Assonance

Explication: As I approach, in my vehicle, the intersection of a smaller road and a larger road, and the light rain soaks my small horse-drawn wagon, I peer over my shoulder at the road as it fades into the distance. I notice on the road’s hill, which is now shining from the wet of the rain, distinctly still, myself and a girl’s silhouette enveloped in darkness during the dry month of March’s weather. We walked up the hill beside the open carriage. We had just gotten down to help take some of…

The poem Verses of the Death of Dr. Swift, D. S. P. D. was written by Jonathan Swift to tell what he believed his friends and foes would say about him after he died. This poem was originally written with the intention of being published after he had died, however it was published while he was still alive. Swift uses iambic tetrameter and many instances of caesura to stress the meaning and feeling of his poem. In lines 147-164, Swift writes about the moment he, the Dean of St. Patrick’s, Dublin,…

throughout. There is mystery and sadness in the emotion the he tries to evoke in this poem as his use of similes and metaphors show there is a musical backdrop in his description throughout the poem in the use of the “I” sound which can be attributed to assonance the consonance is recognisable in the b note that links the word “beauteous” with many other words used in the poem. In line 6 the apostrophe is addressing the reader directly, the word is ‘foregrounded’ and is not only an apostrophe…

An Analysis of “The Black Cat” In many of his short stories, such as with the “The Black Cat”, Edgar Allan Poe deals with murder, insanity and the terrible acts that humans are capable of. In “The Cask of the Amontillado” he portrays a man so engulfed in hatred and vendetta that he seals up a man in the catacombs of his home; and in the “Tell-Tale Heart” the protagonist kills a man and buries under the floor because he was driven insane by his clear eye. While all three share a similar theme,…

The Conqueror Worm composed by Edgar Allan Poe evaluates the concept of death in society and how it can master its victims ‘Man’. In the poem angels gather together to watch a play that embraces this theme. This poem was published in the year of 1845 and was incorporated into Poe’s short story called “Ligeia”. Throughout the poem various poetic devices have been utilised to convey several meanings mainly related to the theme of death in regard to mankind due to the presence of sin. Context can…

“Vuelta de Paseo” is from the collection, “Poeta en Nueva York” which was published posthumously in 1940. The work is divided into ten major sections of uneven length. “Vuelta de Paseo” is the first poem in the first section, “Poemas de la soledad en columbia”. This section consists of four poems in total. The collection was written by Federico García during a life changing trip to New York, Cuba and Vermont between June 1929 and April 1930. “Poeta en Nueva York” is atypical in several important…

language used in the music. Rap is occasionally referred to as a form of poetry (Smolcic) although there is a lot of argument behind it, it is a compelling point. A lot of people argue that rap is poetry because it ‘[uses] literary devices like assonance and alliteration’ (Mattix) but on the other hand experts disagree because it is a ‘skewed and sloppy take on written language’ (McWhorter). Rap songs aren’t only about drugs, gang life and violence- a lot of songs tackle actual issues faced by…

Rowell--English Eleven Poetry Questions: TALKING BACK TO A POEM Talking Back to a Poem FROM POETS.ORG It would be convenient if there were a short list of universal questions, ones that could be used anytime with any poem. In the absence of such a list, here are a few general questions that you might ask when approaching a poem for the first time: Who is the speaker? Who or what is the audience? The speaker is most likely the poet, Ralph Waldo Emerson. The audience was intended to be all of the…

Gwen Harwood’s seemingly paradoxical examination of personal experiences and universal concepts possesses sufficient textual integrity that it has come to impact with a broad audience and been the subject of a number of critical perspectives. Harwood’s “Father and Child” and “The Violets” enhances my understanding of the inevitability of maturation as a result of a loss of innocence and the acceptance of mortality. Harwood’s representation of these profound ideas through the combination of…

Megan Washington first confessed to having a speech impairment in 2014 at a TedX conference in Sydney. She had grown up with her parents and sister, living in Papua New Guinea since her birth in 1986. At the age of 10 Washington moved to Brisbane with her family where she spent most of her highschool years. Within this period of her life Megan Washington developed a stutter, which she hid from the world as she followed her dreams to become a world known singer. Her speech is being presented at a…