Imagery in a Poem
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In her poem, "A Glowworm Scatters Flashes," Rosalia de Castro utilizes powerful and vivid imagery to depict the intensity of the private relationship between the persona and his Deity. Throughout the poem, concrete images from architecture or building materials such as "shattered in a thousand bits" (1), "lofty marble riches" (5) and "Adam's clay" (13) are juxtaposed with the incorporeal nature of God, the "chasms" (2) that the persona cannot see and the "solitary vast vacuity" (4). The contrast between these two opposing sets of images serves to heighten the dramatic effect of the persona's sense of loss at the destruction of his personal relationship with his Deity. Although the persona's struggle in his relationship with his Deity takes place within his mind, de Castro is able to reveal this hidden drama to the reader with active and vivid language. Instead of seeing a boring picture of the persona slumped in contemplation of his relationship with his Deity, the reader is presented with a highly dramatic spectacle of the Deity being "shattered" (1) a
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Approximate Word count = 717
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page)
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