Saturday, December 17, 2011

What kind of figurative laguage is present in this poem?on nothing else

I am only allowed to answer one
question.


Emily Dickinson's poem "I Like To See It Lap the
Miles," is referring to "water."


Hints can be found with
words like "lap," "lick," "tanks," "quarry."


Phrases that
suggest water are "stop to feed itself at tanks" (which hold water), "fit its sides,"
"crawl between," "chase itself down hill," and "docile and
omnipotent."


Images that suggest water are "complaining all
the while / In horrid, hooting stanza" and "neigh like
Boanerges."


("Boanerges" is the Biblical name Jesus gave to
James and John; it can mean "sons of thunder" or a "...preacher with a powerful
voice.")


The phrases listed above give a sense of water:
water can "fit its sides" to other shapes. Water can seem to "crawl between" and "chase
itself down hill;" and "docile and omnipotent" refer to calm water and water that is
all-powerful: like tsunamis/tidal waves, etc.

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