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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…

The cliché, the more things change; the more they stay the same, applies to two poems, “The World is too Much with Us,” written in the 1800s and “Spirits in the 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…

Sappho’s fragments in, If Not, Winter, are composed of her reflections on the ardent emotions of love and desire. Sappho continues to ask and search for love, but she becomes consumed with desire. Sappho’s inability to control these emotions causes her to be caught in a battle between love and desire. Throughout the text Sappho uses “eros” to express her lust for an individual; this causes a conflict with in the word eros because it is defined as fluid term in which desire and love are…

In the poem, “For You” by Kim Addonizio, she uses situational irony and personification. Addonizio blends the two elements together to show how much she is in love with him. Adding her syntax and diction, Addonizio draws emphasis to what she is doing for love. To start, Addonizio gives a great descriptive of what she is doing for him. She says, “For you I undress down to the sheaths of my nerves.” Addonizio is telling her lover that, for only him, she will remove her outer layers of…

The tone of stanza 1 is horrific. It includes this quote, “Shook all our coffins as we lay, And broke the chancel window-squares, We thought it was the Judgement-day.” This quote includes multiple words to make the poem feel horrific like coffins, broken windows, and Judgement-day. This shows that the world is in pieces and may be coming to an end, which for most is a horrific event. Coffins also shows this since, they hold dead bodies which since the mid-1800s has been the center for horror…

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…

In the poem: Soliloquy from Henry IV part II, by William Shakespare, the poem consists of a varity of diction, contains imagery, and syntax. He tries to convince sleep to help him get some rest just as it helps others rather than him. However, at the end of the passage, he changes is tone of searching for help to accepting the fact that he can't find or help find rest. The change in King Henry's mentality is displayed by the authors choice of diction and allegory. The king feels sorry for…

Woody Guthrie's poem “Plane Wreck at Los Gatos, (Deportees)” is a protest against the treatment of immigrants who are on a plane being deported back to Mexico and are killed in a plane crash. Even they are immigrants they are people 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…

Dejah House Mrs. Love Hilliard Creative Writing 30 September 2016 The supremes analysis With little knowledge of the poems nature at the start, the writer of “The Supremes” Cornelius Eady demonstrates a very strong yet subtle message right from the beginning with his statement “ We were born grey”. This statement with no background fastly gives the reader a sense of subject and allows them to begin analyzing their own theories as to what Eady means by this bold line. Throughout the piece…

Jacques Prévert 's poem, "to portray a bird" gives unrealistic instructions on the steps to create a painting of a bird. Prévert lived from 1900 to 1977 and this poem was written in 1946 which is part of the "Words" collection. The poem is a version of poetry, written in free verse with six stanzas that contain different lengths of words. The poem uses simple language and most verbs are written in the infinitive. The poem places emphasis on the subject of the painting rather than how to create…