Nursery rhyme

thoughts have been created because of past experiences like isolation. The fact that he is trying to make friends with a snowman shows his severe desperateness and also the fact that he can relate with the snowman is just sad. There is an internal rhyme in the quote, “slice of ice”. The assonance in the quote creates a gradual melodic sound because of the way you say it, this adds to the sinister comparison. The comparison of him and the snowman displays his lack of compassion but also his…

Noof Ahmed Ms. Messer Honors ENG11C October 15, 2017 “The Road Not Taken” By Robert Frost Robert frost is a male writer who wrote “The Road Not Taken”. He was from America, born in San Francisco, California. He was the only American writer in his time. His passion in high school was writing .Robert was an intelligent guy. For collage he was studying in Harvard University but then dropped out, to help his mother in things like teaching. After collage he moved to England where he wrote…

Some people value their childhoods and would give anything just to return to that moment for a day, others, however, disregard it, and couldn’t care less. Billy Collins’s poem “On Turning Ten” communicates this idea by describing his childhood as enjoyable, mesmerizing, and remorseful. Through poetic devices such as similes, metaphors, and imagery, Billy Collins offers powerful ideas about the journey of growing up. During the beginning of the poem, the author uses similes to convey the idea…

What is a poem? Poem expresses feelings, tells a story, or states a passage. In different phases of history, different forms and types of poems arises because of the environment. Ushering the Age of Enlightenment which people has discarded religious faith as the way they view the world, more and more art works focuses on common, daily, and relatable topics instead of the formal ones. Nowadays, scholars name this period as the Romantic Movement. In poetry, poets at this time emphasizes their…

War is an overarching theme that is apparent in both poems, both writers use specific diction, stylistic techniques, and literary skills to represent the concept of war. However, the representation of the concept of war is significantly different in both poems. The poem ‘Nothing’s Changed’ by Tatamkhulu Afrika starts with the poet using spondee to create an onomatopoeia, because of this, the poet’s anger is first expressed in short, single, soft sounding word comments such as ‘small’, ‘round’…

The opening lines to Dylan Thomas’s “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” are a wonderful beginning to what, on the surface, seems to be a poem about the transition from day to night. But upon closer reading, the poem is much more complex piece on death. Dylan Thomas uses light and dark imagery, diction, and anaphora to demonstrate the author’s thoughts on death and the questions he raises on its inevitability. Such questions are a product of Thomas’s own life in which his father is dying and…

The poem "Nothing Gold Can Stay" was first published in 1923 in America by the acclaimed author Robert Frost, whom at the time was thought to have a hostile view towards nature (Twentieth-Century Literary Criticism). Imagery in literature refers to use of descriptive terms in the hopes of making the reader experience the scenery of the text in their mind. Symbols are utilized mainly works such as narratives to represent something greater than what is actually mentioned. Personification is the…

T.S. Eliot was a creative modernist poet in the early 1900s. One of his most popular writings, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock”, tells a story with deep imagery, symbolism, and personification. His style of writing lends the reader to reflect a sometimes obscure mental image. Upon analyzation, “The Love Song of J. Alfred Prufrock” explores the world of a seemingly lost and confused well educated man. Looking to build the courage of talking to a woman, Prufrock skulks away from such…

Matthew Vo IB HL English IV Johnson 23 October 2017 Analysis of Soap Suds In this short poem, a man is portrayed thinking back about a charming youth memory. After quickly remembering this experience he all of a sudden comes back to the present, apparently beset by what he recollects. In Soap Suds by MacNeice, he portrays the man's movement through a striking tactile ordeal of a youth memory to at last demonstrate that his adolescence is gone even with harsher substances of growing up. In…

The 1900’s are known for world wars, psychedelic drugs, classic rock and believe it or not, poetry. Poetry may come as a surprise to most, however, Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” and Dylan Thomas’ “Do not Go Gentle into that Good Night” are influential in how they depict the impact of choice and the impact of death on human life. Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” is about decision making when faced with a “fork in the road” situation and how taking one choice will result in never knowing where…