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The crows prefer farmer's corn.
In <em>''Fame is a Fickle Food''</em>, Emily Dickinson represents fame as a food type, thus illustrating the effect that it has on people.
Fame is represented as 'fickle' and frequently changing, although it is a solid object in this poem. As fame is not something that people should devote their attention to in real life, the crows in the poem prefer corn over it. Even though they are animals that just want to relieve hunger, they understand that fame is not filling.
Ignorance can be much more than a metaphor <em>indicating </em>darkness of the mind--it <em>can</em> be the darkness of the mind. One who is ignorant refuses to believe, accept the truth, or understand their actions. Shakespeare's words can be a universal truth since ignorance is not fiction--it is something that makes up a lot of today's society.
Note: I didn't read Shakespeare, so if there are things you feel need to be included, go ahead and add it. :)
Foreshadowing is a warning of what is to come in the future. The tragedy of Oedipus the king oftentimes, if not entirely, relies on himself. Teiresias the blind prophet says to him: "You yourself are the very man you are looking for." The prophet is telling Oedipus that he is responsible for the plague, of course he refuses to listen to that horrible future. When Teiresias asks Oedipus if he knows where he comes from, he also foreshadows that Oedipus himself is responsible for slaying his own father. And a third one can be his marriage with his own mother. Oedipus is warned of everything, however, ironically his eyes do not help him see the bad times for him, his family and his kingdom.
