Poetic form

“The House on the Hill” as found in The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature was written by Edwin Arlington Robinson and is a poem written in the form of villanelle. A vilanelle is structured as a fixed form with nineteen lines at any length split in to six stanzas. There are five tercets and a conclusion as a quatrain. The first and third lines of the villanelle rhyme and are repeated in every tercet as well as being the final two lines of the quatrain. This specific poem repeats the…

“I’m Nobody! Who are you?” and “Her Kind” Comparison Poems are not always about the general topic they are written about. Some poems may mean something more in depth than what the title states. It generally isn’t until you analyze or break down the poem you can get a better sense of what the either was trying two say. Two examples of these types of poems would be “I’m Nobody! Who are you?” by Emily Dickinson and “Her kind” by Anne Sexton. These two poets show a common theme individual versus…

Analysis The Text: An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow – Les A. Murray The Formalist theory requires readers to adopt a formalist mindset, understanding that the meaning of a text is derivative from its form; the two unable to be separated from each other. In the poem, An Absolutely Ordinary Rainbow the form is constructed in stanzas and is analysed through its literary features which include style, rhyme, repetition, metaphor, and syntax. The poem is about a man weeping in the streets of Sydney, a…

Wanderlust is engrained in so many of us. It’s a natural thing to be curious and want to explore. So many of us wouldn’t be here today if our ancestors didn’t explore. Life is constantly happening all around, why not go out and be a part of it? My favorite poet, Walt Whitman, wrote a beautiful poem about how dire travel is for the soul. (http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poem/178711 ) I’m sure you have a bucket list full of places to go and things to see when you do. I know I do. I have a whole…

Response to Parker’s There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyonce Poetry has many definitions, almost as there are poets. Poetry is language in which its strength is shown through the expression of feelings and ideas through the use of concrete or abstract images in order to give great aesthetic pleasure while still being able to communicate meaning. Morgan Parker’s “There Are More Beautiful Things Than Beyoncé’ is essentially this, a work of art. Parker is an African-American poet and editor.…

While on the outside Cynthia A. Bily remains fairly objective throughout her critical analysis of Edgar Allan Poe’s poem, “Annabel Lee,” her diction and robotic examination of the poem show her negative feelings about the poem. She criticizes both the format and deeper meanings of the poem, degrading the format and judging the deep and undying passion the narrator feels for Annabel. She starts out by analyzing the surface of the poem without going into the deeper meaning of the poem. Merely…

IV The energy left in the Harms were residual and minimal “Felix, qui potuit rerum cognoscere causas” “Fortunate is he who understands the causes of things.” Virgil, Roman poet, “The Georgics”, Book II There was also another possible line of argument why the harms could not cause any serious repercussions. Let us examine the following table. Table 6: The Main Qi in the Harms of the Earthly Branches This Earthly Branch Had this Seasonal Qi This Earthly Branch Had this Seasonal Qi 子 Zi…

In the case of Line 20, the poet uses this pause to signify a significant mood change. The mood for Lines 1-19, which encompass the romantic carriage ride, is calm and relaxed, lackadaisical even. The dash that changes the entire form of the poem, in line 20, shows the moment in which the speaker realized that she has died. The tone of the speaker in line 20, “the comice- [was] in the ground” shows that for the first moment the speaker is scared or even shocked, but the overall…

In the erasure poem book, “Nets,” Jen Bervin utilizes the sonnets of William Shakespeare to create new poetry. The poems were created by analyzing the word choices available within his sonnets. The examination of the words helped the author to find a voice within the work. There are an infinite number of word choices available within each sonnet, and by studying the words, you can determine which voice within the poem would like to speak. The poem, “18,” was composed using William Shakespeare’s…

Material World” which was written in 1981. The poems are both in response to the everchanging world. These poems use specific poetic elements to create force behind their arguments. Furthermore, each poem conveys a similar theme that materialism is going to ruin the planet for future generations. The first poem “Spirits in the Material World,” has five stanzas and utilizes many poetic elements such as repetition and rhyme. For example, the first stanza utilizes the same syllable ending of…