Spenserian stanza

Steinbeck’s rhetorical style in the Grapes of Wrath conveys his values by using oxymorons and parallelism to add dramatic detail and also to add a sense of amazement to the story in order to draw the reader deeper into the story. Steinbeck uses his own sense of style to add an artistic effect all throughout chapter 25, this style added so much to the story, on the lines of showing the reader how the people had felt through the entirety of the story. Steinbeck’s rhetorical style showed the sorrow…

What once was known to be someone’s thought that turned into someone’s words is known to be related to poetry. Thoughts and emotions play an important role in not only confessional, but also beat poetry. In Allen Ginsberg’s “A Supermarket in California” different techniques are used to capture a reader’s feelings. Throughout this poem Ginsberg allows the audience to sense emotions in ways such as using word choice with specific punctuation, contrast of metaphors, and use of active voice.…

The 1920s, a time for new innovations and was the rise of popular culture. People were expressing themselves more freely and enjoying life. During the year 1928, Robert Frost wrote a poem titled, “Acquainted with the Night.” From the title we can guess that Frost enjoyed partaking in the festivities of The Roaring Twenties. Maybe he enjoyed going out to socialize with a drink in hand, but unfortunately that is far from the truth. “Acquainted with the Night” is a work that depicts Robert Frost’s…

her poem with a cosmic opening. She personified Death in the form of a polite, kind gentleman consequently she cannot be scared of Death. This gentleman offers her a pleasant invitation and as a result they go for a ride. Secondly, in the third stanza we can see 3 different facts of her life: the childhood, the adulthood and the old ages. The author characterizes it with 3 distinctive sets of metaphors. The Setting Sun, which is a metaphor for old life, is the edge of the material world…

Still present in these poems are the poet’s fascination with death, the spiritual, ruination, and the natural. These poems capture the facets of Merwin’s 1960s style and the use of imagery. They are also presented in stanzas, which are irregular, but given the link between the stanzas, the poems suggest that an inverted sonnet was used by the poet. Also, the poems are characterized by persistent capitalization at the beginning of every line. This paper seeks to deeply discuss imagery as used in…

Danielle Mullins H English 12-4 11/12/15 “All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace” While first reading Richard Brautigan’s “All Watched Over by Machines of Loving Grace” readers may not see between the lines, but when the underlying message is coherent, Brautigan’s abstract work, and the events that shaped his life illustrate the poem. The message of Brautigan’s poetry will captivate the reader and allow better understanding of Brautigan’s life and reasoning. Richard Bruatigan…

At first glance, The Things They Carried seems like a collection of one man's war stories. But this novel is full of so much more, it talks about love, loss, and recovery. The author, Tim O'Brien, being a veteran of the war himself, used his writing as a way to cope with the trauma he experienced. O'Brien connects these themes though the use of conceit. Conceit is the likening of two very opposite things through figurative language in stories. for example, love and war are completely different,…

With the passing of time, memory can magnify and distort what is important to an individual's life. In Gwen Harwood’s poetry, Harwood portrays these aspects through her poem, ‘The Violets’ and ‘Father and Child.’ The poems both represent time and memory in different ways which gives the audience an impression that everyone is different and memories all differ from person to person. It also shows that the lessons we learn from the past differ and are sometimes false memories. As time passes an…

with the intent of giving clearer meaning to one of them. Often forms of the "to be" verb are used, such as "is" or "was", to make the comparison Onomatopoeia The use of words which imitate sound Repetition The repeating words, phrases, lines, or stanzas Rhyme The similarity of ending sounds existing between two words Simile A comparison between two objects using a specific word or comparison such as "like", "as", or "than" Assonance The repetition of vowel sounds Name E.g. Alliteration…

In the Poems Homo Suburbiensis by Bruce Dawe and In the park by Gwen Harwood both poets have represented this poem. In Homo Surbiensis Dawe talks about a man which is alone with his thoughts. The man also thinks of his vegetable patch as a small sanctuary. The man. In ‘In the Park’ Harwood tells readers about the story of a mother who is at the park with her children and encounters someone she once loved pass by. Both poems also use various techniques that include metaphor, sonnet, hyperbole and…