Poetic form

The poem “Boy at the Window” written by Richard Wilbur is “two poems in one.” How, you might ask? Point of view. One point of view is the young boys and the others is the snowman’s. The fist stanza in the poem is the young boy’s point of view. “Seeing the snowman standing all alone..” “The small boy weeps to hear the wind prepare…” these are bot examples of the boy’s point of view. He is sad that he has to stand inside away from the snowman. He’s sad that the snowman can’t come in and play in…

“Mom, please don’t force me to wear this! This is OUTDATED” “Dad, no one nowadays uses paper dictionary, just throw it away” Doesn’t these words seem familiar? Yes, some of the words are what some children might say to their parents. Just like the story, Everyday Use, Dee and Mama’s point of view differed in the usage of the quilts. Some children might have a different opinions of their parents, and some of the factors causing this phenomenon would probably be different educations, friends’…

I decided on the story Ballad of the Landlord composed by Langston Hughes. In the ballad it begins off with somebody living in a house that has a gap in the roof/rooftop that has gripped to the landowner various circumstances and the proprietor has done nothing to get it settled. At that point the means have been separated yet when the proprietor comes to look at things he doesn't tumble down coming up the means. That all sounds confounding to me. The proprietor then says that the inhabitant…

“My heart's a stereo.” This lyric is in the first stanza from the song, “Hall of Fame” “Hall of Fame” is by The Script and was written in 2012. “As I grew Older” is by Langston Hughes and it was written in 1925. These two poems have similar themes, although the two speakers were in different time periods they both wrote about the same thing. The Script turned “Hall of Fame” into a song and sang it while Langston Hughes’s was just a regular poem. Because The Script had its poem into a song,…

The piece “Weep you no more” from Seven Elizabethan Songs, Op. 12 by Roger Quilter is from the Elizabethan era. Roger Quilter was an English composer and came from a wealthy family. The lyrics of the song come from a poem of an unknown source. Without a known author, the poem is left up to the interpretation of the performer. The poem has a certain rhythm when performed, and that rhythm is transferred into the rhythmic pattern of the lyrics. There are multiple metaphors which can be found in…

Amazingly even through all of the revisions, Poe manages to keep his end word rhyme scheme of AABBCC…ETC. Every two end words rhyme before changing rhyme scheme and repeating the process. For example, in the first version of the poem you get the end words of stanza one on respected order “moon” and “June.” The rhyme scheme then changes to “lie” and “eye,” to “dance” and “romance,” to “alas” and “mass.” In the final product it goes “June” and “moon,” to “dim” and “rim,” to “drop” and “top,” to…

and should deserve the same respect as an American. This poem was also introduce as a song after Woody wrote it. He uses an open form of writing, social criticism, symbolism, and imagery to convey to the reader the meaning of his poem. Open form allows the poet to write the poem freely without having parameters like a rhyme scheme. Many songs are written in open form and as this poem was also created into a song it uses a cadence rather than rhyme. The poem was written by Woody Guthrie but a…

In the poem In the middle of the night by Christopher Brookmyer the mood is crudish because it is funny but at the same time spooky. The author creates this by making funny jokes and contradictory statements about conditions like deafness and blindness. Also the fact that the whole poem is like this makes it even more hilarious. My first piece of evidence to prove that there is humor in this is the huge number of contradictory statements. For example in the beginning the text says, “One fine…

Although Soto's use of enjambment throughout the poem forces one to read on and provides a means of suggesting one thing when the poem in fact means another, the ending of a sentence without beginning another enjambment also calls special attention, as these are outlier lines. The first time this occurs is when the girl who the speaker is with chooses a piece of chocolate that costs more money than he has. In this line, "...And when she lifted a chocolate/ That cost a dime,/ I didn't say…

Metaphors: “Their eyes as brilliant and as wide as the night”, “Their manes the leaping ire of the wind”. These metaphors convey the etherealness of the atmosphere at that point of time. The poet uses these metaphors to once again compare simple objects with mysterious, eerie elements, suggestive of a dark night ahead. He uses these metaphors as a medium to chill the reader, and make the reader believe that something sinister has been going on in the poem. 12. The major mood of this poem…