Assonance

Good morning to the editor and others receiving this message. My suite of poems, specifically Dulce et Decorum Est and Insensibility invites the reader into the world of frontline bloodshed, exposing the unbearable mental and physical effects frontline warfare has on the human condition. My poems provoke their audience to acknowledge the importance of telling the truth by exposing how superimposed war zeitgeist by glorious war author’s led youthful solder’s to the frontline with perilous…

as a madman, bloodthirsty for suffering and death. ‘Rifles rapid rattle’, paints a long lasting image in the mind of the reader, as the use of alliteration, along with onomatopoeia, centralises on the magnitude of the destruction occurring. The assonance in line 5, (repetition of the sound ‘no’), which produces negative connotations, along with the rhetorical question ‘what candles may be held to speed them all?’ accentuates his anger. This reinforces Owens purpose to express his outrage about…

comedy, and the effective use of setting. One of a highly motivated high school junior’s goals is usually to be an outstanding writer. In Shakespeare’s A Midsummer Night’s Dream, Shakespeare uses literary devices such as alliteration, anaphora, and assonance. For example, when Helena chases Demetrius into the forest she shouts, “ Ay, in the temple, in the town,…

War is brutal. War can tear countries and families apart and leave them no mercy. War sucks all of the joy out of life. But when war ends, it can bring happiness and joy to thousands and thousands of people. Celebration breaks out all across the world and people finally feel free from the endless turmoil and pain that had been the previous war. Sometimes, many people actually break out into song and sing at the top of their voices because they know they are free. This theme of war being so…

alliteration “distant deeps” might have been intended to get reader’s attention to an idea that the person who created this beast, might not be from the plant that Blake is on at this moment. Moving on to the next line of this poem. Blake uses an assonance here when he wrote, “Burnt the fire of thine eyes?” Here, you can definitely pick out the “I” endings in this phase when u read the words fire, thine, and eyes. In the last two lines of this poem, I think that Blake is asking the tiger a…

towards Joan of Arc. Another example of this scheme is implemented into the last sentence of the speech. The repetition of “But if you hate cruelty…,” an appeal to the emotions of the audience, suggests that it is a crueler deed to tolerate heresy (Assonance); therefore, he leaves the audience with mixed emotions, leaving them to decide the fate of the pious, chaste, Joan of…

nineteen. He lived far away from his mother and was deeply attached to her. During 1913-1915, he worked as a tutor in France. Whilst teaching in France, he read and studied works of novelists and poets who were experimenting with rhyming patterns and assonance which became one of Owen characteristic of his poetry. In 1915, Wilfred Owen joined the British army. Until 1917 he was expressing his experiences only to his brother and mother through letters and not anyone else. During his first…

Barbie Doll In the poem “Barbie Doll” written by Marge Piercy, the author addresses the stereotypical ideas of what society believes a woman should look like and how a woman should act. The title lends itself to help reinforce these themes of appearance and femininity by implying that women are to fashion themselves around the famous 1959 Mattel doll, Barbie, whose appearance some argue provides an unrealistic expectation for women to strive to achieve. Piercy goes on to show what…

ageing, maturity and transience and might indicate that it is autumn. The adjective “rauschend” could refer to the rustling of leaves in the wind. Throughout the poem, vowel sounds are more significant than metre in conveying the atmosphere. The assonance “braunen, rauschenden” (v.1) hints at the speaker’s excitement or emotional turmoil. The darker diphthongs contrast with the light [aɪ̯]- and [ɪ]-sounds of the second verse, which emphasise how small the rays of light are that barely manage to…

example of repetition is the use of the word Australia throughout the poem to remind the reader who the subject matter is. The author also talks about “Fair dinkum ridgy didge a dinky die true blue” in the poem and this phrase is a good example of assonance which is the technique of repetitive vowel sounds in a sentence. The use of some slang terms is an emphasis on Zervos’ understanding of the Australian slang and culture. Zervos highlights the issue of racism in Australia through his own…