Spenserian stanza

Dover Beach, an insightful poem, warns its readers about the dangers of the world in an attempt to make them feel better. The poem compares the harsh reality of its readers’ isolation in the world to various images of oceanic scenes. In his first stanza, Arnold emphasizes the importance of distinguishing the difference between illusion and reality through his constant change from a beautiful to disheartening tone. Arnold’s “Sea of Faith” metaphorically attributes the decline of religion as a…

poem. It is the first line of the poem as well as the ending of two stanzas (stanzas 2 and 4) and the second to last line of the entire poem. The line “Rage, rage against the dying of the light” also repeats four times and is the final line of the poem. The two lines evoke a sense of urgency for the reader, almost to invoke the idea that death is coming soon and his words should be heeded. The narrator seems to be…

metaphor, diction, and symbolism. The poem describes baptism, conversion from wickedness to righteousness, recognition of the Spirit and finally understanding God’s love. The poem uses metaphor to illustrate the religious journey of the speaker. Each stanza incorporates parts of religious foundational doctrine as the speaker discovers the changes that…

happiness that the creature expresses; this is how the tone of John Keats influences the theme. The Ode to a Nightingale was written partly as a Shakespearean quatrain, a Petrarchan sestet, and a repeating ten-line stanza with variations (Charlsie 23). Keats uses these types of stanzas to create a new type of sonnet that was revolutionary…

Emily Dickinson is well known for her unusual poems, however during her life she wasn’t famous till after she passed away when her family started to find 1000’s of her poems stuff in tiny spaces all around the house. Dickinson’s writing wasn’t well understood during her time, she had a uniqueness that was ahead of her time; she had an amazing use of symbols, capitalism, themes and tones in her writing which make reading her poems so intriguing. While growing up she wasn’t the average women, she…

The content in older writer tends to be more difficult to understand and the poem "The Tyger" by William Blake was no exception. The ideas of older poems aren’t necessarily hard to figure out, but just being able to read the poem is a major struggle so finding much of the meaning behind the poem was difficult. The first read through leads any of the reader to believe that this is just a child’s poem with no deep meaning behind it. After rereading the poem a few times, the theme seemed to pop…

actually be compared to the way the traveler tries to figure out what the woman is singing. Just like how I didn’t understand this poem at first it demonstrates how any form of art, even when it is misunderstood, is powerful and beautiful. The first stanza in the poem is written simply by the poet, he makes sure that he describes the woman as alone. He shows that the woman is alone which is describing how the woman is a work of visual art herself. She is also the one creating the sound that…

Heaney’s poem The Other Side is presented in three different sections and three lines per stanza, symbolising the three persons within the Holy Trinity: Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. This complements the main theme of the poem, the politically controversial sectarian divide throughout Northern Ireland, between Protestants and Roman Catholics…

In the third stanza, we see that the girlchild is growing up. Not only has she been told how to look her whole life now it is being voiced how to behave. The speaker does not express who is giving her this guidance, so we can only assume it is either he family, classmates or other adults, maybe even strangers. “She was advised to play coy, / exhorted to come on hearty, / exercise, diet, smile and wheedle” (line 12, 12 and 14). In other terms, it is interpreted as, to be shy, maybe she tries to…

imagery with similes, metaphors, symbolism and other literary devices, however, it is up to the audience to discover the deeper meaning of the literary devices used throughout the poem John Keats had brilliantly developed during his time. The first stanza of the poem…