Shakespeare and the Literary Heritage

I am going to explore how Shakespeare and Rudyard Kipling who done “A Song in a Storm”, and Persy Bysshe Shelley who done “Ozymandias” have used literary techniques in their own poems to communicate their ideas which link up about fate.

The first thing that I am going to discuss is, how metaphor’s are used in Romeo and Juliet and this is by, in the play there is an example where their is a use of metaphor’s and it is the idea of fate linked in. The quote “He that hath the steerage of my course, direct my sail! on lusty gentlemen.” is a particular quote that is a metaphor and I can tell that because, this quote means that. Shakespeare is referring to Romeo as a ship by saying ” direct my sail” and that means direct my ship and direct my pathway. It is also saying that, the captain in the ship is like god and they are also saying that Romeo is having to follow god so that he goes to a pathway which is the right one for him. Romeo believes that God is making the choice which is to take Romeo to the Capulet’s party and that Romeo’s life is in the hands of god.

The next thing that I am going to explore is how metaphor’s are used in the poem “Ozymandias” written by Persy Bysshe Shelley and in the poem there is no metaphors and this is because, Persy Bysshe Shelley is talking about the destruction of the statue and that is linked into fate and she says things in the poem that are metaphorically speaking with words that are like metaphors.

Then I will discuss how metaphors are used in the poem “A Song In The Storm” written by Rudyard Kipling and in the poem there is a use of metaphors and one of the quotes that has a metaphor in them is ” These mindless waters work As though they had a soul”, and we know that this is a metaphor because, it is saying that water is like a mind which is a person/ human being and it is also saying that the water had a soul which is also linked to humans.

In Romeo & Juliet, A song In The Storm, and Ozymandias it is quite evident that there has some sort of link to it and that is, when the three authors are using their poems/ plays to get some sort of feeling of the idea of fate and that is linked throughout the whole play/poem.

There are some really good literary techniques that are used in the poems/play and one of the literary techniques that I am going to explore is iambic meter/ pentameter in the poem Ozymandias through fate. Fate is shown in Ozymandias through iambic meter by inferring that there is an endless beat that are underneath the words in the poem. In Ozymandias’s there is iambic meter throughout this poem and the line that I have picked out that is connected to fate, but also an Iambic meter and that line in the poem is “And on these Pedestal these words appear.” This is an iambic meter because when you say the word like a clock goes round it has Rhythm and it has a memorable beat which always gets stuck in your head. “And on these pedestal these words appear” suggests that it is connected to fate because, it is saying that Ozymandias’s time is almost up and that, he is coming to the end of his life and that one day he will have nothing left to live for anymore.

Fate is shown in A song in the storm through Iambic meter by referring it to a clock and you will never know what you are faced with and what is going to happen next. In A song in the storm their is iambic meter and pentameter throughout the whole of the poem and the line that i will explore and talk about is ” The game is more than the player of the game and the ship is more than the crew.” This is iambic meter/pentameter which has a beat and rhythm. “the game is more than the player and the ship is more than the crew” suggests that this is connected to fate because, it is talking about the individual is more than the game and the ship is more than the people that are in the ship.

Fate is shown in Romeo and Juliet through Iambic meter/pentameter by saying that the beat are having an affect on the words in the play. In Romeo and Juliet their is iambic meter/pentameter throughout the play and the line that I am going to explore that is a iambic meter/pentameter but also is linked to fate and the line in the play is ” A plague a’ both your houses! they have made worms’ meat of me. I have it, and soundly too your houses!. This is iambic meter/pentameter because it has rhythm in the words and it has a beat. The line  ” A plague a’ both your houses! they have made worms’ meat of me. I have it, and soundly too your houses!, suggests that this is connected to fate because, it is stating that Mercutio will put a curse at Romeo’s house, and that curse will come to haunt Romeo one day and eventually in the course of the play Romeo is on the receiving end of the curse.

Finally I am going to explore how Volta is being used in Romeo & Juliet, Ozymandias, and A Song in a Storm. Volta has been used in Ozymandias by, it changes the emotion and the feeling of the poem when it says ” And on these pedestal these words appear.” This one line is a dramatic change in thought and feelings by, Ozymandias’s Life would change for the worse because, he soon will not have a life anymore and the things that he owned would soon be turned old and dusty.

Volta has been used in A Song in a Storm by, I think by this line ” Be well assured, though in our power is nothing left to give” And I think that this line/quote has the sense of feeling of change because, the people that are on the ship are basically saying that by having all the power that we have, we can’t be able to use the power efficiently and in the right way and we can’t win anymore. This then tells me as the reader of the poem that they have given up on what they have and that they think that ” whats the point?.”

Volta has been used In Romeo & Juliet by, I think when Romeo meets Juliet at the party and they have a little connection and then they have a little kiss and that I think is where it changed the whole story because the families of Romeo and Juliet didn’t like the fact that they might be together and they started a war and the two families should do anything to make sure that Romeo and Juliet should not be together and at the end they both died together in each other’s arms and that was a sad moment and both of them thought il that it would end the way it eventually did and they thought that it would end the way that they would ride of into the sunset of you like and they would live happily ever after but it didn’t turn out that way.

All of the poems that I have looked at, especially the play of Romeo and Juliet has been about fate. In all of the poems, and the play of Romeo and Juliet, there has been links which ends up with someone dying. And that can be because of fate because, if you make a wrong decision then you will pay the price for it at whatever costs.