In the Rime of the Ancient Mariner, Coleridge employs the ballad form to contrast the traditional with the exotic through this he forms a poem full of supernatural elements that is easily accessible. In the Ancient Mariner the scene is set in the past shown by the use of archaic language and the use of →
In the phrase, "Lumbering Horses in the Steady Plough" he uses Enjambment comparing the Horses on a steady plough to a bare field. The effect created by the use of enjambment is that the feelings or memories of the poet are still ongoing and this is reflected.
In " Porphyria's Lover" we know this when he tells us:" Give herself to me" this tells us that he only wants her to himself and no one else whereas in " My Last Duchess" we know this when he tells us:" since none puts by the curtain I have drawn for you but I" →
The speaker asks the Spirit, whose power descended upon his youth like that truth of nature, to supply " calm" to his " onward life" the life of a man who worships the Spirit and every form that contains it, and who is bound by the spells of the Spirit to " fear himself, and →
Quick Boys! ' The reader is made to fear for the soldiers, as the anxiety and alarm of the situation is shown through the use and arrangement of the capital letters and the forcefulness of the line. Owen's ability to place the reader in the scene of the battlefield not only with his visual description →
The tone is didactic, " Money moves the merchants all" and " Money maketh Evil show" saying money is the start is a parallel construction. This line is saying that money will convince merchants to explore the sea because there is more money out there." Money maketh Evil show Like the good, and truth like →
Another line in the poem to show this type of imagery is line six, " Or all the riches that the East doth hold." This line clearly illustrates how unimportant material possessions are when comparing them to the love she has for her husband. In this line it seems she is praying to the heavens →
An aboriginal, being the epitome of Australian heritage, is only mentioned in the last line, as the poem is more focused on the changing state of the appearance of the town- this is ironic as humans are superficial. A presentation of the wasteland of western civilization is represented by a city dump, which is a →
Luis Flores Simon the Cyrenian Speaks This poem talks about a black man who at first refuses to do the work that he's suppose to do because he thinks their making him do this because he is black and how he speaks out to say what he thinks." He never spoke a word to me, →
However, we also see the downfall of this optimism as Larkin questions the meaning of life in the second stanza of the poem. Ideally, we are able to image a sense of hope and encouragement in the first stanza as he states that ' The recent buds relax and spread;' However, the tone shifts into →
The intention of the sonnet is revealed in the closing couplet. The word ' mayst' in the opening line of the poem is an invitation for his companion to look at him.
The following stanzas follow a pattern, beginning with the victim illustrating her rape experience first and ending with the unsympathetic and backwards reactions of the cop; he is pleased by her hysteria, she is the one guilty of the crime of being forced, and takes your report as just another business file. The poem skillfully →
In the poem " I tend my flowers for thee" Dickinson uses a wide variety of flowers to symbolize her love and loneliness and to reveal her feelings to her absent " Lord, " the " Bright Absentee! ". When Dickinson says " Rip-while the Sower-dreams" she is describing herself as the sower and is →
Use of Voice in " Days" Although Larkin does not provide any clues as to the identity of the voice or voices the reader hears in " Days", there is a clear distinction between the voice that asks the questions and the voice that answers. Larkin's Language in " Days" The language of the poem →
In Modernism: The New Critical Idiom Peter Childs of the University of Gloucestershire writes that these stylistic conventions were: ' moves to break from the iambic pentameter as the basic unit of verse, to introduce Vers Libre, symbolism, and other new forms of writing'. The style of meter, which Marianne Moore said to be " →
Also the sibilant ' s' creates the sound of a slicing noise such as the cutting of nettles that is discussed during the poem.' That regiment of spite' shows the extended metaphor used throughout the poem as the nettles are portrayed as an army ready to cause the son pain. The poem ' Upon my →
One of the typical gestures between lovers is holding hands; in that way, Christina Rossetti is obviously reffering to a beloved one." Remember" is a person talking in the present, hoping that someone to remember in the future." Remember me when I am gone away.", shows that the speaker in the poem wants her lover →
WHERE THERE'S A WALL Joy Kogawa Where there's a wall there's a way through a gate or door. To reach a goal there will always be something in our way and there are also ways to get around them.
