Use any of the poems in the list below (taken from the Short Anthology of World Poetry from Getting Real) to illustrate your definitions. (10 to 15 sentences only)
- image
- symbol
- metaphor
- metonymy
- synecdoche
Religious Poetry
Egypt - Instruction Addressed to King Merikare
India - Hymn of Creation from Rig Veda
China - from Book of Songs
Lovesong
Sumer - To the Royal Bridegroom
Hebrew - Song of Songs
Villa - Song of Ripeness
Egypt - How clever my love with a lasso
China - To My Wife
Death & Lamentation
Sumer - Inanna's Journey to Hell
Egypt - Death is Before My Eyes Today
Deadline is May 11, Monday, 12 noon.
An image is a concrete representation of sensory images; it is said to be literal, concrete and sensuous. For instance, the 'sky' and 'earth' in the poem, “The Instruction Addressed to King Merikare”, are images. When an image begins to acquire a meaning other than the literal or to stand for something other than itself, it becomes a symbol. Symbols have commonly accepted values just like the use of 'lion' as a symbol for majesty in the poem, “To the Royal Bridegroom”. It is widely accepted that lion symbolizes majesty; however, we cannot say that symbols have absolute meaning because all of them really are determined by individual history, culture and time. A metaphor differs from a symbol in a sense that a metaphor uses comparison. In the poem, “To My Wife”, 'morning dew' is a metaphor as it is compared to the man’s life. Synecdoche and metonymy are figures of speech used in rhetoric. Synecdoche is the use of a part of something to mean a whole thing or vice versa. The word 'breasts' in the poem, “Song of Songs” is a synecdoche used to refer to a woman. Metonymy, on the other hand, is a figure of speech in which a concept is called not by its own name but of a name closely associated with it. It somehow works similar to synecdoche only that it is more generally associated with concepts. An example is title of the poem itself, “Death is before my eyes today”. Instead of saying that you can anticipate death coming, the use of the word 'eyes' which is closely associated with the concept of foreseeing is used to convey the idea.
ReplyDelete-Marjorie Gene Gadiano Lit14-S
There are many devices that people use in order to convey their message in literature. Some of these devices overlap and work hand in hand like image, metaphor, synecdoche, symbol and metonymy. All of these devices describe and explains further the main idea of the literary text, but each has its own unique purpose. Image is a picture or illustration of what the author sees or wants to portray, as seen in Sumer - Inanna's Journey to Hell, words like water, grass and wilderness are images that help us see the atmosphere and the setting of the poem. However, when these images are further used to represent other objects or deeper and abstract concepts, it becomes a symbol. In the same poem, the grass symbolizes the inability of the person to be beside the other person. Metaphor is a direct comparison of an object to another object. This is shown in Villa-Song of Ripeness: “I shall kiss a coconut because it is the nipple of a woman”. The coconut is directly compared to the nipples of a woman. Synecdoche is used when you talk about a part of something instead of the whole, or when you talk about the specific rather than the general, and vice versa. While Metonymy, on the other hand, is similar to synecdoche but is more general and loose when used and when a word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely related. For example, in China- To my Wife the line: “And solitary I lie prostrate on my pillow, tossing and turning” is an example of metonymy because instead of saying the bed itself, where the husband us lying, tossing and turning, he says he lies on his pillow instead, which is associated with the bed or sleeping. Example of metonymy is Egypt’s Instruction Addressed to King Merikare: “He made breath for their noses to live” wherein the author uses the word noses to refer to the body of man.
ReplyDelete- Frances Anne T. Daleon (Lit14 - S)
Image is the picture that is given by a word or phrase, being literal and concrete. Symbol is an image with a meaning; a word or phrase representing something else that are related. Metaphor seems similar with symbol, but it is a figure of expression that conenects unrelated subjects; one subject being/equal to another subject in some way. Being a stand for each other's expressions, like symbol or metaphor, metonymy consists of the use of the name of one object concept for that of another to which it is related, while synecdoche consists of using a part for the whole or the whole for a part, the special for the general or the general for the special. In "Instruction Addressed to King Merikare", the poet gave "sky", "earth", and "water monster" as images in the poem. The word "One" in the poem "Hymn of Creation from Rig Veda" symbolizes God. In "To My Wife", "morning dew" is a metaphor for man's life, since they are compared and they are not related in meanings. The decription of "they" in "Instruction Addressed to King Merikare" shows metonymy. The things 'they' do or receive by "Him" seems to explain the relationship between God and humans. It stands for human beings as it gives the things 'they' or humans usually do and what "He" did for 'them'. And lastly, the line "Death is before my eyes today" stands for the whole poem. It actually starts and ends with explaining how death is like.
