its not like a person can actual trough an letter in the wind and have it go exactly where someone would like it to go.
In the poem Request "Wrought iron" is a symbol. Their hearts didn't literally turn to wrought iron, but it is a good representation of the emotions they felt. The iron could represent some kind of mutual pain.
In the poem "Reality Demands" by Wistawa Szymborska it uses personification in the verse " Letters fly back and forth." The reason why this would be personification is because it is clearly not possible for letters to fly. -Ruby Tenorio
"Letters fly back and forth", from "Reality Demands" by Wistawa Szymborska (translated by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh), is an example of an implied metaphor. The "letters" cannot physically fly on their own, so instead I think the word "fly" is used to emphasize the frequency of the "letters" between the two places.
In the poem "Reality Demands" by Wistawa Szymborska metonymy is used, "there is so much everything, nothing is hidden quite nicely". It is metonymy because it is showing that with all the stuff going out in the world, reality is hard to hide and to face. War is something that cannot be brushed off and is a situation that cannot be taken lightly, trying to stay positive gets those by.
From the Poem "Reality Demands" In the section of this poem Wistawa Szymborska says that:
"... and the blooming orchards near Verdun cannot escape the approaching atmospheric front"
I the section we see that Szymborska uses personification in two places first blooming orchards they cannot really escape, and second the atmospheric does not really move so how does it approaching.
This section I did not know if I was using the right literary devices but in the section:
"Where not a stone still stands you see the Ice Cream Man besieged by children"
Stands and man is this a Slant rhyme
and
In the poem LXII Pablo Neruda i believe is using Irony in the section:
"How in salt's desert Is it possible to blossom?"
Neruda writes "salt's desert", but here if salt's was a place should it be a capital S in salt's because it is a proper noun? So, does Neruda do this to suggest that maybe the desert is salted? In history, if someone wanted to destroy a city they would salt the earth so things would not grow back there in that location. This is where I believe the irony is that salt's desert is salted so that thing cannot blossom is salt's desert.
There is an allusion to the battles at Cannae and Borodino in the poem Reality Demands by Wistawa Szymborska. The poem is saying that life goes on. To prove that point, it alludes to those two bloodiest battles of their respective wars. It is saying that even though life was disrupted for many people during those battles, life will still go on for everyone else.
Poem: Reality Demands
ReplyDeletePersonification/Hyperbole: " The wind rips hats from unwitting heads". The wind cannot literally rip hats. What the simile means is that the wind was blowing so hard that the caps of the people's heads flew off. Rips was also used as an exaggeration to give the simile a more dramatic effect.
-Andreina Solorio
Nice. There is also some solid alliteration and near-rhyme with hats/heads and wind/unwitting.
Delete"Letters fly back and fourth between Pearl Harbor and Hastings, a moving van passes beneath the eye of the lion at Chaeronea, and the blooming orchards near Verdun cannot escape." letter really can not fly back and fourth but, the author is indicating a form of personification/ hyperbole. The author uses this phrase to emphasize how quickly the letters were delivered within these two characters .
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Norma Pedraza
In My Apocalypse, the author Rae Armantrout is using allusions throughout the poem. The author does not give a clear description of what the poem means. She is leaving it up to her readers to determine what it means to them.
ReplyDeleteEden Schmoll
In this case, if she is being deliberately unclear, she would be using ambiguity (not allusion). The two are easily confused (they sound similar) but have different definitions.
Delete"There is so much Everything/ that Nothing is hidden quite nicely./ Music pours/ from the yachts moored at Actium/ and couples dance on the sunlit decks." Comes from Reality Demands by Wistawa Szymborska, where I found Synesthesia in which an imagery that blends the senses, illogically. In this stanza i found "music pours/ from the yachts moored at Actium" realistically speaking music can not pour, but it is stating that the music was loud on the yacht.
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This could also be an implied metaphor: the music was being described as though it were a liquid that could be poured. In other words, the poet may have been using an implied metaphor to compare the music to water (or an alcoholic libation).
DeletePoem: Reality Demands
ReplyDeleteHyperbole: "...you see the Ice Cream Man besieged by children." This phrase can be an exampled of a hyperbole as the word 'besieged' has more of an aggressive tone to it and means to attack, raid, or capture something with armed forces. Children would crowd around for ice cream but probably not to the extent of attacking the ice cream man; so 'besieged' was used to exaggerate the children's eagerness for ice cream.
~Tina Tafoya
Nice. This could also be an implied metaphor: the children are something that would beseige . . . such as a mob.
Delete" And the blooming orchards near Verdun cannot escape the approaching atmospheric front." Reality Demands by Wistawa Szymborska This is irony because for blooming orchards we see beautiful flowers and the trees full of life. Verdun is a city in France which was in ruins after the battle between France and Germans in WW1. The author uses blooming orchards to tell us that even though there is something beautiful we do not imagine something bad occurring later. To sum it all up, even though something is beautiful and great there is never enough preparation for a surprise.