He also talks about the minor differences between the black and the white community in the road and the cafe. For example he uses colons to suggest that there is more to follow, " No sign says it is: but we know where we belong." This gives the reader a space to take in the →
It is not glorious and honourable to fight in war but the people and soldiers going through it suffer greatly and most do not survive. In " The Send-Off", Owen conveys his feelings about the war and the young soldiers going off to die.
Anna Bradstreet's " To My Dear and Loving Husband" and Kim Addonizio's " First Poem for You" share the theme of romantic love, and the authors go about elucidating the theme in similar ways, regardless of their opposing views. Bradstreet uses paradoxes, hyperboles, and imagery to drive the purpose of her poem, which is to →
The actual poem shows that the people of the time equate the cycles present in nature to the cycle of human life. The use of such a metaphor in the poem displays that poets in the 1600's were sophisticated in their use of language.
The poems that they wrote about the war told of their experiences and in attack some of the terrible things Sassoon saw and was made to do. One of the things that I think stands out most is that at the end of the poem he says' " O Jesu, make it stop!" The poet →
As Turner was a clergyman in a very conservative era where the Church of England was one of the most powerful forces in British life, it is somewhat surprising that he should choose death as a subject, as opposed to his rough contemporary, the Jesuit Geard Manley Hopkins, who devoted the bulk of his work →
In his poems, he creates emotions and feeling, which describe the horror of the war and the conditions of the trenches. Owen conveys through his poems 'The Sentry' and 'Dulce Et Decorum Est' the horror of the war and by doing so emphasises the reality and brutality of the war.
One is allusion, a literary device that lets the readers have a mental image of what the writer is trying to express in his article. The Isle of Statues, the Wandering of Oisin, and The Wind among the Reeds were among his famous works, to name a few.
The poem is a dramatical monologue of a conversation between the Duke and an emissary of the Count of Tyrol the conversation is completely one-sided, we only hear the Duke's voice. Browning shows the Duke's ownership of the Duchess in the title of the poem, it is not called My Last Wife or even My →
Emily Dickinson uses imagery, Form, and settings in her poems in " I Heard a Fly Buzz when I Died" to set the tone of the poem.II. Dickinson works hard and fast to give us a sense of what the atmosphere is like in this room.
This really helps the reader imagine Chicago as a wild and crazy city that is ready for action. Sandburg does an excellent job on demonstrating his love and pride for the city of Chicago.
It has a combination of end stopped lines, mainly in the form of questions ' who's going out to win?' and the use of repetition for example ' Are you my laddie?' She uses a variety of poetic devices to achieve her intentions and to keep the readers interested in the message of the poem. →
Nobody can redo the past, owing to which the only way is to optimize the available resources to lead a fulfilling life. Specifically, it is the light guiding me out of darkness, the sunshine enabling me to foster a healthy mental state and the teacher enlightening me to become learned.
In general, in both poems there is a link of similarities and difference between I, too, sing America by Langston Hughes and I hear America singing by Walt Whitman. Many of the differences have to do with a positive and negative view and also both poems deliver a different message.
The poet has described the physical attributes of the majors who would stay at the base, because they were fat, short of breath. In the beginning of the poem the poet says that he would live in with the majors at the base.
This poem is about the loss of her mind and the culmination of events that occur in her head. This is the last bit of rationality and security she has as her world crumbles around her.
Poem" is one of Armitage's life problem poems When You do not remember the good things a person has done but the bad things a person has done you remember. Also he starts off the poem with " And if it snowed andsnowcovered the drive" which is like the poem is the second part of →
However there is a major difference in this poem as " Half-past Two" is a strange and surreal poem while " Hide and Seek" sounds like a painful experience to the poet." Hide and Seek" and " Half past Two" show contrasting emotions. Stay dumb." After his peers have left he is thinking about how →
The poem, by Sid Marty, titled " Drowning", and the third chapter, titled " The Trap", in his novel Men for the Mountains, both deal with the same event of a man drowning; however, they each come at it in different ways borne of necessity from the differing structures and restrictions of the respective genres. →
Spread before me Are the remains of the day; The scattered beads of a rosary, The half drunk bottle Of cheap liquor, broken neck Slowly leaking escape, The silence of a room in a blistered sky Whose pillars have heard too much, My heart, shattered pieces Staining my spirit with blood. This poem will be →
They are given below: Johnson: " Metrical composition", it is " the art of uniting pleasure with truth by calling imagination to the help of reason" Macaulay: " we mean the art of employing words in such a manner as to produce an illusion on the imagination, the art of doing by means of words →
He is not here; but far away The noise of life begins again, And ghastly thro' the drizzling rain On the bald street breaks the blank day. He is not here; but far away the noise of life begins again, and ghastly through the drizzling rain on the bald street breaks the blank day.