ReplyDelete(Ha-eun Baik Lit14S)
The use of imagery can be found in the poem “Inanna’s Journey to Hell”. The speaker creates an image of what is happening in the poem that also evokes particular visual impressions and emotions. In the case of this poem, it would seem that the setting of the poem would be in a “wilderness” and the dominating idea or emotion would be depression. Now, the use of symbol can be found in the love song “To the Royal Bridegroom”. Symbol is a poetic device used to represent something – an idea or another object. In the song, “lion” acts as a symbol of “greatness” wherein that “greatness” is being compared to the bridegroom whose beauty is godly and honeysweet. From this song, a metaphor can also be seen. A metaphor is a figure of speech wherein object A is compared to object B to show a likeness or a similarity between those two completely different objects. The bridegroom is compared to a God because of beauty, and the lion is also compared to a God also because of beauty. Seeing there is a “common attribute” between the two subjects, the bridegroom and the lion can be considered a metaphor in a different level. Now going to metonymy and synecdoche, the two figures of speech share quite a similar function. The use of the two figures of speech revolves around the idea where a big “object” is represented by a smaller “object” that is part of it and vice versa. The only difference between the two is that a metonymy is more general in representation than the synecdoche which is more fixed and specified. Metonymy and synecdoche can be found in the love song “To My Wife”. In the line: “Mindful that I had soon to leave on service”, the word “service” is a synecdoche for the bigger idea of working or duty to a job. Meanwhile, metonymy can be found in the line: “And solitary I lie prostrate on my pillow” wherein the word “pillow” represents sleeping.
ReplyDelete- Juan Alberto Ong, (Lit14-S)
Image is the object used by the writer as the subject. Symbol is the meaning or what the (image) stands for. Metaphor is a subject being defined using the symbolism or characteristics of an entirely different thing. Metonymy is similar to Metaphor in a way that two things are different however in metonymy there are similarities in time and space (Malacanang = RP president). Synecdoche is similar to metaphor and metonymy however the similarities are between small thing and the whole thing in which the smaller belongs to (eyes = person). Synecdoche can be cinsidered a subclass of metonymy. In the poem Egypt from the Death and Lamentation section, Death is the object used as the image. in the poem, the persona's feelings and look in death is being described using the famous descriptions, stereotypes and even allusions about Egypt, therefore making Egypt the symbol. In the poem, there were no instances where Egypt is actually referred to aside from the title, therefore relying on the descriptions in the poem to show Egypt. The first example is the repeatedly used line "Death is before my eyes today" wherein "eyes" is used as an synecdoche instead of saying "i can see death". Second are the descriptions that refer to the persona's feelings which are examples metonymy; using the descriptions that have connections to Egypt.
ReplyDelete-Cholo Vicencio Lit14-S
An image is a concrete representation of an object or sensory experience. It is said to be of literal meaning. An example is "sky" from "Instruction Addressed to King Merikare." A symbol combines its literal meaning with the suggestion of an abstract concept like "ripened" in "Song of Ripeness." The word symbolizes maturity. Metaphor expresses an idea through the image of another object. For example, in the same song, coconuts are compared to that of a woman's nipples. Metonymy and synecdoche are different. With metonymy, an object is referred to in terms of something closely related to it, yet not actually a part of it. For instance, "Death is before my eyes today" means that he really did not see death right before him but he knows he will die someday. On the other hand, synecdoche is where an object is referred to something that is part of it or the other way around. For example, the word "noses" in "Instruction Addressed to King Merikare" symbolizes for the body.
