Sound is an important property of poetry. There are different elements that help make up the sound of a piece of writing. The most important piece I believe is relevant to the teachings this week would be the use of rhyming and rhythm in poetry. A rhythm is, the regular recurrence of sounds – is at the center of all natural phenomena (Kizner & Mandell, 2012, p.427). Poets utilize rhythm by sometime repeating words, and utilized words that rhyme. Meter is another large aspect of sound and rhythm; it is created by the recurrence of regular units of stressed and unstressed syllables (Kizner & Mandell, 2012, p.429.) Meters, sounds, and rhymes help with the rhythm because it is what appeals a reader. The use of them allows the reader to read a
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They do this by carefully and precisely choosing words that show meaning. An explanation of this would be the poet’s choice of concrete, specific, or general words in his piece. Concrete words are tangible entities that we know exist and as readers do not have to imagine, as opposed to abstract words in which inflict the reader to utilize the senses in order to attain the feeling the poet id trying to get across. This week I read the poem, The Negro Speaks of Rivers by Langston Hughes (Kizner & Mandell, 2012, p.522). I will explain how the poet manipulated sound through his word choice and identify the figures of speech within the poem that helped with the poems flow. The poet was utilizing the first person point of view in his poem. Although it is scientifically impossible for a person to live as long and deep as he explains how his souls feels, he utilizes comparison of knowing the past of his ancestors to his deep feeling of race suppression. Langston Hughes made sure that the flow of his poem was easy to follow so that the reader would understand that, no he did not live to actually bath in the Euphrates river but his ancestors did, and during that time black people were being used as slaves, and although he may not know the exact hurt of what his ancestors lived, he expresses gratitude to them because he is where he stood at that moment writing his poetry as a free man. It was because of the suffering that his ancestors felt that allowed him to have empathy and live with those deep feeling in thanks to the sacrifices his family made before
They do this by carefully and precisely choosing words that show meaning. An explanation of this would be the poet’s choice of concrete, specific, or general words in his piece. Concrete words are tangible entities that we know exist and as readers do not have to imagine, as opposed to abstract words in which inflict the reader to utilize the senses in order to attain the feeling the poet id trying to get across. This week I read the poem, The Negro Speaks of Rivers by Langston Hughes (Kizner & Mandell, 2012, p.522). I will explain how the poet manipulated sound through his word choice and identify the figures of speech within the poem that helped with the poems flow. The poet was utilizing the first person point of view in his poem. Although it is scientifically impossible for a person to live as long and deep as he explains how his souls feels, he utilizes comparison of knowing the past of his ancestors to his deep feeling of race suppression. Langston Hughes made sure that the flow of his poem was easy to follow so that the reader would understand that, no he did not live to actually bath in the Euphrates river but his ancestors did, and during that time black people were being used as slaves, and although he may not know the exact hurt of what his ancestors lived, he expresses gratitude to them because he is where he stood at that moment writing his poetry as a free man. It was because of the suffering that his ancestors felt that allowed him to have empathy and live with those deep feeling in thanks to the sacrifices his family made before