Spenserian stanza

written in quatrain stanza form which means four stanzas, and has a rhyme scheme of a, b, a, b, at the end of each stanza. The speaker’s use of hyperboles, repetition , and regal comparisons when describing Richard Cory help elevate him above the townspeople, and his nonchalant mentioning of Cory’s suicide leaves the reader in a state of shock. The first stanza of the poem, introduces Richard Cory as a well-respected man of the town. Robinson illustrates…

“arbitrary darkness gallops in”(5). By using the words “darkness,” which suggests nighttime and evil, and “galloping,” which conjures up images of horses, suggest that the lover experiences a crushing sense that overpowers her. Once again, she ends the stanza by hoping that if she closes her eyes, her troubles will disappear. The line serves as a start for the rest of the poem to show how her longing for love led to “darkness.” "God topples from the sky” and “hell’s fires fade,” helps her…

the “cool” if not shady things that they do because they refuse to go to school or conform to societal norms. The very cool and structured form and language of the poem however, along with the toughness of the pool players is broken by the very last stanza “We Die soon,” (7-8) as it is the only vulnerable moment in the poem that snaps the audience out of its trance state to realize that while the players feign control in their lives they in fact have none and their arrogance turns to…

It has three lines for each stanza and the rhyming scheme is ABA, ABA. I was a little hungry here, so it influenced my writing. I wanted detail and visuals, but tongue in cheek. There are a lot of sensory details in this poem, which is the literary term I used for this. Vows Do you…

keeps up to date with the housekeeping. The woman in this stanza is filling up the “warm caves” with a lot of different things, such as, “skillets, carvings, shelves, closets, silks” and these things are described as “innumerable goods” (816). In this stanza, the speaker switches the tone from the haunting descriptions of the first stanza to a sort of chaotic but friendly images of the second stanza. The tone is chaotic in the second stanza because the “worms” and “elves” are complaining and…

Which one should I choose? People always ask this question when they are making a decision. And there are infinite choices on the list in our life, such as should turn left or right when people drive, which college I should go to, choose a career field, or elect a President. Normally, people are likely to choose one that most common, which means the choice that the majority would like to choose. However, “The Road Not Taken” is a popular poem, which is written by Robert Frost who is an…

Robert Frost is one of the most notable American poets of all time. His style of writing borders both 19th Century Romantics and Moderns, using rhyme and common language throughout most of his works. Within these seemingly simple writings, however, Frost creates meaning beyond surface level comprehension. One such writing is “The Road Not Taken”, a short poem that if guided by supposition, tells of a man presented with a choice of two different roads to travel, and when he decided on a road to…

“A Poison Tree” by William Blake is ostensibly dealing with the narrator’s refusal to communicate his anger to a tree, but the overdetermined nature of the words Blake uses makes a final, correct determination of meaning impossible. In this paper, through a utilization of Derrida’s methods set forth in works such as Spectres of Marx and Dissemination, I will examine how the contradictory imperatives contained within the metaphors in this poem draw a reader away from their initial assumption (i.e…

at God sounded like a personal narrative where the author tells the reader about his faith. Looking over the format, I could see three stanzas, all numbered. Each stanza appeared to be an independent statement, each being one example of God. This made me treat…

Overall, the poem has four stanzas, each containing four lines. Also, each line in the poem contains eight syllables. Frost does use a rhyme scheme of A, A, B, A throughout the whole poem. For example, “Whose woods these are I think I know. (A)/ His house is in the village though; (A)/ He will not see me stopping here (B)/ to watch his woods fill with snow (A). Frost uses that particular scheme to set up the next stanza. Also, throughout the poem, Frost uses personification…