ReplyDelete- Katrina Rose A. Castillo
Section S
Image is defined as a literal representation of the five senses, meaning its all about the use of our five senses to further describe or create an “image” of a thing or idea for the reader. One example of this is from Death and Lamentation “Death is before my eyes today”. The author used the “smell of lotus flowers” to give the reader an idea of what death is like by using the sense of smell to stress his definition. Moving on, a Symbol is something that represents something else. In the same poem, death probably symbolizes failure. Not exactly death as to having no life; but death as to a tragic downfall in a person’s life in the figurative sense. Metaphor on the other hand, involves qualities. A quality of an idea is similar that of a quality of another idea and that suggest a “likeness” between these ideas. Such example is like that of in the poem in Religious poetry in Egypt wherein mankind is considered like god’s cattle because mankind is being taken cared by God, just as a rancher takes care of his cattle. Metaphor is very much different from Symbol because in a Metaphor, the two ideas are seen in the poem, and in a Symbol, the other idea is sort of “implied” as the other similar idea is seen in the poem. Metonymy is the use of something that is closely associated with the idea, in place of an idea. Two examples of which are in line 4 of the same poem: “He made breath for their noses to live. Breath here is used in place of air that humans breathe, and noses is used in place of the action of breathing. Both Metaphor and Metonymy involves qualities of two ideas, the only difference is that in a Metaphor the two ideas are expressed in the poem. Metonymy and Symbol are different because a Metonymy is just a way of calling while Symbol represents an abstract idea, trait or concept. And finally, Synecdoche is the use of a part of the whole to represent the whole or vice versa. “Death is before my eyes” is an example of a Synecdoche because eyes here is used to represent the person, because eyes is part of a person.
ReplyDeletesource: http://www.k-state.edu/english/nelp/engl.f00/imagery_and_fig_lang.html
-Albert Mendoza Lit14 S-
Image, symbol, metaphor, metonymy and synecdoche are closely related figurative languages that can be mistaken with one another, but there are certain uses that can help determine one from the others. Image is a concrete representation of the external form of an object that usually appeals to our senses. It is used in “Inanna’s Journey to Hell” wherein the persona hears the calls of his wife, but he simply cannot answer. This can be seen in the lines, “As it echoes in the wilderness, I cannot answer.” Symbol is a concrete object that has both literal and figurative (abstract) meaning. In the line “I sent a carriage to bring you back”, taken from “To My Wife”, carriage can literally mean a type of transportation used to fetch the persona’s wife or the efforts that the persona did to bring his wife back. Metaphor is a comparison to show similarities of two completely different things without the use of words like “as” and “like”. In the “The Instruction Addressed to King Merikare” metaphor was used in the first line, “Well-tended is mankind – god’s cattle”; mankind was compared to God’s cattle that He takes good care of. The use of the word “Heaven” in “The Book of Songs” exemplifies the use of metonymy. Metonymy is the substitution of a term for something closely related to it without having to explain their relation. The term “Heaven” was used in replace of God. When a part of an object is used to represent the whole or vice-versa, Synecdoche is used. In “Death is Before My Eyes Today”, the persona’s eyes were used in order to represent his whole being.
ReplyDelete- Maria Louise Avenido
Lit14-S
The image in the poem “Egypt - Instruction Addressed to King Merikare” wants us to see or imagine how powerful, kind, and caring the “He” is in the poem. This can be imagined because of the lines in the story like “he subdued the water monster”. From these words we could clearly imagine an image of a powerful being. On the other hand, rather than a direct or literal illustration that imagery refers to symbol is used in order to stand for something different or deeper than what is being said. An example of a symbol used in the poem is the word “sky” that refers to how high and mighty someone is. On the other hand, the difference of metaphor from the other two is that it connects two different things that have a common characteristic (comparison). Metaphor is used in the poem in the line “Well-tended is mankind – god’s cattle” which compares mankind to a cattle. Metonymy on the other hand is a figure of speech used in order to substitute an object to something different based on their congruity. An example of this is the comparison of a water monster to a raging storm. Lastly, the difference of synecdoche from the other concepts is that it uses a “whole” in order to denote something lesser and vice versa. An example of synecdoche in the poem is the usage of the term “nose” in order to substitute for a human being. –Ray V. Bolintiam Lit14-S
