Tercet

Throughout Sylvia Plath’s poem “Daddy,” The tone is found to be childishly innocent, kind of close to a lullaby, and extremely deranged and menacing. As it progresses the tone ranges from like a childlike adoration, where she puts the parent whose not there on a pedestal to a blunt like a disrespectful, distant and fearful adult. Even though Plath excels in tones, Plath keeps a deep and heavy dark style throughout the poem with her use of diction. “Daddy” is a confessional poem, put in a harsh,…

"Since feeling is first" and "(in just-)" "Since feeling is first" and "(in just-) are both written by the same author, E.E.Cummings, and both have great meaning behind them just different topics. For instance, "Since feeling is first", in this poem the author places an idea that is located in each stanza which brings out the true meaning of the poem. both poems have great significance behind them, and also life experiences within them, they were made perfect in the structural form so that…

“The Bells”, written by Edgar Allan Poe, shows the overall theme the life stages of a person, and it also shows the moods of happiness and despair. However, each of the four sections of the poem has their own theme. The first section of the poem has the theme childhood is a happy time, as shown by the poem saying, “Silver bells-- What a world of merriment their melody foretells (2-3)!” This is relevant because these silver bells represent childhood. Throughout the poem, different bells are used…

The first thing I changed was the last two lines of the first stanza. I switched the statement that it was a Memorial Day Parade with the weather description since I felt that the heat was a bigger theme in the poem, but it was still important to state it was a parade so the reader could understand the context. The second stanza’s first few lines were changed because I thought the new wording incorporated the sound of the parade with the feel of being there. I thought including this detail…

A villanelle form is a nineteen-line poetic form consisting of five three groups followed by a quatrain. There are two refrains and two repeating rhymes, with the first and third line of the first group repeated alternately until the last stanza. The last stanza usually includes both repeated lines. The poem “One Art” by Elizabeth Bishops uses a villanelle form that emphasis on one’s losses and how you cope with it. The form of the poem is related to the subject matter because it brings…

The Great Interpretation of the Reaper The poem “The Solitary Reaper” by William Wordsworth, has been a challenging work of art to interpret. It is both a powerful and a beautiful poem. This poem could actually be compared to the way the traveler tries to figure out what the woman is singing. Just like how I didn’t understand this poem at first it demonstrates how any form of art, even when it is misunderstood, is powerful and beautiful. The first stanza in the poem is written simply by the poet…

In some of her early poetry, Gwendolyn Brooks wrote about the south side of Chicago-- the very place where she called her childhood home. Her first publication, A Street in Bronzeville was deeply committed to capturing the life of African Americans in their homes and communities. The famous poem “Kitchenette Building” in the book A Street in Bronzeville gained heavy recognition because of the use of powerful imagery and description of what it was like to be an African American living in the…

In the poem, “Theme for English B”, by Langston Hughes, Hughes speaks about how Harlem has brought all cultures together and how the city gives people a voice when they feel like they don’t have one. Hughes does this by using visual imagery and painting a picture of the unity that Harlem makes when bringing cultures together. He also uses structure to emphasize how stepping into Harlem allows for people to have voice and, finally Hughes uses metaphors to compare Harlem to the famous melting pot…

Triggered by the hope-filled thrill of a new lover, the structure of the poem correspondingly reflects the galvanized transformation of the 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…

He introduces the poem with the buzz saw rattling, the breeze drawing across, and the sun setting and describing the five mountain ranges one behind another. The tone used here is calm, but it immediately changes when the tragic accident occurs to a depressing and sorrowful tone. The poet uses examples of figurative language like personifying the saw, "the saw leaped ... leaped out at the boy's hand" and onomatopoeia, 'snarled and rattled'. The poems use a range of literary devices to convey…