Poetic form

war poetry ‘are worthy of study’ , and that his position in the canon goes beyond him conforming to the stereotypical conception that accompanies the canon, of being ‘male … from the middle- or upper-class … white’ or ‘dead’ . The value of Owen’s poetic works alone, single-handedly justifies Owen being placed inside the canon. I will examine the value of Owen’s work, by assessing its ‘complexity and unity’ , ‘plot, structure, language, and ideas’ , alongside assessing the ‘universal themes’…

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…

Lord Alfred Tennyson’s poem “The Lady of Shalott” is an exemplar of the poetic ability of famous writers to reflect the physical and emotional elements of a story within the music and aesthetics of poetry. In this essay I will examine the technical and aesthetic elements that create this famous ballad. While paraphrasing this poem, I will analyze how those elements create the extreme success of the poem. Through close analysis of Tennyson’s poem, I will reveal these elements that have made “The…

A villanelle form is a nineteen-line poetic form consisting of five three groups followed by a quatrain. There are two refrains and two repeating rhymes, with the first and third line of the first group repeated alternately until the last stanza. The last stanza usually includes both repeated lines. The poem “One Art” by Elizabeth Bishops uses a villanelle form that emphasis on one’s losses and how you cope with it. The form of the poem is related to the subject matter because it brings…

known for writing about his admiration of a woman. The sonnet quickly spread throughout Italy and was formally known as Petrarchan sonnet. The sonnet consisted of two stanzas, the octave (first eight lines) and the sestet (the final six lines), the form totaled 14 lines. The octave usually presented a problem or question which was later answered in the sestet. The rhyme scheme was abba, abba in the octave, and cdecde or cdcdcd in the sestet. This rhyme scheme perfectly suits the Italian language…

Ron Koertge’s 2006 poem “Do You Have Any Advice For Those of Us Just Starting Out?” demonstrates how the poet uses the conventional poetic form of a free verse to treat the unusual subject of guidance to up and coming poets with sense of humor and wisdom. The poem is separated into 6 stanzas. The poem does not have a specific form, but the stanzas seem to increase in lines as the poem is read. As the poem The poem is constructed like a guideline which makes it seem that the guidance starts out…

In Tale-Danda Karnad breathed a different kind of life into the poetic texts and historical events by developing a dramatic structure that would ‘explain’ the relation of poetry and religious mysitism to political economy and social radicalism and in the english version of the play he incorporated a generous selection of old and new translations of the vachanas by Ramanujan. The Fire and the Rain was originally written in kannada [Agni mattu Male (1995)] but rendered immediately into english for…

twist actually explores in depth how people viewing his life are like those viewing an autobiography. Finally, “Sonnet” is perhaps his most crowning achievement in setting himself apart from his fellow poets, going so far as to make fun of a specific form of poetry and succeeding magnificently. On a surface level, the poem looks like a sonnet, but upon further examination it is revealed that there is no rhyme…

In his poem, Auden uses both rhetoric and poetic syntax to communicate the declining trajectory of human morality. Auden utilizes the trope of the fall not to illustrate Icarus’s physical fall, but to ultimately illustrate the witnesses’ fallen morality and lack compassion. Auden uses the…

ago to today’s time, everyone’s common goal is to achieve happiness. Happiness for someone, however, can be love. In the poem “Villanelle” by Marilyn Hacker, Hacker uses the title to inform her readers that this is a specific poetic structure. This type of structure takes a form in which the first and last line of the first verse repeat throughout the poem. Hacker creates these repetition of words to make the reader become aware that the lines are important. By making this poem a villanelle,…