ReplyDeleteIn poetry, image is commonly used as the concrete thing or an object that the author wants us to imagine and to take it's literal meaning in the poem. Just like in the Villa - Song of Ripeness, the author wrote the poem for us to imagine the coconuts, the object itself(physical appearance) not for us to think what does a coconut mean. But for symbols, the author wants us to seek for deeper meanings of the objects because those that the author used serves as representations of what he really wants us to see. Symbols are like hidden comparisons that the author uses to bring up another meaning of an object. But for many countries, because of different cultures, objects may have more than one representations. In the poem Sumer- To the Royal Bridegroom, Bridegroom denotes good, while Lion represents power, courage thus, telling us power, courage, goodness in love. For metaphor, it uses direct connection between two or more objects as for the use of comparison. The use of metaphor clearly shows in the poem Villa-Song of Ripeness at the line "I shall kiss a coconut because it is the nipple of a woman." for it uses comparison without the use of "like" or "as". Metonymy and synecdoche are quite similar for they are conceptual substitutions that are used to stand for another related object. Synecdoche is under metonymy which is represented by an object that stands for the whole or vice versa. On the other hand, metonymy isn't under synecdoche yet has also the same function but uses an object that has more general or loose associations with the concept. Synecdoche is seen in the poem India - Hymn of Creation from Rig Veda, for the use of the nose to stand as a whole(nose a part of a person). While an example of metonymy can be seen in the poem China- To My Wife in the line “And solitary I lie prostrate on my pillow,” for it used pillow that represents bed for which lying, or sleeping can be done.
ReplyDelete- Edgar Joseph R. Carrasco, Lit 14-S
Imagery is used in literatre as to refer to a descriptive language that evokes mind-dependent objects or situation and gives different perceptions of it. An example would be the poem, Sumer - Inanna's Journey to Hell where there seems to be an imagery in terms of “the dead land”.
ReplyDeleteSymbol is used in literature as a deeper meaning of an object, place, sound, etc in comparison with another that it is associated with. An example would be the poem, Sumer- To the Royal Bridegroom where in the word “Lion” would represent something aside from the literal concept.
The difference between Symbol and image is that image actually resembles what is represents, while symbol neither resembles nor is related to what it represents.
Metaphor is used in literature to connect unrelated subjects and make them equally the same by not retaining any of each is individual representation. An example to this would be the poem, Song of Ripeness where in “the coconut” is seen as “the nipple of a woman”.
Metonomy is used in literature as a thing or concept is not called by it’s own name but something associated with it. An example would be the poem, The Book of Songs where in God is referred to as “Heaven” in the poem.
Synecdoche is used in literature when a part of something is used to denote a whole thing associate to it or vice versa. An example to this would be the poem, The Instruction Addressed to the King Merikare where in the phrase “noses to live” denotes something larger than the image presented.
Denise L. Tiu/ Lit14-S
Image is the picture that appeals to our senses like in the poem “To My Wife” the author used ‘morning dew’ to let the reader use their imagination so that it will be easier to understand the poem . Some of these images tend to have deeper meanings, these images will then be considered as symbols. Like in the poem from Egypt that falls under the category, love songs, the author used ‘bull’ in the poem which can symbolize fertility. Metaphor is the comparison of two seemingly different things, however when we look at it, there may be a tiny bit of the two things that are similar. An example of this would be when the author compared a man’s life to morning dew in the poem “To My Wife”. One may wonder how a man’s life would be similar to a morning dew, but when you think about it, you can see that both a man’s life and morning dew come and go. It may be here at the moment but later on it will no longer be there. Synecdoche word employed when you use a part of the thing to mean the whole thing itself. For example, He made breath for their noses to live from “Instruction Addressed to King Merikare” . Instead of directly saying he made breath for humans to live, he represented humans with noses- which is a part of a human. Metonymy is quite similar to synecdoche but it uses more general concepts like in the poem, “to my wife” ‘And solitary I lie prostrate on my pillow’ the pillow represents sleep.
