Meter

At first, it seemed really hard and sometimes wondered where should I start my assignment. While reading “Dark Associations” (poem) for the first time, I realized that the poem is very dark and with a strong sense of negativity. I struggled to understand the poem at all. I just felt that it was very depressing and for quite some time did not go back to finish reading it. I thought, I am not a poet, I don’t know what to do! I couldn’t focus in order to try to understand the poem. My mind was…

Sensuality can be described as "Of or arousing gratification of the senses and physical, especially sexual, pleasure" (Oxford, 2016). Circa says “Most commonly the target of her affections was female”. One disagrees that her poetry displays a confession of a sensual relationship. Rather, it just lets out her emotive feelings. My argument is that her poetry is metaphorical showing a new and creative representation of the future and although could view her poetry as having sensual links, this does…

The Road Not Taken (Web) The Road Not Taken is a poem about the interest and motivation to take different experiences in our life. Inside of a forest, the speaker face the decision of taking two roads. One of them is known from the speaker to be a common road, but he decide to take the less traveled and unknown road. From the speaker, it makes a difference to take the other road to have something to say about his life and experiment a new event. Mother to son (Web) Mother to son is…

“The most wasted of all days is the one without laughter”(E.E. Cummings). Edward Estlin Cummings was born on October 14, 1894, in Cambridge, Massachusetts. He was a painter and a poet, he was fascinated with Pablo Picasso’s art. As you can see E.E. Cummings relies on sight and sound to create meaning in his poetry. It is important to know that Cummings uses language to its fullest. In document A his other poem “l(a” the spacing of the poem looks like loneliness, he also uses parentheses for…

The poem “A Time to Talk”, by Robert Frost, is a surprisingly deep poem about friendship and how we should take the time for each other. There is a lot of imagery and symbolism throughout the poem that represents and shows the strong friendship between the two people as well. The theme throughout the poem shows how the two men make time for each other. We should behave like them and take time for the people who care about us. There is a lot of imagery throughout the poem that helps the readers…

Anaphora is a specific form of repetition in which a word or phrase is repeated at the beginning of a successive phrase and is used to leave prominence on the phrases, as well as creating a rhythmic effect to make it memorable and more gratifying to read. For example, anaphora is used in a passage of Barbara Lazear Ascher On Compassion, a passage about a few brief encounters with homeless people, where she struggles to understand the compassion of others. “Twice I have witnessed this, and twice…

At first, it was about the rhythm, but it was never just about the rhythm. Music didn’t captivate me because of the power it had to make my body move, beginning with the tapping of my foot and ending with the opening up of my vocal cords. In fact, it was about my mother and the joy I saw on her face as she listened to traditional Peruvian creole music in a restaurant. On October 31, 2016, the night of Halloween, my little brother was predictably complaining because we were celebrating Peruvian…

Theories have surfaced throughout the years about biblical imagery in early literary works. The works of Sappho challenges biblical imagery considering her work was done way before Jesus was born. She paints imagery that makes readers connect her words to religion. The questions on scholars’ minds are, did this imagery predict Christ or was it a coincidence. In the biblical world, there is no proof of God being a male, there have been theories expressing beliefs that God had famine…

The last line of Canty’s poem, Fig.10 installation says, “10 Red Shift. Le rougeoiement du soir dans l’est.”. Translated it means the glow of the night in the east. There is a book call “Meridin de sang: Ou le rougeoiment du soir dans l’Ouest.", translated meaning the glow of the night in the West by Cormac McCarthy. There is a chance that Canty maybe referenced to this book resuming about the 1850s, a 14-year-old boy left Texas to join a band of paid hunters to exterminate the Indians. In the…

In Ode 1 the tone starts as reverence for man and his achievements, but in the last stanza, the tone changes to acknowledgement of man's limitations. The ode began by saying man is the greatest force on this earth, "Numberless are the world's wonders, but none more wonderful than man," (1). The diction of this first sentence helps set the tone with the repeating of the word "wonderful" emphasizes how man is the best. Also, the ode specifies that man is the most wonderful on earth because the…