Alliteration

The poems “Where the Sidewalk Ends” and “Escaping Reality” were composed four decades apart. They involve a speaker who is anticipating his escape from reality. They also involve a speaker’s search for a resolution through symbolism. In addition, they focus on a single theme which is despite your life responsibilities; you should use your imagination to escape when times get difficult. Furthermore, they feature the thoughts of a speaker who refers to himself in the first person perspective. The…

"Trying to Name What Doesn't Change" by Naomi Shiha Nye, is a poem about what does not change versus what does change. Nye shows perspective from a child and adult point of view about how they view change. "Trying to Name What Doesn't Change" is a poem about time and how it takes time for change to be noticeable. Nye wants the reader to thinks about what changes in their life and what does not change. The imagery in Naomi Shiha Nye's poem "Trying to Name What Doesn't Change" shows that the…

Ron Koertge’s 2006 poem “Do You Have Any Advice For Those of Us Just Starting Out?” demonstrates how the poet uses the conventional poetic form of a free verse to treat the unusual subject of guidance to up and coming poets with sense of humor and wisdom. The poem is separated into 6 stanzas. The poem does not have a specific form, but the stanzas seem to increase in lines as the poem is read. As the poem The poem is constructed like a guideline which makes it seem that the guidance starts out…

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…

In the poem “The Red Wheelbarrow”, William Carlos Williams uses both imagery and word order to create a picture in his reader’s minds. The first initial picture that is formed, in my opinion, is of a farm setting; readers can visualize a red wheelbarrow, wet, with white chickens around it. However, if we take a closer look at the words, we are be able to see a much more elaborate representation than just an ordinary farm scene. Williams’s placement of particular words, in this poem, is just as…

Poetry is a way to express someone's feelings and ideas by the use of distinctive style and rhythm. Poets use different literary devices to convey meaning, bring richness and clarity to their text. William Cullen Bryant and Henry Wadsworth Longfellow effectively used imagery in their writing. Both authors have similarities and differences in their work. For Bryant is was Thanatopsis, and for Longfellow it was The tide rises, the tide falls. Imagery creates visual representations of ideas in our…

This essay will examine of how themes and literary devices on transformation permeate Old English Poetry in relation riddles and elegies. Riddles and the elegy The Seafarer from the Exeter Book will be referenced. The themes and literary devices of riddles that focus on transformation that will be discussed are de-conceptualisation, metaphors and imagery. Within elegies the themes that focus on transformation in relation to The Seafarer that will be discussed are the transformation of the…

Suppressing senses in John Keats’s Ode to a Nightingale and Ode on a Grecian Urn Abstract: John Keats, as a pursuer of beauty, is well-known for his beautiful sensory language in his odes, but many of the odes intentionally limit the senses they inhabit. With particular references to Ode to a Nightingale and Ode on a Grecian Urn, this paper focuses on the reasons for suppressing senses and the methods of creating an abundance of believable sensation with limited senses. Key words: Ode to a…

The attitude of love life in Ezra Pound's poetry. The memory of love in someone's mind has always been found in someone's poetry. It is hard to deny that poetry is one of the most fascinating writing and creative arts. There are so many poets in the history that get perceived as an admirable poet. It is not surprising that Ezra Pound is one of them because he had written the most beautiful poetry which is called The River-Merchant's Wife: A Letter. This poetry is the glorious one that expresses…

“Slang is the poetry of everyday life and it vividly expresses people’s feelings about life, and about the things they encounter.”(Hayahawa, 1941) There was a time when one wrote passages or pages to express how one feels about something or someone. The beauty was in the praises that were endowed soon after. There was happiness in the flow of honest appreciations whether to praise the good or condemn the bad. Unfortunately, everything these days have narrowed down to “awesome”, “cool”, “bad”, or…