Author’s Note: Figurative
language is to make something sound more extravagant or add meaning to the too
something that you write. I wrote this to explain how figurative language can
be used.
A lot of writing can be
extremely boring or gloomy. A lot of books or writing can be that way without
any figurative language. Figurative language can make something as cool as a
guy juggling balls on fire. Just like in
the poem “A Hillside Thaw” figurative
language is used to tell his emotions of what he sees.
The poem “A Hillside Thaw’s”
author Robert Frost uses
personification to add life and creativity to his extraordinary poem. Personification
is giving inanimate object human capabilities like running or talking. In this
poem the author uses personification to make water drops come alive. One
interesting phrase the author used was “The light braking on them made them
run” speaking about the dripping water. Using the figurative language also
added a calm and peaceful tone to the poem.
Frost also uses simile in
this piece to add more expression and impact by comparing it to something else.
Such as when he says, “It looks as if some magic of the sun lifted the rug that
bred them on the floor. The meaning of his words was as the sun come up the ice
starts to melt and the drops are hitting the ground. He also uses metaphors to
describe the day and night. Such as when he said “The sun’s a wizard” and “The
moons a witch” he is using good and evil in its place.
The tone was changed constantly as
the type of figurative language changed, but just like point of view it also
changes the way you interpret it. Such as when he talks about the time of day
changing, when he talks about the sun being a wizard you think of a someone
kind and good, when he talks about the moon being a witch you think evil and
Dark.
The poem “A Hillside thaw” had lots of different
figurative language that made it sound exquisite. It also changed to tone of
the poem and also the mood. The way he used figurative language made the poem
extremely entertaining. That is what figurative language is and how it is can improve
your writing and make it more exciting.
1. The types of figurative language being used is simile, metaphor, and
personification.
2. The author uses this language to add life to the poem he wrote.
3. The overall impact of the language makes the tone of poem magical
and full of life. The impact of the language also makes the mood of the reader
amused or entertained. The language makes the characters intimate or lifeless
things, such as when he says that the water from the ice cycles are lizards he’s
trying to catch.
