Iambic tetrameter

I wake up instantly blinded. Heat surges through my skin and shoots in my head. Sweat is beading along my face, and I see glistening lights surrounding me. As my vision comes into focus, I now know for sure that this isn’t my bedroom. But where else could I be? I struggle to stand, and stumble over to a wall to the left of me. I dig my fingertips into what feels like damp foliage, and my vision focuses completely. To my left and to my right, there are solid hedges with vines, almost as…

Shakespeare How many writers get to be widely recognized hundreds of years after their death? How can plays that were written long ago still apply to modern culture in such a way that they seem to have been written rather recently? There are many questions that can be asked about William Shakespeare. He was one man, but he shaped culture so dramatically that it is probably impossible to go a day without seeing his influence somewhere. William Shakespeare was an influential writer in his own…

Propp, in his article Is Psalm 45 an Erotic Poem, writes about the origin, interpretations, imagery, terminology, and other aspects of Psalm 45. With a hidden meaning of poor translations behind every word, the depth of the palm is endless. However, due to the sexual themes and notations throughout the poem it can be difficult to see the psalm as anything less that an erotic poem. The original use of Psalm 45 was for either an Israelite or Judean royal wedding, possibly for common use or for…

“No Thank You” by Shel Silverstein or,”Fairy's Lullaby” by William Shakespeare the two great poets. But which one has the most expressive language? “No Thank You”? Or “Fairy’s Lullaby”? Well there’s plenty to share, the narrator from “No Thank You” has said quite a few reasons and examples. The Narrator would also say how he felt about cats and all their downfalls affecting his life. He would say, “I had lice” or, “No more hair in my corn flakes”. I can fully understand how he hates cats…

“To be or not to be—that is the question”, this is arguably William Shakespeare’s most famous and well known soliloquy of all time. Even audiences unfamiliar with Shakespeare’s work have heard these words before. This serious and emotional scene depicts all of Hamlet’s thoughts and feelings towards life and death. Over the years there have been many actors who have tried to illustrate Shakespeare’s most emotional soliloquy of all time; some more successful than others. I believe that Kenneth…

In the poem “A Tail Fire and Ice” by Anders Dietrich, simile are used to describe how the people fell in the story. The narrators in the story is the boy of ice and the girl of fire, who will try to find love for eachother. The tone of the story is romantic because in the text it said “will a man of ice his love proclaim?” At first they admire each other but then later question if the other person love them because of how different they are. The first example of a simile is when they said…

“We Wear the Mask,” written by Paul Laurence Dunbar is a realist poem about feigning happiness as a means to disguise true feelings and emotions. The speaker frequently claims that they and others wear a mask of smiles and grins to portray a superficial contentment. In the second stanza, the speaker questions why the world cares about one’s true feelings, yet only chooses to recognize the mask as one’s true feelings. In the third and final stanza, the speaker admits that walking and existing…

Poet Inspired by Shakespeare Publishes His Own Collection of Sonnets With William Shakespeare in mind, Luis A. Estable writes and published his own collection of sonnets. Atlanta, Georgia - Poems can be very powerful. It can touch your heart and move you to tears. It can make you laugh out loud or rekindle old memories. It can make you feel the joys of love without necessarily falling in love with another person. Just by reading it, you can be taken to another time and place without the need…

Delving deeper into the structure of prose that Juliet uses, we can see Shakespeare’s emphasis on Fortune as a changeable phenomenon. It is typical of Shakespeare to write in the rhythmic pattern of iambic pentameter, in which there is a pattern of five unstressed and stressed syllables. The first line in the passage reads “o FORtune! FORtune!ALL men CALL thee FICKle” (Shakespeare, 3.5.60). Noticeably, there are only nine syllables in this line, five stressed and one unstressed syllable. The…

The native American flute, a wooden instrument of the Native American indigenous tribes has been around for hundreds of years. No one knows the exact time reference to when they were first made or began. Certain native tribes believed the woodpecker was the first to make a flute, they would drill holes in a hollow tree branch looking for insects, and when a wind blew over the branch, sound was made. The Lakota people made what is known as the “Love Flute.” Young men would stand by the river with…