The Paradox of Language: An Explication of P.K. Page’s “Cook’s Mountains”* As the title of the poem suggests, P.K. Page’s “Cook’s Mountains” is a poem about possession. It is also about the transition from a pre-verbal state to a “named” or verbal state. The poem points to the paradox of naming: while naming is creative and powerful, it is also limiting.
“A Poison Tree” vs “The Most Vital Thing In Life” We’ll start by defining a poem, as a collection of words that express an emotion or idea, sometimes with a specific rhythm. The Perrine’s Literature structure, sound & sense define poetry, “Poetry as a kind of language that says more and says it more intensely than doe’s ordinary language.” When comes to evaluate a bad or good poetry, to Perrine a poem fails to achieve excellence if it is sentimental, excessively rhetorical and didactic in one hand; The other hand a poem is good when contributes to the achievement of the central purpose, what is it? “How fully has purpose been accomplished?” And “how important is this purpose?” In this case I judge the poem “The Most Vital Thing In Life” (TMVTL) as a bad poem and “A Poison Tree” (APT) poem as a good poem. Because first of all TMVTL is too didactic, which preach or teach, and lacks all the artistry and poetic devices of APT poem, TMVTL poem try to give us a moral and advice, how we can control our feelings and anger before we hurt the enemy. Also it contains excess word to express the meaning of the word.
Emily Dickinson and the use of death as symbolism One of the best ways to portray a feeling or expression is by using symbolism, which most poetry does a good job of, however, there are few better than poetry by Emily Dickinson. The poems written by her are abstract enough where she could be talking about death and she is really talking about how she barely left her home town of Amherst, Massachusetts. She also uses symbolism to show the internal struggle of some things, such as losing your mind, symbolizing the felling of emptiness and loneness. “Because of I could not stop Death” is one poem that has the feeling that she is not saying what she means. The overall theme in the poem of death is actually another form of symbolism.
This idea is taken away in the second line when Pope says that trivial things are the cause this horrible event. The diction in the first two lines goes from being broad and powerful to being small and petty. While Pope uses objects and events to directly compare important and trivial things throughout the poem, he also takes advantage of the diction to indirectly show this comparison to the reader. While the first two lines of the poem provides a small summary of the mock epic itself, it also gives you an insight into how Pope’s carefully crafted diction is the underlying foundation of this mock epic. The first canto the main character Belinda is introduced.
W.H. Auden’s modern methods combined with his undoubtedly unique style make his poetry difficult to read and interpret. However, his eccentric use of words calls for the reader’s imagination to create images that help to understand the idea of Auden’s poems. Such can be seen in “Law Like Love” starting with the ironic nature of the title. Law as we know it is something set in stone clearly which, quite frankly, many people do not favor.
The poet, William Blake, through the poem “London” is able to express his intentions and message of the poem through the content, aim and the theme, ‘no escape’. He is able to create a dark atmosphere, due to how cynical his message was. He also uses particular words and sentences, emphasizing on the importance of diction. The diction of the poem helps to show the differences in the classes within the society and the hopelessness that has wash over the whole society. Throughout the whole poem, the readers are able to know his disapproval, dislike and displeasure over the place that he lives in, by creating a moody and sullen tone which enhances the eerily seriousness of the atmosphere.
Doing so, Duffy engages in a difficult task of presenting different marginalized groups and subjects, making them visible and their voice heard, as well as employing technique of heteroglossia or raznorećie which enables the previously stated and makes subject’s voice different under the conditions listed. One of the most remarkable interventions of Carol Ann Duffy is the over-identification of distorted portrayals of subjects where she employs her criticism best. In such way, she confronts us with our own prejudice which are rarely supported with arguments but mostly revitalized by stereotypes incaculated in the system and disarms us of the same. Her poetry informs about different topics and themes which are part of everyday life, as culture is everyday life, to once again make identification and recognition of subjects with it more assessable and easy. Carol Ann Duffy masters the language and desire in her poetry to present this only available, and yet discriminatory, medium as more flexible and spatial and finally that which enables affects to be as politically heard as they are suffocated.
The techniques that Sassoon has used in the poems are: imagery, simile, metaphor and onomatopoeia. A good poem may lead to sadness, joyful or simply wandering, but it always leads us to think more deeply about life for the following reasons: Firstly, it creates emotion; secondly, it shows us the brutality of war; and finally, hardships faced by soldiers and also by showing about death. Through this it becomes evident that a good poem may lead to sadness, joyful or simply wandering. A good poem may lead to sadness, joyful or simply wandering because it creates emotion. Emotion refers to a natural instinctive state of mind deriving from one's circumstances, mood, or relationships with others.
Literary Movement 3 Confessional Poetry In the 1950s to 1960s came a scandalise movement known as Confessional Poetry or personal poetry. In its day this type of poetry was considered terrible, in highlighting themes such as suicide, sexuality, mental illness, feminism and lot more controversial topics. Although talking about yourself, your experiences and emotions personally was nothing new in poetry, since we see first person used in poetry in many of Shakespeare’s sonnets, the problem society had with Personal Poetry was its nature of being inappropriate, especially in such a conservative period of time. Even today reading Confessional Poetry can be quite uncomfortable, because of the techniques that the poets use. The poems are written in first person, using a lot of imagery.
It is also very complicated and quite difficult to understand. However, “La Belle Dame Sans Merci,” besides obviously being titled in French, is different. It is a ballad written in quatrain, meaning its second and fourth lines rhyme. It is also has relatively shorter lines as compared to the ode. His own style comes through for each poem; the ode is a description or an address of the season, while the ballad is a dialogue or fairy tale of sorts.