Tercet

Aritomo proposing to tattoo Yun Ling/ In comparison to Duffys "art" There are antagonistic undertones of using "needles as Aritomo 's primary apparatus to transact Yun Ling 's horimono, convenes the wider conflicts of antithesizing ideologies and motif 's presiding throughout the novel. Yun Ling 's angst and apprehension of the discomfort the needles will possibly inflict, is reassured by Aritomo 's analogy of likening the needle to that of a Paintbrush ("I will paint you"), he has therefore…

The frustration of having a word on the tip of one’s tongue, the mental marathon went through for retrieval seems to take eons. Until, alas, the heaven’s open up, it is a near-religious experience, and the word has been said! The happiness one can receive from an intangible object is difficult to comprehend, though, Kinnell’s ‘Blackberry Eating’, through sensory imagery, draws a parallel between the tangible experience of consuming blackberries, and the intangible experience of finding the…

Seamus Heaney’s poem, Follower, focuses particularly on his love and admiration for his father as he sees him as this god like figure at a young age. It illustrates the key themes that can be identified throughout the anthology such as childhood, memories, identity, personal experiences, growth and change throughout time. His poems often have a reminiscent tone, and there is a clear established link that his surroundings and upbringing within a rural area have impacted majorly on his work. In…

this event to the idea of hell in other ways as well- whilst for the most part writing in prose, in the three stanzas describing the growing threat of fire Armitage structures his work in an inconsistent terza rima, a style characterised by sets of tercets in which the end of the first and third lines rhyme: ‘...floor/...door’, ‘...fear/...near’. This technique was originally used by Dante in his poem ‘Divine Comedy’, particularly within ‘Inferno’, the first part of the poem which describes…

Inspired by the events of the 1991 Gulf War, Gillian Clarke’s Lament effectively describes the impacts of war on the surrounding environment and wildlife. Although written specifically about the Gulf War, the message of the poem can be applied to the present day - using only words, Clarke paints a vivid picture of the effect of humanity’s behaviour on nature and its inhabitants. Similarly, Boey Kim Cheng’s Report to Wordsworth illustrates the extent of the damage done to the environment. Written…

The title of my poem is, "How Healthily Their Feet Upon the Floor" by Edna St. Vincent Millay. I believe that the significance of this title is about the childhood life. The word "healthily" means to be in good health, and it is referring to the feet on the floor, which I believe are dancing or running; the activities of a child which are forms of exercise. That is seen as good health; however, by only looking at the title a reader would not know that the poet is giving an expiation of childhood…

Antonio Machado‘s poem A un olmoseco’ from his book, Campos de Castilla was written in Soria in 1912 .The poem, like others in Campos de Castilla, is a piece of landscape literature contributing to the work of Spain’s Generacion del 98 (Generation of 98). The poem, set in the Sorian landscape, tells of an old elm tree, which although rotting and dying has a few new leaves sprouting from it. Throughout the poem, Machado expresses his intimate feelings, both with regards to his personal…

This is generally a structure utilized for adoration verse when the artist is longing for affection, yet not able to discover it. As far as structure, it 's a lyric of 19 lines, highlighting 5 x 3 line verses (known as tercets) trailed by a 4 line verse (a quatrain). The villanelle likewise just permits 2 rhyming sounds. The first and third lines of the main verse rhyme, and these lines then frame an abstain or melody which is rehashed on the other hand as the third line…

in the octave. This last pair is an off-rhyme, which makes the speaker’s tone seem lost and confused. Throughout the sonnet, the speaker is deep in his thoughts and memories, but has trouble getting some of them across. For example, in the first tercet, he refers to an “undescribable feud” going on in his…

Since my high school Creative Writing class will be an elective class that will consist of students in tenth through twelfth grade, I will need to find ways to bring student fun into the learning as much as possible. I have found that students love to eat and socialize, so I will include food, props, and games whenever possible. Difficulty will occur as the norm for class size at my school is thirty-two to thirty-six students, and not all students want to be in the classes where they are…