Monday, January 4, 2010
GE #2
“Those six days which were to have run out so slowly…and to-morrow looked me in the face more steadily than I could look at it” (150). This passage explores imagery as well as personification. Personification is often like a branch from imagery. It provides Pip’s feelings at this moment, giving the reader an image, thus being an example of imagery. The author gives a human trait to a nonliving figure, tomorrow, saying how it “looked” Pip in the face, thus being an example of personification. Dickens uses the two literary devices together to create a better sense of Pip’s moment.
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when writing about imagery, you should be focusing on the writer's appeal to the senses and being very very specific about the language being used to do so -- what I see here is more personification -- and what is the bigger point of tomorrow looking him in the face? a better sense of Pip's moment? what's the significance of that moment?
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