Lovely bride!” bring the story into the present tense and the use of short sentences make the words more powerful. Also the phrase “She hurried at his words…” gives the reader a sense of time- by using a mixture of dialogue and the author saying that someone has spoken gives the poem more depth, showing that some points are more relevant than others. Keats did this as to point the reader at the points which create the story. The phrase “’Hark! ‘tis an elfin-storm from faery land…” has a bit of ambiguity about it.
Here are a couple other reasons to consider. The content of many of Plath's poems plays on rich and specific raw emotions. She did this through crafting specific images and symbols with carefully chosen words and figures of speech. Generally choosing everyday experiences and items to write about, she did indeed write about some of the pain in her life including the "The Jailer" about her husband Ted Hughes who had cheated on her, and "Daddy" about her father who abused her. These topic choices come from truthful circumstances, but readers generally really sympathize with Plath because of her suicide and what led her to it.
How does Gwen Harwood lead you to share her concerns about aspects of the world? Gwen Harwood is a sophisticated poet who uses many means of writing to entice the reader to share her views on certain aspects of the world. Her poems demonstrate her worries in parenting and relationships within families. She also expresses fear of death and her interest in individuality. A collection of six poems demonstrates the techniques used by the poet to convey her messages and influence the reader to understand her concerns.
Harwood’s poetry captures the essences of human emotion and experience and imbues them with further significance by the literary techniques that exemplify her poetry as the “language of art”. In her poetry, Gwen Harwood explores many themes that resonate with her readers regardless of their contexts. The universality of concepts such as human existence, the dichotomies of life, youth and age, loss of innocence, memory, and the inevitability of death are transformed by Harwood’s poetry, as she simultaneously transcends and embeds social, historical and gender restraints of her context. the grey cloudy back ground also relate to this. Lastly the actual phrases represent a feminist perspective, all phrases are extracts from some of the most renowned feminists to date, these include Harwood has written the poem under the pseudonym of Walter Lehman This suggests that Harwood had a considerable political temperament as well as an ability to poke fun or mock the social constraints of her time.
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.
These images are very vivid; the idea of scars connotes all the violence and beatings of slavery, which makes the reader even more passionate of the reading. Langston Hughes ends the poem on an optimistic note. (It never was America to me). His tone in the poem also contributes to the meaning. His tone seems almost confessional, like the poet is talking about his own experience in America.
After reading the poems, “Leap” by Brian Doyle, and “The Names” by Billy Collins, I get a heavy sense of the both of the authors using specific strategies to show the emotions they both had after the tragic events of 9/11 and beyond. Both of the poems use a heavy dose of imagery to help the reader reflect on emotions they may have had when they experienced that horrible day. Even though both authors use imagery and emotions, the tempos of both poems have very different direction. Even though they go into different directions though, they have an overall affect that hits them right in their upper right hand chest. The use of imagery in both poems is very deep and necessary.
In “The Author To Her Book” by Anne Bradstreet, the speaker who takes on the role of an author, displays her insecurities for a piece of literature she has written. Through the extended series of comparisons between the speaker’s poems and her children and the vivid personification, the poet expresses the strong and intimate bond she develops for her work and her ambivalent feelings towards it. Also, Bradstreet’s self-deprecating poem explores the idea of perfection in literature. Firstly, the title reveals the relationship between the author and her book. The tone of the title is set apart from the rest of the poem.
While then, Liesel writes the story of her life, containing both tragedy and beauty, at a fevered pace. Liesel has come to the realization that words can cause both violence and comfort, and she strives to make them "right" by combating propaganda with writing that emanates from love. The reason I chose this quote to be a part of one of my passages is because it gives a great deal of explanation of how
By saying that she will “never get you put together entirely” (1), the speaker immediately implies her hopelessness of completing her goal by saying “never”. The first line also tells us that her task is related to a specific person because she directly uses the poem to speak to someone by addressing them as “you”. The next line contains descriptive words, “Pierced, glued, and properly jointed.” (2), to create imagery for the idea of connection. We now can see that the speaker’s immense, or colossal task if you will, it to make sense and feel some kind of communication with the person that the speaker has a broken connection to. In the third line the nature imagery from “Mule-bray, pig grunt, and bawdy cackles” (3), which are chaotic, non-understandable animal noises, are used to compare the attempted and failed connection like that of speaking to farm animals.