ReplyDeleteAubrey Mae Ang
Lit 14- S
An image is something concrete like a picture which can appeal to one’s actual perception or imagination. It affects one’s senses on the literal or aesthetic level. An example of this is the use of word “tree” and “coconut” in the poem “Song of Ripeness”. As one would read through this poem, one can actually imagine a tree (not just any tree) – a coconut tree. A symbol, on the other hand, is an image standing for something else other than itself and usually concrete. In the poem “Song of Ripeness” the coconut symbolises a nipple of a woman. A nipple and a coconut are two very different objects but somehow the author makes sense out of saying that a coconut is a nipple. A metaphor is somewhat the same as a symbol. The difference is it is compared with another different idea. For example, in the poem “Instruction Addressed to King Merikare”, the line “came from his body” can compare to the sense of him making them. A synecdoche is when something is described by mentioning a part of it. For example, in the poem “Song of Songs” a woman is described by mentioning her body parts like breasts, breath, and mouth. A metonymy, on the other hand, described something by mentioning anything related to it. For example, in the poem “Instruction Addressed to King Merikare” mankind is said to be god’s cattle. God’s cattle is a metonymy that means mankind for it can be closely associated with mankind.
ReplyDeleteMio Casano
Many poets actually have the liberty of using the different elements of poetic diction and it usually affects the poem as a whole. An effective poem can make the reader’s feel what it means just by the use of words translated to vivid images. I think the Hebrew lyric from Song of Songs can best represent what the use of images mean because the readers can freely imagine a palm tree and its surroundings by the use of adjectives like “beautiful” and “lovely” and also by describing its clusters. Of course, that is the case only when we look at a poem literally. In poetry, the symbol is somewhat related to image, but the huge difference is that symbol can be an object, a picture, or even a sound which relays that represents something else by the use of association, resemblance, or convention. An example for this is the use of the word “myrrh” in the poem of death and lamentation from Egypt because if we relate it to spiritual terms, we can state that it represents a clear foreshadowing of death, in addition, it can also represent suffering love or even as an act of sacrifice, but whichever way we look at it means another thing and that’s what symbols are all about. Another element that can be used in a poem is the metaphor wherein two seemingly unrelated objects are connected to each other. This can be seen in the lovesong from Sumer To the Royal Bridegroom where “lion” is used as a metaphor for “bridegroom,” but as we can see it is not literally applicable in order to suggest a resemblance between these two things. On the other hand, metonymy may be contrasted with metaphor because while it is true that both figures involve the substitution of one term for another, in metaphor, the substitution is based on similarity, while in metonymy, the substitution is based on a series of things in continuous connection. An example fit for this is in the Song of Ripeness by Jose Garcia Villa where the phrase, “suck out of coconuts little white songs,” is seen. We can relate that to infants who desperately need milk to grow up and a lullaby that they need for sleeping. Lastly, we can connect synecdoche with metonymy for they are closely related with each other; furthermore, synecdoche is actually considered to be a subclass of metonymy and is also distantly related to other figures of speech such as metaphor. The word “Heaven” used in the religious poetry from China is a good example of synecdoche for it represents a bigger entity which is God.
ReplyDeleteCheth neciemie G. Mundin (Lit14-S)
Image is a mental picture formed through the utilization of the reader’s imagination and sensory aspects, which conveys mostly about the human experience and primarily tells what the poem is about. For instance, in the poem “To My Wife”, an image of a man who first conveys his hard situation and had to leave on service and eventually expresses his loneliness and desolation for being separated with his wife who is also feeling distressed about their situation. Symbol, on the other hand, is something that represents another thing and suggests a deeper meaning to it. Such as in the love song “To the Royal Bridegroom,” the word lion can represent the bridegroom wherein his bride possibly describes him as strong and powerful. Metaphor is a device used wherein two different objects or ideas are directly and immediately compared with each other as to having something in common. It is used in the song poem, “Song of Ripeness,” in which coconuts are paralleled to the breasts of a woman. Metonymy is used when something (word or idea) is substituted for another wherein both are closely associated. In the religious poem from the Book of Songs, words such as “mighty Heaven” and “Great Heaven” are used to represent and closely referred to as God. Lastly, Synecdoche is a device used wherein a part is used to represent the whole, or the whole is used to represent, or in other words, a specific term is used to represent the general term, or a general term is used to represent the specific term. From the poems given, this device is present in the religious poem, “Instruction Addressed to King Merikare,” seen in the line “he made breath for their noses to live.” Nose is a body organ that we know of as a part of the respiratory system of the body that enables people to live, with that, a part is used to represent the whole.
