Stanza

rhyme scheme in different times to stress certain moments of the poem. In stanza 3, the author fractures the rhyme scheme in line 3 emphasize how the white powder further covered the white "Fleece.” Starting with the primary stanza, Dickerson depicts the subject of the scene - a flour-like substance being sifted from “Leaden Sieves", such as a baker sifting flour for making bread. Another important factor of the first stanza is the snow clouds, which sprinkles roads and turns the scenery into…

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…

that is just ones interpretation of the first stanza. The second stanza is rather straight forward in the eyes of the writer. According to Mr. Arrindell, “Mellay” is pure and utter nonsense; it holds no value it is also a bother. This intense rejection of “Mellay” can make you wonder if it is something that lurked in his household that he had to use poetry as a medium to ease the constant foolishness he experienced on a daily basis. The third stanza of his work is very metaphorical he states the…

each six line stanza and one line stanza. Furthermore, she writes in first person point of view and incorporates caesura, metaphors, and similes throughout the poem filled with complex syntax. In addition, like some of her other poems, she writes in free verse. In this poem, Plath summarizes a person watching a man care for a bee farm, where the bees are pollinating flowers. As usual, she describes colors and develops their significance throughout the poem. In the first stanza, Plath…

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…

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…

Hollander split the 21-line poem into three stanzas. The first stanza has six lines, and it speaks about an old path that had its trees cut down and its trail overrun by brush. This idea of an old trail that has been cut down and abandoned is used as foreshadowing for the second stanza. The second stanza in the largest stanza, which consists of 11 lines. This stanza talks about the “Fields where we once made love” (line 10), and then the separation of the…

Gentle into that Good Night” explores the inevitable mortality that plagues mankind. Throughout the villanelle structure, the speaker leads the reader through his pleas of fighting against “that good night,” while the repeated refrains in alternating stanzas help to reinforce the ideas of not going “gentle” and “raging against” the dying light, instituting the idea that death is not something to succumb to. Not only does the poem explore how to face the inevitable, but Thomas also explores how a…

I love to go to beaches and relax, swim, and have fun. All of the different things that I brought up in this poem are a part of who I am. Because of the many versatile factors brought up in the poem, like “pictures and scrapbooks”, I grouped my stanzas as different topics, such as memories and my past. To further this,…

symbolic, figurative language like personification, vivid imagery, and metaphors portray a rather calm and different outlook on death far from ordinary. One of the most evident figures of speech that Dickinson employes in her poem is in the first stanza. In lines 1 and 2, Dickinson used personification to characterize Death itself as a male suitor. The manipulation of words also reveals the narrator's overall feelings towards the idea of dying. By conveying Death as polite and courteous, the…