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All Dogs Go to Heaven (1989)
IMDB rating: 5.70
Plot: When a casino owning dog named Charlie is murdered by his rival Carface, he finds himself in Heaven basically by default since all dogs to heaven. However, since he wants to get back at his killer, he cons his way back to the living with the warning that doing that damns him to Hell. Once back, he teams with his old partner, Itchy to prep his retaliation. He also stumbles on to an orphan girl who can talk to the animals, thus allowing him to get the inside info on the races to ensure his wins to finance his plans. However, all the while, he is still haunted by nightmares on what’s waiting for him on the other side unless he can prove that he is worthy of Heaven again.
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Directors: Bluth Don
Actors: Reynolds Burt,DeLuise Dom,Gilley Daryl,Reilly Charles Nelson,Tayback Vic,Fuller Rob,Pegram Nigel,Page Ken,Quigley Godfrey,Animation,Drama,Family,Musical,
Can anyone help me identify poetic devices in this poem? (or examples of POETIC DEVICES)?
I know he uses rhyming but my teacher decided not to teach us any others!
If you think this is doing my homework then can you just tell me some examples of poetic devices, please?
THE SLAVE-SHIPS
by: John Greenleaf Whittier (1807-1892)
"LL ready?" cried the captain;
"Ay, ay!" the seamen said;
"Heave up the worthless lubbers,–
The dying and the dead."
Up from the slave-ship’s prison
Fierce, bearded heads were thrust:
"Now let the sharks look to it,–
Toss up the dead ones first!"
Corpse after corpse came up,–
Death had been busy there;
Where every blow is mercy,
Why should the spoiler spare?
Corpse after corpse they cast
Sullenly from the ship,
Yet bloody with the traces
Of fetter-link and whip.
Gloomily stood the captain,
With his arms upon his breast,
With his cold brow sternly knotted
And his iron lip compressed.
"Are all the dead dogs over?"
Growled through that matted lip;
"The blind ones are no better,
Let’s lighten the good ship."
Hark from the ship’s dark bosom,
The very sounds of hell!
The ringing clank of iron,
The maniac’s short, sharp yell!
The hoarse, low curse, throat-stifled;
The starving infant’s moan,
The horror of a breaking heart
Poured through a mother’s groan.
Up from that loathsome prison
The stricken blind ones came;
Below, had all been darkness,
Above, was still the same.
Yet the holy breath of heaven
Was sweetly breathing there,
And the heated brow of fever
Cooled in the soft sea air.
"Overboard with them, shipmates!"
Cutlass and dirk were plied;
Fettered and blind, one after one,
Plunged down from the vessel’s side.
The sabre smote above,
Beneath, the lean shark lay,
Waiting with wide and bloody jaw
His quick and human prey.
God of the earth! what cries
Rang upward unto thee?
Voices of agony and blood,
From ship-deck and from sea.
The last dull plunge was heard,
The last wave caught its stain,
And the unsated shark looked up
For human hearts in vain.
* * *
Red glowed the western waters,
The setting sun was there,
Scattering alike on wave and cloud
His fiery mesh of hair.
Amidst a group of blindness,
A solitary eye
Gazed from the burdened slaver’s deck,
Into that burning sky.
"A storm," spoke out the gazer,
"Is gathering and at hand;
Curse on ‘t, I’d give my other eye
For one firm rood of land."
And then he laughed, but only
His echoed laugh replied,
For the blinded and the suffering
Alone were at his side.
Night settled on the waters,
And on a stormy heaven,
While fiercely on that lone ship’s track
The thunder-gust was driven.
"A sail!–thank God, a sail!"
And as the helmsman spoke,
Up through the stormy murmur
A shout of gladness broke.
Down came the stranger vessel,
Unheeding on her way,
So near that on the slaver’s deck
Fell off her driven spray.
"Ho! for the love of mercy,
We’re perishing and blind!"
A wail of utter agony
Came back upon the wind:
"Help us! for we are stricken
With blindness every one;
Ten days we’ve floated fearfully,
Unnoting star or sun.
Our ship’s the slaver Leon,–
We’ve but a score on board;
Our slaves are all gone over,–
Help, for the love of God!"
On livid brows of agony
The broad red lightning shone;
But the roar of wind and thunder
Stifled the answering groan;
Wailed from the broken waters
A last despairing cry,
As, kindling in the stormy light,
The stranger ship went by.
* * *
In the sunny Guadaloupe
A dark-hulled vessel l
GLOSSARY OF POETIC TERMS
Milieu | Nov 11, 2009
There are several instances of personification: "Death had been busy there" and when it refers to the setting sun as "his fiery mesh of hair."
bookish | Nov 11, 2009
Well, personification is used in this line to describe death:
Corpse after corpse came up,–
Death had been busy there;
Good luck. 
faithanddesire | Nov 11, 2009
Most conspicuous for me:
The author brings the savagery right to the reader. We don’t escape the horror of those whose lives were lost in a terrible squandering of what might have otherwise been fruitful existence. I especially like attention given to sounds as in "the roar of wind and thunder" and groans from broken waters; also "a wail of utter agony."
You could say that he not only puts you, the reader, into the center of the mix, but he guides your attention to the task of sensing specific issues pertinent to the moment. Colors are also painted for us.
Beyond this, there’s an underlying question of morality as profiled by this:
Our ship’s the slaver Leon,–
We’ve but a score on board;
Our slaves are all gone over,–
Help, for the love of God!"
The writing is wonderfully expressive of passions accessed via various sensory means. I love it!
Len
Len | Nov 11, 2009
personification- giving an inanimate object human qualities, such as speaking and any emotions. "The ocean cried as pollutants spilled into it." this means that it’s bad to pollute the environment and the ocean will get extremely unsanitary, so therefore, you may use personification to say how you think the ocean would feel if it was alive.
alliteration- using words that begin with the same letter. "corpse after corpse came up." ignoring the small words in-between that would be an example.
metonymy- calling something by another name that connects intimately with associated with that thing or concept. "lend me your ear" a phrase that means, "listen up"
simile- connecting two unlike things with the words like or as. "He ran as fast as lightning" it doesn’t mean he actually was as fast as lightning, just that he ran really fast.
metaphor- comparing two things, saying one thing is the other. "you are a baboon" this phrase doesn’t actually mean that "you" is a baboon, it’s simply an insult.
hyperbole- when something is extremely exaggerated. "i could eat a horse" this phrase means "i’m hungry" not that that person could and would actually eat a horse.
Eru | Nov 11, 2009
Sadly I know nothing about Sims..