However, differences in form, use of imagery, diction and tone ultimately lead to subtle differences in the theme. Perhaps the most visible difference between the two poems is their form. Borson uses a free verse form that varies even within the poem itself. The first two lines are complete sentences. Sentence three is written over three lines, with the first two of those lines demarcated by a comma.
Said by Richard Wilbur (b 1921) poetry draws emotions also express strong feelings. Poetry is also imaginative. The language gives poetry power. With short stories they are usually first, second, and third person point of view. The poem Wild Geese.
The poem’s intention is to tell the audience about a catastrophic experience that the author had suffered through. She describes herself alone in the burned house. The author uses a first perspective point of view to emphasize that the poem is narrative. In the poem, Atwood does not make the readers feel sympathy and remorseful for her through the misfortunate disaster. Yet, the readers’ feelings are rather curious and wondering.
But, rarely addressed is the fate of individual that is now deceased: where they are, what they are doing, and where one can find them. This very concept is what American poet Donald Justice attempts to detail in his poem “On the Death of Friends in Childhood.” The poem is rather short in length but there is much more than meets the eye upon initial glance. Through heavily counterpointed and irregular rhythm and meter, careful diction, and imagery, Justice is able to make a profound statement about a less grim side of death. When children die, it is unexpected and is accompanied by an odd feeling of truncation: they never gain responsibility, never marry, never grow old, never get a job, never get sick, and never lose their innocence. We remember them, as they were, children on a playground.
“A sad sympathy filled her eyes. Sharada lowered her knife”. Her personality appears to take a radical turn, though it is not documented through a conversation. Due to the fact that the authentic character of Sharada is exposed mainly through her psychological and inner expansion, leaving the audience to fill in several facets of the story in its maturation, this story can not only be placed under the Poe genre of short stories but it can also be set in the category of the “ideal short story” stories within the Poe
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.
Essay: Comparing and Contrasting Poems The purpose of this essay is to compare and contrast the poems Old Man Old Man, written by U..A. Fanthorpe and Long Distance written by Tony Harrison. U.A. Fanthorpe was born on 22nd July 1929 and was an English poet from 1978-2007. Also, Tony Harrison is an English poet and playwright born on 30th April 1937. He is noted for his controversial works such as the poem V as well as his works from Ancient Greek.
Year 9 English – Writing Task – Week 7 Many poets use figurative language throughout their poems, thus giving their texts an illusion of different meaning and ideas, creating a poem that is more complex than it seems. The poems “Ione, Dead The Long Year” and “Astigmatism” both include hidden messages and illusions, which can be interpreted accordingly by the reader, showing that the simplest of actions can become the starting point for the most complex of poems. The poem, “Ione, Dead The Long Year” is about a spiritual journey of a man who is mourning the loss of someone who was close to him, thus revealing the subject of the poem. A deeper insight into Passage 1 (Ione, Dead The Long Year) shows the character to be going through a phase of melancholia – compared to the phase of blinding anger that the character of Passage 2 (Astigmatism) is going through on his spiritual journey. By analysing the two poems and their complex structures, the reader discovers a similarity on the subject, of spiritual journeys, however a difference in the context of the journey.
“For more than a thousand years Ophelia has passed, a white phantom down along black river.” This is a single sentence that takes up three lines. He uses enjambment to set apart “black river” from the rest of the sentence. Separating it from the rest of the sentence emphasizes it in the readers mind and speaks of the tragedy of Ophelia’s life. “Black river” has connotations of something dark and depressing such as the way in which Ophelia lost her mind and
“Do not go gentle into that good night” A poem by Dylan Thomas This poem, by Dylan Thomas is written in the French verse form called villanelle. This is a very strict form, which requires an intricate rhyme scheme and two lines that serve as refrains. It is built up by 19 lines divided into six stanzas, the first five individually consisting of three-line stanzas called tercets, followed by a quatrain – a four-line stanza with the first line of the initial tercet recurring as the last line of the second and fourth tercets, and the third line in the initial tercet recurring in the last line of the third and fifth tercets. Furthermore, these two refrains are again repeated as the last two lines of the poem. (Ferguson, Salter & Stallworthy, 2005).