The word “pathetic” in this context is not used in its usual negative sense; instead, it relates to the word “pathos,” meaning emotion. Similarly, the word “fallacy” here means falseness (i.e., the sun doesn’t literally smile) and not flawed reasoning. If taken literally, a path...
Allegory is a figure of speech. The characters, figures, and events describe abstract ideas and principles. We use it in prose and poetry to tell a story teach an idea and a principle or explain an idea or a principle. The objective of its use is to preach some kind of moral lesson. ...
Romantic literature is marked by six primary characteristics:celebration of nature, focus on the individual and spirituality, celebration of isolation and melancholy, interest in the common man, idealization of women, and personification and pathetic fallacy. What are the principles of romanticism? Romant...
What We Talk About When We Talk About the Weathera quick search at AmazonOf the Pathetic Fallacypromotional blurbher consideration of the bookWaving Adieu, Adieu, Adieuherelast columnfurther regulateAtheism A Philosophical Justification
Sibilance is a literary device in which consonant sounds are stressed. These are primarily“s” and “th” sounds. These consonants specifically push air through the lips and make use of the tongue. What effect does sibilance show? The repeated s sound interacts with the meaning of the words...
“News from Nowhere.” We come back, in fact, to the main feature which has already been mentioned. The past is communal: the future must be individualist. In the past are all the evils of democracy, variety and violence and doubt, but the future is pure despotism, for the future is...
“What is there here but weather?”–Wallace Stevens, “Waving Adieu, Adieu Adieu” I am projecting, though. And I continue to project in a way that, although heavily rationalized, would surely draw some tsking from the Ruskin who wrote “Of the Pathetic Fallacy.” If I project my...