My written response will be on the poem “Barter” by Sara Teasdale. This poem discusses the topic of life and the loveliness it has to offer.
Teasdale uses imagery in a few lines to create a mental picture for the reader to better set the mood. The poet says “Blue waves whitened on a cliff”(3) and the reader immediately sees waves turning white once splashing against the rock - which primarily appeals to the sense of sound and secondarily to the sense of sight. The line “Soaring fire that sways and sings”(4) creates the mental image of sitting at a bonfire and watching the fire dance high and low, listening to it make crackling noises, and the warm cozy feeling you get sitting by a fire. These senses of sight, smell sound, and touch are all triggered by the imagery created by the author. The mental picture created for the reader with the line “Eyes that love you, arms that hold”(10) may be more personal. Perhaps they would imagine the eyes of someone they love looking at them, and they would feel the arms of that person wrapped around them in a hug. Nevertheless, the imagery creates a feeling of warmth and comfort that one would get from being around loved ones. …show more content…
The final DD really makes the rhyme stand out and makes each stanza sound completed. When the DD comes around, the reader understands that a transition is occurring. This rhyme scheme adds an energetic tone to the poem. It discusses many positive and lovely attributes of the world and it gives the reader this feeling of “more, more, more!” which consequently makes them read the poem quicker. Another tone that is added when reading this poem is: playfulness. It’s quite bouncy, in the sense that you jump from one line to the other very smoothly. This only occurs in the first two stanzas, because the third stanza more dark, which makes the reader slow down, taking away that playful
Teasdale uses imagery in a few lines to create a mental picture for the reader to better set the mood. The poet says “Blue waves whitened on a cliff”(3) and the reader immediately sees waves turning white once splashing against the rock - which primarily appeals to the sense of sound and secondarily to the sense of sight. The line “Soaring fire that sways and sings”(4) creates the mental image of sitting at a bonfire and watching the fire dance high and low, listening to it make crackling noises, and the warm cozy feeling you get sitting by a fire. These senses of sight, smell sound, and touch are all triggered by the imagery created by the author. The mental picture created for the reader with the line “Eyes that love you, arms that hold”(10) may be more personal. Perhaps they would imagine the eyes of someone they love looking at them, and they would feel the arms of that person wrapped around them in a hug. Nevertheless, the imagery creates a feeling of warmth and comfort that one would get from being around loved ones. …show more content…
The final DD really makes the rhyme stand out and makes each stanza sound completed. When the DD comes around, the reader understands that a transition is occurring. This rhyme scheme adds an energetic tone to the poem. It discusses many positive and lovely attributes of the world and it gives the reader this feeling of “more, more, more!” which consequently makes them read the poem quicker. Another tone that is added when reading this poem is: playfulness. It’s quite bouncy, in the sense that you jump from one line to the other very smoothly. This only occurs in the first two stanzas, because the third stanza more dark, which makes the reader slow down, taking away that playful