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Lyricism. Jinhee Lee Christopher Yip Josephe Rodriguez Dmitri Garanov Paris Chen. Bones. Lyricism. Gentle and romantic emotion, often expressed in writing, poetry, or music. C onnotation. Felicitous words with layers of meaning and resonances beyond the concrete
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Lyricism Jinhee Lee Christopher Yip Josephe Rodriguez Dmitri Garanov Paris Chen
Lyricism • Gentle and romantic emotion, often expressed in writing, poetry, or music
Connotation • Felicitous words with layers of meaning and resonances beyond the concrete • Ex) strong-willed or pig-headed : a stubborn person strong-willed : admiration for the level of someone’s will pig-headed : frustration in dealing with someone
Imagery • Deep feelings through visual descriptions • Ex) trembling daffodil : describes a person
Metaphor • The comparison of disparate things • The comparison is expressed when a figurative term is substituted for a literal term • Ex) Her eyes were glistening jewels His voice was an explosion of sound
Simile • The comparison is expressed through words such as like, as, than, similar to, and resembles • Ex) I am as bold as a lion He is acting like a clown
The difference between metaphor and simile • Metaphor : without the use of “like” or “as” • Simile : the use of “like” or “as”
Symbol • The use of one thing to mean much more than what it is • Ex) a light bulb : a trite symbol for an idea “The Road Not Taken” : a poetic symbol for the consequences of choice
Analogy • A whole web of metaphors in which a likeness is drawn through parallel structure • Ex) HAND : PALM : : FOOT : ____ (the answer : SOLE)
Flesh--are connected with the bones. Lyricism: the expression of strong emotion in poetry, art, music, etc.
Examples • A crippled United Airlines DC-10 crashed a half-mile short of a runway while trying to make an emergency landing Wednesday afternoon, bursting into a cart-wheeling fireball that broke into what one eyewitness described as “15,000 pieces.”
Metaphor: cartwheeling fireball Imagery: 15,000 pieces
The quiet of an afternoon in provincial France When praising the film 1984 Midnight time The silence of a folded flag Added that the director “found a new color spectrum, the bleached-out rainbow of hopelessness” Crawling animal Examples Metaphor might also be a swift phrase or a deft stroke.
Lyrical writing • Like all writing, don’t take it too complicated. • It still depends on concrete images and strong detail. • Exceptions: Occasionally metaphor makes descriptive passages sail.
“A Room of One’s Own” • In her two papers that she gave in her speech, Woolf extends her metaphor: an idea begins as a fish gently tugging at the end of the line, then becomes prey – something with which the thinker toys – then shifts yet again – to a disappointment, or perhaps a promise of a fatter fish to come.
Do not use dead metaphors (cliché combination of words which are used so often that they lose their power) for example, “strong as an ox.”
Make sure your metaphors make sense • Bad Example: “black as Blueberries”
Don’t confuse the reader with combinations of metaphors that don’t make sense together. • Bad Example: “fiddling with his guitar” Jimmy Webb, referring to Glen Campbell.
Chapter 14 Lyricism CARNAL PLEASURES
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