ReplyDelete(Samantha Valencia Lit14-S)
An IMAGE is something an author wants the readers to visualize upon to see the literal and concrete idea or object he/she presented. Egypt (in death and lamentation) as a whole is an image because it describes how his/her eyes see death and compares it to many things to let readers visualize what he/she sees (ex: a foot-worn path). A SYMBOL is something that represents something else by association or resemblance. In China - from Book of Songs (in religious poetry), "death and famine" in the 3rd line are symbols for punishment since both may be forms of punishment associated with gods (heaven). A METAPHOR is the comparison of two different things that when observed carefully, may have similarities. In Sumer - To the Royal Bridegroom (Lovesong), the Bridegroom is compared to a Lion because both the Bridegroom (Royal) and the Lion("King of the Jungle") share similarities which is royalty. A SYNECDOCHE is a figure of speech that uses a smaller part to represent a bigger part or a whole. In Egypt (death and lamentation), "eyes" in "Death is before my eyes today" represents the whole person, like saying "Death in front of me". Also in Villa - Song of Ripeness (Lovesong), "nipple" may represent the whole (breast) in the line "I shall kiss a coconut because it is the nipple of a woman." because the breast may be a better comparison to the coconut. A METONYMY is a figure of speech that uses a word that represents another that is closely related to it (representations may vary among cultures and own views). In Egypt (Lovesong), the "bull" in the line "She'll never need a kept bull" may be associated with a man because bulls are often referred to men like "barakos". Also in China - from Book of Songs (religious poetry), "Heaven" may represent authority since it brings punishments to the people in the poem.
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Paul Brian Lao
Lit14 - S
An image is a mental picture of something not present. A good example of image is in the poem “India - Hymn of Creation from Rig Veda”, where the absence of air or sky or death or water gives us an image of what it was before life began. A Symbol on the other hand is an object or name that stands for something else (usually an object that means something else unrelated to the object). For example, the lasso in the poem “Egypt” may symbolize a strong man who would keep and protect his woman and will do anything for the woman; and like a lasso, he is sturdy. Next, metaphor is a figure of speech in which an expression used to refer to an object does not represent the same meaning. For example, in “Egypt - Instruction Addressed to King Merikare”, mankind is described as God’s cattle and mankind is not a cattle. Metonymy is a figure of speech which an trait of a thing or something related to it is changed for the thing itself. In the poem “China - from Book of Songs”, Heaven is God (though heaven is not a person, yet they used heaven to call God). Last is synecdoche which is a figure of speech in which a part is used for the whole or the whole as a part. Example, in “China - from Book of Songs”, Like a palm tree, you are stately and like its clusters are your breasts—the whole personality of the woman is described as a palm tree and is generalized by a palm tree.
ReplyDelete=SHARAH SO-LIT 14S=
We can see the image from literature such as novel and poem. In the poem “Song of Ripeness”, the writer thinks the coconuts on the coconut tree are like women’s breast and nipples. The poem makes readers to imagine the scene and we may agree with that why he said that way because we might imagine the same image (the poem helps us to imagine). A symbol is a shape or design that is used to represent it. From the poem “The Book of Songs”, ‘Heaven’ is god who is more divine than a king since usually people believe god lives in heaven beyond the sky. And the ‘righteous words’ can be what the god said. Metaphor is an imaginative way of describing something by referring to something else. I think in the poem “Song of Songs” there is metaphor that ‘I will climb the palm tree and take hold of its fruits’. Palm tree here is ‘you’ the girl who the writer likes. ‘climb the palm tree’ is kind of coming to her or saying that he likes her. And the ‘fruits’ is her breast which can be her heart and mind. So ‘take hold of its fruits’ can be ‘take her heart’, ‘make her like him also’. Metonymy is a figure of speech in which one word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated. It is also the rhetorical strategy of describing something indirectly by referring to things around it. We can see this from the poem “Inanna's Journey to Hell”. ‘Wilderness’ there is grave yard and hell and the ‘grass’ is living things. At last, synecdoche is a figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole, the whole for a part, the specific for the general, the general for the specific, or the material for the thing made from it. Good example of this is in the poem “Instruction Addressed to King Merikare”. The phrase ‘he made breath for their noses to live’. Noses here is where to breathe so it can be live for them.
