Mowing BY ROBERT FROST There was never a sound beside the wood but one, And that was my long scythe whispering to the ground. What was it it whispered? I knew not well myself; Perhaps it was something about the heat of the sun, Something, perhaps, about the lack of sound— And that was why it…
Category: Figurative Language
I Am the Walrus – John Lenon – Songs as Literature – Focus on Allusion and Juxtaposition
I Am the Walrus John Lenon and Paul McCartney I am he as you are he as you are me And we are all together See how they run like pigs from a gun See how they fly I’m crying Sitting on a corn flake Waiting for the van to come Corporation T-shirt, stupid bloody…
A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall – Bob Dylan – Nobel Prize in 2015 – Songs As Literature – Focus on Imagery
“In 2015 the Nobel Prize committee shocked the world by awarding the Nobel Prize in Literature to a singer.” … [Bob Dylan A Hard Rain’s A-Gonna Fall WRITTEN BY: BOB DYLAN Oh, where have you been, my blue-eyed son? Oh, where have you been, my darling young one? I’ve stumbled on the side of twelve…
Word Painting by Rebecca McClanahan
“If I were fully conscious of my surroundings at this moment, I would describe the light through the window, the way it searches out the apples in the glass bowl, buffing them to an unnatural sheen. I bought them for their fragrance, not their freshness, so even if you were to close your eyes, you’d…