Trochee

and his general style, the poems in Songs of innocence and experience all contain a regular meter and rhythm. In “The Tyger” Blake chose to use a regular trochaic tetrameter modified by catalexis as the guiding thread of the poem. The use of the trochee mirrors the pounding sounding of a blacksmith hard at work. This fact is emphasised by the alliterations on “t” (l.1 and l.21) and “f” (l.4 and l.24) which echo various tools in a forge as well as the repeated use of words with a “wh” sound (l.5,…

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…

the ambiguity of the person and the time of their death. Even though the death is uncertain, she will love him even more intensely in the afterlife. Barrett Browning asks the question “How do[es] [she] love thee” (1) starts the sonnet of with a trochee which initiates the answer to her own question and establishes her response. She illustrates her devotion in the quotation “I love thee to the level of everyday’s /Most quiet need, by sun and candle-light. /I love thee freely, as men strive for…

The use of rhythm through iambic pentameter plays an important part in understanding Marc Antony’s funeral oration in Julius Caesar. Much of the speech is representative of Antony’s thought process and the rhythmic variations allow the audience to connect with his train of thought. Determining the meaning of these rhythmic variations can be done by examining the iambic pentameter. For instance in Speaking Shakespeare, Patsy Rodenburg discusses the importance of counting syllables in each line to…

Using Carpe Diem to Manipulate Women Andrew Marvell’s “To His Coy Mistress,” Robert Herrick’s “To the Virgins, to Make Much of Time,” and Richard Wilbur’s “A Late Aubade” all use the idea of seizing the day to seduce women. The first two poems address women who are resisting having sex and the poets are pressuring them to remember that time and their youth is fleeting and they’ll die virgin old maids if they don’t make love and get married while they are still young and attractive. Wilbur’s…

The Pure Simplicity of Deep Meaning This poem begins with a question addressing a lamb by a child asking about its creator in “The Lamb”. The poem starts off with the question “little lamb, who made thee?” William Blake does not hesitate to bring the title into place. The lamb represents purity and innocence; children are innocent as well which makes the lamb and the narrator have a connection. Later we learn that the lamb and the narrator have the same creator. This goes along the same context…

‘It seems that poems about the break-up of love are much more common than those which extol its joys, poems that give a fairly bleak picture of love and reflect on relationships that for one reason or another are at an end’ [Croft, 2000:71]. The aim of this essay is to compare and contrast Michael Drayton’s ‘The Parting’ (c. 1593), Lord Byron’s ‘When We Two Parted’ (1815) and Letitia Elizabeth Landon’s ‘Love’s Last Lesson’ (c.1838) paying close attention to the prevalent themes of the loss of a…

Comparative Essay “Telephone Conversation” by Wole Soyinka was written in 1962, set in London. Soyinka is a Nigerian playwright who was the first African that won the noble for literature in 1986. Few years later, “Still I Rise” by Maya Angelou was written in 1978 set in the American Slums of Harlem. Angelou is an educator, and civil rights activist. Together both poems explore the themes of prejudice and racial discrimination. “Telephone Conversation” explores the idea of racial prejudice…