Tuesday

oxymoron

Themes
Class/Status.
Contamination.
Decay.
Disease.
Society's morals and values.

Conflicting with purity and innocence.
-How does this relate to today's society ?

The most common type of oxymoron uses an adjective-noun combination of two words. An example of two oxymora is a line from Alfred, Lord Tennyson's narrative poem Idylls of the King "And faith unfaithful kept him falsely true."

Oxymoron's are used by writers to bring attention to an apparent contradiction. For example, Wilfred Owen's poem The Send-off refers to soldiers leaving for the front line, who "lined the train with faces grimly gay." The oxymoron highlights the soldier's feelings which collides with their duty. Fear is overwhelmed by bravery.

Another example of an oxymoron where many of them are used together can be found in Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet, where Romeo says:

"O heavy lightness! Serious vanity!
Mis-shapen chaos of well-seeming forms!
Feather of lead, bright smoke, cold fire, sick health!"

source from en.wikipedia.org

From watching the film 'All About My Mother' I've been able to pull out the main themes and contradictions which has enabled me to create my own oxymoron's;
Innocent Guilt.
Contaminated Purity.
Healthy Disease.
Virginal Disease.
Sick Health.
Sacred Sin.
Beautiful Ugliness.
Deadly Health.
Unclosed Secret.
Rough Diamond.
Ideal Imperfection.
Common Abnormality.
Common Rarity.
Frozen Contamination.

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