Half rhyme

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…

Rhymes are usually used at the end of the lines in ballads, sonnets and rhyming couplets. However, in the present more free verses are utilized to give the poet more freedom to their thoughts. Additionally, strophes, stanzas, and verses usually structure…

Poetry is often defined as a “literary work that uses a distinctive style of writing to express an idea or feelings.” Emily Dickinson’s “My Life had stood- a Loaded Gun” serves to be one of the most controversial poems as many individuals take on various interpretations on the work of art. Several readers regarded the poem as demonstrating the inferiority of women to men, which was prevalent during the nineteenth century in which the poem was written. Other readers found the poem to be a…

Various songs have been sung about America and how beautiful she is, but rarely is there a poem that describes the voices of those songs. In I Hear America Singing (1860), Walt Whitman conveys his concept of America as a unified nation. His poem explores the differing sort of people that Whitman contributes to creating America. They are exuberant, and strong. Although the poem is focused on the people, the title of the poem, I Hear America Singing, shows that Whitman thinks of these people as…

The epic poem Beowulf has many different adaptations, some truer to the original than others. Even the poem is an adaptation of its original oral tale. These revisions may provide some clarity in the original tale. For example, the original tale was in Old English. Not everyone can understand Old English, so the story was altered for the understanding of a broader audience. Different versions of Beowulf may provide information the story was lacking. Some of the changes made are merely for…

The poem ‘Do not go gentle into the good night’ explains what a man is going through as he watches his father die, and what he wishes to tell him. To say ‘not go gentle into the good night’ is explaining how to die with purpose, to not simply just die, but to die with meaning. Dylan Thomas used strong words and sentence structure to get his point across and show a powerful theme. When I first saw the title ‘Do not go gentle into the good night’ I thought it meant fighting till the end. I…

Poems frequently use words that can have multiple different meanings to provide readers with various ways to understand the poem. When only looking at the basic definition of a word it does not allow the reader to completely grasp all of the ideas represented in the poem. In the poem “because I could not stop for death” by Emily Dickinson, the word death has numerous meanings that provide the readers with insight into the intended meaning of the poem itself. To thoroughly understand the use of…