Assonance

Stylistic Analysis of Allama Iqbal’s Shikwa Back ground: According to Bassnett and Gundy (1993) “Literature is a high pint of language practice; debatable it makes the best skill a language user can express. Anyone who wants to obtain a thoughtful knowledge of language that goes away from the useful will read literary texts in that language.” Usually, literature is look upon to be the privilege of definite people who are capable with certain ability and understanding literature. Literature is…

The emotions and excitement they experience when they read can not be hastily described as gratuitous. In Walter Dean Myers’s poem, “Summer”, he uses rhyming words, short lines, assonance, and a rhythmic placing of words to create a musical quality and a relaxing tone that you can almost tap your foot to. Myers brings us back to our childhood with phrases such as “Juices dripping” and “Catch the one you love days”, instilling in us…

REFFELCTION ESSAY FOR POEM “THE LUMINARY” I chose to write a poem using six words from Webster’s Dictionary page we were given as an exercise in Dr. Brown’s “Book Notes on Jones.” My poem uses a technique related to Jones’ poem “OED” though not identical. I’ve also broken the poem into three parts like the Jones’ book. The parts are “Prelude,” “~,” and “The Marmot’s Luminary.” Is think my choice is justified in that it becomes obvious how my work is related to his. The “Prelude” poem makes it…

Stephen Crane utilizes detailed examples and depicts a strong bias in his poem, “The Impact of a Dollar Upon the Heart”. This poem dramatizes the conflict within the wealthy. In this poem, he depicts the emotions and experiences between the contrasting lives between those with just one dollar compared to one million dollars. Crane’s overall focus is not to demean the wealthy but to prove that their public facade masks their private despair. Through the use of powerful symbols, metaphors, and…

Without fail, Frost uses a rather unusual use of timing that represents not only the feeling of the poem but also reflects the narrator’s character himself. Assonance first creates the rhythm to this poem through many repetitions such as; line 1 the “O” in “roads’ and “yellow”, line 3 the “A” in “and” and “traveler”, line 4 the “O” sound is repeated again in “looked” and “could” (Frost, 1916). Through the use…

It is easy to believe that attaining peace in this world where violence and wars are so apparent is getting much harder. Perhaps to the point in which it is verging on the impossible. ‘Eve of Destruction’ expresses a strong but heartfelt warning towards how our hypocrisy as a society is edging us closer to our own demise . The writer, P.F Slogan, addresses both the solider and society singing about being on the ‘eve of destruction’. He wrote, “You’re old enough to kill but not for voting”,…

“Unable are the loved to die, for love is immortality.” Emily Dickinson lives on in the minds of people who love her and her poetry, even though she never sought the immortality that comes with fame. Dickinson had a very humble and religious upbringing, causing her to reject the idea of God but not entirely abandon the way she was taught to live and think. She lived a reclusive life in her family’s house, alone with her thoughts and emotions. Her failed love affair gave her the knowledge that…

trademark for most of his writing. The short lyric is very seductive, and implies that passion that is felt so strongly overrides the behavior of love that would seem conventional. This lyric includes 5 stanzas and 16 lines and also includes enjambment, assonance, and irony. Many of the lines in this particular poem by Cummings uses metaphors, in which he compares life to a paragraph and death to parenthesis. Edward Estlin Cummings was an American poet who lived in the twentieth century and…

The clustering or juxtaposed of certain words creates lingering effects on the reader’s imagination. In Ludlow, Mason frequently uses assonance. In describing a dream of spice islands, he uses the words “ambition, loss, and love” (141). In some instances, he also uses repetition to capture hopeless moments: “But nothing was the word of peace. / Nothing would offer love. / Nothing gave the…

This poem of twenty four lines is divided into four stanzas of sestets. The poem follows the rhyme scheme ABCABC. In the last stanza, many of the rhymes are feminine—daughter, mother, water, other. The erratic rhythm of the poem is sprung rhythm, designed to imitate the rhythm of natural speech. It is comprises of feet in which the first syllable is stressed and may be followed by a varying number of syllables which are unstressed. Rhymes and near rhymes in this poem maintain a pattern, which…