Compare how language is used to express an opinion of love in sonnet 116 and another poem (Quickdraw) Shakespeare’s ‘Sonnet 116’ and Carol Ann Duffy’s poem ‘Quickdraw’ both talk about the relationship between two people, however they talk about them in very contrasting ways. Sonnet 116 and Quickdraw are written in different forms. Shakespeare’s poem is written in sonnet form with three quatrains and a rhyming couplet. This regular pattern shows that this is what love should be like and is normal. The use of iambic pentameter also stresses key ideas and words whilst the poem can still flow.
“Tell me” is another line that is used throughout the poem. Also, the breaking of the lines into stanzas make this song more poem-like. The next poetic device addressed in the song is alliteration. “Shooting star and scar” (stanza 3, line 1-2) are put together for sound and to help emphasize the message of the song. A simile is also used in Train’s song when it says, “Acts like summer and walks like rain” (Stanza 1, Line 3).
It eventually will go away and turn into a leaf again. “ Then leaf subsides to leaf so Eden sank to grief”( Frost, 2018). He says that the leave at the beginning of the poem goes away but becomes a leave again. He also refers to the biblical scripture when Adam and Eve ate the forbidden fruit in the Garden of Eden and commited a sin. Both of the events are considered a tragic event but in the story of Adam and Eve if they were not to eat the forbidden fruit we would not be here today.
No more volunteer hours. No more recreation hours. So friends will no longer be as close.” Page 31. * “It was different only in the addition to it of the new child with his pale, solemn knowing eyes.” Page 41. Pleasantville (Utopia) * “Up until now everything around here has been, well, Pleasant.” (big Bob) * The end of the Main street is just the beginning again.” (Miss Peters) * “They’re happy like this.” ( David/ Bud) * “I don’t think we have the right to…” (David/ Bud) * “You’re messing with their Universe.” (David/ Bud) * No real emotions.
As a result of these events, the prized plants were destroyed by the humans that modified them. Human idealization and manipulation of plants, through monocultures and domestication, has led to our own disappointment and hate for these inanimate beings. The apple has always been a staple in the American diet and culture. It’s familiarity and importance is evidenced in such well-know phrases as, “An apple a day keeps the doctor away.” Grade-school children are taught the legend of “Johnny Appleseed” and the importance of growing apples. The legend of Johnny Appleseed is tied intimately with the domestication of America; a barefoot, rugged gentleman who helped to tame the wilderness by planting apple orchards.
Planting a Sequoia - Commentary ‘Planting a Sequoia’ by Dana Gioia is a father planting a sequoia tree to mark the death of his first born infant son. Upon reading the title, I guessed that the poem would focus on appreciating nature and sequoia trees. I was dramatically incorrect. However, my first impressions after reading the entire poem was that it was quite upsetting although towards the end, the tree becomes a symbol of how ‘good things’ can still take place after ‘bad things’ in someone’s life. The most noticeable feature of the poem at first was the apostrophe, that is, the poem seemed to be addressed to the tree being planted.
The poems are about Heaney’s childhood, in his poems he explains the change of attitude to the natural world, and the poems both have two parts: the childhood and his views as an adult. His poems describe his experience as a child. The reader knows that Heaney is describing his childhood in “Blackberry Picking” because in his poem he shows a vivid account of picking blackberries which shows us that it can only be done by child. A quotation to prove this is “I always felt like crying. It wasn’t fair”.
I will elaborate on the topic of poetic excellence with three poems; The Garden of Eden (Paradise Lost, Book IV) by John Milton, Happiness by Stephen Dunn, and lastly, Mirror Image, by Louise Glück. Paradise Lost is a biblical epic poem about the Fall of Man, written by John Milton in the 17th century. In The Garden of Eden, a peaceful and vivacious scene was brought to life. The first humans, Adam and his wife Eve, resides in the Garden of Eden which was created by God. They lived in the most tranquil manners, until when Eve was convinced to eat a fruit from the tree of knowledge.
Essay: Robert Browning - My Last Duchess Write an essay in which you show how Browning uses the style and structure of the dramatic monologue to convey both the meaning and the intention of the poem. Comment on his use of specific poetic techniques to enhance understanding and intention of the poem: Robert Browning writes his poem, The Last Duchess, in the form of a Dramatic Monologue. The style and structure of this poem adds significant importance and relevance to the message and intention of the poem. Browning's intentional use of specific poetic techniques such as tone of voice, diction, flowery language, rhetorical questions, enjambment and rhyme are vividly explained in this essay. Robert Browning attains a reputation for “oddness”, as the novelist Henry James termed it, for his difficult and obscure written poems.
In “The Tide Rises, the Tide Falls” by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, which is an abstract diction and has deeper meaning lying inside it, the poet gives us a beautiful image by explaining different views in the poem .However; we can see the beauty of his art by understanding the deeper philosophical meaning beneath the poem. The poet used personification, metaphors, symbolism, synecdoche and refrain to compare the cycle of nature with cycle of life. The main message of this poem tells us that with all the different effects that we cause to nature, eventually nature will dissolve us, our experiences and ideas and continue on its path. The Persona in this poem is the poet himself who gives us different images from a town and it’s sea shore .In the first line of the first stanza “The tide rises, the tide falls “(l.1), the poet is talking about a repeating cycle in nature. By paying close attention, we see that at the end of all three stanzas in this poem, Longfellow used refrain by repeating the same line.