“Marginalia is defined as, “marginal notes or embellishments (as in a book) or “nonessential items” (merriam-webster.com). In this poem, Billy Collins reflects his thought on the people and their important as they find certain notes in the margins of the book. Poet begins with explaining that how notes in the margin are “ferocious” and “skirmish” against the author. By these words, he means that notes in the margins are very irritating, cruel, and argumentative. These notes serve against the author as they directly challenge.
I Do Not Love Thee Figurative Language: What poetic devices were used in this poem? The poetic device is rhyme. What did these poetic devices do for the poem? It made the poem rhyme. Did these devices help create imagery or communicate the author's feelings?
From the dangled and drooped shoots to the rankness of the ripe roots, Roethke’s effective use of language enhances the power the poem has on our senses. Being a short poem filled with words that have strong connotations, “Root Cellar” takes readers on a short, vivid journey in a way that leads readers to understanding the tone and mood of the poem. Roethke’s decision to take readers to this foul location reveals the fact that if such a dismal place can sustain life, then perhaps the root cellars, and other places that conjure similar feelings, are not as rotten and desolate as they initially appear. Roethke draws from his childhood experience in “Root Cellar” to highlight life’s persistence and ability to sustain itself even in environments in a state of decay. The theme of life and death is reinforced using depictions that usually are associated with death and flashing glimpses of life.
This gives a jarring effect, causing the words to stand out to the reader. In comparison, Quickdraw has no obvious rhyme scheme. It does however contain lots of punctuation, unlike ‘Sonnet 116’ which draws attention to key words. Enjambment is common to both poems however is used in different ways. In Sonnet 116, each quatrain is an idea, contained in a single sentence.
Both “The Prelude” by William Wordsworth and “London” By William Blake” convey strong ideas and feelings about a place. Blake’s poem is most subjective about the city, contrary to the title. The reader would think that the title “London” is objective and unbiased; however Blake’s condemnation of the city is apparent from the start of the poem. On a simple level, the poem is a description of the misery Blake sees as he “wanders” around London. On a deeper level however, he is criticizing not only the condition of the city itself, but the monarchy and government who oppress it.
The Paradox of Language: An Explication of P.K. Page’s “Cook’s Mountains”* As the title of the poem suggests, P.K. Page’s “Cook’s Mountains” is a poem about possession. It is also about the transition from a pre-verbal state to a “named” or verbal state. The poem points to the paradox of naming: while naming is creative and powerful, it is also limiting.
Edgar Allen Poe demonstrates in his written works of “Lenore”, “Annabel Lee”, and “To Helen” an element that seemingly attempts to give the reader exceptional emotional sadness. Poe does this by telling the poem in a point of view where a man tells the story of the death or remembrance of a young love or woman. He also puts a sense of gloom in each of his poems. This allows for the reader to create a mental image if the setting, without him having to directly point it out. As well, the gloominess of his poetry could also be due to his longing effect of sadness that he attempts to express.
Compare ways in which Larkin and Abse write about loneliness and isolation, in your response you must include a detailed discussion of at least 2 of Larkin’s poem Throughout both anthologies of Phillip Larkin and Danny Abse the themes of loneliness and isolation are ever present; it adds other feelings such as sadness to the poem to make the reader think deeper about the meaning of the poem. These themes are present in Mr Bleaney, Talking in bed by Phillip Larkin and present in the poem Leaving Cardiff by Danny Abse, the writers have different ways in which they display the feelings, which by doing so give off other feelings which accompany loneliness. In the poem ‘Mr Bleaney’ Larkin uses another character to inform the reader of how lonely and isolated Mr. Bleaney was. “This was Mr Bleaney’s room†so we are told were they are, by reading what is said about Mr.Bleaney we start to gain a picture of what type of person he was, we gain a picture that they are in a B and B and for Mr.Bleaney to stay there for years and accumulate no belongings shows that he had nowhere else to go and was fairly lonely. However Abse in ‘Leaving Cardiff ‘has his character talk in first person “ I wait in the evening airâ€.
The Tell-Tale Heart Assignment: We notice that some details in Poe’s “The Tell-Tale Heart” make a literal reading of the story rather difficult. Advance and defend a figurative reading of the story consistent with the story’s details. Poe seems to focus on creating mood throughout his story. Many symbols in this story are interpreted in several different ways depending on the reader. These symbols throughout the story include the old mans eye, the heartbeat and the contradiction between love and hate in which I will be talking about in this paper.
“A Poison Tree” vs “The Most Vital Thing In Life” We’ll start by defining a poem, as a collection of words that express an emotion or idea, sometimes with a specific rhythm. The Perrine’s Literature structure, sound & sense define poetry, “Poetry as a kind of language that says more and says it more intensely than doe’s ordinary language.” When comes to evaluate a bad or good poetry, to Perrine a poem fails to achieve excellence if it is sentimental, excessively rhetorical and didactic in one hand; The other hand a poem is good when contributes to the achievement of the central purpose, what is it? “How fully has purpose been accomplished?” And “how important is this purpose?” In this case I judge the poem “The Most Vital Thing In Life” (TMVTL) as a bad poem and “A Poison Tree” (APT) poem as a good poem. Because first of all TMVTL is too didactic, which preach or teach, and lacks all the artistry and poetic devices of APT poem, TMVTL poem try to give us a moral and advice, how we can control our feelings and anger before we hurt the enemy. Also it contains excess word to express the meaning of the word.