Poetic form

rhythm. This is poetry at its mechanical essence. It was once thought that those who could not hear the flow and intonation of language could not possibly compose one of the most complex and labyrinthine forms of expression (33). Yet, they did, and they did well. By referencing some early poetic works, The Minstrel Boy by James Nack, and The Mute’s Lament by John Carlin, the absolute ability of deaf individuals is realized, as well as a sample of some of the intimate topics they dealt with. The…

“To me there's no creativity without boundaries. If you're gonna write a sonnet, it's 14 lines, so it's solving the problem within the container.” All sonnets follow one form and style but it is the result of emotional pain, personal values, state of mind and rational actions that separate and differ one sonnet poem from another. Sonnets were first introduced to the world in Italy traditionally written as love poems. This particular style of poetry was invented in the early 12th century, by the…

poetry beyond prose logic, there is mystery in it, not to be explained but admired.” Poems may use few words, but they can invest the reader as if they’d have read a novel instead of a few stanzas. This is because of an author’s use of the poetic craft to form their vision. Ted Kooser’s poem entitled Mother shows great examples of intense imagery, symbolism, and irony to arouse the emotions of anger and hope. Using the creative craft, Ted Kooser places the reader in the shoes of the narrator…

representation of love/death elegies, love symbolizing hope and death symbolizing loss. Ambiguity, like its definition, can have different meanings: ‘either that it is obscure in meaning or that it seems to have two or more meanings. […] Ambiguity as a poetic device, then, has nothing to do with obscurity of doubtful meaning. In fact, there is…

As its name suggests, spoken word poetry is the art form of reciting poems of any kind. Performances tend to focus on key visual and audio techniques such as movement, tone, emotion, rhyme and improvisation to name a few. Many spoken word poetry performances are very personal and revolve around a particular theme or message that the poet is attempting to convey to an audience. Two performances, To the Boys Who May One Day Date My Daughter, performed by Jesse Parent and Pretty by Katie Makkai in…

"Loveliest of Trees, the Cherry Now," is a setting of Housman's full text in an unmodified strophic form. The text, portrays a beautiful picture of nature with deeper allusions to, "a movement from innocence to knowledge."7 B. J. Legget details in their book Housman's Land of Lost Content, the idea that the order in which the text presents the seasonal…

The form and rhyme scheme of ‘Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night’ (strict, regular and controlled) juxtaposes the complex message behind it; how even though everyone knows that death is inevitable, they should fight against it. The refrains are both used…

I rate this book 3 out of 4 stars. The Immigrant’s Lament by Mois Benarroch is a poetry collection released by Moben Publishing. Included in this collection are several short poems—one or two pages long—such as “The Transsexual’s Lament.” These short poems are framed by two longer works: the title poem, “The Immigrant’s Lament,” and “Self portrait of the poet in a family mirror.” Benarroch’s poetry runs commentary on a few core topics, namely love, writing, a sense of belonging, generational…

William Wordsworth (1770 – 1850) was an eminent English Romantic Poet, hose Lyrical Ballad, as a result of joint efforts, co-authoring with Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Contributed to launch the Romantic Age in English Literature. He is known as the poet of Nature, reflecting his inner feelings while appreciating the wonderings and beauty of it. (Norton, 543-45) The poem ‘We Are Seven’, as Wordsworth says, has been “written an Alfoxden in the spring of 1798. The little girl who is the heroine I met…

A Different Tone of View In the sonnet “My Mistress Eyes Are Nothing Like The Sun,” Shakespeare conveys an ironically humorous tone. Throughout the text he contrasts his lover’s attributes against cliched poetic comparisons. By doing so, he misleads the reader into thinking that he is disparaging his lover, when in fact he is criticizing the impossible standards of beauty to which most women are held. This humorous irony is demonstrated by the subject of his false comparisons, his word choice…