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Slumdog Millionaire New - Cinematic Techniques-Essay
Slumdog Millionaire New - Cinematic Techniques-Essay
Nature is much powerful than our expectations, and it is eternal and will ultimately conquer us. F.L.
Lucas’s Beleaguered City shows that nature is more cunning and more patient than mankind Commented [S1]: Don’t need two ‘more’
through his effective uses of imperative, irony and allusion. In contrast, by the uses of
Commented [S2]: through
personification and listing, Glover cleverly expresses that nature’s power by praising the unsung
heroes, the road builders, in different ways and point of views. Commented [S3]: don’t need ‘that’
Imperative and irony are used to show that nature is eternal and more powerful than humans in
the poem, “Beleaguered City,” and suggesting that we will be ultimately conquered by nature.
Lucas writes “Build your house, build ...your towns” and “Pave your meadow...pave the downs...”
conveying his ideas about people should fear and respect to nature. The uses of imperative show Commented [S4]: that
humans’ small and limitation. Because no matter how great mankind is or how many times they
Commented [S5]: doesn’t make sense. Limitations
have overcome nature, they all will be conquered by nature at last. “Houses” and “towns” show
that mankind has to build infrastructures every time after they challenge and irritate nature, and Commented [S6]: ‘rebuild’
this further suggests to the readers that nature is powerful beyond our expectations. This tells us
a principle: that human still remains human, they should not confront against nature. Furthermore,
Glover is also pretty ingenious as he personifies the clay to emphasize nature’s force. The clay Commented [S7]: Already praised Glover’s ‘cleverness’
represents nature’s perpetual patience as it shows its stubbornness and hard nature. This helps to you don’t need to praise the author. Just analyze the poem.
develop the readers’ understandings of how tough the challenges are when the road builders fight
Commented [S8]: Clay is unique because its not
against nature, and accordingly emphasizing that the brilliant force of nature. Through the
‘stubborn’ but because depending on the situation clay can
keywords, “theodolite, pick-point, and curved shove”, the readers are able to know mankind’s
adjust very malleable, flexible and strong.
inability and frangibility. This effect of listing tells that mankind has to use many various tools to
help them to conquer nature. Ironically, Lucas also conveys that no matter what methods or tools Commented [S9]: You use too many words to get to your
humans use to conquer nature, nature will ultimately fight back and overcome us, although we point. Too much rambling