This poem is a child´s song, in the form of questions and an answer, showing that the child is innocent and inquisitive. The first stanza is descriptive and the second focuses on abstract spiritual matters and contains explanation and analogy. The first stanza begins and ends with the same rhyming couplet, “Little Lamb, who made thee? / Dost thou know who made thee?” (lines 1-2, 9-10) which adds to the idea of an inquisitive child. The child describes the gifts God has given the lamb – “Gave thee life” (3), “and bid thee feed” (3), “clothing of delight, / Softest clothing, wooly, bright” (lines 5-6), and “such a tender voice, / Making all the vales rejoice” (lines 7-8).
The line lengths are kept short, some singling out individual words. These single word lines, such as “equally” attract the reader’s eye, in a way pedestalling it in an attempt to show the reader the fascination and awe of each word. “Words” is written mostly in free verse, with some rhyme but no distinct pattern of it. Perhaps this indicates the overwhelming exasperation that words have given Thomas: a feeling which can’t be contained in a strict structured poem. As “Words” is a tribute to language, the structure must be as unpredictable as its subject is.
These poems allow one to form a positive image while the collection of poems from Songs of Experience is the opposite. Ignorance may be a form of innocence. The speaker in Blake‘s poem “The Lamb (Greenblatt, p. 83) is a child. The child poses a question to the lamb asking where it came from, “Little Lamb, who made thee” (Greenblatt, p. 83 l. 1)? There is a sense of sincere curiosity in the child’s question.
An almost nursery rhyme feel is also added because Blake refers to the senses of sounds and touch, cool colors and appeals to the sense of sight. Blake accurately describes innocence in “The Lamb” as the naïve part of life when one believes in the goodness of everything. In Blake’s “The Tyger”, Blake uses repetition of sounds to add to the tone of the poem. The “b” sound is repeated all throughout the poem when Blake uses the words “burning”, “bright” and “burnt” eyes. Those words add to the experience theme of the poem.
Blake uses simple and straightforward language throughout the poems to make the reader understand each one carefully and understand his beliefs and views. Creation and religion are themes in both poems. Blake uses the themes to highlight his questioning and understanding of them. The use of rhyming couplets in both poems creates simplicity of the poems, easy reading, and remembering. Blake uses ballad form to construct the poems like songs.
Alliteration is used to describe actions, places, or out of celebration, such as, “gyre and gimble...claws that catch...snicker-snack...callooh-callay...and tumtum tree.” Through this use of interesting and descriptive alliteration, Carroll enables the reader to create sounds when spoken that makes a feel that imitates the story. Alliteration is therefore an important and significant device used in the poem The Jabberwocky. Carroll uses a peculiar technique of creating his own language style by taking some words that derive from very old English phrases, and also constructing eloquent words from two or three ordinary words put together. Through this, Lewis Carroll creates a language that represents and enhances the mood of the poem. It fills your head with ideas, only you don’t know what they are.
The words jingling and tinkling highlight the small size of the bells that make them so delicate. As we can see, Poe uses literary devices quote heavily in his poetry to illustrate certain images that he wants to stand out. In this poem, he mostly uses onomatopoeia and diction to express the quiet and delicate bells of section one of his poem The
Format and structure is used in literature to facilitate characterization and evoke a specific tone. Kincaid uses little format to portray a glimpse of realism in life and need for acceptance of the speaker in her story. The format of cumming’s work allows the poem to be read with leisure and rhythm, almost in a sense allowing the reader to become lulled into a sense of ease and security. In Girl by Jamaica Kincaid there is little use of format, unless the whole work is considered to be one long stanza. The speaker’s thoughts and phrases are on occasion interrupted with italics used to indicate the possible inner thoughts or spoken voice of whomever is being spoken to in the story.
Source Details: Title, Composer Publication Date Big Mud Puddles and Sunny Yellow Dandelions What is the text about? (Brief description of subject matter and ideas) Big Mud Puddles and Sunny Yellow Dandelions is about an adult's view of things that are out of place or negative, however it also tells of how the things out of place or negative have a different view for younger people, showing the view of what the kid's think of these thing. It explores judgement, belonging, isolation, understanding and acceptance. What is the context of the text and its underlying assumptions? In this poem the author explores the sense that everything belongs and has it's place.
Magen Merchant English 102 10/28/12 Symbolism Essay Writers use many literary devices to add layers of meaning to his or her writing. One way to do this is by using symbolism. Symbolism is when writers use animals, elements, things, places, or colors to represent other things. For example a dove is a universal representation for peace. When a reader understands a symbol being used, he or she connect its meaning to the story and allows him or her to understand the story on a deeper level.