Tuesday, March 24, 2009

News at Eleven: What's interesting about "Eating memories"

is that the most obvious use of figurative language occurs in the last stanza where [Milena] Abrahamyan's speaker says she "bit into fruit that had been growing/in the belly of thorny mountains,/facing hot mother sun." Suddenly, the reader is given two instances, side by side of personification: that of the "belly" of the mountains and the "mother sun." Perhaps Abahamyan decides to use personification here to heighten the reader's attention to the detail that follows.

from The Armenian Reporter: The harvest of Abrahamyan's poem

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