Assonance

Much Ado About Blackberries One of the most influential female poets of all time, especially during the twentieth century, is Sylvia Plath. Her poetry is most well known for depicting her emotions and life story in a creative way. Plath is also widely known for committing suicide, and how her depressive feelings that led to her suicide impacted her writing. “Blackberrying,” a poem she wrote close to her death, displays these feelings well, as well as Plath’s desire to return to her childhood…

through the practice of metaphorically sleeping and waking. Roethke focuses on the life cycle itself, and how we come to a more aware and sophisticated state as we progress through life. This poem contains many figures of speech, including; paradox, assonance, internal rhyme, rhetorical questions, and refrains. He…

immigrants are often forced to choose between a new, unknown future and the families and communities that saw them grow. As well, the alliteration of the poem extends past repeating sounds at the beginnings of words; there is also the presence of assonance, which repeats vowel sounds. Most often, the reader hears low sounds like “oo” in “looking” (4) “goodbye” (8) and “you” (8-11). The low sounds interspersed throughout the poem serve to underscore the pain and hopefulness of migration, which…

Since my high school Creative Writing class will be an elective class that will consist of students in tenth through twelfth grade, I will need to find ways to bring student fun into the learning as much as possible. I have found that students love to eat and socialize, so I will include food, props, and games whenever possible. Difficulty will occur as the norm for class size at my school is thirty-two to thirty-six students, and not all students want to be in the classes where they are…

On August 28, 1963, Martin Luther King Jr. spoke to over 250,000 civil rights supporters on the on the steps of the Lincoln Memorial to end racism in the United States. This occurred on the day of March in Washington, which encouraged Civil Rights and equality for African Americans. Martin Luther King Jr. gave his speech with the goal of encouraging many individuals to end segregation. His “I Have a Dream” speech was very effective due to the use of metaphors, repetition, historical references,…

Initially the extract begins halfway through Claudius’s self revelation soliloquy, where he expresses his heavy burden of guilt attained from the murder of his brother. The formal features within the extract assist to the portrayal of underlying characters motives and emotions, as well as connecting relatable lines or words to other parts of the play. The exploration of the two characters are seen through soliloquies, a personal moment which enhances the intimacy between character and audience.…

Emily Dickinson, a woman of the 19th century, was preoccupied with poetry and the power of words. The opening line of the poem My Life had stood- a Loaded Gun is noteworthy for its liberal use of capitalisation. The capitalisation of “My Life” delineates the life of the speaker as the subject of the poem and establishes the poem as autobiographical, positioning the reader the attribute the speaker’s voice to Dickinson both as a woman and as a poet. “Loaded Gun” is presented as a metaphor for the…

“In American popular culture, the loss of innocence is characterized as the loss of one’s virginity and the first exposure to alcohol and drugs” (Ojha, “What Causes the Loss of Innocence?”). In “Castle on the Hill” by Ed Sheeran and Benjamin Levin, the singer remembers his times back in his hometown. As he’s traveling back home, he recollects good memories from when he was younger, regardless of the inauspicious things he and his friends did. Comparably, Thomas Hoods’ “I Remember, I Remember”…

Youth’ are also created to imitate the effect of battle. Alliteration adds to the rhythm in the line ‘Only the stuttering rifles rapid rattle’. The ‘T’ and ‘D’ sounds create a sharp, hard, bullet-like sound just like the gun. Owen also uses assonance in the line ‘the shrill demented choirs of wailing shells’. Here the open vowels create a wailing, airy effect like the whizzing of shells skimming through the air. In both poems Own uses imagery to reinforce his message. However in…

“Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” was written by Dylan Thomas in 1952. The poem is a message to Thomas’s father as he neared his death. Thomas’s poem is a hopeful refusal of the inevitable “good night,” which is his image of death. Dylan Thomas is a Welsh poet born in Swansea in October 27, 1914. His father, David John Thomas, was a grammar teacher in Wales. David Thomas had accumulated a large library of books and contemporary poetry that Thomas had access to. In 1925, Thomas was a…