Spenserian stanza

long, too wordy, or having it divert too much from the point I want, so as a result, I often end a poem early. Personally, I prefer short poems to longer ones because I feel like it is more engaging as a reader to not have a poem that is a hundred stanzas long before you. As a writer, I find it a nice challenge to keep a piece short because you suddenly must be more selective to what you wish to include. With the poems I included in the portfolio, the majority of the revisions I made were…

Stafford switches from four-line stanzas to a little couplet which gives us a feeling of something missing (reflecting on the loss of the dawn). The end words do not exactly rhyme in the poem instead, Stafford makes the lines tie together and not tie together at the same time. For example…

The first stanza is dominated by commas, colons and heavy, multi-syllable words in order to reflect the languid and laborious movements of the soldiers as they “trudge” with difficulty. However, in the second stanza, single syllable words are featured, such as “gas! Gas” used to convey the sense of urgency, while this heightened confusion and chaos is represented…

belief that life is predestined, which makes the audience question how their lives should ultimately be viewed. Repetition is a key tool that the author utilizes to emphasize the idea of having a predestined life. The first and last lines of the first stanza are constantly being repeated throughout the entire work. Roetheke says, “I wake to sleep, and take my waking slow, I learn by going where I have to go” (Roetheke 1,3). If life were predestined, then the outcome and experiences of his or…

The poem’s stanza form is the most widely used form and most versatile unit in American poetry, the quatrain. A quatrain is a four-lined stanza with lines of similar length and a set rhyme scheme. In this case, each line of the poem contains eight syllables and contains a rhyme scheme of AABA, BBCB, CCDC, DDDD. As for the meter…

The “other forms or suggestions” represent the last stanza, where the reader begins to realize that the poem has more meaning than what is initially seen. It brings the image in the reader’s mind full circle. From seeing a hardworking man warming a house, to a young boy waking up to the warmth, to a grown…

The sonnet “Anthem for Doomed Youth”, by Wifred Owen, is a poem that criticizes the war. An “anthem”, defined as a jolly song of celebration or perhaps glorification. From its definition, readers would first get the impression which the poem might be about something that is related to religious or joyous. However, as the title suggests, the anthem is for “Doomed Youth”, which implies an obvious negative/sorrow meaning. The title basically summarizes what this poem is about; a mixture of thoughts…

In today 's society, some adults have said at some point, “your generation won 't be famous for anything, because your generation is lazy.” Although it 's true that we 're lazy due to many technological inventions, some of us might do great things in the future. Before people in my generation start to make a name for ourselves, we will always deal with this problem. People have always faced being compared to others, whether good or bad. There are situations that can change a person 's opinion on…

the perfect example of the paradoxical pleasure and pain of failing in love in his poem, ‘How Sweet I Roam’d from Field to Field’. Throughout this poem is a young lady who happens to fall in love with a prince. As the poem progresses through the stanzas she unintentionally gets tangled in his love only to be left feeling the bitter pain of love. The opening line of the poem starts off with this young girl who appears to be innocent, as she roams “from field to field” (1). This line my view…

Claude McKay’s poem “America”, expresses his feelings about the USA and describes he uses negative qualities about the country to fuel his own personal ambitions. Although McKay thinks America is great, he thinks that due to its ignorance, it is losing important factors to make it better. Mckay shows this through the use of symbolism of America 's qualities, the structural choice of a Shakespearean sonnet, and the shift of feeling in the last four lines of the poem. The first line of “America”…