Villanelle

night is stubborn and give a person a feeling of control over death and the tone in The Unknown Citizen is matter of fact, giving the sense that people have no control over death. Do not go gentle into that good night is written in the format of a villanelle with a very specific structure giving the reader a sense of safety and The Unknown Citizen is written in free verse giving the reader a feeling of free falling. The messages of these two poems are very different. Do not go gentle into that…

During the concert, Mr.Jolley explained the reason that why he picked some of the pieces. His choices gave the music he played a personal feel, so it felt like it came from his own experiences. When Mr.Jolley played the first piece, which was a Villanelle with the pianist, it was very intertwined, and the match between the piano and the french horn were very harmonious.…

Do not go gentle into that good night is a very specific type of poem called a villanelle. This poetic form is designed to give the reader the impression of simplicity or lyrics, but it is a complex pattern. A villanelle is 19 lines long and consists of five stanzas of three lines each then concludes with a four line stanza. This specific type of poem uses only two exact rhymes, and contains a two…

Poetry is the key to many different emotions. A poem can cause many different feelings and memories, both good and bad, to bubble to the surface of our minds. Readers use poems to find a simple piece of artwork they can relate to, however are usually unprepared if it hits too close to home. Elizabeth Bishop, poet and winner of the Pulitzer Prize, had a difficult early life when growing up in Worcester, Massachusetts. Her father passed away when she was at a young age, and her mother admitted to…

Many things live in your mouth. Bacteria live in it. You ask, “What kinds of bacteria? Why can’t we sense it? Is it good or bad?” Be brave, take a reading adventure and find out answers to all these questions, and more. How much bacteria exactly? A lot of bacteria live in your mouth, colonies, and colonies. About 6 billion live in your mouth. That’s interesting because about 7.3 billion people live on earth. All those bacteria that live in your mouth actually live in diverse communities,…

I do not believe that strict structure lends itself well to creativity and passionate expression. The idea of having to squash my words into villanelle, or sonnet, or ode makes me shudder. Caged creativity, to be sufficiently dramatic, is the bane of my existence. Perhaps, to teach myself a lesson, I should have chosen a stricter form for my poem. But this is not a poem I wrote for this assignment, this is a poem I wrote for a friend. The feelings that I attempt to express are real. My poem is…

Compare and Contrast the presentation of death in Dylan Thomas’ poem and Christina Rossetti’s Death is a common theme for poets, we see this in Dylan Thomas’ poem ‘Do not go gentle into that good night’ and Christina Rossetti’s poem ‘Remember’. Neither of the poems use the word death directly, they use metaphors such as ‘silent land’ in Rossetti’s, and ‘good night’ in Thomas’. Both poems are littered with euphemistic language to elevate the tone, this portrays the poets own reluctance to talk…

Donald Justice was born on August 12, 1925 in Miami, Florida. He was an American poet and teacher of writing. He grew up in Miami and studied there. He was married to Jean Ross and they had one son. His enthusiasm for music was number one when he was a child. He studied piano and music as a student at the University of Miami even though he received a graduated degree in English literation. Justice presents a point of view on his poetry writing that seems a key to understanding this important…

Process Memo I came up with the idea for “beautiful and serene” after thinking about the memories I’ve made with my Dad. This is because I realized that whenever I write a piece about him, it seems almost intricate, yet effortless. Moreover, I chose that specific memory because it was one filled with action and it gave the reader a brief view into my family dynamic. The way my Dad reacted to my antics are indicative of his character. Also, this poem changed the least from draft to draft because…

audience. The message that flows out of this poet is what is going through his mind. With this, he discusses how life is, and how to live it too. Even though this literature is a poem, it is actually sounding like a song type of meter known as a villanelle. Notably, Theodore Roethke uses the first stanza of the poem twice. The metaphor he is trying to imply in, “I wake to sleep” is that it means life and death, which is the beginning to end of a human soul. The fate he is mentioning is how…