Alliteration

When looking at Lau Reed's poem, Romeo Had Juliet, he uses various sound devices such as such as rhyme, alliteration, and anaphora. Reed utilizes the tool of rhyme throughout the poem because he occasionally adds words at the end of lines that rhyme with each other. For example, in stanza one line six and seven he states "A diamond crucifix in his ear Is used to help ward off the fear" (Reed Stanza 1). The word "ear" and "fear" rhyme with each other, and is used to create a sense of flow within…

least one poem from this week’s readings. Describe the connections between (a) the poem’s form and/or use of literary devices and your experience of the poem and (b) your reading experience (see key literary terms listed in our textbook – e.g., alliteration, rhyme, iambic pentameter, etc.). If you wish, you may also compare your experience of the poem to your experience reading a short story that shares with the poem a similar theme.…

Robert Frost’s poem “Out, Out--“ appears to be, on the surface, about a young boy who, while working, cuts his hand with a saw and dies. When delving deeper into the poem it seems to be about death. Death comes for everyone, young and old, and it is often sudden and lacking reason. The narrator is originally very involved and emotional in the poem, but in the end becomes very detached. It is as if it is the only way the narrator can deal with the tragedy is to become distant from what is…

emotions seem like they’re disposable and it displays society’s obsession with appearances. Okara uses compound words to make the poem more interesting, “homeface, officeface, stressface, hostface, cocktailface” (lines 21-23). There is a use of alliteration in the following line; “hands without hearts” (line 8). Repetition of ‘shake’ and ‘laugh’ demonstrates how actions remain the same but emotions…

To express his opinion on what happiness is, Carver utilizes several poetic devices that help the reader to understand the underlying meaning of his poem; that of which include: enjambment, alliteration, and allusion. The grammatical techniques that the author uses in the poem, enjambment and alliteration, serve to create a tone that influences the audience to the point where he or she feels a strong connection to the poem. The use of enjambment is very integral to the poem and the poem’s value…

I chose the poem “Free Verse” by Robert Graves to display an example of free verse. Robert Graves was born in 1895 and died at the age of 90 in 1985. Graves was born in Wimbledon, near London. He was raised in an upper middle-class, patriotic, educated and strict household. Graves enlisted into the military at the onset of World War 1 and fought on the front lines, where he was severely injured. He developed an early reputation as a war poet using his front line experiences to develop realistic…

“The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost, recognizes the theme of making choices. In the poem, the speaker comes across a fork in the road when walking in the woods on an autumn day. Presented before him are two alternatives, with one option reasonably obvious and the other more subtle. He anticipates that one path has been traveled on more often than the other; however both paths are equally untraveled. While the speaker desires to follow both routes, he can only choose one, thus he arbitrarily…

Poetry is meant to be read aloud. The use of elements such as imageries, personification metaphors, symbolism, rhyme schemes, sarcasm, satire and many others are used to make the writers work more effective and bring out its meaning. Rhyming words makes the poem flow it gives the poem a lyric, and makes the poem interesting. Symbols help the readers get the inner meaning of the authors massage and its very important helps the reader also to put themselves in the authors place. Personifications…

nature imagery, by comparing death to night and life to light. There is a significance to the rhyming of “night” and “light” because they are used as opposites and serve as the central meaning to the poem. Thomas uses a combination of assonance, alliteration, and consonance to give the stanza a united and cohesive feel, and the repeated sounds help give the stanza a “spitting” tone––like it’s angry and…

The poem “The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls” by Henry Longfellow is an interesting poem because the poem has many different interpretations of the poem by the reader. This poem starts with the description of the night, the sand, the ocean, and the traveler that reaches the shore and all these main ideas have a lot more meaning behind when fully understood. This poem is very short, containing only 15 lines, but this poem has tremendous meaning and imagery to it. When reading the poem you notice the…