Experiencing Poetry Graphic Organizer Characteristic Selected Poem Title: Initial Response: What does this poem seem to be about? This poem is about a person who says they do not love thee, but they really do. I Do Not Love Thee Words: Were the words in this poem difficult or easy to understand? The words in this poem whe easy to understand. Was there any word or phrase that was powerful to you?
Kassandra Barrett ENC1102 Composition II Week 2 Discussion- Poetry Billy Collins’, “Taking off Emily Dickinson’s clothes” Billy Collins’, “Taking off Emily Dickinson’s clothes” is a poem that is a reference to the exposure of Emily Dickinson’s herself. Collins as the narrator’s undressing symbolized the findings of the real Emily Dickinson, the clothing was not just a metaphor for Dickinson’s exposure through poetry. In fact the clothing was a metaphor for the poetry itself, each layer removed was representing a deeper level of meaning behind her poetry. Eventually leading to the vulnerable naked feelings of Dickenson herself. Collins actually uses words in a way that makes the whole scene light-hearted, and not embarrassing.
Sexton saw writing as a way to escape. She was a confessional poet. “‘Confessional’ is sometimes used to describe the representation of extreme, personal, possibly painful experiences, for therapeutic or cathartic effect” (Matterson 49). Sexton was often shunned because of the graphic material in her poems like adultery, suicide, and masturbation. “Sexton once wrote that poetry ‘should be a shock to the senses.
Some of the poems in the final third of Edmund SpenserAmoretti sonnet sequence display this feature. Some poems by the same author are paired, allowing one character to make a statement in one poem and then allowing another character to reply in an accompanying work. For example, in the poem "Wrapt in my careless cloak," by Henry Howard, Earl of Surrey, a dsigruntled man complains about the behavior of women, while in an accompanying poem titled "Girt in my guiltless gown," a woman replies to the man's charges. Of course, another way in which lyric poems can be performative is that they almost demand to be read aloud if one hopes to appreciate all their subtleties of sound and sense. This is less true of novels, and reading an entire novel out loud is therefore not something that most people do (at least not any
Furthermore, from the poem, we were asked what happens to dream’s deferred and by the end of the play we were able to answer that. Although the poem poses many negative factors about dreams being deferred, A Raisin in the Sun opposes that and shows us that with hard work and courage deferred dreams can still come true. The Poem “A Dream Deferred” is important in many different aspects of the play. While reading the poem most readers learn this is what the author based her story on, Dreams. First off, the poem is important because the first sentence asks “What happens to a dream deferred?” which is the main question in the entire story that Hansberry is trying to answer by the end of her story.
In order to emphasise Larkin’s outlooks onto time and it’s passing, one can highlight the similarities and differences between Larkin and Abse’s poetry. In ‘Love Songs In Age’, Larkin illustrates the view that time and it’s passing merely leads to many disappointments. The enjambment he uses amongst all three stanzas, “and stood/relearning” in the first and second and “more/the glare” between the second and third; this implies the suggestion that love cannot stop the passing of time and the instances that happen within it, for example the death of the woman’s husband. During the first stanza, Larkin uses imagery to create a memoir of the music sheets that the woman has found, “one marked in circles”, “and coloured”, suggesting that the joy of life, love and happiness isn’t appreciated until age shows what one has missed during their youth. We can then imply from this suggestion that Larkin feels time is only appreciated during the older years of one’s life.
Emily Dickinson By anonymous English 3 Ms. Trupi 3 June 2013 Thesis: Emily Dickinson was a master at the craft of writing poetry as shown in her works “Because I could not stop for death”, “There’s a certain slant of light”, and “The soul selects her own society” where she portrayed themes such as human nature, independence (feminine), the meaning of life and death and optimism in a grim world. I. Introduction A. Early Life 1. Amherst College 2.
By interspersing ballad poems throughout the text yet leaving them unaddressed by the characters, Munro creates silences between the reader and the world in her story. Since the poems give clues to Heather Bell’s disappearance, the silence created forces the reader to delve into what is not written in order to makes sense of the story. The intertextuality is also jarring to the reader as the poems interwoven throughout use a whimsical rhyme scheme and light-hearted tone, all while dealing with an ominous and dark subject. This ironic juxtaposition causes the verse to be accentuated, emphasizing the deconstruction of a linear narrative. This demonstrates Munro’s ability to use interspersed styles to comment upon content through form.
The last stanza is the sharpest where while she’s still in her thoughts, she is talking directly to the reader and criticizing them. Saying, oh yeah, you think you got my point, you think you are listening to me, you’re not, you are still stuck in the same mentality, even if this did open your eyes a bit. (You’ll nod you’re head and say, “This is an amazing poem! And
Stealing the “bust of Shakespeare” also seems ironic to the reader, the thief takes an image of one of the greatest creative talent the world has ever seen, but without any sense of what it stands for. The final line, which recalls the poem's conversational opening, is as if the speaker has sensed not just that the person he is speaking to is disturbed by his confession but also that the reader of the poem doesn't “understand” him. This poem is colloquial but the speaking voice here is very distinct. Sometimes the speaker uses striking images (“a mucky ghost”) and some unlikely vocabulary (“he looked magnificent”) but he also uses clichés (“Life's tough”). Single words are written as sentences