Perfect rhyme

As its name suggests, spoken word poetry is the art form of reciting poems of any kind. Performances tend to focus on key visual and audio techniques such as movement, tone, emotion, rhyme and improvisation to name a few. Many spoken word poetry performances are very personal and revolve around a particular theme or message that the poet is attempting to convey to an audience. Two performances, To the Boys Who May One Day Date My Daughter, performed by Jesse Parent and Pretty by Katie Makkai in…

“cloudless…starry skies” and “tender light” accompanied by the undulating iambic tetrameter sets the perfect, romantic mood for the speaker to express his infatuation (2, 5). The meter indicates the innocence of his attraction and a parallel to the subject of his attraction. Familiar with the patterns of Byron’s time, this poem is a complete outlier. The central attraction in those times were…

on the other side of life—things become cold, the speaker’s dress is not thick enough to warm or protect her. However it becomes seen that though this part of death—the coldness, and the following stanza’s image of the grave as home—may not be a perfect scene, it blends completely, for it leads to the next stanza, which ends with immortality. Hundreds of years may not even be equated to a day. Because time is gone, the speaker can still realize, that death was not just death, but immortality,…

William Wordsworth combines nature and human interaction to paint a vivid picture through the speaker in the poem “I wandered lonely as a cloud”. The speaker is lonely and is wandering in a world that is bare and high over the hills and valleys. He all over a sudden comes across golden daffodils that blow his mind away through what he describes as the best that he has ever seen in his life. The daffodils are life like and the dance moves and cohesion with different parts of Mother Nature only…

three sections in her poem. Each section details a stage in her transformation from pious to agnostic. Dickinson uses both, subliminal poetic mechanics – such as punctuation and structure – and obvious literary techniques – such as personification and rhyme schemes – to fully describe this transformation in only twenty lines. Dickinson’s use of rhythm through number of syllables separates “This World is not Conclusion” into three distinct parts. The poem alternates syllables in an “ABAB”…

are equally talented. One of the most skillful contemporary poets is Louise Glück, who took full advantage of her creative abilities and wrote eleven books of poetry throughout her career. Her poetry invokes strong emotions, and although it is not perfect, she exemplifies how modern poetry should be appreciated as well. The early years of Glück’s life played a large role in influencing her poetry. She was born in New York City on April 22, 1943 to Daniel and Beatrice Glück, who were both…

poem ‘Salome’, also by Duffy, is a single word: Salome. Igniting our curiosity, we wonder: what’s Salome? It could be a person, a place or a thing. This uncertainty is what encourages the reader to continue reading. Lastly, ‘The Farmer’s Bride’ is a perfect example of objectification. This suggests to the reader that the wife is the property of the farmer, which is further emphasised by the lack of a name for her throughout the poem. According to the context of the poem, this was customary of…

‘Because I Could Not Stop For Death’ by Emily Dickinson and ‘Mid- Term Break’ by Seamus Heaney are both poems that use an array of literary devices and techniques in order to let the reader understand the significance of the poem and their theme— death. Although both poem’s themes may be about death, the different techniques used by Dickinson and Heaney should allow the readers to comprehend each poet’s personal perception of the theme. In ‘Because I Could Not Stop For Death’, Dickinson takes…

living doll’, an encumbrance, a statement that strips women of any agency they maintained, reducing femininity to a pretty toy. The woman is described as being able to “sew… cook… [and] talk talk talk” - a continued allusion to the 1950s image of the perfect housewife that can perform ‘wifely duties’ and talks constantly with no substance. Similarly, Andrew Marvell in To His Coy Mistress alludes to the dominance of the man in relationships and his attempts at courtship. Marvell addresses often…

Prior, Hitler and nazis were fascists. She portrays the things ladies love about Fascist men. Plath then associates the corner in the face with "savage" hearts of "beast" men like her dad. The utilization of redundancy and rhyme strengthens the case of her dad being a savage rightist. On the off chance that took a gander at it in another way, her dad was overwhelming and barbarous however despite everything she adored him; and she misses her dad overwhelming/commanding her…