ReplyDelete(JiHyun Han Lit14-S)
Metaphor is a language that directly connects seemingly unrelated subjects. For example, in Villa - Song of Ripeness: "I shall kiss a coconut because it is the nipple of a woman." A coconut and a woman's nipple are unrelated objects (ones is a fruit and one is a body part), and yet there are being linked to each other.
ReplyDeleteMetonymy is a figure of speech in which one word is substituted for another word which it is closely related to. For example, in the Book of Songs, the use of heaven. Heaven pertains to God.
A symbol is an object, animate or inanimate, that stands for or points to a reality beyond itself. For example, in Egypt - How clever my love with a lasso. The lasso may symbolize the power of a lady over her man.
Image evokes sensory experience, whether figurative or literal. In Egypt - Death is Before My Eyes Today, the poem uses sensory details like "the smell of lotus flowers", "the scent of myrrh", "man recovering from illness" and "a man yearning for his home". The poem makes us use our minds to feel and smell the lines and words.
Synecdoche is a term denoting a part of something is used to refer to a whole (or vice versa). For example, in Egypt (Death and Lamentation)- Death is before my eyes today. "My eyes" represents a whole that is "myself."
(Princess Trinidad Lit14-S)
An image is a concrete and literal representation of an object or sensory experience. It is a picture given by a word or a phrase. In the poem, “Instruction addressed to King Merikare”, the words “earth” and “sky” are examples of images. A symbol, on the other hand, are images with certain meaning. It represents something – an idea or another object. For instance, in the poem “To the Royal Bridegroom,” it uses “lion” to represent the bridegroom. The lion is, as we all know, represents that of a real man who is courageous and fierce. Metaphor, meanwhile, is a figure of speech that uses comparison to show similarity between two objects. One fine example of a metaphor can be found in the poem “Song of Ripeness”, the word “coconut” are seen as nipples of a woman. Metonymy is a device wherein an object is called by something closely associated with it. In the poem “Book of Songs”, God is being referred to as heaven. Lastly, synecdoche is referring a part of something to mean a whole thing and vice versa. In the line “Death is before my eyes today”, it does not simply refer to the literal meaning which is in front of his eyes, but to a bigger picture of a man facing death, it represents the whole person.
ReplyDelete(Justin Ravago Lit14 S)
Image has something to do with concrete, together with sensation and perception of an idea. It can be seen in the poem Villa – Song of Ripeness wherein the image of coconuts were to tell the readers how a breast can be like and together with metaphor, which is the comparison of objects, he compares coconuts to a nipple of a woman. Symbols are also used in the poem. The difference with metaphor and symbol is that the latter is rather hidden for the symbol in the poem is the ripening of the coconut which means the maturing of the breasts and the enlarging where they will grow heavy. Synecdoche is describing something as a part of the whole. The poem described the two nipples of a woman which is part of a woman. Metonomy is describing something that is related to it. Still in the poem, the coconuts are described as to they are nipples to the tree or as the fruit to the tree.
ReplyDelete(Michael Reyes Lit14 - S)
An image is a literal picture of the word given in a poem, for example is the image given in the poem "How clever my love with a lasso" where in the image of a lasso and a bull is used. But when thought of the deeper meaning of the text, a symbol is then depicted where in lasso is like the attraction of the person to the other and the bull is the person being attracted to the other. The symbol is what the image depicts in a deeper scale. However a metaphor is different from a symbol in the context that a metaphor uses a direct comparison to get the message across, an example of which can be found in the poem "Inanna's journey to hell" where in the person compares himself to shoots if grass in a dead land.
ReplyDeleteMetonymy is defined as " a figure of speech consisting of the use of the name of one thing for that of another of which it is an attribute or with which it is associated" found in the online Merriam-Webster Dictionary and example of which can be found in the poem "Inanna's Journey to Hell" wherein "dead land" also means hell.
Synecdoche is using a part of bigger object to depict the specific object. One obvious example is found in the poem "Song of Ripeness" wherein "two nipples" is used to depict a woman or a person. Another example can be found in "To My Wife" it says "...I lie prostrate on my pillow," but it can also be interpreted as the pillow is the bed or a place where a person sleeps in.
