8. "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard" by Thomas Gray Nor grandeur hear with adisdainful smile(line 31) Chill Penury repress'd theirnoble rage(line 51) 9. "The Silent Voices" by Alfred Lord Tennyson The phrase "silent voices" in the title is an oxymoron. It repeats in the poem a...
An oxymoron is a kind of figurative language in which two contrasting things are connected together in order to create drama or interest in language.
Below are some oxymoron poem examples and explanations of their purposes within the texts. One of the most famous oxymoron examples in literature comes from Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, written sometime between 1594 and 1596. The contradictory phrases in these lines express the conflicting ...
Example: In the poem "Ode to a Nightingale" by John Keats, the term "bitter sweet" captures the complex feelings of joy and sorrow. "Living dead": Used to describe a state of being neither fully alive nor completely dead, often in a metaphorical sense. Example: In "The Rime of the A...
In this poem by Wilfred Owen, soldiers are getting ready to go to war. They are trying to put on a good face as the public is sending them off, but they know they are heading into uncertainty and terror. Therefore, their faces are “grimly gay”—an oxymoron, but certainly understandabl...
oxymoron英音:[,ɔksi'mɔ:rɔn]美音:[,ɑksɪ'mɔrɑn] It is a compressed paradox, formed by the conjoining( 结合) of two contrasting, contradictory or incongruous(不协调) terms as in bitter-sweet memories, orderly chaos(混乱) and proud humility(侮辱). Oxymoron Features: contradic...
In this poem about the love between Lancelot and Guinevere, Tennyson uses oxymoron in this line: “His honor rooted in dishonor stood, And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true.” Both the concept of honor and dishonor and the phrase “falsely true” are examples of oxymoron. ...
15 、Edward Hirsch successfully and skillfully uses many language devices in his love poem“REGRET”including figurative languages, sppech styles, enjambment, metaphors, images, oxymoron, and chiasmus.───摘要爱德华赫胥巧妙地运用语言技巧来描述其作品“遗憾”,如谈话型态,跨句连接,隐喻,意象,矛盾修饰法...
In the poem, Lancelot is tempted by Elaine to cheat on Guinevere—who is cheating on King Arthur with Lancelot. The oxymorons (honour … dishonour; faith unfaithful, falsely true) make sharp the fact that by remaining faithful to Guinevere, Lancelot is being false to his king and friend. ...
" Tom exclaimed. "It's like when you're in a big empty room, and there's no sound at all, but the lack of noise is almost overwhelming. It's as if the silence is so loud it deafens you." This made me realize how oxymorons can really capture the complexity of our feelings and...