Poetry and drama have a few key features that emphasize their per formative nature. One is the use of rhyme, rhythm, meter, alliteration, and other types of sound symbolism. For example, in Gwendolyn Brooks' "We real cool", the poet uses a strong rhyme scheme, a consistent meter, and an almost sing-song tone to demonstrate the lack of education of the narrator and his or her youthfulness. It also emphasizes the last line "We die soon.". Another is in "unity of action".
By separating lines and starting new stanzas during mid-flow, she is able to portray a hesitance in the person’s voice. By writing in sonnet form, Shakespeare was also able to use regular external rhyme. This makes the poem feel as one and allows ideas to be linked throughout the poem. The use of para-rhyme can also be seen in Sonnet 116; ‘Love…Remove’. This gives a jarring effect, causing the words to stand out to the reader.
Some allusions, however, were harmful to the plot or to the reader, most often by confusing the reader if they did not know the context of the original quotation. These allusions can be better understood if they are examined more closely. The literary allusions in Ray Bradbury’s Fahrenheit 451 essentially can be broken down into two categories: those that helped or those that hurt the reader’s understanding of the novel. There were a number of literary allusions in Fahrenheit 451 that helped the reader’s understanding of the novel. Some of the literary allusions that helped the reader’s understanding of the novel added depth to the characters, provided relatable experiences to the reader, and referenced familiar stories.
How does Browning tell the story in Porphyria’s Lover? Browning uses a dramatic monologue in order to tell the story in Porphyria’s lover. Browning’s dramatic monologues have to fit a certain criteria, these include; sub text, the narrator doesn’t say specifically what he/she’s done so the audience has to think to find out what’s happened; the audience is silent, the audience is there to listen and not to comment; the third is that the narrator is defensive or a case maker. The structure of Porphyria’s lover is one long stanza; this is shown through the time and sequence, setting, characterisation, point of view and ideology. The structure shows time and sequence as it’s quite a medium length poem, because of this it shows just how long the story takes place in.
Browning also uses the form of the poem to create an captivating narrative. The poem is a dramatic monologue, which is written as a last speech before the death of the patriot. The dramatic monologue is a first person narrative so gives you the point of view of the narrator and Browning. As Browning uses a first person narrative, he can leave you with ambiguities and leave the reader asking question. For example, ‘Nought man could do, have I left undone:’ this leaves the reader asking what has he done?
Shakespeare’s “Romeo and Juliet” is a story of two lovers that ends in tragedy. It is well known for being a romantic piece with an inherited conflict and a macabre ending. Many uses of figurative language enhance the experience of reading the play. Whether it is providing a new perception of the story, creating a scene in the reader’s head, or making the entire play sound in the poetic tone, the devices used by Shakespeare heighten the senses while reading the story. With the use of light and dark images and the themes of love and death, Shakespeare paints a vivid picture in the reader’s head that helps them to better understand it.
Title: What are the contrasts in the use of the Byronic Hero in both A Hero of Our Time and Sorrows of Young Werther. In the both the studied works, there are some stark resemblances in themes as well as literary usage of this entity called the Byronic hero. [1]The Byronic hero typically exhibits signs of arrogance, cynicism, disrespect, social dominance, bipolarity, contradictory, intelligence, sophisticated or educated and because of all this, it is also characteristic of the Byronic character to also be treated as an outsider or a social outcast. I would also like to suggest a new concept called the Byronic maiden or heroine. The Byronic heroine is one that acts as an amplification of the Byronic Heroes stature.
Throughout the novel Romeo and Juliet, Shakespeare uses many diverse techniques through the two main characters Romeo and Juliet to portray the development of their personalities. This can primarily be seen in Juliet’s two soliloquies; one full of love, passion, and innocence while the other shows Juliet as a more mature, decisive but also anguished individual. This is achieved through the use of diction, imagery, pace, and tone. These techniques also affect the theme of tragedy in the play as it gives the reader a sense of mood changes from seeing Juliet as a light-hearted and naïve girl to a bitter and despairing young adult. In both soliloquies, the structures are somewhat similar.
In his poem “Jabberwocky”, Lewis Carroll uses many poetic devices that weave together an epic battle with the Jabberwock. Carroll uses nonsense words that seem to have no meaning on the first reading, to make sense of these nonsense words this poem needs to be read out loud. This use of onomatopoeia is used to evoke not only a feeling of being somewhere odd and strange but also what that place might sound like. The words have then been chosen not so much for their meaning but for the sounds they make when the poem is read. One of the best examples of these sounds is during the fight between the hero and the Jabberwock “The vorpal blade went snicker-snack!” (18).
In the poem “Annabel Lee” by Edgar Allan Poe, the poem’s speaker explores the themes of eternal love and death. It has been considered by many as a creepy and obsessive poem that explores the subject of love and desire. This poem is one of the most popular love poems in the English language because it portrays the kind of love that anyone would want to live at least once in their life. This is a kind of love that will never die and will stand the test of time even after death. This is where some people have decided to tie the “creepiness” term but as we explore the whole poem we will get a better understanding of Poe’s undying love for Annabel Lee.