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cut me with your eyes you may kill me with your hatefulness”) were used to make the poem so powerful. The poem consists of 9 stanzas and 43 lines. In the first stanza Maya Angelou expresses how she doesn’t care what society writes down in history about her. Even if they trod her in dirt even then she shall rise above the lies and if they trod her in dirt. The second stanza she starts it off with a question. With this question the authors tone is indeed sassi it shows that the writer is aware…

leading men to their deaths. Throughout the poem, one particular siren directly speaks to the reader. Moving onto the structure, in the first three stanzas, the siren is describing the siren song. She starts off in the first…

Billy Collins, former United States poet laureate, penned many famous poems, including “Nostalgia,” “Japan,” and “Picnic, Lightning.” His poem “Picnic Lightning” is a five-stanza piece centering on the idea of “chance.” Collins chooses to begin his poem with a quote from Vladmir Nabokov’s Lolita. Collins’ style of writing lacks many traditional poetic devices such as a structured meter, but Collins uses other devices to deliver his central purpose. In “Picnic, Lightning,” Collins creates a…

In the first stanza, the sultana is introduced watching the sea illuminated by the…

In Gioia’s poem “Money” he uses stanzas to get his point across. Each verse tackles a different perspective on the topic of money. In stanza one he supplies many different slang terms for money. Cash and stash are placed strategically to rhyme with one another. For the second stanza different phrases are used to explain spending money. Chock it up and fork it over relates more to reluctant spenders however…

meanings. Ulalume does a better job of expressing Poe’s feelings about the death of Virginia, because it gives more details, shows how he is coping with her death, and it shows what Poe is feeling. The poem Ulalume uses strong words and phrases. In stanza 1 of the poem Ulalume it says “The skies they were ashen and sober: The leaves they were crisped and sere- The leaves they were withering and sere”. What that means is that the leaves are falling off the trees. They are crunching when…

different ways. Emily Dickinson sees hope as a thing with feathers. In Dickinson’s poem Hope is the Thing with Feathers hope is a bird. In the first stanza, it feels as if hope is something a person could reach out and touch. The way Dickinson words the stanza makes images and sounds appear. She chooses words that make the poem flow elegantly. The first stanza sets the tone for the whole poem itself. Dickinson chooses a path when writing this poem that projects a clear image of how she sees…

The first stanza introduces the restless narrator Maya, and she seems to be doing a lot of soul-searching. As you read though the poem, she begins to show that she is isolated, but then she starts to think she has come up with a solution to all of her problems. This then brings you to the second stanza that is repeated three times throughout the poem; the fourth, and the fifth.This stanza explains that you cannot make it in life alone. This then starts off the beginning of the third stanza that…

from memory, hence we know that it is not an actual funeral, but a figurative one. The structure of Poem #280 consists of 115 words, 20 lines and 5 stanzas. The author uses the common Ballad Stanza, and the rhythmic meter of ABCB, which consist of alternating tetrameter and trimeter lines. The rhyme scheme runs through-out the poem until the last stanza, the last line, “And Finished knowing – then –“ breaks this rhyme, which undoubtedly is intentional, as I will discuss later. The reader will…

The poem is divided into four stanza and each one is about a bell the represents a stage of life. In the first two stanzas, the bells represent happiness and cheerfulness. The last two stanzas talk about the final stages of life and the hardships that people may face during these times. The author uses rhyme and symbolism in his writing to achieve a dark and intense mood. The author uses rhyme in his writing to achieve an intense mood. For example, in the second stanza, he writes, “How it…