E 105 bonsai - synecdoche
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SYNECDOCHE
SYNECDOCHE
Synecdoche
meaning "simultaneous understanding", is a figure of speech in which a term is used in one of the following ways:
WHAT IS SYNECDOCHE?
WHAT IS SYNECDOCHE?
WHAT IS SYNECDOCHE?
WHAT IS SYNECDOCHE?
WHAT IS SYNECDOCHE?
WHAT IS SYNECDOCHE?
“BONSAI”
BY: EDITH TIEMPO
EDITH TIEMPO
Edith L. Tiempo (April 22, 1919 – August 21, 2011), poet, fiction writer, teacher and literary critic was a Filipino writer in the English language.
Tiempo was born in Bayombong, Nueva Vizcaya.
Her poems are intricate verbal transfigurations of significant experiences as revealed, in two of her much anthologized pieces, "Lament for the Littlest Fellow" and "Bonsai."
As fictionist, Tiempo is as morally profound. Her language has been marked as "descriptive but unburdened by scrupulous detailing." She is an influential tradition in Philippine literature in English.
Bonsai
All that I loveI fold over onceAnd once againAnd keep in a boxOr a slit in a hollow postOr in my shoe.
All that I love?Why, yes, but for the moment ---And for all time, both.Something that folds and keeps easy,Son’s note or Dad’s one gaudy tie,A roto picture of a young queen,A blue Indian shawl, evenA money bill.
It’s utter sublimationA feat, this heart’s controlMoment to momentTo scale all love downTo a cupped hand’s size,
Till seashells are broken piecesFrom God’s own bright teeth.And life and love are realThings you can run andBreathless hand overTo the merest child.
4 STANZAS
FREE VERSE
25 LINES
BONSAI
The poem is an example of a
work that is objective-
correlative wherein the ideas
depicted are abstract. In this
work of literature, love is the
abstract idea.
Bonsai
FIRST STANZA
All that I loveI fold over onceAnd once againAnd keep in a boxOr a slit in a hollow postOr in my shoe.
.
Enjambment,
free verse,
repetition,
alliteration.
-Line 1 and 3 are made up of 4 syllables
-2 and 4 are made up of 5.
-the word “once” is repeated twice (line 2 and 3) in the same stanza
2nd stanza
All that I love?Why, yes, but for the moment --- And for all time, both.
Something that folds and keeps easy,Son’s note or Dad’s one gaudy tie,A roto picture of a young queen,A blue Indian shawl, evenA money bill.
OXYMORON
SYMBOLISM
- repeats the first line in the first stanza but this time the speaker uses a question mark and the question word “why” in the second line.
3rd stanza
It’s utter sublimationA feat, this heart’s controlMoment to momentTo scale all love downTo a cupped hand’s size,
Free verse
repetition in line 3,
metaphor line 4 and 5.
4th stanza
Till seashells are broken piecesFrom God’s own bright teeth.And life and love are real Things you can run andBreathless hand over
To the merest child.
APHAERESIS
SYNDETON
PERSONIFICATION
METAPHOR
ANALYSIS
The poem tells us that the
things we hold dear may give
us happiness and security but
the happiness and security
they offer are but temporal
yet life on earth is so short.
It takes some sacrifice and pain for the bonsai to be trimmed and to be cut off of its main root in order for it to show its real beauty. Indeed, it is not easy to give up what we hold so dear for the sake of others but as the poem suggests it can make our life sublime like the bonsai.
SOURCE:
http://nicethoughtsnthrills.blogspot.com/2009/08/whats-in-beatiful-poem-bonsai.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edith_Tiempo
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synecdoche