Meter

“To me there's no creativity without boundaries. If you're gonna write a sonnet, it's 14 lines, so it's solving the problem within the container.” All sonnets follow one form and style but it is the result of emotional pain, personal values, state of mind and rational actions that separate and differ one sonnet poem from another. Sonnets were first introduced to the world in Italy traditionally written as love poems. This particular style of poetry was invented in the early 12th century, by the…

This piece reflects the internal conflict the poet faces, as well as a narration of the story. The piece uses a substantial amount of word painting to help evoke the emotions and actions of the poet as well as a description of the setting. From measures 1 to 25, the composers uses the use of counterpoint to reflect the disconnection and solitude that the poet feels. Alone and pensive, the poet’s lyrics describe walking deserted fields and does not come in contact with anyone. Because of the…

In “The Passionate Shepherd to His Love” by Christopher Marlowe and “The Nymph’s Reply to the Shepard,” by Sir Walter Raleigh, both poets focus on the central idea of love. These poems were written in Pastoral Tradition, which celebrates the beauty of nature, and almost has a perfect setting. The details given in the first poem describe a shepherd who thinks idealistically and romantically. Whereas in the other poem, the Nymph believes realistically and disproves the belief of the perfect world…

Love does not need conceits to be true. Both sonnets are written by William Shakespeare. They were written on the year 1609. In many of his works the theme love seems to his favourite. “Courtly Love” In Sonnet 18, the writer describes how the person he is talking to is more temperate and fair than the beauty he sees in nature. And often is his gold complexion dimm’d; And every fair from fair sometime declines, The writer concludes that the beauty of the person he’s talking to is not so…

Poetry is a writing form that allows deep meaning to be summarized in just a few lines. Popular poetry topics can range from anything between love and hate, and joy and despair. Much of the time, poems are created through use of writing devices that are not always understood without deeper inspection. In Do Not Go Gentle, Dylan Thomas uses a repetitive villanelle form, nature imagery, and patterns of sound to create a message of defiance towards death of old age. The poem is organized as a…

Written Task 2 Part: 4 Outline Prescribed Question: If the text had been written in a different time or place or language or for a different audience, how and why might it differ? Text: ‘Originally’ (from The Other Country) by Carol Ann Duffy Part of the course: 4 Literature-Critical Study Carol Ann Duffy’s poetry collection The Other Country reflects the places that she had visited in her memory and imagination. What’s interesting about this is that Carol Ann Duffy, the author…

Poetry Assignment – Critical Analysis Stress, Rhythm and Metre When poems have a detectable stress pattern and rhythm, it forms a metre. An example of this would be a poem with ten syllables on each line, where five of which are stressed, and five are unstressed. This would make the metre pentameter, which often consists of five-stress duplets. Carol Ann Duffy’s Shakespearean sonnet, Rapture, is a good example of a poem with an organised, detectable rhythm, which forms a metre. Most lines appear…

I hold the chapbook in my hand and question what the contents may hold. I breathe a sigh as I open it and see the first poem titled “The Green Room”. I reassure myself by saying “the chapbook is safe, the author is a faceless entity” and I begin to read her words. “The Green Room” gave me a feeling of melancholy and I assumed that the chapbook would be a theme of childhood memories from the viewpoint of an adult. When she speaks of the “green carpet” I was able to see in my mind’s eye the shag…

When considering the tone of “The Road Not Taken”, it can be said that, even though the narrator wonders what the other choice would have resulted in, he seems content with the original choice made. The tone of lines nine and 10, which are written “Though as for that the passing there/Had worn them really about the same,” (Frost, 2016), could further suggest that the narrator believes that both of his choice options were nearly compatible, leading to the realization that the right choice was…

Music is not music without reading and writing. I am not speaking of reading and writing English, rather I am speaking of reading and writing musical notation. The real importance of reading and writing in the context of music has to do with actually learning the language that is music. This might mean learning how notes relate to a staff, or possibly how an audio clip fits best in your garageband composition, or maybe even how a 7th chord can put a whole new twist on a Sara Bareilles song (if…