Significance of Immediate Literary Elements

In one or two paragraphs, that is roughly 100-200 words in
total, discuss the significance of the passage in terms of its immediate literary elements
(including the development of mood or tone) as well as in terms of the broader themes,
meaning, and emotional force of the poem, play, short story, or novel from which it is
taken. You may even briefly link it to other works from our course. Literary devices may
include figurative language (metaphor, simile, metonymy, synecdoche, personification,
imagery, symbolism, etc), sound effects (rhythm and metre, rhyme, alliteration,
assonance), diction, repetition, irony, paradox, enjambment, point of view, free indirect
discourse, and more.

1. Thou ill-formed offspring of my feeble brain,
   Who after birth didst by my side remain,
   Till snatched from thence by friends, less wise than true
   Who thee abroad, exposed to public view,
   Made thee in rags, halting to th’ press to trudge,
   Where errors were not lessened (all may judge).
   From Anne Bradstreet, “The Author to Her Book”
2. No, helpless thing, I cannot harm thee now;
   Depart in peace, thy little life is safe,
   For I have scanned thy form with curious eye,
   Noted the silver line that streaks thy back,
   . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
   Felt the light pressure of thy hairy feet;
   Thou hast curled round my finger; from its tip,
   Precipitous descent! with stretched out neck,
   Bending thy head in airy vacancy,
   This way and that, inquiring, thou hast seemed
   To ask protection; now, I cannot kill thee.
   From Anna Laetitia Barbauld, “The Caterpillar”
3. Holy Cow! Shouts Bob, and he leaps out of the way of the falling Indians.
   Whup! Whup! Whup!
   Bob throws his hands over his head and dashes into the street. And is almost hit by a city
   truck.
   Honk!
   Two men jump out of the truck. Hi, I’m Bill. Hi, I’m Rudy.
   Hi, I’m Bob.
   Businessman? says Bill.
   Yes.
   First time in Toronto? says Rudy.
   Yes.
   From Thomas King, “A Short History of Indians in Canada”

Solution

Anne, Anna, and Thomas portray a theme of emotional sadness with a pitiful tone in their poems. They all give the message that the oppressed creature deserved to live and be free. This wasn’t some emotional outburst. Thomas, in his story, describes a sleepless white man witnessing an Indian crash and colliding into an office tower when visiting Toronto. Through satire, it explores the impact of colonialism and bias on indigenous people’s reputations (King 54). The graphic picture depicted in the story exuded anguish about cultural destruction in North America…Please click on the Icon below to purchase the full answer at only $5

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