By Jeson Erickson
The drawing contains three different pictures representing three poetry devices, metaphor, personification, and simile.
This drawing represents the poetry from the very first quote in Chapter 1 where it says, “Ships at a distance have every man’s wish on board. For some they come in with the tide. For others they sail forever on the horizon, never out of sight, never landing until the Watcher turns his eyes away in resignation, his dream mocked to death by Time. That is the life of me (Hurston 1).”
This drawing represents my second poetry device of personification. On page 95, Hurston wrote, “So she sat on the porch and watched the moon rise. Soon its amber fluid was drenching the earth, and quenching the thirst of the day.”
This is the beginning of the relationship between Janie and Tea Cake only after six months have passed since Joe Stark’s death. Janie sat on the porch thinking of the stranger, Tea Cake that is, if he is the other man she is going to be because Janie feels she’d known Tea Cake all her life.
This drawing comes from the quote in the first sentence of Chapter 2 where Janie was staring to tell Pheoby her story. The story describes a simile where “Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches (Hurston 8).”
This is the beginning of why Janie came back Eatonville. The first and last place she matured in the novel. Janie recalls the events she experienced that made her joyful, feel in love finally, and endure suffering. Janie tells her story to Pheoby of her childhood, how she met her first husband, going to Eatonville, and then finding true love with Tea Cake.
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