Poetry: Poem Analysis

Decent Essays
1. Find a link that links to the poem you chose and link it to this document. Create a link by highlighting the word "poem" and clicking on the icon that looks like a chain. When it pops up pate in the link and then hit enter.

2. Type in your paragraph summarizing the poem. Then, explain what you could relate to in the poem.

This poem is saying are dreams put off later into the future. Do dreams happen right away or happen later in life. I chose this poem because I can relate to it. I can relate to this poem because I feel the same way about dreamlike can they happened right away or could they just come later in life.

Tonight's homework will be (you may have time to do it in class).

Go back to the poem you picked, and answer these
…show more content…
Explain the significance of the title? The significance of this title is a dream differed . The details in this title is "what happens" the title is an question. When he ask questions like does it dry up like a raisin in the sun. The speaker is asking these questions to see if the dream is deffered or not. He is trying to convince people not to put off there …show more content…
Who is the speaker of the poem? The speaker of the poem is someone who put off their dream. The speaker in shows detail because that person ask "what happens to a dream deffered.

3. Who is the speaker speaking to? The speaker is someone that has a dream. Details that shows this is he asks "does it stink like rotten meat or crust over like a syrupy sweet?" This question is asking does the dream just comes about or is put off.

4. What is the tone of the poem? The tone of the poem is carious because every other sentence is a question. Specific details in this poem is "does it dry up like a raisin in the sun".

5. Identify 3 literary devices AND then explain how each technique enhanced the poem by providing specific details.

One literary device in this poem is “like a raisin in the sun". This technique enhanced the poem because the simile expressed how your dream can just be put off.

Another literary device in this poem is "like a syrupy sweet". This technique enhanced the poem because the alliteration expressed can a dream be good at times.

Literary device in this poem is "maybe it just sags like a heavy load". This technique enhanced the poem because this literary device which is a hyperbole it over exaggerates and explains does someones dream just stays where its

Related Documents

  • Decent Essays

    Provide an example of each poetic device from any of the assigned poems. For each quote, explain the author’s intended meaning. What is the author really saying? Figurative LanguageQuoteMeaningMetaphorPoem: Hope by Emily DickersonQuote: “Hope is the thing with feathers”This means a person with hope can fly like abirdPoem: Dreams by Langston HughesQuote: “Life is a broken-winged bird”Without dreams like is empty and still.…

    • 324 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The major mood of this poem appears to be a dark and sinister one, with many ethereal, ghostly happenings occurring in the background. The poet uses a variety of techniques in conjunction to achieve this effect. For example, he uses Alliteration to draw attention to the term “Struggling Snakes” which he then compares to the simple furrows on a farm. Thus, the poet effectively manages to bring forth an eerie, dark theme to a simple, farmhouse setting. In this way, he sets the mood as being dark and sinister.…

    • 659 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    Assignment 1.7 Poetry

    • 435 Words
    • 2 Pages

    1 Assignment 1.7 Poetry Assessment How does communication change us? 1. Does communication change us? Write a paragraph in which you answer this question and provide at least 3 reasons to support your opinion. I believe that communication does in fact change us.…

    • 435 Words
    • 2 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Decent Essays

    Provide an example of each poetic device from any of the assigned poems. For each quote, explainthe author’s intended meaning. What is the author really saying? Metaphor: A) "Dreams" by Langston Hughes"Life is a broken-winged bird. "With…

    • 793 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Decent Essays
  • Improved Essays

    P7 Poetry Analysis

    • 823 Words
    • 4 Pages

    The speaker kept repeating the word sere. According to the Webster dictionary sere means dry and withered. In the ninth stanza the speaker described his heart as crisp and sere as the leaves in the graveyard. The speaker also described his heart as ashen and sober. Ashen brings to mind the color grey which suggest that the speaker feels lifeless after seeing Ulalume’s grave.…

    • 823 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    When I first saw the title of this poem, I automatically knew it was going to be about someone that use to play basketball, but I never knew the guy in the poem would end up the way he did. This poem is about an ex-basketball player, named Flick Webb, who use to be the best in his town. The third stanza talks about how he was an outstanding player and some of his accomplishments. However, the two stanzas at the beginning and the two stanzas at the end tells the life of the basketball player after retirement from the game. After ending his basketball career, he worked at Berth’s Garage, a gas station.…