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In reality demands, "music pours from the yachts moored at Actium and couples dance on the sunlit deck" I took the part that said the "music pours" and interpreted it as the music was playing smoothly and the people were enjoying themselves. Also "beneath the eye of the lion at Chaeronea" I took that as someone in the spotlight. Like he is being watched intensely.
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In Reality Demands, "Perhaps all fields are battlefields, those we remember and those that are forgotten." This is an example of a metaphor as it compares fields to places where battles took place to explain how we easily forget or remember fields of grass and beauty just as we remember and forget the fields where war took place.
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Poem: Reality Demands- Wislawa Szymborska
ReplyDeleteA hyperbole can be seen in the phrase "So much is always going one, that it must be going on all over. where not a stone still stands,..." This phrase can be seen as a hyperbole because of the deliberate exaggeration used to describe the large amount of movement occurring. Stones are objects that cannot move on their own. The idea that so much is going on that even the stones cannot stand still is an exaggeration that helps to emphasis the amount of movement happening.
-Julian Ibarra
Poem: Reality Demands by Wislawa Szymborska
ReplyDeleteMetaphor: "Letters fly back and forth..." this comparing letter to a bird or some other flying objects, which letter can possible do. The author is giving a metaphoric example of the high frequency of letter that are being communicated between these two places during the war.
Metaphor: "Music pours from the yachts..." the author is giving a metaphoric example of how loud the music was and out you can hear off the yachts. By saying it is pouring its indicating that the music is loud, like the over pouring of something its too much.
Allusion: "The grass is green on Maciejowice's fields...." this is relating to a specific place that relates back to history that the author knows about personally.
Audrena Harlan.
Nice work, Audrena, but what happened on Maciejowice's fields?
DeletePoem: Request
ReplyDeleteIn the poem Request by Amy Gerstler, I found a Simile "I can simply bite through with a delicate snap, like a rice cracker". The author is comparing two different objects by using the word like. Also the author is using the word "rice cracker" as a exaggeration to get his idea across and to show a visible image so that the reader gets a better understanding.
-Sergio Mendez
“Where Hiroshima had been Hiroshima is again, producing many products for everyday use” is an example of allusion in the poem Reality Demands. The author is referring to Hiroshima, Japan, the city that was destroyed by the atomic bomb and how it has since been rebuilt and life continues on normally.
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Nice work.
Delete"Music pours from the yachts moored at Actium and couples dance on the sunlit decks." From Reality demands, I see that Wistawa Szymborskia uses personification when describing the music coming from the yacht. I thought of this as the music is so loud that you can hear it from miles away. "The grass is green on Maciejowice's fields, and it is studded with dew, as is normal grass." This one uses simile as a comparison between Maciejowice's field to grass.
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"I hope, at that moment
ReplyDeleteof gradual, future warming,
that your resistance to my well-intentioned advances
has thinned to an obstacle
I can simply bite through
with a delicate snap,
like a rice cracker." - Request
In the last three verses of this poem the author uses a simile. In these few verses I could see that the author wants to get the other person to fall in love. In my opinion, the simile is used to express the feeling of being able to conquer the significant other and conveys the desire of wanting to breaking through the obstacle of rejection as easy as a snap of a rice cracker.
Poem: Reality Demands by Wistawa Szymborskia
ReplyDeleteIn this poem, the speaker alludes to many places around the world where battles or attacks happened. The speaker notes famous attacks, such as Pearl Harbor and Hiroshima, as well as lesser known battles, such as Cannae and Borodino. The speaker uses these lesser known examples to support the idea that "life goes on" and bloody battles are forgotten over time.
~Stephanie Larson
"...that suddenly becomes visible through tattered mists. There, leaning against some well-curtained inner sanctum's red doorway..." - 'Request'
ReplyDeleteWithin these lines, there is a slight antithesis with the phrases 'tattered mists' and 'well-curtained'; both giving off a sort of conflicting views of the same type of idea: some kind of fabric or veil. The first part describes something that has been providing a kind of protection even though it is inefficient while the second portrays something that is well off enough that it is protected above and beyond what is normal.
-Jayme Reyna
Nice. That's a subtle antithesis, and you caught it.
Delete“LXII” by Neruda contains symbolism where it states “What does it mean to persist on the alley of death?” The alley of death can symbolize a person’s bad decisions or wrong life path. The alley can also symbolize the idea of a dark place, in which a person finds it hard to escape.
ReplyDelete- Vanessa Caudelaro
"We'd stand motionless as the seasons changed, as our hearts..." -Amy Gerstler
ReplyDeleteThis quote is an example of a simile. The comparison is between the seasons and our hearts. The author is implying we as humans have changing "hearts" or emotions like different seasons such as fall, winter, spring. You never know when we will be happy, sad, or in love.
Elleyse Williams
In Reality Demands by Wistawa Szymborska, I found an example of a personification in the line, "On tragic mountain passes the wind rips hats from unwitting heads and we can't help laughing at that." This is an example of personification because the author gives an aggressive amount of strength to an element such as the wind to emphasize how powerful the wind was, "the wind rips hats from unwitting heads."
