Poetic form

Trethewey and York are strikingly similar in how they approach form, even if their content is strikingly different. "Elegy for the Native Guards" serves as an memories for the forgotten black soldiers; "Abide" seems to be about the forgetfulness of a loved one. Both poets use interestingly similar techniques to captivate their readers and draw them into the poem. Firstly, the stanzas in each poem seem to function as single moments in time. "Abide" has not only just one stanza, but is also a…

Love is a Climb; Personal Sonnet Explication The theme of the poem is that love is a dangerous risk that people take for the thrilling feeling and hope that love will last forever. The theme is emphasized by the explanation of hardships people face in such a process, “And further from the apex, slipping down,/Fragile my skin, leaving scratches on me.” (Lines 6-7) When people search for love, they face obstacles and may get hurt, like, when a person climbs a mountain. However this does not stop…

same only if the other people were willing to keep it safe and they were truly appreciated for your efforts with their heart. 2. I will be using the literary device of rhyme to analyze the poem. According to Robert DiYanni’s article of “Glossary of Poetic Terms”, rhyme is the matching of final vowel or consonant sounds in two or more words. 3. According to Professor Terzakis’s lecture, “Ozymandias” has a rhyme scheme…

Musee des Beaux Arts “About suffering they were never wrong (Auden).” Auden’s poem is about suffering and how others ignore it unless they are affected by it. Musee de Beaux Arts is an Ecphrasis poem, which means that it is a poem describing a scene or a work of art, written by W. H. Auden. This poem has ample literary devices used in it, such as allusion, enjambment, imagery, and juxtaposition, which is when two things are placed close together to cause a contrasting effect, all of these…

In the poems “I heard the learned astronomer” and “324” by Walt Whitman and Emily Dickinson respectively, Whitman and Dickinson both approach the same subject from different views. Whitman contrasts nature in reality, versus nature in scientific study; Dickenson compares nature to a religion, and finds holiness in the natural world. While Whitman and Dickinson approach the subject of nature from different perspectives, they both arrive at the same conclusion of the higher position of nature.…

Li-Young Lee, an award winning contemporary poet, was born to a prominent Chinese family which faced political persecution. Consequently, Lee grew up as a political exile and a refugee. Lees past and his family greatly influence his poetry and allow him to reach more universal topics in his poetry. In “I Ask My Mother to Sing”, Lee describes the disconnect existing between him and his Chinese hertitage through an anecdote. The loss of Lee’s father is addressed in “The Weight of Sweetness” and…

Richard Cory is a poem published in 1897 by a poet Edwin Arlington Robinson who won three Pulitzer Prize for his work. He was nominated for the Nobel Prize in Literature four times. According to owlcation.com “Richard Cory,” is the story of a man who seems to have it all. The people of the town, who are clearly of a lower financial class, place Richard Cory on a pedestal. The lower class look up to Richard Cory and want to be just like him. The poet’s complex attitude toward Richard Cory is…

"These are the flowers we bought this morning, the dahlias tossed on his grave and bells waiting with their tongues cut out for this particular silence." I believe his quote falls under second degree. To me, First degree would be top notch, the best of the best. Second is good, and their is bad. This small piece of literature is different from any other piece I've seen, that is why I chose it. This poem is called Memory of Elena by Carolyn Forché. Some poems are hard to interpret. This…

John Keate's "Ode to a Nightingale" is a well-known writing in which the speaker relates his emotions and his happiness to that of a Nightingale. This poem is one where the speaker is sharing his experience with the reader, rather than just recalling his experience, creating more of a personal feel. Through the author's constant use of diction, imagery, and tone, we get a clear representation of what the speaker is going through and how he feels. In the first stanza, the speaker reveals his…

There are many attributes to the making of a Psalm, like most literature, the Psalms have a structure, or feature, that it follows. However, the feature, or topic, for this dialogue is on what parallelism is, and why it is an important element of Hebrew poetry. Parallelism can be defined, as Lucas would say, “words or phrases in one line [which] correspond in some way to those in the other.” Robert Deffinbaugh gives a great analogy of parallelism by referencing it to “stereo vision and stereo…