Poetic form

Remembrance and Recognition. As Camara Laye once said “all dancers have a cumulative tendency because each beat of the Tom-Tom has an almost irresistible appeal. Soon those who were just spectators would dance too.” People enjoy learning about others and even expressing what their own lives are like. All of the stories, which take place in Senegal and Guinea. Given the region, the writing is different than America’s poetry. The poems in question are “Prayer to the Mask, Letter to a Poet,…

The poem With rue my heart is laden by A.E. Houseman is conveying the past and future. Though the poem might be short, it is split into crucial and profound events in the author’s life as he refers to his memories, as claimed, “For golden friends I had”. This quote reveals that the poet is remembering all his friends as he uses past tense language, “had”. By the use of “had”, we can assume that the poet’s friends are pasted away or not his friends any more. The poet not only states his memories,…

This poem is a revelation. When beginning to read this poem, you are hit early on with many questions just after reading the title, We wear the mask. You begin to ask, who is we? What is significant about this mask? Why are they wearing a mask? I’ve read this poem numerous amounts of times and I believe I have finally developed my meaning of it. Dunbar’s poem has many themes and symbols, such as hypocrisy, pain and suffering, society, race, and lies. This is a rondeau poem written in iambic…

Both poems refer to Breughel’s, a Dutch painter’s piece of art, the Landscape with the Fall of Icarus. William’s choice of title is the same as the painting’s while W. H. Auden names the museum. The painting – and thus the poems – illustrates the famous ancient Greek legend about Icarus and his father, Daedalus. According to the myth Icarus did not pay attention to Daedalus’s warn, flew to high and the sunbeam melted his wax wings. Icarus fell into the sea and drowned. This is the moment which…

I never saw, but I know… “I never saw a Moor-”A moor, an unseen object to man, but one the poet Emily Dickinson chooses to title her poem. What is this unseen object called a moor? Webster’s Dictionary describes a moor as “A tract of open, peaty, wasteland, often overgrown with heath, common in high latitudes and altitudes where drainage is poor; heath.” There are many terms that Dickinson uses within this poem that maybe unknown and uncertain to some, but they hold a deeper meaning within the…

Like so many of Emily Dickinson’s poems, poem #280 employs the macabre imagery of death, here though, she employs a funeral as an allegory to losing your sanity, while not explicit, the reader can assume the author is speaking of herself. The poem is written in the past tense, as if the author is recalling the funeral from memory, hence we know that it is not an actual funeral, but a figurative one. The structure of Poem #280 consists of 115 words, 20 lines and 5 stanzas. The author uses the…

Fate touches all with tendrils of cruelty. The singer goes mute, the birdwatcher blind; the infant succumbs to his illness. But few fates are harsher than for the artist to die with a gleam in his eyes, his dreams forever unrealized. The gates of creation close and lock, never again to swing open. In previous centuries, the fear of such a fate permeated the lives of writers, painters, and poets, who lived in a world rich with art but low in life expectancy. This unresolvable angst, and the…

“Alone” by Edger Allan Poe it’s a poem about a child going through the hardship of life, because people do not understand him and what he sees that others aren’t like him. It’s a lyric poem with one stanza and 3 run-on lines and it has an end rhyme scheme of AA, BB, and the meter of line 1-4 is iambic tetrameter then line 13-17 it changes to trochaic tetrameter and at the end it’s catalectic. But Poe 3 major analysis is voice, imagery and figure of speech that created this amazing poem. One of…

The poem “Elegy for Jane” by Theodore Roethke is a free verse poem in which a teacher reflects on the death of one of his former students. He is heartbroken over the tragic event. However, it is unclear what kind of relationship between the teacher and student. Audiences who read the poem might believe that the teacher and student are in some kind of romantic relationship, but they relationship is nothing more than just a student and teacher. This poem demonstrate the reflection of Jane’s death…

Three Strongest Words I really enjoyed the poem, Three Strongest Words. I liked this poem because though the poem was very short, it also was very deep and left me thinking about each word the author described. For instance, when the author wrote about the word silence, saying as soon as you say the word you destroy it I had to stop, and think what she meant. This poem also made me very confused because of the way the author presented the poem. For example, when she described someone speaking…