Poem Review: Week 4 Assignment Jenni Janssen ENG 125: Introduction to Literature Alex Vuilleumier January 16, 2012 Poem Review: Week Four Assignment The most enticing poems use rhythm, rhyme, symbolism, which help many readers enjoy them. These three literary elements of a poem make it easier to personalize and help the reader to visualize the picture that is being “painted”. A poem written in first person narration, which also contained persona, rhythm, rhyme and symbolism, is “My Papa’s Waltz”. This poem was written by Theodore Roethke in 1942. “My Papa’s Waltz” was composed about a young boy and his father and written in a very rhythmic form.
These two distinct ideas are simple yet effective with. The first theme is an expansive theme with sustained notes on the same notes for “hear my prayer” which then goes up a minor third on ‘O’ and then back to the original note for a semibreve on ‘Lord’. The second theme is based on the lyrics “And let my crying come unto thee”. This then proves to be modal with word painting on the word ‘crying’. There is an ascending motive going up a tone then back down a semitone.
The first people I’m going to point my opinion on are friar john and Lawrence. I think at in a way they are reasonable for the death because friar john was meant to give the letter to Romeo about Juliet drinking the poison. But
Sentence three is written over three lines, with the first two of those lines demarcated by a comma. Thereafter, run-on lines are progressively used towards the end of the poem. This creates an increasingly meandering cadence, and particularly contrasts to the parallel phrasing of the opening three lines: “The women’s bodies … / The men … / The seawater …” (lines 1-3). In contrast, Frost uses a concise form of four iambic trimeter quatrains. The occasional, but very deliberate, use of two unstressed syllables within some lines quicken the pace, emphasizing the message to the reader.
Which of the following is an ingredient of relevance? a. Verifiability. b. Representational faithfulness. c. Neutrality. d. Timeliness.
Although Robert Frost appeals to the common man, he gives a deeper meaning in most of his poems. In the poem there are many sound devices such as a rhyme scheme, consonance, and alliteration. In line one, Frost says “world will.” The repeating of the W sound gives alliteration. He also gives another example at the end of line four when he ends it with “favor fire.” In line six, Frost shows consonance by saying, “think I know enough” with the repeating sound of the consonant N. Along with his poetic devices, he also has a rhyme scheme which appeals to the reader and makes it easy to read and connect to the narrator. Frost’s poem centralizes around the metaphors of fire and ice.
The sound devices used in this poem are assonance, alliteration and rhyme. This poem ‘Magpies’ uses rhyme with the ABAB structure in the first two stanzas, but in the third the structure is ABABCC. Rhyme in this poem carries the reader along and helps them to connect with the rhythm. Another example of a sound device used in this poem is assonance. This is used in stanza three, line three: ‘of grace and praise – nor man nor bird’/ stanza four, line five: ‘For each is born with such a throat’/ stanza two, line four: ‘what clashing beaks, what greedy eyes!’ This has an effect that slows down the speed of the poem giving an emphasis on certain words.
That stimulates another sense, hearing, and makes it aesthetically pleasing to listen to since it is a song. As a song of innocence, the poem has a sense of rhythm and fluidity is created making it sound more like a song or hymn. The following lines have a rhyme scheme of ABAB with the first and third line having eight syllables in them and the second and fourth line having six syllables in them: Then every man of every clime, That prays in his distress
The Man He Killed, by Thomas Hardy (1905) Thomas Hardy's poem 'The Man He Killed' was written in 1905 and focuses on the pointlessness of war, where a man has killed another man just because they were fighting on opposing sides in a war. The title in written in third person, however, the poem is written in first person, already, as we can see, this is a sign that he is distancing himself. Written in the first person from one of the soldiers, the first stanza states the idea that the two men, who fought against each other in combat, could have enjoyed a few drinks together, if they had been in other circumstances. The words: 'right many a nipperkin', means enjoying a drink, this explains to me that they could have been acquaintances in different situations. In the second stanza, it becomes obvious that they had actually met as soldiers in a battle, and being face to face with each other, one was going to die.
“Bright Star, Would I Were Stedfast as Thou Art” is a poem that many poets would agree it was a great poem. The poem has the 5 out of the 20 literary devices that were found within the content. While reading this poem, I felt tremendous amounts of amazement in the context of how moving the poem is.The poem consists of the five total literary devices that follow: First, the words “eternal lids,” in the 3rd line of the poem, are an Oxymoron, a single phrase of opposite term, exp. whoosh, clang, babble. I feel, when it says, “eternal lids,” it means to be able to keep the eyes open throughout the night.