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Doing a close reading of a poem has a set up strategy. Close reading involves so many variables. At times, the voices in the poem are exceptional, at times, the genre of the poem is important; at times, the grouping of keywords, imagery, or at times it just takes time to find the right impression of the poem. Simple put poems are a way for the writers to express feelings about issues considered critical. The choice of the style to be used in the poem has a way of communicating with the reader.…

E.E. Cummings, in his poem “Anyone lived in a pretty how town.” The plot of this poem talks about people in an ordinary town, everyone in this town always stick to the same paths the people before them stuck to. They all follow the passage of growing into adult hood and leaving their childish behaviors behind them. It talks about how they marry each other and then their children stick to the very same ways as their parents nothing ever changes in this town it’s all the same. But then comes along…

Also the comma in that quote again leaves a small gap between, (“In the old times”) and (“before he threw away his knees”) which again stresses the gap and again increases the anti-climax. He also uses a hyphen here, “He thought he’d better join – He wonders why.” (Line 24) Again Owen is creating an anti-climax but he is trying to stress the fact that the veteran feels as if he lost his limbs for nothing and he’s wasted his life for nothing, just a stupid mistake. “For it was younger than…

other hand, is portrayed by differences with Doctor Martin. The speaker is not given a name. "Her motion is ‘speeds' a word that connects, by means of internal rhyme with ‘queen' in line six and ‘bee' in line seven, to suggest the brittle meaninglessness of her position in the ‘antiseptic tunnel' among the ‘moving dead'. The end rhymes ‘walk', ‘talk', and ‘stalk' contrast Doctor Martin's purposeful action (‘walk') with the lassitude and immobility of the patients (‘talk') and with the…

Interpretation of poetry is fundamentally up to the reader and what each individual takes away after reading the piece of work generally varies. To me, “The Road Not Taken” by Robert Frost is truly a delightful poem that dramatizes the conflict in dealing with life’s choices and consequently the repercussions thereafter. During the poem the speaker comes to a fork in the road, which is an extended metaphor that is comparable to a major decision that he must make in his life. There are many times…

Emily Dickinson is currently regarded as one of the greatest American poets, even though she kept her work a secret during her life. Although she had a normal childhood, Dickinson became increasingly isolated as she became an adult. Despite this, Dickinson created her best works during this time. One such work was her short poem, I heard a Fly buzz – when I died - . Many of Dickinson 's poems focus on death, so when I heard a Fly buzz – when I died – does so as well, it does not come as a…

The thought-provoking essay “Poetry as a Way of Saying” by Cleanth Brooks and Robert Penn Warren provides an educational direction for a reader’s comprehension and understanding of the “naturalness” of poetry. They claim in this critical text that “mere immersion does little good unless the reader is making, however unconsciously, some discriminations, comparisons, and judgements” (16). As illustrated in “Do Not Go Gently Into That Good Night,” by Dylan Thomas, the raw power and emotion that…

Waltz, Rhythm, and Rhyme A waltz is a rhythmed dance of partners that twirl around a dance floor. If said partners are words that rhyme and rhythm, and the dance floor made of paper; literary works of a poet are created. Theodore Roethke was a poet that mastered this skill and created “My Papa’s Waltz.” The choice of words and meter of lines send your imagination on a journey envisioning what is unfolding from the words set forth before you. The speaker in the poem, the structure of the…

glimpse the glory”) and slant rhyme in lines 2 and 4 (air, here) and lines 9 and 10 (globe, behold). The poem uses the repetition of “let’s” to signify the sense of urgency the narrator has Shanghai This poem, written in free verse, still contains many poetic elements. In the first five lines, consonance of the p sound can be found the words past, plastic, empty, cheap, placemats, and porcelain. The poem also has several uses of alliteration,…

itself as terrifying, he casually says “I could pull the steering wheel,” which is an allusion to suicide, as though the actual act of dying is not a big deal, and can happen at any time(Tyler 25). Along with this, they both are freeform, without a rhyme scheme or defined rhythmic pattern. Also, they both use alliteration and juxtaposition. An example of juxtaposition in “If I Should Die” is, “If I should die, / And you should live,” (Dickinson 1-2). The premise of two people, one alive, one…