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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.
Hughes’ poem uses more personification for example; “I heard the singing of the Mississippi…” (line 10) the Mississippi cannot sing obviously, therefore this is personification. He also speaks of the Mississippi’s “muddy/ bosom” (Hughes, lines 11-12) which is also a human like quality. Angelou’s poem uses more words with their connotative meaning while Hughes uses more denotative. Angelou’s poem states “you may shoot me with you words” (line 26); where shoot is used in a connotative way, meaning you can try to hurt her with your words. Hughes uses more literal meanings for his work, every word can be used as its literal meaning and the poem makes sense.
Frame Analysis “Oh, think not I am faithful to a vow” is a poem about author Edna St. Vincent Millay’s conflicts with faithfulness and love and how she felt love was only temporary and being faithful and true in a relationship would keep her from being true to herself. It is a Shakespearean sonnet. As such, it is organized into iambic pentameter and uses a traditional rhyme scheme. It also includes a traditional turn at line 12. [10 points] The ideas and images presented in the poem follow its formal organization.
Charlie Stack Mrs. Polomeni English II 27 October 2011 “Fire & Ice” The poem “Fire and Ice” written by Robert Frost was first published in the 1920s. Robert Frost is considered the bard of New England. He wrote in great depth that appealed simple to readers, but there was deeper meaning if you looked closely. Although poetry has many different interpretations because it is structured on opinion not fact, the poem “Fire and Ice’’ may seem to come off as the geological hell of the world, but if you look closely it portrays the theme of hatred and desire. The poem has a rhyme scheme of A, B, A, A, B, C, B, C, B.
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".
Rimbaud has had a profound effect on many celebrated poets since his death in late 1891 after being diagnosed with cancer. While The Drunken Boat was written in four-line rhyming stanzas, his writing in his later poetry, Illuminations and A Season in Hell, can be described as “stream of consciousness”—a way of writing poetry that creates long passages of unbroken prose; many of the “beat generation” poets followed his example. The most well known was Jack Kerouak who wrote On the Road, an entire book written without punctuation or pages—all on a single scroll of paper inserted into a typewriter. Other beat poets, such as Allen Ginsberg, were also heavily influenced by Rimbaud. In the last stanza of The Drunken Boat Rimbaud writes, “Nor swim past prison hulks' hateful eyes!” Ginsberg expands on Rimbaud's description of prison when he writes, in the second part of his poem, Howl: “Moloch the incomprehensible prison!
The first line of each stanza has internal rhyming, which rhymes inside the same line. This poem is written in 16 syllables per line, and Poe only has seven syllables in each of the lines. The unusual rhyming style of “The Raven” sets the poem on a different level than other poetry. The mood of this poem is calm, yet dark, sad, angry, depressing, and lonely. Poe’s words themselves give the poem its mood.
The struggles he had faced as a child, shaped his grim stories and poems. Although many have successfully written horror stories or tragedy poems, all agree that to create a piece of literature that completely encases the reader in an emotional and sympathetic bliss, is something only few others aside from Poe have managed to convey. The literary techniques of setting, diction, and personification, which Poe manipulates so well in “The Raven”, are put together to create a room exuding melancholy, despair, and fright for the reader. Poe’s passion and feeling expressed in his poems is truly unlike any other, which shows that Poe wrote poems not for the purpose of the literal meaning, but instead to conjure the true feelings within him, and express them to the reader using words of rhyme and
This proves that Poe, when so inclined, could indeed write about something other than opium induced nightmares and paranoid grieving men who are frightened to death by sarcastic,talkative, ravens. Besides Israfel, Poe's other poetry, To Helen, as well as Annabel Lee and others, are virtually unrecognizable to the everyday reader as being works by Edgar Allan Poe. His name is usually associated with his tales of horror and the macabre. His one poem, The Raven, a work which deals with a mans steady decline into madness, is probably his most recognizable piece of poetry. A situation, which I feel is unfortunate, considering that the aforementioned are in most cases the equal to The Raven.