Being Figurative

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.