Swenson:
"The Universe", by May Swenson, was indeed a great example of sound effects within a poem. The poet repeats words to create a sense of rhythm and time. Also, the rhythms used in the poem make the poem flow smoothly and in a pattern. To conclude, the poem was both a witty usage of words, and a crafty example of sound effects being used to their full potential.
Tennyson:
Alfred, Lord Tennyson 's, "The Eagle", creates a fabulous image of the power in an eagle. The poet captures the eagle standing over the world. Mighty and powerful, looking down on the world below. The reader does join the eagle as "Like a thunderbolt he falls" (858). The descriptive usage of words put in play gives the reader a sense that he/she is standing and falling …show more content…
The grandmother in the poem clearly is filled with grief. The reader does not know what prompts the grandmothers emotions, but by reading the poem, the reader gets the sense that the sadness revolves around the child (the grandmother trying her hardest to not let the child know how she feels). Perhaps the child 's parents died earlier and the almanac remind the grandmother of something about them? The Marvel stove said, "It was to be" (766), and the Almanac responded," I know what I know" (766), giving the sense that something happened. The child appears to be oblivious to the grandmothers worries. Although the child drew a picture of a house with "a man with buttons like tears", the poem gives no reason for the reader to believe that the child knows any more than the reader.
Roethke:
The poet Theodore Roethke 's "The Waking", revolves around two lines " I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I learn by going where I have to go"(571). These lines capture the theme of the poem. I do not think the poet fears death necessarily. After all, the speaker says,"I feel my fate in what I cannot fear" (570). By taking away the thought of after life, the speaker does indeed change the reader 's perception of time. Instead of always, time seems to shorten and quicken its pace. Because time would no longer be thought of but felt, always does lose its feeling. …show more content…
Alfred Prufrock" the speaker compares the way he does because the sky spreads out and envelops the earth like a etherized patient covers a table. The mood visualized by the reader in the third stanza is one of calmness and patience, that everything will work out. The speaker does not think that he himself is attractive by say how mermaids sing but they probably would not sing to him. Lines 83 to 84 means that the speaker had seen the peak of his greatness, yet it flickered and went out. Line 104 does suggest the fact as to why the speaker uses so many symbols in the poem.
Komunyakaa:
The poem, "Facing It", by Yusef Komunyakaa was interesting. Line 5 says, "I 'm Stone. I 'm Flesh"(821) does seem quite opposite alone. But in the theme of the poem, the line make sense. The poet is saying how he is both flesh (alive) and stone (dead). I believe that the speaker waits to mention that he is in Vietnam Veterans Memorial as his center location, and the fact that he himself is a veteran of the war because that would have taken away from the dramatic opening of the poem. The poem starts in suspense, and that, I think, is what the poet was striving
"The Universe", by May Swenson, was indeed a great example of sound effects within a poem. The poet repeats words to create a sense of rhythm and time. Also, the rhythms used in the poem make the poem flow smoothly and in a pattern. To conclude, the poem was both a witty usage of words, and a crafty example of sound effects being used to their full potential.
Tennyson:
Alfred, Lord Tennyson 's, "The Eagle", creates a fabulous image of the power in an eagle. The poet captures the eagle standing over the world. Mighty and powerful, looking down on the world below. The reader does join the eagle as "Like a thunderbolt he falls" (858). The descriptive usage of words put in play gives the reader a sense that he/she is standing and falling …show more content…
The grandmother in the poem clearly is filled with grief. The reader does not know what prompts the grandmothers emotions, but by reading the poem, the reader gets the sense that the sadness revolves around the child (the grandmother trying her hardest to not let the child know how she feels). Perhaps the child 's parents died earlier and the almanac remind the grandmother of something about them? The Marvel stove said, "It was to be" (766), and the Almanac responded," I know what I know" (766), giving the sense that something happened. The child appears to be oblivious to the grandmothers worries. Although the child drew a picture of a house with "a man with buttons like tears", the poem gives no reason for the reader to believe that the child knows any more than the reader.
Roethke:
The poet Theodore Roethke 's "The Waking", revolves around two lines " I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow. I learn by going where I have to go"(571). These lines capture the theme of the poem. I do not think the poet fears death necessarily. After all, the speaker says,"I feel my fate in what I cannot fear" (570). By taking away the thought of after life, the speaker does indeed change the reader 's perception of time. Instead of always, time seems to shorten and quicken its pace. Because time would no longer be thought of but felt, always does lose its feeling. …show more content…
Alfred Prufrock" the speaker compares the way he does because the sky spreads out and envelops the earth like a etherized patient covers a table. The mood visualized by the reader in the third stanza is one of calmness and patience, that everything will work out. The speaker does not think that he himself is attractive by say how mermaids sing but they probably would not sing to him. Lines 83 to 84 means that the speaker had seen the peak of his greatness, yet it flickered and went out. Line 104 does suggest the fact as to why the speaker uses so many symbols in the poem.
Komunyakaa:
The poem, "Facing It", by Yusef Komunyakaa was interesting. Line 5 says, "I 'm Stone. I 'm Flesh"(821) does seem quite opposite alone. But in the theme of the poem, the line make sense. The poet is saying how he is both flesh (alive) and stone (dead). I believe that the speaker waits to mention that he is in Vietnam Veterans Memorial as his center location, and the fact that he himself is a veteran of the war because that would have taken away from the dramatic opening of the poem. The poem starts in suspense, and that, I think, is what the poet was striving