Perfect rhyme

of what is going on throughout the story and during the events that occur and are discussed, the context seems to change that idea a few times. “My Papa’s Waltz” written by Theodore Roethke displays a negative experience for the child through tone, rhyme, and diction. The tone that is expressed in this poem is confused and angry. The speaker who is a child in this text is unable to really locate the exact understanding that is going on during the entire poem. He is just following his father…

American Romanticism was a literary movement that started in the 19th century. American Romanticism shares a lot of similar qualities with transcendentalism. Walt Whitman wrote about similar topics as Emily Dickinson, although they lived two very different lives. Walt Whitman was a transcendentalist who lived in New York and did journalism. Emily Dickinson was a romanticist who fell in love with a married man and then continued to spend most of her life in seclusion. Walt Whitman and Emily…

In a scene where a character is confronted with frailty of life, George RR Martin's, A Game of Thrones, touches on the fear of death. However, unlike the book series people have not always been able to simply tell death "not today," and have a talented swordsman defend their life. In fact, from Everyman to modern day texts death is constantly studied. Thomas Gray's poem "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard," shifts between a seemingly political poem to a in depth exploration of the concept of…

The idea of a perfect world with equality and a world where differences are celebrated is what both writers are obviously striving for. Even though the writing styles clearly differ, wording of similar ideas can seem to overlap. For example, at the end of the poem by Maya…

In the poem “Once We Were” from the book “Histories” by Charlie Samuya Veric, the poem sheds to light a couple whose tenderness which can also be considered as love in this regard was already present even at the beginning or the very start. It was a kind of tenderness or love that was eminent in a sense that it required no small gestures such as a ‘rose’ or a ‘kiss’ to prove it was there as stated in the poem in the lines “needing no white roses or such gesture as a kiss”. A white rose…

"Whate'er the critic says or poet sings,/'Tis no slight task to write on common things." This is a quote by Horace which was used in Byron’s satire, Don Juan. Byron connects the difficulty of his art to his unimaginative nature of his medium, being poetry. The words he uses have no magic in themselves. Byron writes poetry not with the use of individual words but with how the words form a relationship together and create poetry. Byron was a leading figure in the romantic era of poetry.…

“I’ve dropped my Brain – My Soul is numb – The Veins that used to run, Stop palsied – ‘tis Paralysis, Done perfecter on stone” (235). The beginning of this poem can be interrupted as being about how Dickinson is stuck, unable to keep going as she is now. Looking at how she repeats herself in a way by using “palsied” and then “paralysis” on the same line. It reinforces the theory that she is stuck as she is. By just focusing on the first stanza a great deal of information can be gathered about…

In The House on Mango Street, Sandra Cisneros uses different stylistic techniques to convey an effect on the reader. Cisneros and I use sensory details and alliteration to establish mood and theme. When describing the atmosphere and environment during a birthday party, I use sensory detail, “The roller skating rink was a frenzy of lights and sounds from arcade games and 70’s music playing” (Gyawali). The reader gets a nostalgic, but excited mood from the auditory and visual imagery. This…

mother,” are all examples of the use of future tense in the poem. “To me, every hour of the light and dark is a miracle” is an example of present tense. An example of past tense in the poem is, Or the dead carried to burial.” Rhythm and Rhyme I feel the poem can be heard and read and many different ways. Some people may read it in a happy mood making the poem sound different than a person reading it in a glum mood. If you read it in a happy mood the poem may sound light and…

In the poems “Fern Hill” by Dylan Thomas and “in-Just” by e. .e cummings they focus largely on the concepts of growing up. The concept of losing one’s innocence is shown in both of these poems through the realizations in the last stanzas. That is when both of the authors realized that the innocence has been lost and things are not as they once thought that they were. Both of the authors told stories of their past to exemplify this, both poems I believe are written from the perspective of an…