tomatically find the cotton in the glare of the sun. Instead, he says hand and eyes automatically discriminate whiteness of cotton from field of vision. The words discriminate and field of vision are very sophisticated and again, indicate a high degree of intelligence at work here. But they are also loaded with other meanings: discriminate not only means to choose, it also carries an ugly meaning, as in discriminate against. Likewise field of vision reinforces the image of the workers in the field under the blazing sun. IIIDenotation and ConnotationDenotation means the direct and explicit meaning of a word; connotation is an indirect reference, additional qualities suggested by a term in addition to the primary meaning (i.e., politician has different connotations from statesman.) In Day-Long Day, Villanueva uses very little denotation, nor do his words carry different connotations. He works mainly in metaphors, simile, imagery and symbols.IVImageryImagery is present when a poet appeals to our five senses. Imagery also includes such things as the sensations of heat and pressure.In this work, the most powerful image, the dominant one, is the heat. It is mentioned over and over again, either directly or indirectly, as: sun-fed hallucinations, Un Hijo del Sol, sweat day-long dripping, sun blocks out the sky, suffocates the only breeze, summer-long rows of cotton, sweat-patched jeans, the blast of degrees, sweltering toward Saturday, the day-long day is sunstruck.The entire poem is both a hymn to the sun and a curse at it. VMetaphor and SimileMore definitions: a metaphor is a figure of speech which compares two incompatible things without the use of a connective term; a simile compares things of different classes through the use of a connector such as as, like seems or others. My love is like the red, red rose is a simile; the curtain of night is a metaphor.I will admit that similes and metaphors are tricky little devils to catc...
