Meter

The meter in the sonnet is in iambic pentameter. But the last line proclaiming that “[she] shall but love thee better after death” (14) is in iambic tetrameter, which signifies the ambiguity of the person and the time of their death. Even though the death is…

"O Me! O Life" by Walt Whitman, and "A Red, Red Rose" by Robert Burns, are both very well known and well-written poems. Both of these poems have similarities and differences, including structure, tone, and figurative language. Very often, poetry's themes revolve around humanity and love. Such include Whitman's and Burn's poems. To begin with, the structure of "O Me! O Life" is dramatically different from that of "A Red, Red Rose". Walt Whitman wrote in free verse and used a significant gap…

third melodic idea sets in and it starts to build up then trails off. Next, the song moves back to the second melodic theme, a transition, and returns to the second theme, and ends on the first melodic idea (Campbell 266). Debussy uses a 2/4 Duple Meter for the rhythm and purposely disguises the down beat because he follows his inspiration and blurs the lines of what music should be. There is a homophonic and polyphonic texture to this piece. In section A have a homophonic texture while, section…

three stanzas are used to introduce the poem and give a detailed description of the location, which helps to foreshadow a moody tone further in the novel. Alfred Noyes continuously repeats ‘The ___ was a ___’ in lines 1,2 and 3 to clearly express the meter intended. The initial complication occurs in stanza four, when the poet is describing the features of Tim the Ostler and using dramatic irony to entice the reader by giving them more information than the characters in the narrative are…

The nineteenth century, the Romantic era of music composition, saw the rise of programmatic music, or music designed to convey a specific story, theme, character, or idea—without any voices. Programmatic music was a stark departure from the prioritization of emfindsamkeit in the Classical era, which had in turn signified a break from the Doctrine of Affections of the Baroque era. While “emfindsamkeit” in classical music referred to the value of music for its own sake, rather than trying to…

“Personism” by Frank O’Hara and “The Poet” by Ralph Waldo Emerson are two texts that convey a theme surrounding poetry and its importance. O’Hara’s text mainly targets those that question poetry whereas Emerson’s text points out that poetry expresses nature and its not the reader but the person who is writing that is able to express what they truly feel. The question that I have for these two texts is during the time period of when O’Hara and Emerson wrote poetry, was there a lot of criticism…

a musical masterpiece full of harmony, tension, and resolve. The poem is composed in four-five line stanzas with two end lines inside each stanza (abaab). According to Frost, "There are only two meters "strict and loose iambic" (www.frostfriends.org/meter.hml). His use of this flexible iambic meter does a wonderful job of emulating the dramatic emotion of the narrator to the reader. One point, in particular, really exemplifies Frosts’ use of enforcing meaning through his use of form. In the…

I believe that nothing is hand given, you have to work hard for it. I remember back in freshman year, I was on the track team. My events that I ran were the 100 meter dash and the 200 meter dash. I have also ran the 400 meter dash and the 4x1 relay. While being on this track team, you have to work hard to be put into meets. However, this was based off your performances during workouts in practice. If you showed the coach what you were capable of, you were most likely put in a meet the next day…

compared and contrasted, including sound devices, sensory languages, and figurative languages. This essay would be in the text type of analysis essay. The Shakespearean sonnet is a difficult art form for the poet because of its restrictions on length and meter, and apparently, the Shakespearean sonnet had brought a large influence to English poetry and writings, a Shakespearean sonnet take a long time to be produced, the author need to follow iambic pentameter, rhyme scene, the sonnet is a…

Lord Alfred Tennyson’s poem “The Lady of Shalott” is an exemplar of the poetic ability of famous writers to reflect the physical and emotional elements of a story within the music and aesthetics of poetry. In this essay I will examine the technical and aesthetic elements that create this famous ballad. While paraphrasing this poem, I will analyze how those elements create the extreme success of the poem. Through close analysis of Tennyson’s poem, I will reveal these elements that have made “The…