Poems can make you laugh, cry, think or be silent as we ponder the words that are written. What Makes poetry works better than a short story is the repetitive or the shortened way word are written or placed together to form a rhythm or a song. When a poet uses a rhyme as his theme is can be catchy or funny and makes us enjoy reading it. When it is worded as a song we can easily remember it since everyone loves to sing even when most of us cannot hold a tune but we can hold a rhythm. A poet relies on his feeling to convey the current situations that they are in.
The author sets the mood in a happy way when a calamity should be miserable. The poet uses similes to make the tone more joyful. “Dogs barked and the children sprouted like dandelions on my lawn,” is a perfect example which compares the dogs and children to dandelions. It means that they appeared very quickly just like how dandelions grow really fast. Dandelions are also known to be happy flowers so this sets the mood in a more soothing and calming place.
The "Odyssey" by Homer portrays tones of toxic desiring, while Margaret Atwood's poem, Siren Song" has tones of taunting boredom. Odysseus longs to hear the song of the Sirens even though he knows it would be detrimental to his life. In "Siren Song" the birds are teasing the reader about the meaning of their song that is not all that interesting to them. The point of view in both of these poems is first person. The "Odyssey" is told from the perspective of Odysseus, who is affected by the song of the sirens, while "Siren Song" is told from the eyes of one of the siren birds.
Both Shakespeare and Carol Ann Duffy have structural differences in their texts to show the emotional change in the characters of Othello and Miss Havisham. In Othello Shakespeare shifts from blank verse to prose to show his breakdown in emotion. In Act 1 Scene 3 Othello speaks in unrhymed iambic pentameter which shows that it is written in blank verse however in Act 4 Scene 1 Othello starts to speak in prose and from the context of his speech we could infer that he is angry. This change in from verse to prose suggests that he cannot control his emotions very well and it is easy to see what he is feeling. Shakespeare tends to write in blank verse when the character is calm and then switches to prose when there is a spin of emotion.
Response to “Counting the Mad” When reading the contemporary american poetry anthology I found myself becoming almost lost in one specific poet. Donald Justice, or more specifically, one of his poems,“Counting the Mad” was a poem that was both the most enjoyable work for me to read and at the same time, the most difficult for me to understand, at first. For myself this poem could be compared to a type of riddle due to its ever apparent ambiguity. At the same time, I believe that this poem takes a satirical perspective of mankind. Justice utilizes the sound similar to that of a nursery rhyme to engage his readers.
The poems “American Primitive” by William Jay Smith and “Daddy” by Sylvia Plath have woven into them an over arching theme of a non-idyllic, problematic father-child dynamic, however each poem`s respective tone showcase two different, separately striking effects this dysfunction can have on the child. While “American Primitive” is a contemporary ballad consisting of three stanzas, each constructed by four lines, Sylvia Plath`s “Daddy” is a longer, distraught, poetic tirade of a more confessional nature. “Daddy” uses metaphors of Jewish persecution and the Holocaust. “American Primitive” gives reader a feeling one would have seeing an orphaned child, smirking unnaturally, at the funeral. Both poems are rich in material, just waiting to be dug up, interpreted, and reinterpreted again.
The occasional, but very deliberate, use of two unstressed syllables within some lines quicken the pace, emphasizing the message to the reader. In a letter to John Bartlett in 1914, Frost wrote “You listen for sentence sounds.” (Geddes, 47). The mournful feeling of the poem is lightened by the use of alternating masculine end rhymes, which gives the poem an almost playful cadence. Frost’s connotative use of imagery describing “The people along the sand” (line 1) who “… turn their back on the land” (line 3) even though “The land may vary more;” (line 9) suggests that, as a whole, the human race are disinclined to face reality and “… turn and look one way.” This detached, impersonal view is continued throughout the poem with the repeated use of the third person
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".
John Smith Sloths If someone was to ask you to name some of the dumbest mammals in the world, odds are that the sloth would come up as an answer. Sloths are one of the weirdest animals in the world, but sometimes weirdness animals have intellectual minds. Bill Gates quotes, “I will always choose a lazy person to do a difficult job because, he will find an easy way to do it.” Concept of laziness has its pluses for sloth due to its protection of itself and simple foods that grow beside it. Sloth’s laziness gives out the notion of finding short cuts to survive through life by hardly doing anything. Sloth’s are an odd looking mammal, 16 to 24 inches long and weighing 5 to 10 pounds.
Dear Editor, In “A Change of Heart About Animals,” Jeremy Rifkin says, “They feel pain, suffer and experience stress, affection, excitement, and even love - and these findings are changing how we treat them. We should think before we act because it affects the animals the same way it affects us. Beings raised in a well-mannered family, I believe that we should treat everyone and everything the same way we think humans should be treated. Studies have shown that animals are actually smart. For example, the two birds mentioned, Betty and Abel had cognitive abilities.They were able to figure out how to get the food out of a tube with a wire that was provided to them.