The very first description of Bosola by Antonio asserts the popular opinion of Bosola by the characters in the play, and this agrees with the statement that Bosola is a malcontent:" Here comes Bosola, The only court-gall; yet I observe his railing Is not for simple love of piety, Indeed he rails at those things →
In the poem " White Man's Burden" and essay " Shooting an Elephant" is talk about the two white men has a different point of views about imperialism and how the white treat the natives." White Man's Burden" by Rudyard Kipling is talk about how does white man sacrifice for the native during the imperialism." →
During the slam there was different kind of poetry. It was very interesting to listen to a diverse range of work within the slam.
The season the poem is set in is summer, a particularly romantic and suitable setting for the poem due to it's warmth and the beauty of nature as the surrounding world is in full bloom. The third stanza further emphasises the theme of nature in the beginning of the stanza while the final lines brings →
In this case, it is the legend of Helen of Troy, which inspires Yeats.' When You Are Old' is believed to have been written for Maud Gonne, the love of Yeats' life. Through clever use of punctuation, and the repeated use of " and", Yeats manipulates the pace of the poem and encourages the reader →
While the third stanza depicting the total calmness and quietness of the sea which means that the dog, after undergoing all these it becomes tired and falls The criterion of the actions of the sea and its behaviour pattern is eloquently depicted in the poem. In this poem the writer uses neuter gender, presenting the →
He is at the onset of puberty and his views at the time are reflected in the poem. He uses the word " gauze" to show how he is trapped and the smell is also shown.
This idea could also be said to be suggested in the beginning of the poem when the West is described as a hyphenated " almost-" with " silly" continuing on the next line. This shows that the cowboy is not infallible and once again puts the backdrop in a superior position to the cowboy.
You can say it exaggerates the imagination or hope of how a man should love a woman or what he hopes to love in a woman. It makes the poem that much more powerful with the repetition of this phrase as if she is trying to engrave in his brain that he has to love →
The poet uses the change in season to refer to the emotions of the character " and slow, slow as the winter snow the tears have drifted to mine eyes". In this case, the title is referring to the loss of a relationship to the breakdown of the character.
The persona gives love determined, courageous, and guiding qualities through the use of metaphorical comparisons, tone, epithet, repetition and wishes to make bold statement of love in the face of Time ' s decay. The theme of the poem is 'the real love is steady in all adversities and even unaffected by time.
In the poem, the speaker seems to be travelling through the woods with his partner the horse. In this poem, sleep means death, and the speaker is saying that before he dies, he has to do many things
But another subtler theme of the poem is the survival or death of the poem, which is compared to the life or death of and acrobat, as we will see later on, these depend on the one who " catches" it, in the case of the poem the public and in the case of the →
Whilst comparing four different types of individuals at the dusk of their lives, the speaker yet still keeps the main focus on the years lived by those people. Each one of the four types of individuals described in the poem serves as an impersonated reference for the type of man the speaker wants his father →
We can tell that during this time, it was a patriarchal society and we can tell this when she says:" He is with her; and they know that I know" This reveals that men were the ones who could have affairs when they were married and the wives could not do much about it but →
Vincent Millay wrote the " Ballad of the Harp-Weaver" published by Flying Cloud Press and has a copyright date of 1922." The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver" is known as a Narrative Poem. In " The Ballad of the Harp-Weaver" the story described has a meaning.
Moreover, the two poems have stated that Frost has to go on with his life and work hard to fulfill his responsibilities in life and work. For Stopping By Woods on a Snowy Evening', Frost is Just attracted by the nature and stop by the woods to observe the beauty of the nature.
Even though there is a moment where she mentions that her navel is a reject button, which emphasizes that her identity and essence to develop and grow as a human are being denied; she is conforming to the objects around her there is a feeling that she is unwilling to completely lose all her essence. →
These poems, " Southbound on the Freeway" and " Once by the Ocean" are similar to each other in certain poetic descriptions, but they also have some that are unlike. In addition to personification in these poems, there is imagery in " Southbound on the Freeway" and " Once by the Pacific" also.
