English Poetry Essay Choose a poem which appealed to you because it was striking – show which techniques the poet has used to capture your interest and engage your feelings “To His Coy Mistress” is a piece of metaphysical poetry written by Andrew Marvell. This poem, like most metaphysical poetry, makes use of original images and has a very profound meaning behind it. “To His Coy Mistress” is particularly striking because of the deeper themes that it deals with, such as mortality and the idea of “carpe diem”, as well as the unique imagery used throughout and the interesting structure and progression of the poem. The use of the image “vegetable love” is very effective in capturing the reader’s interest. “Vegetable” is not usually the
Reaching For Dreams This essay describes the inspiring poem “I, Icarus” by Alden Nowlan, which requires very close reading. Throughout the poem, it seems there is one dominant idea; reaching for dreams. Many stanzas and lines within this poem work together to depict this theme. Not only do the lines in the poem depict the theme, but different poetic devices correlate to the theme as well (freedom and reaching for dreams). Distinct phrases like “willed myself to fly” illustrate the person’s goal of escaping his present condition and reaching for higher goals.
Peeling back the layers of the poem, I was fascinated by the connotative purposes of the poet. As we all know, successful achievement of purposes can’t go without the proper use of poetic techniques. This point is proved in the poem ‘Back to Melbourne’. The use of metaphor makes a great opening of the poem, ‘my week has been/ a blast into the past’. It enables us to feel the poet’s panic of losing self-identity and the strong desire of finding somewhere he belongs.
Once you have surveyed some of the poetry available online, your task is to choose what you consider to be “the best poem in the world.” As you read, think about the poetic elements we have examined throughout this unit. The poem you choose should have clear examples of as many of these devices as you can find, but do not expect that you will be able to find a poem with all of them! You will be required to write an analysis (two to three pages in length) of the poem in which you discuss the poetic devices found in the piece and demonstrate how these devices work together to create an overall effect. Submit this analysis to your teacher. Remember: it is not a poetic treasure hunt in which you simply say, “Here’s a simile!
Use the poems we read in class as your models to follow when you write your own. Remember, this is a "write-like" poem, so you should try to write like the authors of the poems below. Your poem should pose a question/situation/problem, a turning point, and a resolution - just like the sonnets did that we read in class. Sonnet 18 Shakespeare Shall I compare thee to a summer's day? Thou art more lovely and more temperate: Rough winds do shake the darling buds of May, And summer's lease hath all too short a date: Sometime too hot the eye of heaven shines, And often is his gold complexion dimm'd; And every fair from fair sometime
While other gothic tale’s we’ve read in class have been spooky, ironic, or at least entertaining, I feel that this story is literally sickeningly long. Perhaps that is why it was so
Response to “Counting the Mad” When reading the contemporary american poetry anthology I found myself becoming almost lost in one specific poet. Donald Justice, or more specifically, one of his poems,“Counting the Mad” was a poem that was both the most enjoyable work for me to read and at the same time, the most difficult for me to understand, at first. For myself this poem could be compared to a type of riddle due to its ever apparent ambiguity. At the same time, I believe that this poem takes a satirical perspective of mankind. Justice utilizes the sound similar to that of a nursery rhyme to engage his readers.
In answering that latter question, we must come to a full understanding of “Begotten”. In obtaining that understanding we must first acknowledge that this poem, by Andrew Hudgins, is a reflection of the author’s own childhood fears. He lets the reader warmly into the confines of a childhood that was less than his version of idyllic. And he does so by using creative language and incorporating all of the possible meanings of the word “Begotten”.
I feel by using these sources people feel more trusting and secure to side with something that seems more familiar too them. The way that McCooey has written the first half of the article and the quotes that have been placed throughout it I believe the reader would feel quite convinced and one sided. This is until further in the article where McCooey states the other side of the argument. He writes such things, as ‘through such a repetitive revival and putative ‘breaking of the rules’ poetry exists in the public culture. (McCooey 2005, pg.
In Byzantium, death becomes something that can be thought about realistically (which is a big improvement over our speaker’s old home). In fact, once he starts reflecting about death, he actually begins to figure out ways to commemorate life. According to the speaker, the best way to commemorate life is art. (You had to know that one was coming. After all, this is a poem.)