Assonance

Dylan Thomas’s poem “Do not go gentle into that good night” is a nineteen line poem divided into five three-line stanzas and a sixth stanza with four lines which is written in a very specific form “the villanelle” and depicts a speaker who is really emotional about his father. One of the things that concerns him most is that his father should embrace life to the very end although he knows that death is something no one can avoid. The speaker on the other hand argues for the stillness that death…

I have chosen “Valentine” By Carol Ann Duffy, “Sonnet 43” by Elizabeth Barrett Browning and “Cousin Kate” by Christina Rossetti. Christina Rossetti the author of “Cousin Kate” was an English poet. It is a poem about love, like sonnets in Romeo and Juliet, The poem is a monologue which is singularly addressed to “Cousin Kate”. The poem features a rhyme scheme of two, four, six, and eight. Cousin Kate’s structure follows this narrative, telling the story of the relationship the the cottage maiden…

subsequent, demonstrates the literary device, personification. It describes what love portrays. How it can impact friendship, the whole concept of the poem. Another example, “These three together meet.” Additionally, the poem muses the literary device, assonance. It describes how the main idea of the poem comes together, that it comes friendship. Hence, it becomes the theme of the…

Poets have been able to use their expertise to address social issues for centuries. From William Shakespeare to Edgar Allan Poe, they have been able to affect their audiences using a variety of poetic devices such as similes, metaphors, imagery, assonance and many more. Songs and poems have affected society in both negative and positive ways, especially when it comes to the controversial issue of drug abuse. In the rap “Otherside” by Macklemore and Ryan Lewis, Macklemore talks about his former…

Poetry is an art form in which the human language is written for its aesthetic qualities instead of notional and semantic content. Poetry can be discerned most of the time from text, which is language meant to express meaning in a more extensive and less condensed way. This doesn’t show that poetry is illogical, but shows how it is used to sometimes escape reality and expresses emotions in a compact form. In most poems the poet will focus on an aspect of the human condition. An example of this…

My Writings Through the First Semester of Creative Writing Walking into Mr. Trice’s classroom on the first day of school for Creative Writing class, I didn’t really know what to expect. I knew we would be writing a lot, but I didn’t know what exactly I would be learning about writing. So walking in on the first day was as if I had a new and fun adventure for an elective each day of school. We started off the year with learning the basics of writing. the little things that help every writer…

By repeatedly using the “oh” sound on the second stanza, the speaker demonstrates his sorrow. It is as if he is crying. Hayden uses assonance to create this effect. Another proof of the father’s unconditional love is that despite the indifference he had from his son, he was taking well care of him. The speaker recognizes it when he says “Speaking indifferently to him, who had driven out…

Wilfred Owen fought in the First World War and believed that “All a poet can do is warn that is why the true poet must be truthful.” (Wilfred Owen 1918,) Therefore, Owen believed that his duty as a poet and as a young soldier was to inform the world that the war was not as it was perceived to be. “Dulce et Decorum est” unveiled the agonizing truth of war and showed that it was not heroic or honourable, but was instead traumatizing and horrific. Firstly, Owen uses imagery, representing his…

Wilfred Owen was a war poet who enlisted in the British army in 1915 and began writing poetry after meeting Sassoon at the ‘Craiglockhart War hospital in Edinburgh’ (1). Anthem for Doomed Youth was one of the poems which was written with Sassoon’s help; he helped Owen transform his poetry and encouraged him to publish his poetry. In Owens’s preface, he wrote his ‘subject is war, and the pity of war.’(2)Owen presents death in the poem Anthem for Doomed youth by using vivid, strong and bold…

‘Valentine’ and ‘Words, Wide Night’ by Carol Ann Duffy talk about the difficulties of a boisterous relationship between the poet and her significant other. Neither of the poems follow a definitive rhyme scheme or a rhythmic pattern, and are lyrics written in first person. However, ‘Valentine’ falls into the ‘conceit poetry’ category and WWN represents a ‘tezra rima’, composed of three stanzas with three lines each in iambic pentameter. ‘Valentine’ on the other hand follows a symmetrical…