Figurative Language

Author's Note:Today I will be analyzing The Train by Emily Dickinson and I will be talking about the figurative language on the poem and how tone and mood are used and what impact it has on the reader.

"Train", by Emily Dickinson, is about trains and how they ride on the railroad tracks and Emily just uses some figurative language to explain like when she says " I like to see it lap the miles, and lick the valley's up that type of figurative language is personification because it has human and animal traits. The reason Emily used figurative language is to make the tone and mood more exiting.    

In the poem train Emily compared a train and a horse because there both fast and big and she compares them by saying it stops to feed at the tanks that's just like saying when horses feed itself at a stable or when a train stops for fuel at the tanks. She also talks about  the train racing around the mountains just how a horse would if traveling through mountains Emily also tries to not really compare the two and she tries to keep it hidden and suspicious so you wonder what shes talking about.

Most people think poems are boring and just rhyme all the time and they don't this poem Train by Emily Dickinson doesn't really rhyme like some other poems it just uses alot of figurative language. In the first two lines of the poem is I like to see it lap the miles and lick the valley's up that kind of figurative language makes the poem great because nobody likes poems that just have regular words in them like run the valley's up because that would'nt sound as good as it is now. I feel like the author is telling us how she feels about trains and how they move down the railroad track the other type of tone is happy because the poem doesn't show any sadness or anger and she shows how she likes trains and also how she's trying to compare a horse and a train.

If there was no figurative language in this poem people would think this would be not as exciting and it would seem more boring because figurative language just makes it sound better instead of just describing the train with regular boring words.The figurative language "Around the pile of mountains" in the poem has effect on this piece because if Emily just said " around a bunch of mountains" it would be as powerful as it is.

I think this poem is great because it has alot of figurative language and I like how she's comparing a horse and a train and the figurative language affects the tone of the poem because instead of using boring words she used "crawl" and "supercilious". If I were to rate this poem i would give it a 8 out of 10 because she uses alot of figurative language.  

The Predicting of The Big Field

Author's Note:In this piece we needed to predict whats going to happen in the novel and compare it to other novels and see how are they the same or how they different.

I will be predicting the end of The Big Field by Mick Lupica and I will be comparing it to Football Hero and how that ended and I will be seeing the differences between them and the similarities. In the story The Big Field the main characters are Hutch and Cody and they play in a junior league and they travel around the state for the playoffs and the championship.Hutch and Cody would always watch Yankee games and Hutch's hero of baseball is Derek Jeter and he plays for the Yankees. Hutch's dad use to play baseball and he was going into the MLB but he hurt his shoulder and it ended his season.

In the story Football Hero the main characters are Ty and Thane which is Ty's brother in Football Hero Ty is this nerdy kid who cleans toilets for his uncles job and he also had to moved schools because his mom and dad died in a car crash and he had to move with his uncle so in his new school he gets bullied and really has no friends. Ty and his brother both like football and Ty's brother play in college and he eventually gets into the NFL. I think The Big field is going to end by Hutch and Cody's team will win the championship because they are winning their playoffs games and Football Hero had a good ending because Thane got a good contract deal with New York Jets a pro NFL team and Ty also got to live with Thane like he always wanted to.

I thought this was a good prediction because all the sport Mike Lupica books end with a good ending and also The Big Field could end like that because Cody and Hutch are just like Ty and Thane even though the books were written by different Authors. There are also some clues that this story could end this way and some of the clues are when Hutch and Cody win the second game to get even closer to winning the championship.

The things that are different in these two stories is that ones baseball and ones football the characters are different because Ty was a nerdy kid and Hutch and Cody were just really good friends and were both really good at baseball the themes were also different The Big Field was in the summer in Florida and Football Hero was in the country in Virginia. In The Big Field Hutch and Cody actually had moms and dads and Ty didn't he just had his uncle and his aunt. As I would see it from my point of view that these stories are alot the same but a little different at times I recommend this book to people who like sports because they both show that they you need hard work in sports and always practice to get better