Assonance

MacNeice has also used internal rhythm, pathetic fallacy, modern lexis, monosyllables, assonance, oxymorons, paradox and an extended stage metaphor to make the poem like an actual prayer. Repetition of “I am yet not born” at the start of every stanza makes the poem like an incantation, referring back to the idea of a prayer. Furthermore, every…

mounting and many yet love offers a reprise from these struggles. Furthermore, one could argue that ‘the weight, the weight we carry is love.’ shows that one only endures these troubles because love offers a comfort to people. Ginsberg’s use of assonance of the W sounds imbues a sense of familiarity with love which provides the idea of love being a source of comfort. This shows that it could be argued Ginsberg views the nature of love to be a…

The Petrarchan sonnet “Hap,” by Thomas Hardy, is an exploration of how life is controlled and can be explained. In the poem’s octave, the speaker envisions a life under the power of a vengeful god who……, but concludes in the sestet that in reality, life is not controlled by higher powers, malicious or not. The speaker searches for an explanation that would give purpose to his pain, but failing to find one, laments the reality of his situation, where suffering can only be explained by chance. In…

She uses some rhyme; “red” and “bed”, “night” and “light”, “own and “alone”, “hair” and “there”, “rare” and there” (stanza 5; stanza 8; stanza 12; stanza 12; stanza 14). However, the most prominent sound device she utilizes is assonance—“through” and “you”, “long” and “gone”, “like” and “find”, “days” and “made”, “hair” and “stairs”—and repetition, aforementioned. At the very end of the song, Swift repeats the phrase “you remember it all”, most likely to remind the listeners that…

The assonance alliteration illustrates the depressed decision, which makes them regret. Hardy uses the word “foe, so, and although” to express the complicated feeling of a soldier, who fight in the war without knowing tomorrow day. He uses “foe” to call his enemy…

I Learned I was a Phenomenal Woman Marguerite Johnson later known as Maya Angelou was born on April 4th, 1928 in St. Louis, Missouri. Marguerite Johnson was raised in St. Louis, Missouri as well as Stamps, Arkansas. According to her website, Stamps at the time that she was raised, was the frontier of the South during the 1930s and 1940s when Johnson was growing up, Stamps ran rampant with racial discrimination and physical brutality. Her grandmother from age 4 years old to 8 years old raised…

epitome of perseverance. Turia’s book provides a variety of persuasive techniques and aesthetic features throughout her story with the use of ellipsis and dash, which are very powerful. Also metaphors such as ‘I’ve had to claw my way back to life’and assonances such as ‘learning to walk, to talk’, give her written word emphasis and strength, cementing in one’s memory. Although Henley’s poem and Turia’s book are both about perseverance, Turia’s book is an incredible inspirational tool for…

Robert Frost is one of the most widely read and beloved American poets as well as one of the greatest. A four time Pulitzer Prize winning poet Robert Frost was a national celebratory famous for writing poems about life familiar to the common man using rural imagery and American colloquial speech. Frost is well known for a few poems that he manages to remain in everyone’s head: “Stopping by Woods on a Snowy Evening”, “Nothing Gold Can Stay”, “The Road not Taken”, etc.. Robert Frost was born in…

juxtaposes the menacing tone caused by the saw. Frost ultimately depicts the landscape as good and beautiful as evidenced by his continuation of the use of sibilance, "sweet-scented stuff", with an ethereal tone sustained "as the breeze drew across it". Assonance is used to show Frost 's appreciation of the landscape, yet alliteration depicts how rare it is for "those that lift(ed) eyes" to enjoy the beauty surrounding them, as they are always too engrossed in their work. Frost contrasts the…

The poem is based on a real experience of William Wordsworth’s that reminisced with him for the rest of his life. Whilst on a walk to a lake, Wordsworth discovers a field of daffodils, causing him to make a revelation about the sublime in nature. The majority of the poem is centred around the daffodils. The conclusion of the poem then depicts Wordsworth sitting at home on his couch, reflecting back on the daffodils and the emotions they provoked from him. Through this poem William…