Poetic form

splurge well in the silent, startled, icy, black language. The poet succeeds in comparing the blackberries to words or rather language. What are the points you would make in an analysis? The title of the poem “the blackberry eating”, reflects the poetic devices employed by the poet in bringing out the meaning of the poem. These…

Typically in pieces of literature, death is viewed as a peaceful and soothing slumber to mark the end of a life. However, in the villanelle “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night,” the author, Dylan Thomas, illustrates a speaker struggling with the impending death of his father by begging him to fight and resist death instead. Dylan Thomas, a Welsh poet, wrote this poem in 1951 influenced by his own dying father. Throughout the poem, Thomas uses several literary techniques to express the idea…

I choose [All Through the Night] Nursery song on page 1135 of The Norton Anthology of Children’s Literature. This nursery song has repetitive lines and exact rhyme in each of its stanzas. [All Through the Night] Nursery song has six stanzas. This nursery song has parallelism repeated with the same lines in each of the six stanzas of the nursery song. Although it has a particular difference of each stanza compared with even stanzas and odd stanzas for example, the first, third, and fifth stanzas…

The poem “The Tide Rises, The Tide Falls” by Henry Longfellow is an interesting poem because the poem has many different interpretations of the poem by the reader. This poem starts with the description of the night, the sand, the ocean, and the traveler that reaches the shore and all these main ideas have a lot more meaning behind when fully understood. This poem is very short, containing only 15 lines, but this poem has tremendous meaning and imagery to it. When reading the poem you notice the…

There are some considerable and not so significant variations between the versions of the Odyssey. One very inessential difference is the fact that many words in the Prose version that are spelled with a “C”, in this book are spelled with a “K” for instance, “Her lady Kalypso…(1)” and “... in Ithaka…(2)” . Additionally, the poetry adds diacritical marks above letters in names for instance, “ ...Hêrmes, cross the sea to the island of Oýgia…(4)”. Another less significant discrepancy is that with…

In the imaginary aspect of The Tide Rises, one can put so much effort to notice various things that are occurring in the poem. A image of how greater of everyone's life, it's going to turn out. In which the beauty of death is on how we live, but others come to replace us. In the second stanza, “ The twilight darkens, the curlew calls”, it looks like it's getting darker in the day or in other words our life is coming to an end. Following there is a part where seems quite interesting, “Along the…

“Lift Your Right Arm,” written by Peter Cherches, is a poem with simple words and lucid meanings. In my opinion, the writer was trying to talk about the society that he experienced. According to the poem, the lady asks the writer to put his arms up and down several times. At first, the writer emphasizes “Both of my arms were up”. He might be kind of impatient at that time because he just put his arms up and down without being told why. But two extra times later, he didn’t seem to care anymore.…

The use of literary devices inside of a solitary poem is extremely important. Creating a world or “image” for a reader to indulge him/herself in is a tremendous task but done right it is absolutely beautiful. Using elements in a story is much easier than in a poem because poems are stereotypically shorter and in a poem you have to be precise and use your words as a way to vaguely intrigue the reader. Literary elements such as imagery, setting, and tone are all affect how the reader perceives…

In this essay I will be comparing famous poets, Walt Whitman Emily Dickinson and comparing their themes, background experience in style which contain the literary elements with some examples of that are imagery and their format literary movements and I will analyze these two poets. What women and Emily Dickinson may seem very different, but are much the same and have some similarities as I will explain in the following essay. In many ways these two things were different in Walt Whitman's…

Poets use different techniques of writing to convey their main idea to the reader. May Swenson and Wanda B. Goines’ poems are different in structure and motif, yet the deeper meaning that the poems possess are quite similar. The speaker of How to be old is the author as the poem is not written in second or third person. The poem centres around ageing and the importance of one living their life to the fullest. “One must work a magic with time /in order to become old.” The register used is formal…