Carlos Andrei B. Dela Cruz (Lit 14 - S)
All of the following terms are figures of speech which is a special way of expressing the meanings of words not taking its literal meaning. A synecdoche is a figure of speech in which a part stands for a whole while metonymy is a way of describing something indirectly by referring to things around it, such as describing someone's clothing to characterize the individual. Oftentimes, metaphors are used in comparison by transferring words from their proper signification to an improper and implied similarity. Also, a symbol is usually employed to represent something to transfer the ideas embodied. Imagery, on the other hand, evokes sensory experiences and emotions.
ReplyDeleteIn the poem entitled To My Wife, similes were clearly used when the speaker directly makes a comparison of his life to a morning dew where sorrows come as in a circle which cannot be rolled up like a mat. However, in Jose Garcia Villa’s poem, Song of Ripeness, metaphor was used when the coconut is implied to be a nipple of a woman as seen in the last line. Reading further the poem, To My Wife, images of a man full of grief and desiring to take again back to him his dear one was portrayed. In the poem, To the Royal Bridegroom, the bridegroom was then called as a lion in the third line which is a metonymy. Furthermore, in The Instruction Addressed to King Merikare, synecdoche was used where man was portrayed as a part of God and that if man weeps he hears and for man he will do everything. And finally, in the poem from Egypt, a lasso was used to symbolize the woman the speaker dearly loves. Lasso being a long rope was used as the material to show how the woman attracts him in her own way.
Source: http://www.angelfire.com/ct2/evenski/poetry/figuresofspeech.html
(Unjee Kim Lit14 S)
Images are used to evoke mental images. In the poem "Instruction Addressed to King Merikare", the use of images can be seen in words like "sky" and "earth". A symbol, on the other hand, is anything that for or represents something else beyond it-usually an idea conventionally associated with it. In the poem "To the Royal Bridegroom", the word lion is used as a symbol. It represents the bridegroom as a strong, fearless man, just like the lion. Metaphor is another figure of speech in which a word or phrase that ordinarily designates one thing is used to designate another, thus making an implicit comparison. In the poem "Song of Ripeness" metaphor is used when the coconuts on the tree are compared to a woman's nipples. Metonymy is another figure of speech in which a word or phrase is substituted for another with which it is closely associated. In the poem "China-from Book of Songs", the words vast and mighty heaven uses metonymy because instead of using the word GOD, the writer used other words closely associated to the word God. Lastly, synecdoche is a figure of speech in which a part is used to represent the whole, the whole for a part, the specific for the general, the general for a specific or the material for the thing made from it. An example of this can be seen in the poem "Instruction Addressed to King Merikare". In the line "He made breath for their noses to live", the word noses represents the human body as a whole and breathing through it makes the person live.
ReplyDelete(Stephanie Bucad Lit14-S)
In poetry, an image is a picture suggested by the very words of the poem. It is reproduced in the mind of the reader so that he/she can witness/experience/realize the scene/emotion/message evoked by the poet. In the poem "Instruction Addressed to King Merikare", an image of a good god (creator, nurturer, provider, defender, listener) to his people can be visualized. Aside from enabling the cattle to survive by providing breath and destroying the water monster, the god always remember his people by listening to their cries.
ReplyDeleteA symbol, on the other hand, is not just an image provided in the poem but a vital picture that represents/stands for something important (usually essential ideas and elements of life and society) through association, resemblance, or convention. It is something that cannot be automatically drawn by the reader for deep thought and reasoning is required for it to be accurately distinguished.
Meanwhile, a metaphor is a literary device that directly relates two objects of no direct association by describing an object as 'being' or 'equal' to another object in specific terms. In the poem, the association of mankind to god's cattle is very metaphorical as these do not have a direct and obvious connection. But I think the cattle's need for guidance and care from a shepherd is parallel to mankind's need for guidance and care from a god. The comparison doesn't make use of the words "like" and "as" therefore it is a metaphor and not a simile.
Metonymy is another literary device that involves the substitution of one term for another based on contiguity, that is a series of connections and associations.
Finally, synecdoche is a figure of speech in which a term denoting a part is used to refer to the whole thing, or vice versa. In the poem, the line "He made breath for their noses to live" employs synecdoche for it is not only the noce but the whole human body that is given life by the breath provided by the god.
- Jan Christopher B. Gonzales, LIT 14S
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