percedent studies

my Artwork

            My artwork description

     This is my first artwork for Digital Media 3. In this artwork i have apply what i learn during my lecture time. i have use metaphors and symbols to represent myself regarding to the poem. In my artwork i have illustrate a tree with colorful and   on the down side is the soil. And on the soil i have put root but in symbolic way. this poem is telling about my life which i have to work hard to grow or become successful in my life. The artwork showing the parts of our human life which are divide into two hardest and the happiness part. this poem telling that anyhow we have to go through our  life.

Assignment 1-(Poem)

When i really want something,
Sometimes i have to swim little deeper,
I just can't give just,
Because thing don't come easily  ,
I have to over come the little obstacles
And face my fears,
But in the end it's all worth,
While life is full of ups and  down,
But i believe in myself,
i always will come through with
growing colors, in earth
and never underestimate myself,
i believe in myself and grow stronger!!

What Are Symbols?

Communication element intended to represent or stand for a person, object, group, process, or idea. Symbols may be presented graphically (e.g., the cross for Christianity, or the light/dark halved circle for yin-yang) or representationally (e.g., Uncle Sam standing for the U.S., or a lion standing for courage). They may involve associated letters (e.g., C for the chemical element carbon), or they may be assigned arbitrarily (e.g., the mathematical symbol for infinity or the dollar symbol). Symbols are not a language of and by themselves; rather they are devices by which ideas often too complex or highly charged to articulate in ordinary language are transmitted between people sharing a common culture. Every society has evolved a symbol system that reflects a specific cultural logic; and every symbolism functions to communicate information between members of the culture in much the same way as, but more subtly than, conventional language. Though a symbol may take the discrete form of a wedding ring or a totem pole, symbols tend to appear in clusters and depend on one another for their accretion of meaning and value.

What Is Metaphor?

Metaphor, from the Greek for "transference," is the use of language that designates one thing to designate another in order to characterize the latter in terms of the former. Nominal metaphors use nouns in this way, as in "My daughter is an angel." Predicative metaphors use verbs, as in "The dog flew across the back yard." In addition to single words being used metaphorically, phrases, sentences, and more extended texts can also function as metaphors, as in the assertion "Bravely the troops carried on" to refer to telephone operators who continued to work during a natural disaster. Sometimes a metaphor can be recognized because it is literally false. When a proud father says, "My daughter is an angel," no one believes that she has wings. But a metaphor need not be literally false. The opposite assertion -- that one's daughter is no angel -- is literally true; she does not have wings. Yet this is not likely to be the speaker's intended meaning, nor is it likely to be a hearer's interpretation. In each of these two cases, hearers must go beyond the literal meaning to arrive at the speaker's intention -- what the hearer is intended to understand.

It was discovered in the late 1970's that the mind contains an enormous system of general conceptual metaphors -- ways of understanding relatively abstract concepts in terms of those that are more concrete. Much of our everyday language and thought makes use of such conceptual metaphors. This paper claims, first, that the system of conceptual metaphor that functions in ordinary thought and language is also used, first, to provide plausible interpretations of dreams and, second, to generate dreams

How to make sense of a poem

How to make sense of a poem

Read the poem several times, on separate occasions; think about it between readings. Decide exactly what it says on a literal level first: figure out which verbs go with which nouns, which modifiers with which nouns, etc. In other words, get it straight on a grammatical level. If you don't know what a word means, look it up. Examine the title carefully - sometimes the meaning of a poem depends on it. To get the rhythmic and sound effects, either read the poem aloud (where your roommate can't hear you and think you're crazy) or read it to yourself mentally.

Here are some questions that may prove helpful in the process:
1. Who is the speaker? What sort of person is s/he?
2. To whom is s/he speaking? What sort of person is this listener?
3. What is the occasion?
4. What is the setting in time (time of day, season, century, etc.)?
5. What is the setting in place (indoors or out, city, country, nation, etc.)?
6. State the central idea or theme in a sentence or two.
7. Discuss the diction of the poem. Point out words that are well chosen and explain why they appear so. Are there "key words" or significant patterns of language? If so, why and what do they contribute to the poem?
8. Discuss the imagery of the poem. What sorts of images are used, and how do they achieve their effect?
9. Point out examples of simile, metaphor, personification, etc., and explain why these devices are used.
10. Point out and explain any symbols. If the poem is allegorical, explain the allegory.
11. Point out and explain examples of paradox, overstatement, understatement, and irony, where significant. What is their function in the poem?
12. Point out and explain any allusions. What is their function?
13. What is the rhyme scheme? Does it fall into one of the conventional patterns (couplet, sonnet, ballad, alternating rhyme, etc.)?
14. What is the meter?
15. Discuss how well the mechanical technique of the poem is suited to the poem's content.
16. Does the poem belong to any particular genre (elegy, sonnet, pastoral, dramatic monologue, etc.)? If so, in what ways does it follow or contradict the conventions of that genre?
17. Look at the form of the poem - the number of lines, their length, their arrangement on the page. Does the form relate in some necessary or special way to the poem's content? Can you figure out why the poet chose this particular form for his poem?
18. What is the poet trying to do in the poem; that is, what is her/his intention? What idea or feeling (if any) is s/he trying to communicate? Does s/he succeed?

what is poem?

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1. A verbal composition designed to convey experiences, ideas, or emotions in a vivid and imaginative way, characterized by the use of language chosen for its sound and suggestive power and by the use of literary techniques such as meter, metaphor, and rhyme.

2. A composition in verse rather than in prose.

3. A literary composition written with an intensity or beauty of language more characteristic of poetry than of prose.

4. A creation, object, or experience having beauty suggestive of poetry.