Dramatic Poetry is like an action in itself, concerns a person or someone with motivation. Most time the character is battling internal and external forces and has a third party narrator. Dramatic is broken up in 4 categories: narrative, lyric, monologue, soliloquy. 3. The three types of Prose are Factual Prose, Personal Essays, and Oral Histories.
Carol Ann Duffy; Adultery and Cuba Poetry as Form of Inclusive Politics Apart from C.A. Duffy's ability to portray poetry as the ultimate form of feelings, her greatest contribution lies in its ability to make something happen. This can be exemplified on not only her being appointed a Poet Laureate, but also her ability to combine poetry with different disciplines, notably cultural and social studies, biology, political sciences and others. One of the greatest, if not the greatest, poets alive, shows that poetry is not exclusive and bourgeois practice, but rather something that enables different social, cultural, gender, age and other categories to participate in its creation and interpretation. Doing so, Duffy engages in a difficult task of presenting different marginalized groups and subjects, making them visible and their voice heard, as well as employing technique of heteroglossia or raznorećie which enables the previously stated and makes subject’s voice different under the conditions listed.
Consequently, the blunt truth is not always the best thing and may devastate the listener. If you tell someone the blunt truth right away, they may not have time or the experience to understand it completely and may just block it out altogether. Truth is a powerful source that can negatively impact someone when perceived directly. Through Dickinson’s use of a literal writing style, she manages to attract the reader into the poem while emphasizing her theme. Her use of capitalization, punctuation, alliteration, and oxymoron all serve a purpose to support the meaning of the poem.
Thou art more lovely and more temperate” One can assume that by comparing a woman to a summer’s day, he is saying that the woman is more beautiful than a summer’s day. Another example of symbolism in poetry is in one of my favorite poems, “Love is like a flower” by LLoydene F. Hill. In this poem, Hill says that a flower is a more fitting symbol for love, than the heart, by saying you have to care for it and if you don’t, it can die just like a flower. Symbolism is also greatly used in music. My favorite example, Stairway to Heaven by Led Zeppelin.
And Audre Lorde sure seems to be agreeing with this. For her, poetry is as much of a necessity for survival as is light. She says “This is poetry as illumination, for it is through poetry that we give name to those ideas which are, until the poem,
One has been orally transmitted through the ages picking up and losing stanzas and even whole verses, while the other follows a rigid blueprint. In “Sonnet 130” Shakespeare avoids the use of similes and figurative language in order to show that woman’s beauty is completely human, but it is still beautiful. As the poem is read or heard the Imagery invoked is of a rising sun, a beautiful coral reef, an early snowfall, and a woman’s whose beauty does not outshine these things, but is enhanced by their presence. The description of damasked roses perfumes brings to mind wonderful smells, and the idea of music having a more pleasing sound than a single voice is description so apt that it is all that comes to mind. A goddess walks by as the next line is read and while she is more beautiful than anything visualized up to now she is too perfect to truly desire.
Wheatley used a variety of literary devices in “To His Excellency General Washington”. I found that these literary devices made Wheatley’s poems more interesting to read compared to the Puritan style of writing in Bradstreet’s poems. Wheatley used alliteration in the seventh line of the poem, “See the bright beams of heaven’s revolving light” (411). This simple device helps the reader better visualize what Wheatley was trying to portray. In another line, she alliterated, “Thy every action let the goddess guide” (411).
The best way this was done was by her describing the smallest intimate details, like a flower or a blade of grass for example. Perhaps her documented sense of agoraphobia cleared her psyche for what she was able to produce (or vice versa), but as examined in one of her works like Poem #242, it might have been necessary for her well-being to detach herself from ‘normal’ constraints. When the poem starts out as “When we stand on top of Things – and like Trees, look down –“, one can say that there is a desire for perspective, in an overpowering and commanding sense. Especially in the mention of Trees, the person may have grown of old age and as such grown in wisdom. Yet by including the phrase ‘look down’, it might be in an apathetic connotation.
Emily Dickinson Context Report Emily Dickinson, known as one of America’s greatest poets, is also regarded for her unusual life of self imposed social privacy. Living a life of simplicity and seclusion, she yet wrote poetry of great power; questioning the nature of immortality and death. Her different lifestyle created an atmosphere; often romanticised, and frequently a source of interest and assumption. Ultimately Emily Dickinson is remembered for her unique poetry written with short, compact phrases. She expressed broad ideas using paradox and uncertainty which shaped her poetry as an undeniable capacity to move and provoke.
“Gladder to catch thee, than thou him. If thou, to be so seen, beest loath,” this shows that it is obvious that the men obtain a greater pleasure then the woman, as they have won the affection of the woman. This is another typical feature of metaphysical poetry as it shows that love is not always what it seems before showering her with more compliments later on in the poem. The tone of the poet changes dramatically in the fourth stanza as he talks of how the pursuit of this woman