Tercet

Both 'Half-past Two' and 'Hide and Seek' portray the theme of being left alone through the use of language, form, and structure of each of the two poems. In 'Half-past Two', a child is put into detention for doing “Something Very Wrong” until half-past two; he doesn't know how to tell the time. As a result, doesn't know when to leave, he stays there daydreaming until the teacher remembers him, and she sends him away. 'Hide and Seek' is also about a child who is left alone. The poem is a story…

Sylvia Plath is an American poet from the 50s and early 60s. Her work is very well known all over the world and she is loved by fans and critics alike. Plath was born in 1932. In her early life, her German immigrant father was always sick but would not seek treatment. Eventually, he was diagnosed with diabetes but it was too late. He died of complications during an amputation of his foot. As a Unitarian Christian, Plath lost faith after her father’s death and frequently questioned her religion.…

Canto XXVI begins with Dante sarcastically praising his native city Florence for having so many of its citizens populating Hell: with so many thieves, Florence has earned such a widespread fame not only on Earth but also in Hell! The poet Virgil, Dante’s guide through Hell and Purgatory, now leads him along the ridges to the Eighth Pouch, where they see thousands of little flames flickering in a deep, dark valley, and reminding Dante of fireflies on a hillside. Virgil informs Dante that each…

Born in 1914, in Swansea, Wales, Dylan Thomas was one of the most famous Welsh poets of the 20th century. Thomas was an introverted, passionate and lyrical writer who, at the age of sixteen, left school to become a journalist for a local newspaper. Although many of his works appeared in print while he was still a teenager, it was the publication of his first collection of poetry in 1934 that made him instantly famous in the literary world. “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night” is one of his…

The poem is broken down as a quatrain, quintet, and finally a tercet. The quatrain starts off by setting the scene and describing the young housewife. He is intrigued to see a pretty woman inside a house wearing a flimsy garment. This increased fascination is shown by the lengthy stanza structure. In the quintet, he…

Sylvia Plath is a famous poet from the twentieth century. Plath has been well known for using a specific handful of techniques in her poems. Such as, writing in first person point of view, writing in free verse, incorporating a complex syntax, using hyphenated words, alluding to Biblical and Greek stories, describing the importance of color, and the use of similes and metaphors. In addition, she also heavily mentioned the concept of death, resurrection, power and control, suicide, and her…

Table of Contents – Poems Written By Me Outside 1 Food 3 Vows 4 True Identity 5 Monochrome 6 It Flew 7 The Origin of Sandstorms 8 Exceptions 9 If in columns, read the left one first and down, then to the top of the right. Outside Breaking shadows, cracking dawn Mother bird composes her song Bright, white light casts its shade On firm, strong trees proudly made Relief from heat, in waters blue That rushing rivers flow into Creeping spiders find their rest Within the oaks…

The poems 'next to of course god america i' by E. E. Cummings, and 'Flag' written by John Agard both the notions of blind nationalism and patriotism within the context of war and conflict. Within 'Flag', Agard uses five tercets shaped like flags to accentuate the extended flag metaphor that repeats throughout his poem. These flag shapes are a reference to Agard's own poem, and in turn, the themes Agard portrays within the poem. On the contrary, Cummings utilises a modern and free verse…

“Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night” was written by Dylan Thomas in 1952. The poem is a message to Thomas’s father as he neared his death. Thomas’s poem is a hopeful refusal of the inevitable “good night,” which is his image of death. Dylan Thomas is a Welsh poet born in Swansea in October 27, 1914. His father, David John Thomas, was a grammar teacher in Wales. David Thomas had accumulated a large library of books and contemporary poetry that Thomas had access to. In 1925, Thomas was a…

underpaid, underappreciated. Most people are put into a role they may not necessarily desire but must maintain because in order to make a living. He becomes more acquainted with the night the further he walks away from these “city lights”. In the second tercet of this poem, Frost “drops his eyes unwilling to explain while walking pass this watchman” (ll. 5-6). The watchman is a visual representation of society trying to draw him back to his conditioned lifestyle. There's also this negative aura…