Iambic pentameter

Dickinson’s poem We Grow Accustomed to the Dark and Frost's Acquainted with the Night are written on a seemingly similar topic, but the two author's poetic techniques convey a very different message. Dickinson’s message shifts with a hopeful message at the end while Frost goes full circle in his poem, with no hope for something better. Dickinson interprets darkness as an unknown future or a challenge. For example, the character in the poem enters into darkness where "not a Moon discloses a…

The first thing that stood out for me was the way he walked to the podium. There was much joy to his face with no nerves. He carried himself in a way that resembled an average college kid (not the ones at Cornell that tend to be more uptight and stressed). I am not talking about immaturity, rather in way that expressed his free nature. It was quite ironic as the poems in his book as well the other poems he gave during this presentation had a tendency to be or feel gloomy. I believe that his…

Shakespeare’s Romeo and Juliet explores the tragic love of two teens from warring families. Amongst neglectful parents and horrific coincidences, readers have questioned the causes that lead up to the young couple’s deaths for years, whether they result from chance or choice. In Act 4, Scene I of the play, Juliet confronts the Friar for help in avoiding her soon approaching marriage to Paris. Though this speech could characterize Juliet as immature and brash, Shakespeare’s use of powerful words,…

apprehensive and worried that Romeo has gone there with the intention of doing himself harm. Shakespeare uses a variety of poetic forms throughout the play. Much of Romeo and Juliet is written in iambic pentameter with ten syllables of alternating stress in each line. He also uses blank verse, which unlike iambic pentameter has no rhyming. Shakespeare matches the language form to the character who uses it. For Friar Laurence he uses language that sounds like a sermon, and he makes the nurse…

A summary of this scene would be that Tybalt wanted to get back at Romeo after Romeo crashed the capulets party, but instead Tybalt started a fight with Mercutio. Tybalt stabbed Mercutio in the chest, killing him. Romeo then killed Tybalt in retaliation but then Romeo received banishment from Verona after he murdered Tybalt. The two formats I intend to discuss are the printed version and the film version of Romeo and Juliet. I intend to discuss the printed version first. In William…

Macbeth’s Soliloquy Close Reading Macbeth’s soliloquy in Act V, is one of the most well know soliloquies in Macbeth, and perhaps in all of Shakespeare's writings. In his soliloquy, Macbeth addresses the fragility, and ephemeral nature, of human life on earth. Macbeth’s speech is more or less a depressing, pessimistic view of human mortality and what humans leave behind after their death. And humans don’t leave anything behind. When Macbeth says, "Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player, /…

“Hamlet” is a grim play about greed, betrayal, revenge, and death written by William Shakespeare, “Hamlet” is Shakespeare’s most tragic play he ever written. “Hamlet” describes the story Prince Hamlet who finds out his father, King Hamlet was murdered by his uncle; King Claudius who married Queen Gertrude; when King Hamlet reemerges as a ghost. Ghost Hamlet reveals he wants his son to avenge his death. When Prince Hamlet received the new shocking information he then had an elaborate plan to…

This poem dramatizes the conflict between dying easily and fighting to live. Thomas wrote this poem for his father who was dying from pneumonia. We see from this poem that often people regret not being as good as they should be, and so they fight to continue living, they “rage, rage against the dying of the light.” (line 3) This shows us that we may be in the same place as those men mentioned in the poem, the : “wise” (4), “good” (7), “wild” (10), and “grave” (13). In the first stanza of the…

represent both her love for her husband and the Puritan beliefs of love between a married couple. “To My Dear and Loving Husband” are organized into three quatrains composed of four lines each or two sets of rhyming couplets. The poem uses iambic pentameter throughout and occasionally breaks it to emphasize shifts or important ideas in the poem. For example, the line, “The heavens reward thee manifold, I pray,” breaks the pattern to signify a change from the metaphysical conceit to the topic…

Anaphora the repetition of a phrase, is used in both poem and play. The sonnet within Romeo and Juliet features 14 lines, and 10 syllables, this is the same within Sonnet 43. Both poem and play feature iambic pentameter, alliteration and the similar use of more language of “thee”. Death is mentioned in both, they both believe love continues even after death, endurance and commitment. Both sets of lovers experience a very “intense” love and are very passionate…