A Long Way Gone By Emily Bronte - 1567 Words

Gustavo Leon Kathryn Overbeck ENC 1102 October 28, 2015 A Long Way Gone Emily Bronte and Paul Dunbar Have you ever had that feeling of wanting to free yourself from something, breaking the wall that holds you back, cutting the string that won’t let you go on and be free? Emily Bronte in her poem â€Å"The Caged Bird† and â€Å"Sympathy† by Paul Dunbar portray their feelings in their lyric poems. Bronte was born in 1818 in Yorkshire, England. She lived during the end of the romantic period, which made a huge impact on her writings. Romanticism was â€Å"an artistic and intellectual movement originating in Europe in the late 1700s and characterized by a heightened interest in nature, emphasis on the individual s expression of emotion and imagination†¦Ã¢â‚¬ Ã¢â‚¬ ¦show more content†¦The first element our writers used to express their message of wanting to be free is form. The narrator for ‘The Caged Bird† feels alone and wishes to be able to snatch the chains that keep her tied down. Also, in the poem â€Å"Sympathy† by Dunbar as wel l an in â€Å"The Caged Bird† both authors used a bird to symbolize the captivity and aspiration for freedom. Both poets wrote their piece in lyric form because of obvious reasons. A lyric poem is defined as a poem that expresses personal and emotional feelings. Writing poems with this form shows the amount of deep emotion that the narrator feels toward this work. In addition, both authors wrote their poems in iambic pentameter to make the poem sound like a natural flow of speech to really show the deep feelings the poets are feeling. Using elements of language such as imagery and alliteration to give her readers a visual of what she is feeling and the oppression she is going through. In line 6 of Bronte’s poem, she describes the world as â€Å"Earth’s breezy hills and heaven’s blue sea†, using adjectives to arouse and grasp her feeling of being free in nature. After this she starts to use words, which represents captivity such as chain and alone. She says, â€Å"Could my hand unlock the chain/ how gladly I would watch it