Uphill: By Christina Rossetti
Main Point:
Journey of road stands for journey of life. This poem is full of symbolic. People should walk from morning to night to reach in uphill. The road is not straight and it has many turning {wind}. We are alone on the way because there are many passerbies. When we reach in uphill, we get resting place. In Uphill many people have already reached.
Journey of Life:
Journey of road means journey of life. We should walk morning to evening to reach uphill. It means that life is full of struggle. Each and everybody should do struggle from birth to death. So, morning stands for birth and evening stands for death. Similarly, uphill stands for heaven
Meanings:
1. Metaphor : comparism between two dissimilar object
2. Simile : Comparism between two dissimilar object by using “Like” Or “As”
3. Example : My beloved is a buffalo; my beloved is like a buffalo.
Message Of Uphill
The message of Uphill is that life is full of struggle and struggle starts from birth and ends in death. When we get death, our struggle will be finished and we go in heaven. Similarly, this poem is symbolic {Metaphorical}. The writer talks about journey of road and journey of road stands for journey of life.
Meanings:
Homophone: Homophone means different spelling same pronunciation. Example... Sun, Son.
Homonyms: Homonyms means same spelling but different meaning for example… fine, fine.
I have a dream: By Martin Luther King
Main Points:
King is a Negro and he shows various problems of black people while staying in America. On the day of Lincoln Memorial, he gare speech in Washington D.C. He says that they got cheque before hundreds years but they had not exchange it. He says us that in America, there is not slavery system but there is still police problem, racial discrimination, injustice, inequality, lack of job opportunity etc.
King requests al black people to do revolution and movement in peaceful way. According to king, black should not do violence because whites are their brother and the citizen of America. Black never got chance to enter in hotel and motel. Similarly police gives punishment without any mistake. They have to do low post job and good payment job would be done by whites. Finally, Luther king hopes that black will get all types of freedom and white will understand blacks problems then blacks and white will walk handshaking each-other. That is his great dream.
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