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Passers-by By Franz Kafka (1883-1924)

Passers-by

By Franz Kafka (1883-1924)

            When you go walking at night up a street and a man, visible a long way off – for the street goes uphill and there is a full moon – comes running toward you, well, you don’t catch hold of him as he passes.  You let him run on even if he is a feeble old man, even if someone is chasing him and yelling at him.

            For it is night, and you can’t help it if the street goes uphill in the moonlight.  And besides, these two have maybe started a chase to amuse themselves, or perhaps they are both chasing a third person, or perhaps the first is an innocent man and the second wants to murder him and so you would become an accessory, or they are merely running separately home to bed, or perhaps the first has a gun.

            And anyhow, haven’t you a right to be tired; haven’t you been drinking a lot of wine?  You’re thankful they are now both long out of sight.

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Poetic Devices Vocabulary

Similes: figures of speech that compares two unlike things, using the words like or as.	"His feet were as big as boats."
Alliteration: the repetition of consonant sounds at the beginning of words.	"Peter Piper picked a peck of pickled peppers."
Metaphor: a figure of speech that compares two unlike things directly, without the use of like or as.	"Her hair is silk."
Personification: assigning human qualities to non-human things.	"The tropical storm slept for two days."
Onomatopoeia: words that imitate sounds.	"Boom. Gurgle. Plink."
Hyperbole: an expression of exaggeration.	"I nearly died laughing."
Symbolism: using an object to represent an idea. A symbol means what it is and also something more.	Lions often symbolize royalty.
Puns: words with a humorous double meaning, a "play on words."	"A dog not only has a fur coat but also pants."
Idioms: expressions that have a meaning apart from the meanings of the individual words.	"It's raining cats and dogs."
Foot: the time period into which the beat of the poetic line is divided. A foot is made up of several syllables, some long and some short.
Meter: refers to how the feet are put together to form lines of poetry. The combinations of long and short syllables give poetry a musical feel.
Rhythm: the pattern of long and short syllables in a poetic line. In modern poetry, some words receive greater vocal emphasis than others.
Lyrics: what poets write, the actual words used to form the framework of rhythm and meter.
Mood: the overall feeling the poem creates. Mood, or tone, for example, can be playful, sad, lonely, angry or joyful.

Quotes about whAT?

“Dream delivers us to dream, and there is no end to illusion. Life is like a train of moods like a string of beads, and, as we pass through them, they prove to be many-colored lenses which paint the world their own hue. . . . ”

― Ralph Waldo Emerson

“And those who were seen dancing, were thought to be crazy, by those who could not hear the music.”

― Friedrich Nietzsche

“One person's craziness is another person's reality.”

― Tim Burton

“It is a narrow mind which cannot look at a subject from various points of view.”

― George Eliot

“It is the obvious which is so difficult to see most of the time. People say 'It's as plain as the nose on your face.' But how much of the nose on your face can you see, unless someone holds a mirror up to you?”

― Isaac Asimov

“Humans see what they want to see.”

― Rick Riordan

“Everything that irritates us about others can lead us to an understanding of ourselves.”

― C.G. Jung