English 10: Semester Exam Review Sheet E. Lewis You will be asked to write a Commentary on your chosen poem from Tales from Ovid. Begin with your sense of the poem – your response to it. You should already have begun highlighting it when it was assigned earlier in the semester. Now, as we’ve done together in class with several of the poems, you are to prepare by examining and highlighting your poem in detail, considering how the language, structure, speaker, tone, and subject contribute to the overall themes of the poem. Be sure to consider how metamorphosis and hubris are conveyed in your poem.
The essay identifies the name of the poem and the author at the beginning. The essay presents a thesis in the introductory paragraph and ends with a concluding paragraph that restates the thesis of the essay. The body of the essay contains paragraphs that support the essay's thesis. The essay usually follows one or an appropriate combination of the four major organizational plans (chronological order, spatial order, logical order, order of importance), but there may be a few details or ideas that are out of place. Transitions are generally used effectively.
Be sure to explain the literary elements and apply them to the work. Why are these elements engaging to the reader? Choose a work from the week’s reading. How do the literary elements affect the reader’s reaction to the poem? Remember to use specific examples from the text to support your points.
Image is the literary vision that is perceived from reading a poem. The picture is being portrayed to you through its words. These literary images trigger our imagination so we may see what the author is trying to create. In the first stanza of the poem it reads, “Amazing grace! How sweet the sound, That saved a wretch like me!
Are there footnotes? Does the author refer to primary or secondary
One of the most known poems in of his book “Leaves of Grass” is Song of myself. In a scary translation of life and the real experiences of Americans post World War II, “Howl” is a mind blowing and disturbing poem by Allen Ginsberg. In this essay I’m going to compare Whitman’s “Song of Myself” to “Howl” written by Beat generation poet Allen Ginsberg. There are a number of ways that Whitman’s influence can be noticed in Ginsberg’s work “Howl”, including a similar style of format and structure, a similar impact on the literary world and a concern with American people. Another significant influence that Whitman has for Ginsberg is the fact that Whitman had been an outcast from the literary circle of his era, with his long -winded style, free verse, sexual exposure and his appearance as a plainly dressed workman rather than a high society poet.
LET AMERICA BE AMERICA AGAIN Let America Be America Again Juan A Severino South University English II Literature Instructor: Julie Kares 05/01/10 The poem "Let America Be America Again" by Langston Hughes purposefully is reminiscent of (Walt Whitman's) "I Hear America Singing" in which Whitman is optimistic about this land of democratic opportunity. Hughes, Hughes was the first African American author to support himself through his writing; he produced more than sixty books. He earned critical attention for his portrayal of realistic black characters and he became one of the dominant voices speaking out on issue concerning black culture. He wrote in many genres; starting and continuing with poetry, he turned to fiction, autobiographies, and children’s books. His most famous fictional character is Jesse B. Semple, nickname Simple, who uses humor to protest and satirize the existing injustice.
ENG4U Monday, January 14th. 2013 The Highwayman by Alfred Noyes “The Highwayman” by Alfred Noyes is a captivating, narrative poem published in 1906 that exhibits many poetic traits and devices; a poem in which was ranked 15th in BBC’s (British Broadcasting Corporation’s) poll for “The Nation's Favourite Poems” in 1995. The poem contains many poetic devices including the following: imagery, symbolism, a strong sense of rhyme, alliteration, onomatopoeia, repetition, form, similes and personification. By adding in the above stated devices, Noyes adds to the meaning of the poem and causes an emotional connection with the reader. The most notable aspect of the poem are the themes within it, such as love, promise and trust.
English – Poetry Seminar Good afternoon, in this seminar I will be discussing how the band “The Black Eyed Peas” has used a whole range of different poetic techniques in their world wide hit ‘Where is the Love?’, such as similes, atmosphere, rhyme, assonance, metaphors, ballad, climax, repetition, rhetorical questions, mood and imagery to create and establish reader positioning. More aspects of the song including mood, discourse and themes will also be addressed. The Song was written by Will.i.am, Taboo, Apl.de.ap and Ron Fair. Will.i.am and Ron Fair also co-produced the song. Shortly after Christmas 2001, will.i.am created a loop and a guitar part that he liked.
Charles Olson’s influential manifesto, “Projective Verse,” was first published as a pamphlet, and then was quoted extensively in William Carlos Williams’ Autobiography (1951). The essay introduces his ideas of “composition by field” through projective or open verse, which is a continuation of the ideas of poets Ezra Pound, who asked poets to “compose in the sequence of the musical phrase, not in sequence of a metronome,” and William Carlos Williams, who proposed in 1948 that a poem be approached as a “field of action.” Olson’s projective verse focuses on “certain laws and possibilities of the breath, of the breathing of the man who writes as well as of his listenings.” Composition by field opposes the traditional method of poetic composition based on received form and measure. Olson sees the challenge of the transference of poetic energy from source to poem to reader, and the way in which that energy shifts at each juncture, as particularly of concern to poets who engage in composition by field, because the poet is no longer relying on a received structure as a propulsive force. Harnessing poet Robert Creeley’s assertion that “form is never more than an extension of content” and Edward Dahlberg’s belief that “one perception must immediately and directly lead to a further perception,” Olson argues that the breath should be a poet’s central concern, rather than rhyme, meter, and sense. To listen closely to the breath, Olson states, “is to engage speech where it is least careless—and least logical.” The syllable and the line are the two units led by, respectively, the ear and the breath: “the HEAD, by way of the EAR, to the SYLLABLE the HEART, by way of the BREATH, to the LINE” Olson argues against a lazy reliance on simile and description, which can drain a poem of energy, and proposes that syntax be shaped by sound rather than sense, with nuances of