The structure, along with the tone and overall writing quality of the poem, introduces to the reader a discrepancy of uncertainty and emotions that reveals the author's principle motif, but not immediately the true profundity behind this work of art. As he admires two clouds in the sky, he refers to one of them as →
Although they write the truth about the horrors of war and have very similar sentiments, Owen concentrates on his compassion and the message of the futility of war. The sounds linger on through the onomatopoeic effect of constant rhyme structure in the first stanza, and are presented as dominant through the repetition of the word →
The author uses imagery, personification and onomatopoeia to paint a picture of war, describe the dangers as " alive" and out to get you and reflect the quick and crude sound of bombs and bullets. The author might, to a degree, be scornful of his situation since he decides to, without much trouble, accept rejection →
Thrown in at the deep end, not taught how to kill, He thought out of this he would get a thrill, But what this man found was beyond human conception, He wanted to turn, run in the opposite direction, Corpses rotting, lying all over the ground, That was what this man had found, The look →
She shows that she is the ' dream and hope of the slave', and is a role model for others and that slaves are people too. It also shows that her fight with society is ongoing and that she is constantly having to rise above the oppression.
To collaborate this with the idea that everything reminded the persona of the departed, it seems that the persona spends his days and nights thinking about the dear person or object. As we go on to the second and third lines of the fourth stanza, we see that the persona's life is disoriented.
The opening line, " In his darkroom he is finally alone," is very secretive because it does not directly tell the reader exactly what is happening and " darkroom" leads the reader to believe that the character is hiding from someone or something. However, to contrast this, in the next line we are told that, →
Audience and purpose The tone of the poem suggests that she is determined to get to where she wants to go and that she is proud and sure of what she is doing. She silences all of her oppressors and shows them that she Whose point of view is represented in the poem?
Owen Challenges the reader to question the understanding of dying for your country in war by showing the harsh reality of it through his personal experiences. The poem Anthem for Doomed Youth also challenges the reader's thoughts and perspectives on war by contrasting the treatment of the dead soldiers compared to those of civilians.
Roberts Pack's essay on " The Snow Man" discusses the idea of perception, while David Perkins while focuses on the relationship between imagination and reality through the perspective of the snow man. In " The Snow Man", the atypical syntax and logic of the poem, as well as the usage of imagery, compels the reader →
He begins to realize the difference between what he has been taught by his karate instructor on the ideas of pain, and the " red welts" on his chest. He cannot seem to understand the relationship between his own life and the ideas of others.
In 'Twice Shy', the recurrent simile of the hawk and prey seems to reflect the overall atmosphere of the poem." Tremulous as a hawk," suggests the atmosphere is uneasy and prejudicial and yet still depicts serenity, composition and control. This could mean that in Twice Shy, the authors main objective was to focus on the →
The tone of " To a Daughter Leaving Home" differs from the tone in " At the San Francisco Airport". Winters' " At the San Francisco Airport" is a closed form poem that uses images and tone to convey the attempt of this father to keep his composure as he sees his daughter off to →
Robinson's use of " from sole to crown" implies that Richard Cory is a wholesome man from the sole of his foot to the crown of his head; whereas the parody says " heel to toe" which has the reader thinking about Ezra Farmers shoes. The poem " Richard Cory" and the poem " Ezra →
This section is important to the poem because it helps you realize the situation and feelings of the speaker. This section is important, because it shows the conflict between the speaker and this other person, and it also gives you a hint to the cause of his problems he is trying to escape.
The poem " Poem of Hatred," by Sayeed Abubakar centers on the idea of the stupidity and vices of humanity. Therefore, the major elements Abubakar implements into his work affect how the readers comprehend the theme because his strong use of diction, the various uses of figure of speeches, and the clear imagery presented throughout →
This means that in the order of poems it shows the 'end of the earth', areturning to earth', and 'a new bit of earth'. The third poem we have studied is called 'Geography 1' and the person in the poem is describing the birth of a new part of earth, the island of Surtsey.
