Comparing Poetry And Prose In Walter Dean Myers's Poem, Summer

Numerous people believe poetry and prose exist merely as methods of writing; however, there is more to these forms of literature than meets the eye. While authors throughout time have used either poetry, prose, or a combination of the two in their work, both serve as literary tools that writers implement to express, persuade, inform, and inspire (among other reasons to write). Although these styles of writing involve different metrical structures, they both use the art of language to appeal to our senses and emotions.
“Tyger Tyger, burning bright,/ In the forests of the night;/ What immortal hand or eye,/ Could frame thy fearful symmetry?”, a work by William Blake, makes it easy to see why people become frustrated or uninterested with and in …show more content…
The emotions and excitement they experience when they read can not be hastily described as gratuitous. In Walter Dean Myers’s poem, “Summer”, he uses rhyming words, short lines, assonance, and a rhythmic placing of words to create a musical quality and a relaxing tone that you can almost tap your foot to. Myers brings us back to our childhood with phrases such as “Juices dripping” and “Catch the one you love days”, instilling in us the playful, youthful sentiments of summer as a child. Likewise, in prose, authors draw on our emotions by way of language. Commonly in their stories, authors, detailing their characters’ personalities, create a sense of familiarity, a sense of identity between the character and the reader, and therefore cause the reader to feel sympathy for and connect to the character. That stated, when the character undergoes hardships or faces death, the reader naturally feels commiseration, and when the character encounters an event of good fortune, the reader rejoices alongside. Our emotions are sometimes played on by a clever arrangement of words or a heartwarming, relatable character, meanwhile, our senses are usually appealed to by other