Poetic form

In this poem by Robert Frost, Frost uses the idea of a desert to represent the loneliness and isolation that he felt. Typically, when people think of a desert, they think of a dry, hot place, however the “desert” place Frost talks about has “snow falling” which meant that it was a cold place, not a typical “desert.” (line 1). The selected poem has a first person narrator, Frost, who is telling about the feelings of darkness, loneliness, and isolation that he is experiencing/feeling. For example,…

From the title we can infer that the poet is imagining something "If" it were changed to be a certain way. In each stanza of the poem, he compares the positive in life to the negative to come to the conclusion that if it were not for the negative, the point of life would be empty and everything would be ordinary. In Edward Estlin Cumming's poem, "If", he uses diction, shifts, and anaphora to create a peaceful tone. I chose this poem because I strongly agree with Cummings belief that without the…

Although often overlooked, the form of a poem can be just as important as the words within it. Through careful analysis, a reader can start to piece together different aspects of a poem’s structure and directly relate it back to the overall content. In the poem My Papa’s Waltz, author Theodore Roethke deliberately uses form to create a child-like quality while at the same time mimicking the meter of a waltz, a usually slow and elegant dance that brings two people closer together. Moreover, in…

style throughout the poem with her use of diction. “Daddy” is a confessional poem, put in a harsh, ill manner, matching too much of Plath’s work. With what is known about Sylvia Plath and her life, as expected her experiences reflect in her work in the form of her signature tone and style. This poem begins in such a rhythmic way, like with Plath’s use of repetition in the first stanza. She started with, “You do not do, you do not do / any more,” Plus notice Plath’s…

with it has not gone away. These are two different perspectives, one from the dead person, Nd one for the person left to mourn. Also, Remember is written in a more conversational way rather than The Cross of Dnow which is written in a more elegant form. Ome can see this difference by the metaphors and allusion Lonfellow utilizes. First, he compare the light that a lamp casts to a halo. This shows his thoughts of his wife and that she was a great person who surely went to heaven. He also call her…

The definition of “dramatic monolog” in the glossary is a poem with only one speaker overheard in a dramatic moment usually addressing another character who do not speak, whose words reviled what is going on o the scene and expose significant depts. of the speaker temperament attitude and values. an excellent example is Robert Browning’s poem entitled “My Last Duchess” My initial response to the poem was I was confused. The written languages Style was not easy to read. When I read the…

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…