ReplyDelete-Dalia Pardo
In "Request" by Amy Gerstler, "it takes you forever to notice" is an example of a hyperbole. A person cannot literally wait "forever" due to events, such as death. Her use of a hyperbole creates a more dramatic effect in order to show the intense level of passion between the two people.
ReplyDelete"Now that the bones are gone, Who lives in the final dust?" is a question that provokes thought through the use of symbolism. In the excerpt LXII from Pablo Neruda's, "The Book of Questions," he poses this question as the last and final question, in my opinion, because it reinforces the connection between the end of life, and the end of the poem. By stating that the bones are gone, and asking who lives in the final dust, it makes me believe that bones are symbolic of the person's soul/spirit since the only semi-logical belief would be that a spirit would reside where the bones lay beneath the ground. It reinforces the ideology that we are created of dust, and return to dust; perhaps it even enforces the idea that although our flesh may not be physically present on this earth, our souls still are. Therefore, something must have happened to the bones (or soul), (perhaps the apocalypse), for someone to be asking who will live in the final dust (post-apocalypse).
ReplyDelete-Clarissa Cano
In Reality Demands, "It continues at Cannae and Borodino, at Kosovo Polje and Guernica," is an allusion to battles of different wars.
ReplyDelete-Jose Espinoza
In "Reality Demands" by Wistawa Szymborska personification is being used in the title itself. Reality cannot literally demand anything it is a non-tangible concept.
ReplyDelete-Elias Teutimez
In "Reality Demands" parallelism is used in, "the birch forest and the cedar forest, the snow and the sand, the iridescent swamps and the canyons of black defeat," the author uses parallelism when describing that any type of field can be used as a battle field.
ReplyDelete-Patricia Vargas
Nice work.
DeleteIn the poem "LXII" symbolism is used in the verse "In the sea of nothing happens" this is used to represent being surrounded by absolute nothingness and maybe a sense of drowning. It is really impossible to be surrounded by nothing even if you are in the ocean because you are surrounded by water. It's just a sense of being completely alone.
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In the poem "Reality Demands" by Wistawa Szymborska personification is used in the line "the wind rips hats from unwitting heads". This is personification because wind is not strong enough to actually rip a persons hat. The author gave an object like the wind the ability to do something that a human can do.
ReplyDelete-Rebecca Caraker
In the poem "Reality Demands" by Wistawa Szymborska a hyperbola is used in the line "Letters fly back and forth between Pearl Harbor and Hastings". This line use a hyperbola because letters can fly with the wind but not such a large distance as it would be from Pearl Harbor in Hawaii and Hasting in the continental US and its not like a person can actual trough an letter in the wind and have it go exactly where someone would like it to go.
ReplyDelete-Rosalina Machuca
In the poem Request "Wrought iron" is a symbol. Their hearts didn't literally turn to wrought iron, but it is a good representation of the emotions they felt. The iron could represent some kind of mutual pain.
ReplyDeleteIn the poem "Reality Demands" by Wistawa Szymborska it uses personification in the verse " Letters fly back and forth." The reason why this would be personification is because it is clearly not possible for letters to fly.
ReplyDelete-Ruby Tenorio
"Letters fly back and forth", from "Reality Demands" by Wistawa Szymborska (translated by Stanislaw Baranczak and Clare Cavanagh), is an example of an implied metaphor. The "letters" cannot physically fly on their own, so instead I think the word "fly" is used to emphasize the frequency of the "letters" between the two places.
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DeleteIn the poem "Reality Demands" by Wistawa Szymborska metonymy is used, "there is so much everything, nothing is hidden quite nicely". It is metonymy because it is showing that with all the stuff going out in the world, reality is hard to hide and to face. War is something that cannot be brushed off and is a situation that cannot be taken lightly, trying to stay positive gets those by.
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ReplyDeleteFrom the Poem "Reality Demands" In the section of this poem Wistawa Szymborska says that:
ReplyDelete"... and the blooming orchards near Verdun
cannot escape
the approaching atmospheric front"
I the section we see that Szymborska uses personification in two places first blooming orchards they cannot really escape, and second the atmospheric does not really move so how does it approaching.
This section I did not know if I was using the right literary devices but in the section:
"Where not a stone still stands
you see the Ice Cream Man
besieged by children"
Stands and man is this a Slant rhyme
and
In the poem LXII Pablo Neruda i believe is using Irony in the section:
"How in salt's desert
Is it possible to blossom?"
Neruda writes "salt's desert", but here if salt's was a place should it be a capital S in salt's because it is a proper noun? So, does Neruda do this to suggest that maybe the desert is salted? In history, if someone wanted to destroy a city they would salt the earth so things would not grow back there in that location. This is where I believe the irony is that salt's desert is salted so that thing cannot blossom is salt's desert.
There is an allusion to the battles at Cannae and Borodino in the poem Reality Demands by Wistawa Szymborska. The poem is saying that life goes on. To prove that point, it alludes to those two bloodiest battles of their respective wars. It is saying that even though life was disrupted for many people during those battles, life will still go on for everyone else.
ReplyDelete-Katelyn Willey