This gives a jarring effect, causing the words to stand out to the reader. In comparison, Quickdraw has no obvious rhyme scheme. It does however contain lots of punctuation, unlike ‘Sonnet 116’ which draws attention to key words. Enjambment is common to both poems however is used in different ways. In Sonnet 116, each quatrain is an idea, contained in a single sentence.
The selected sonnets from Aurora Leigh and Other Poems simultaneously conform with and challenge Barrett Browning’s context through the theme of mortality, and the notion that love transcends death. The concept of death is prominent throughout Barrett Browning’s sonnet sequence, and draws parallels to the excessive mortality that occurred within both the Victorian era and Barrett Browning’s personal context. However, Barrett Browning challenges her time by contrasting death and love, and overcoming the Victorian era’s fear of death by suggesting that love transcends death. In Sonnet I, Barrett Browning depicts conflict between death and love, setting up this theme for the remainder of the sonnet sequence and foreshadowing that death is to be conquered by love. Barrett Browning manipulates direct speech and colour symbolism in the passage “Guess now who holds thee?
21) Pathetic fallacy helps to set the mood of evil and give the scene a more intense feeling for the audience. Lady Macbeth realizes that something bad has happened and the pathetic fallacy sets an evil mood because there is so much evil that even nature reacted. While a storm is raging, Ross and an old man talk about how things have been weird lately. The weather helps set a mysterious mood to this discussion, with the use of thunder and lightning. “Is't night's predominance, or the day's shame, / That darkness does the face of earth entomb.”(Shakespeare, 2.4.
Many people view anorexia as a choice, but it is an uncontrollable monster of a disease that can dominate and manipulate one's mind. Anorexia sufferers are victims of a relentless, crippling mental state. It takes great determination, strength and perseverance to overcome and conquer this disease. Through Laurie Anderson's use of language and characterization in Wintergirls, this is clear. Anderson's use of literary elements shows how anorexia can slowly take someone over and completely control their life.
In your article you stated that knives and all weapons can all maim and ruin human lives. This is true and I strongly agree with this because carrying a knife causes a high probability physical and mental damage. Someone who is barbarously stabbed can have a permanent scar, which will take them back to the past and previous event. This will cause a great distress and mental pain that will always be nagging and hovering at the back of their heads you tell me who wants to live an grievous and torturous life? You also stated that people carry knives ‘’just for protection’’.
The form of Thomas’s poem, “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night,” provides rhyme, repetition, and length that present the concealed theme to fight death. For one thing, adding rhyme to his poem, “Do Not Go Gentle into that Good Night,” Dylan Thomas uses this technique of form to offer the dominant idea, fighting death. When Thomas uses rhyme in his poem he provides the audience with words that define the theme. For instance, in addition to rhyming, Thomas uses words metaphorically in each stanza of his work. Metaphoric words are used as a figure of speech to compare two objects, but not taken literally.
Main ideas in War Poetry The main idea in war poetry, written during World War One – 1914-18, is the harsh reality of war. Poets such as Wilfred Owen use the language techniques of simile, rhyme, repetition and personification to help convey the main idea. Owen uses techniques to paint a grim picture of what war was like and how it affected people. Through this, we see that war is often glorified, thus Owen was able to counter the glorification of war. After reading war poems we are able to get a true idea of how horrific war was and learn of its negative consequences.
Robert Browning attains a reputation for “oddness”, as the novelist Henry James termed it, for his difficult and obscure written poems. Browning’s poems are written in Dramatic Monologue. The nature of this monologue is almost as if you are ease dropping on a conversation between two people. According to Anderson et al. (2011:97) Dramatic Monologue is a device whereby the poet invents a character to provide the voice and opinion represented in the text.
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.
Poets use repetition in a very powerful and different ways to create a rhythm, or emphasize their feelings and ideas. That is how they draw a person’s attention to a certain idea. The literary device anaphora is “the deliberate repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several successive verses, clauses, or paragraphs” (Dictionary). In poetry, this method and other forms of repetition can be extremely useful in delivering the full meaning of a poem. Different cultures have all engaged and written great poetry using the idea of repetition, but each culture uses it to show a different meaning or purpose in the speech.