What literary devices are used in the poem "the truth-is stirless" by Emily Dickinson and what is the poem portraying and meaning?
Wow--just a second, I need to regain my balance. Every Dickinson poem is a stunner.
When I read a poem I prepare myself to enter a parallel universe of analogy, symbol, image and intuition. Dickinson is especially capable of creating images that surrealistically morph into one another and defy logic and even physical reality to get to an internal world.
I see her "Truth" as embodied by an impossible boneless body that nevertheless stands upright and unswaying, compared to the tree and mountain images/people/creatures, who are rigid yet feeble. How strong must this body be, if it stays without moving or stirring, even though it has no skeletal structure to even hold it up. What holds it up? Sheer willpower?
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Thanks for the A2A. In this poem I find several key things. There is metaphor and imagery and anthropomorphism and enjambment, all of which are legitimate literary devices in their own right. Emily's Truth is likened to a human body, albeit boneless; that's anthropomorphism, right there. The idea of Truth being capable of resisting forces that can sway trees and cause mountains to lean, despite being spineless in and of itself, other than figuratively speaking, is metaphor for the very power of Truth. The poem stops short of conceit, because the metaphor isn't constant throughout, but the overall effect is certainly one of having created imagery, if not symbolism. I don't know what device label we can give to Emily's technique of using long dashes to punctuate, but it's a device she used regularly, for emphasis, and which is very distinctively hers. Catherine has eloquently written what I would've liked to have added, if able. Thanks getting me to read this poem. I'm going to treasure it. read it you can understand the chapter
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Answer: mark me brain least not give me thanks
first mark me brain least
What literary devices are used in the poem "the truth-is stirless" by Emily Dickinson and what is the poem portraying and meaning?
Wow--just a second, I need to regain my balance. Every Dickinson poem is a stunner.
When I read a poem I prepare myself to enter a parallel universe of analogy, symbol, image and intuition. Dickinson is especially capable of creating images that surrealistically morph into one another and defy logic and even physical reality to get to an internal world.
I see her "Truth" as embodied by an impossible boneless body that nevertheless stands upright and unswaying, compared to the tree and mountain images/people/creatures, who are rigid yet feeble. How strong must this body be, if it stays without moving or stirring, even though it has no skeletal structure to even hold it up. What holds it up? Sheer willpower?
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Thanks for the A2A. In this poem I find several key things. There is metaphor and imagery and anthropomorphism and enjambment, all of which are legitimate literary devices in their own right. Emily's Truth is likened to a human body, albeit boneless; that's anthropomorphism, right there. The idea of Truth being capable of resisting forces that can sway trees and cause mountains to lean, despite being spineless in and of itself, other than figuratively speaking, is metaphor for the very power of Truth. The poem stops short of conceit, because the metaphor isn't constant throughout, but the overall effect is certainly one of having created imagery, if not symbolism. I don't know what device label we can give to Emily's technique of using long dashes to punctuate, but it's a device she used regularly, for emphasis, and which is very distinctively hers. Catherine has eloquently written what I would've liked to have added, if able. Thanks getting me to read this poem. I'm going to treasure it. read it you can understand the chapter
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Answer: It means that the bone are the lies and the poet explains how wonderful it would be if we have no lies and only truthfullness
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