Spenserian stanza

suggest the involuntary ways in which she had to live, she also makes it a point to make the word “dream” the subject of its own stanza. “Dream” makes a giddy sound, not strong/ Like “rent,” “feeding a wife,” “satisfying a man.” (Brooks) She makes the reader wonder if the concept of dreaming itself is a symbol or type of escape away from reality. Getting to the second stanza, the dream was forced to reside with a series of sensory metonyms like “onion fumes,” “fried potatoes,” and “yesterday 's…

alcoholism. The waltz could be symbolic of something much darker than a delicate, beautiful dance. Maybe, it is meant to shed light on the violence that is inflicted on the boy and in the home when his father returns in a drunken stupor. As the first stanza begins, we are slapped right in the face by the father 's drunkenness. The poem begins, "The whiskey on your breath Could make a small boy dizzy;" It is obvious here that the father is in a very drunken state and although the boy does not…

paints a picture of what a colored person likes along with also suggesting that a white person likes these things too. For example, in the stanzas twenty-two through twenty-six, he says.…

In the poems “Mother to Son” by Langston Hughes and “Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou both authors convey the same message which is overcoming hardships in life. In the two poems they show their similarities through repetition which will be shown in the first paragraph and literary devices such as figurative language,metaphors and similes, while also showing their differences through parallel structure of both the poems, and through rhetorical questions. Hughes and Angelou show their…

speaker 's body. Anatomically, the poem is divided into four stanzas with five lines in each stanza, establishing a sense of uniformity within the poem 's structure. Each quintet concludes in an end-stopped line, two of the four final lines including an exclamation point that energizes the poem and, subsequently, the audience. The end of one stanza denotes a transition, as exemplified by the final lines of the stanzas that succeed the first stanza: "Before today my body was useless / ... Once it…

Places” is a somber, introspective journey through a barren landscape choked by the smothering presence of snowfall. Although the poem begins with a lens trained on the surrounding landscape, the narrator’s thoughts eventually turn inward by the final stanza as the narrator compares the current frozen landscape to the vast desert of isolation and loneliness within himself. Frost utilizes repetition to both emphasize the rhythm of snow and night descending and to underscore the sensations felt by…

by having an accepting attitude toward death. Robert Browning “The Lost Leader” (about Wordsworth) The poem reflects on Mr. Browning’s dislike toward Mr. Wordsworth’s desertion of the liberal cause. The first stanzas specifying the nature of his disloyalty and the second stanzas specifies a firm resolution to endure despite his desertion. Throughout the poem extreme hyperbolic images were presented like “one more insult to God”/”let him never come back to us!” is the pattern to live and to…

decorating transitional words nor flowery speech. For example, the final line of the first stanza which describes the boy’s friend’s death simple states “his body was scattered across the field.” This statement lacks common euphemisms surrounding death and simply hits the reader with a brutal visual image of what happened. Furthermore, in the next line of the poem, the author…

I chose to dissect “Apples and Water”, because as we discovered in last week’s discussion, it can have many different meanings. Consequently, after reading it at a slightly more surface level, I arrived at a more war-driven and less interpersonal interpretation. No matter the meaning a person arrives at, one of the key elements of this work is the hardships of the war. This poem also speaks of the juxtaposition of a youth’s innocence and hopefulness surrounding war and that of more experienced…

Sylvia Plath’s ‘Mirrors’ was written two years before she had committed suicide and the context behind this was mainly due to her chronic depression. On the other side of the spectrum, ‘Morning Song’ was written and composed in dedication to her newborn daughter, Frieda. ‘Mirrors’ records the life of a woman staring at herself through reflection the clear and uninfluenced eyes of a mirror, there is a consistent pessimistic view about revealing one’s true self. ‘Morning Song’, however is filled…