A dramatic monologue is a poem written showing only one point of view, which is that of the narrator, and in " My Last Duchess" it is the Duke. The fact that it is part of the rhyming couplet draws attention to it and gives it the impression of completeness." That moment was mine, mine" →
In the poems Disabled and Refugee Blues, the writers, Owen and Auden respectively, convey the negative effects of war in a variety of ways. Owen is emphasizing that the war robbed the soldier of his innocence and naivety, he is also a little jealous of them, they still believe in fairy tales and happy endings, →
The Bwa, or ' betel nut', is the magic character of the tale- it seems like it is a real actor who plays an important role not only in the first episode of the story, but more especially when successive events place Dulliyaw in a hopeless situation. The role of the other characters is insignificant →
Take note of the rhythm in the lines starting with the word " You": " You do not have to be good," " You do not have to walk," " You only have to let." This rhythm is also heard in the lines starting with the word " Meanwhile": " Meanwhile the world goes on," →
Gathering Leaves Self-made notes Stanza 1 * Autumn * Collecting memories which are disorganized throughout the years * Reflecting himself Stanza 2 * - A bleak autumn's day and all nature begins to die/grow duller - Stanza 3 * - The speaker gathers a lot of leaves and piles them up as a mountain, but →
The main point of Rupert Brookes poem is to try and get people into war but telling them that it is very honourable to fight for your country. But the main point in Owens poem is to tell people how bad the war is by telling the truth and by saying it like an account →
The Dirge of the dead sisters was written behind the front line where all the injured soldiers went, and the poems concentrates on the way that the nurses were, like the condition that they had too work in and the facilities that they had. The last of the light brigade is all about after the →
He is showing the importance of being able to portray both of his idetities and not to be ashamed to express either. The poet expresses the isolation she felt when unable to understand the primary language of the country she is in: " Could not really know the other".
The speaker of the poem Is recalling all the stones of crazy things Hard Rock used to do before he left and telling the listener how much of a bad ass Hard Rock was. The situation of the poem and the whole reason why the speaker is even recalling all of thesememoriesis because it's been →
The use of time in " The Cyclist" is used to reinforce the notion that the pleasures of summer are temporary. Water is a symbol which is heavily used in the second stanza and the beginning of the third stanza.
In " Porphyria's Lover" the speaker is a male, in " My Last Duchess" the speaker is a male and in " The Cleaner" the speaker is a female. All the poems are set in a different period, " Porphyria's Lover" was in the nineteenth century, " My Last Duchess" was in the fourteenth or →
The speed of the poem in the first two stanzas has a very swift speed, " suddenly, from all the green", the use of the word " suddenly" suggests everything is happening quickly and instantly there is little time to think both for the reader and narrator. In the poem there is a shift in →
The symmetry of syntax and sound patterns within the final three lines of the quatrain: Love is not love / which alters when it alteration finds/ Or bends with the remover to remove, creates a pleasant echo of the ' o' sound enhancing the feelings of love. The speaker is declaring that love will stand →
This continues throughout the story of Lolita and as the audience, we begin to see that the characteristics of Lolita correspond to those of Annabel Lee. In both phrased, there are many overarching themes but the one that is most similar is the way in which the authors compare Lolita and Annabel Lee to aspects →
The poet uses the noun ' home' to make us conscious that the home that the slaves are from is not there for them anymore.it is an example of a spiritual place like canen. The quote'I begin to change my calypso ways' is the alteration in the poem, from the leaving of a home to →
In summary, the theme of this poem is the oppression experienced by the Indigenous population that resulted in a loss ofcultureand life for the Indigenous now " gone and scattered. They are the land, the elements, the fauna, the flora and the history.
First of all - This Room: it is an in depth poem which uses a lot of personification, imagery and contrasting words, all there to emphasize the freedom and the escapism from dark to light. This is saying that you should always keep the love for yourself first as it is most important and that →
He also tells us that he was indecisive on whether or not he should have commit to the relationship, and the reader gets a feeling that this poem is Larkin's confession of his weaknesses when it comes to commitment. It is important that Larkin does not know fully of beautiful's personality as this gives her →
The octave of the sonnet starts off with the speaker describing a picture of a spider holding a dead moth while on top of a flower, in what seems to be apart of a " witches' broth." This picture is presented through a simple rhyme scheme of abbaabba. Along with this the speaker alternates the →
In the following line the phrase " permutation of possibilities" suggests that there are various different methods to make the cities perfect and the alliteration of the letter ' P' also show the endlessness of the permutation of possibilities. In the second stanza the poet uses several phrases of sarcasm to show what the planners →