Couplet

The theme of "O Captain! My Captain!" is that sacrifices have to be made in order to be successful and gain greatness. Elegy: somber toned poem, lament for the dead This poem is an Elegy in honor of Abraham Lincoln. Walt Whitman wrote this poem a little after Lincoln's assassination. This poem is a big metaphor because it is about a captain -Abraham Lincoln- and his crew -Lincoln's followers- obtaining their sought out prize-winning the civil war- but after getting what they want the captain…

in his time, and should be adjusted accordingly. In The Rape of the Lock, Pope transforms heroism to fit his society by using the form of a heroic couplet to juxtapose the serious with the trivial. Pope’s competitive emulation with his muse John Milton kick started his alteration of the heroic epic; comparing The Rape…

This is most famously shown by Alexander Pope, whose An Essay on Criticism was controversially in couplets. J. Paul Hunter has suggested that some found in Pope’s verse form ‘a confirmation of his wicked, narrow and manipulating ways.’ However, I feel that this is a narrow view and would that stress his use of form was fruitful. By adopting this high traditional style, Pope added an authoritative philosophical credibility to his work and lasting power to his argument considering his aim to…

unreal expectations. The speaker wants to escape her busy life, yet feels that all she owns is nature. In the poem Angelou uses couplets and imagery to develop a candid tone. Before the shift, Maya Angelou uses couplets to create a candid tone that gives the reader a window into the honest emotions about her life, a life which she would prefer to leave. The series of couplets displays in a very blunt manner that the speaker is very busy. All the reader has to do is read the end of each line,…

many emotions and is why “Red Ghazal” by Aimee Nezhukumatatkil evokes a profound amount of feeling in her short comprise of eight couplets with “red” as her quafia. Within a ghazal’s form, each of the eight couplets should be tied in together some way, but also must be able to stand alone. The ending of the first couplet’s lines are established as…

Breaking apart this poem, a verb has started every line leading up to this couplet (line 7). As readers, it is difficult to comprehend what Brooks or the seven pool players meant by “Jazz June.” Some thought that it was a sexual term. Considering that “Jazz” is a verb, people found ways to look at the word sexually and to replace…

degradation of blacks in American society. Despite Wheatley’s status as a slave, she was fortunate enough to receive an education from her master to become capable of producing an expressive writing style paralleling Alexander Pope’s structure in heroic couplets. Because of her education, she attempts to convey her message using poetry. Conversely, Thomas Jefferson is an educated white man as evident in “Notes on the State of Virginia,” which argues the intellectual…

lines is the sestet which has varying rhyme schemes but commonly “cdecde, cdcdcd, and cdccdc” (Meyer 778). The octave of the poem sets the mood and situation while the sestet resolves it. An English sonnet is organized into three quatrains and a couplet. The English sonnet…

The poem is written in heroic couplets, which usually use a masculine rhyme, emphasising the dramatic nature of the monologue and making a series of logically progressing statements and ideas. The second couplet sets the tone of the poem by creating imagery of a scene of destruction through the use of the adjective ‘levelled’, drawing on connotations the responder may have - such as destruction, conflict, equality, annihilation and slaughter. In the fourth couplet, emphasis is placed upon the…

Couplets like lines one and two (“done” and “won”) and lines seventeen and eighteen (“still” and “will”). Other couplets “like lines 9 and 10 have near, or slant, rhyme (“bells” and “trills”), meaning that the end words rhyme, but not so closely” (Shmoop Editorial Team).Whitman purposefully did not have all his couplets carry out a steady rhyme as this poem is written about death and does not need to be sung…