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    William Blake's Poetry

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    A Personal Response. Blake’s poetry is considered to be some of the simplest forms of this art, but in pieces of literature such as “Little Boy Found”, “Little Boy Lost”, “The Chimney Sweep”, and “The Lamb”, truly understanding the meaning of each word can change the overall meaning of this piece. Reading between the line is what makes a reader truly comprehend Blake’s viewpoints and ideas that he is trying to say within his poems. Readers thought that Blake was writing about things that did…

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    Charlotte Smith’s Sonnet III, ‘To a Nightingale’ could be considered to be a mournfully romantic tale of a nightingale singing a song of such sadness that the poet begins to question the tragedy of the nightingale, and then to consider a cause for its song of such profound despondence. The narrator then admits to being envious of the nightingale for its freedom to sing the song. The meaning of this sonnet will be explored through key elements of prominent moods, language and figurative language…

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    give importance to the meaning. 4. Imagery: line 8 (“Good-morning” and he glittered when he walked.), the word glittered creates an image of a jewelry which shines and makes us beams. IV. Line syllable – It is under iambic pentameter with five (5) iambs and ten (10) syllable for example “when EV | er RICH | ard CO | ry WENT | down TOWN,” V. Tone – serious VI. Mood – sympathy VII. Theme – Illusion over Reality VIII. Rhyming pattern – this poem has a rhyming pattern of “abab- cdcd- efef-…

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    “O human race born to fly upward, wherefore at a little wind dost thou fall.” With his allegorical writing style, Dante Alighieri revolutionized literature in the renaissance period with masterpieces such as Dante’s Inferno. Dante Alighieri was born on May 21, 1265 in Florence, Italy. He was born to a wealthier family and had a good education as he learn poetry, philosophy, and many other literature skills he used in his writing. From the outside, his life looked perfect though his mother…

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    “O, may we all for death prepare!” (line 153) begins with a stressed syllable on the word “O” that is emphasized by the comma directly following it. Because of this, the line starts with a trochee as opposed to the three feet that follow, which are iambs. Another example of special instances in the format of this section of the poem would be the couplets of 155 and 156 and lines 161 and 162. These sets of lines each display nine syllables as opposed to the eight displayed in the lines of the…

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    Themes In Poetry

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    Poetry are an amazing piece of literature. Poems show lots of details and hidden meanings about life in it. Some poems can be about someone’s true self, death, or something that is silly. The poems have a very deep meaning that the poets portrays about life and as an individual. Poems are a way to show out the themes and the way the poets portrays their generation. In the three poems: “Dulce Et Decorum Est” by Wilfred Owen, “After Tonight” by Gary Soto, and “The Second Coming” by William Butler…

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    the woman pictured in “The Swing”, a rococo picture from 1767. This poem does not follow a special rhyme meter, but the repetition of sounds rhyme. As Ezra Pound said in his article ‘A Few Dont’s by an Imagiste’: “Don’t chop your stuff into separate iambs. Don’t make each line stop dead at the end, and then begin every next line with a heave. Let the beginning of the next line catch the rise of the rhythm wave, unless you want a definite longish pause.” If we base the poem of W.C. Williams on…

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    William Carlos Williams and Billy Collins are both fantastic poets, with similar structure (or lack thereof) and style of poetry. In each of the combined eight poems, they all contained little to no rhyming and followed unique structure, with little to no repetition in any stanza (the only exception being Williams’s “The Red Wheelbarrow”). Likewise, both poets typically employ the use of an upbeat and optimistic tone in their poems, though they will both switch to a more neutral tone if the…

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    Flipping through the pages of “Poems” to find something that would catch my attention, I landed on a page that contained the words “In this kingdom by the sea”. I became curious to know if the poem was about a mermaid or some type of fairytale. As I read along, the story became more cold and the maiden became ill and passed away. After I finished the poem, I noticed that the author was none other than Edgar Allan Poe, which made tremendous sense as to why the poem turned dark. The poem reads…

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    qualities such as rhythm and repetition, it often portrays both ideas and feelings in overwrought but simplistic terms. The dominant meter of the ballad stanza is iambic, which means the poem's lines are constructed in two-syllable segments, called iambs, in which the first syllable is unstressed and the second is stressed. As an example of iambic meter, consider the following line from the poem with the stresses…

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