Figurative language <2>

I like the previous poem because it is short and sweet, and has a very deep meaning inside. Short it may be, all lines of the poems are very important. Reading the first two sentence alone, I was unable to understand the poem at all. But after reading the later part, I finally understood what it meant. For the later two sentences of the poems, I liked the way the author played with the words beginning and end, and with the words "certain" desribing them, it is really interesting. I finally understood that dusk was the beginning and it was the beginning of an uncertain end, which is musk. And that the certain beginning was dusk, and musk was the end. At first, i did not understand anything. After awhile, I realised that they were just talking about how the day was. This poem is simple on the outside, but it is not that easy to understand, that's why i liked it!

Livelife!
Yuding

Poems, Figurative Language

Your skin like dawn
Mine like musk

One paints the beginning
of a certain end.

The other, the end of a
sure beginning.

From this poem, I can see that a lot of metaphor is being used. For example, "skin like dawn" is metaphor, as it describes the object, which is skin, and figuratively relates it to dawn. Figurative Language is used in this poem to make it more interesting and there's usually a hidden meaning inside. For example, if you say:
It is dawn,
It is musk.
It doesn't really mean anything.
If a poem says something like
I am like dawn,
you are like musk,
and the sentences that follows is about love, it may mean that the distance between them is the the time distance from dawn to musk and only time is needed to make them closer.

Village by the Sea

Hello everyone!
What's your favourite part in Village By The Sea?
Well, mine is the part when Hari came to Bombay. How ignorant to the modern world everyone from the village was! The people insulting Hari, they were so irritating. However, making me feel irritated made me feel like I was Hari. I could feel how he felt like then.
I also liked the part where the Jagu brought Hari back home. It made me feel very sympathetic for Jagu and Hari, and Jagu's wife.
"I'll go straight to the Tody shop and have a drink there..." This sentence is very ironic, as the man from Bombay that came to Thul, the one that called them pumkin heads said that all the men in Thul were the same, and that they only knew how to drank Tody. That sentence proves that city men were no better then that of Thul.
Yup, so that was the chapter I liked most in Village By The Sea, how about you?

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Yuding

The Book that Made an Impact in My Parents' Lives

Hello Everyone,
Has any book made an impact on your life? Well, my Father has one!
It was about 10 years ago, so my father does not really remember the name of the book, and also because it was a Chinese book!
Well, back then, my father was a very shy person. He only did his work in his office, listen to his "boss". For some time, he also had stage fright. The thing about that was that, my father always minded what people said about him and how people think he was.
However, after this Chinese book, it really made a difference in his life.
The book "told" him not to be shy, but be brave. It gave my father a "You are what you think you are" mindset. My father slowly gained confidence from then on, and after about 5 years, he came out to his business! My father took the interviews to "earn" jobs not shy, but confident and thus, showing the person that he was good, and thus he had confidence. Well, my father was always good! Just that he did not show it.
Thus, what can I say? A book may be small, but it can definitely change your life! Also, I would also like to state:
Being good is useless, unless you can show it out with confidence!

Live life!
Yuding