EXPLANATION:
Your shadow is sunlight on a plate of silver;
Your footsteps, the seeding-place of lilies;
Your hands moving, a chime of bells across a windless air.
The movement of your hands is the long, golden running of light from a rising sun;
What is the hopping of birds upon a garden path
Alice walker's mother had eight children and she worked as a sharecropper. She was poor but ensured all of her children were educated.
Explanation:
Alice Walker's mother had eight children and to feed them she had a very low paying work of a sharecropper which she did with her husband.
They were able to feed eight children and with their poor environment they still made sure that the eight children were able to get a proper education as Alice was the youngest out of them all and she received very good education.
This is something that Walker narrates as a big achievement of her mother and something because of which she became what she is.
Pap is a drunk and is careless.
Why is he a drunk, because he gets "drunk as a fiddler".
Why is he careless, because that does not sound very safe to "clumb out on to the porch-roof and slid down a stanchion". Also he sounds kind of dumb to sell a coat for forty-rod whisky to get drunk. "traded his new coat for a jug of forty-rod".
When he says "Denmark's a prison", Hamlet is using a metaphor. A metaphor is a word or expression that means something different from their literal meaning. This figurative language is telling us that, like a person who is in prison, Hamlet also feels as if he were trapped and watched the whole time.
Two other sentences that are using figurative language as well, are the following:
"<u>To be or not to be</u>", is a parallel structure, that is, when we are using the same pattern of words, to show that those words or ideas bear the same importance.
"<u>Despised love</u>", is an oxymoron, which is a kind of speech containing words that seem to contradict each other.