    • 724 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    I knew I needed to complete my daily house chores along with my dreadful writing assignment. For some reason, I was afraid to analyze and conclude what I presumed of the poem’s interpretation. What if my interpretation was incorrect? What if I never comprehend the poem? What if my professor…

    • 829 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Superior Essays

    Gwendolyn Brooks’ poem, “My Dreams, My Works, Must Wait Till After Hell,” emphasizes the role that dreams play in the narrator’s life. This traditional sonnet is included in the collection, “Gay Chaps at the Bar,” that introduces the narrators as young soldiers recently returned from war. Favored by writers in the Harlem Renaissance, Brooks wrote the collection in strict sonnet format with iambic pentameter. Yet, the poem does not mirror the rigidity of the sonnet because of Brooks’ careful use of enjambment. Written in the present tense, with a final couplet in the hypothetical future, Brooks’ poem does not have a concrete sense of past.…

    • 1379 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Superior Essays
  • Improved Essays

    He poses a logical rhetorical question to those who oppose his philosophy on hope in a person’s life and makes bold statements as to the reality and merit of any given event or element of life in general. These ideas offered by the speaker, along with the general lack of expletives as compared to the second stanza, all add to the calmly solemn and somewhat brave tone of the first half of the piece. But, just as the reader may seem to have identified the tone of the poem as he or she finishes the first stanza, it quickly and abruptly shifts to display a much more frantic and desperate attitude as the second stanza is…

    • 1263 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    This stresses the meaning of his poem to readers and also the theme. The last literary device I noticed was the imagery and words used. He is very descriptive in how he describes the sun, grass and wind. His evocative words make his imagery clearer while reading the poem, which allow the audience to understand and grasp his…

    • 1277 Words
    • 6 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    In the three body paragraphs i told you about similes,metaphors,and repetition .The author also had personification in his poem . Personification is where like a animal talks or something like that. In the highwayman the robber fell in love with the landlord's black hair daughter.…

    • 528 Words
    • 3 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Great Essays

    Martin Luther King Rhetorical Analysis

    • 1412 Words
    • 6 Pages
    • 1 Works Cited

    He uses these words and follows them with things that he knows that people are hoping for. He uses the word dream, because it is such a personal and deep commodity. The phrases he adds to the end of this representation are also very personal. This is so effectual because the target audience of this speech can see these visualizations become reality. This audience probably includes many parents, like King, making his reference to his children universal.…

    • 1412 Words
    • 6 Pages
    • 1 Works Cited
    Great Essays
  • Great Essays

    ANALYSES OF THE LOVELIEST TREES AND TO AN ATHLETE DYING YOUNG BY HOUSMAN Alfred Edward Housman was an English poet and one of the greatest classical scholars of all time. In this essay, I will analyse two poems “The Loveliest Trees” and “To an Athlete Dying Young” by A.E. Housman from modern era in England. These poems call as modern poems. First of all, I want to mention about modernism, characteristics of modernism and characteristics of modern English poetry. Modernism is a literary movement which associates with the scientific and the artistic changes and it rejected romantic ideas.…

    • 2001 Words
    • 9 Pages
    Great Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The writer enhances the mood and emotions of this song through poetic devices integrated in the song. The poetic devices in the song are repetition, consonance, assonance, alliteration, imagery, rhyme, personification, simile, paradox, metaphor, and hyperbole. Repetition is used in this song when the author includes the phrase “the sounds of silence” at the ends of almost all of the stanzas. Another, poetic device that is used in “The Sound of Silence” is consonance, which takes place when the lyrics “But my words like silent raindrops fell” come up. This line consist of two examples of this poetic device, one where the “d” is repeated in words and raindrops.…

    • 1144 Words
    • 5 Pages
    Improved Essays
  • Improved Essays

    The second stanza is proof that nature has a main part in describing the character and maybe even the meaning the poem. “The leafy boughs on high”, means the “main” part of the branch, resaying nature is the main branch of the poem. The second stanza also has the evidence that the character is depressed. “Hissed in the sun” Hissed mean a sharp note but can also mean displeasure. Figuring out that hissed could mean displeasure, resaying it would be” displeasure of the sun”…

    • 793 Words
    • 4 Pages
    Improved Essays