Gwen Hardwood The emotive qualities of Gwen Harwood’s poetry resonate with her readers. She uses her own memories to illustrate love for her family, her loss of innocence and the swiftness of time passing. She demonstrates this in her poems Father and Child, The Violets and At Mornington. The poem The Violets opens with the line “It is dusk and cold,” the time of day symbolising that this persona has reached old age and is metaphorically drawing closer to nightfall or the end of her days. Death is made apparent with the negative adjective “cold.” The flowers she is picking at the beginning of this poem are clearly what stimulate her memory of childhood as they are referenced later in the poem.
The poetic device helped express the authors feelings because he compairs beauty and night so you can get a better understanding of where the author is coming from.| She walks in beauty like the night| Emotion:What emotion was the author trying to express?I think the authour was trying to express love and therefore was at peace.| She walks in beauty like the night| Structure:How is the poem organized (lines, stanzas, etc.)? What is unique or interesting about the structure of the poem?Does the poem rhyme?Something that is unique about the poem is that uses words and sayings. Which tells me it has been
Furthermore, from the poem, we were asked what happens to dream’s deferred and by the end of the play we were able to answer that. Although the poem poses many negative factors about dreams being deferred, A Raisin in the Sun opposes that and shows us that with hard work and courage deferred dreams can still come true. The Poem “A Dream Deferred” is important in many different aspects of the play. While reading the poem most readers learn this is what the author based her story on, Dreams. First off, the poem is important because the first sentence asks “What happens to a dream deferred?” which is the main question in the entire story that Hansberry is trying to answer by the end of her story.
'Mending Wall' is an interesting poem that is symbolic of the differences in human thinking on barriers Robert Frost is known to make use of nature and pathetic fallacies in his poems and a lot of symbolism that leaves the reader to imagine what he really means,making his poems highly subjective. In this piece, Frost has used words and phrases that we could draw parallels with,he uses a sense of underlying meanings with these phrases. In the title itself, ‘Mending wall’ the poet lets us know that the poem is about a wall or a fence,but later the reader realizes that it’s more than just the words on the surface that Frost wants us to recognize. The poet refers to the wall as a solid object but also a psychological or invisible wall,this wall signifies the differences between the two neighbors. Ironically,when the wall is actually supposed to separate two beings,this wall reunites the two neighbors ,this is seen in the title ‘Mending wall’,where one might suggest that this is grammatically incorrect, what Frost might actually be intending is that the poem is more about the wall mending the relationship between the two individuals than the two merely mending the wall itself !This wall maybe built due to differences in thoughts and ideas or merely just because of social awkwardness of the two characters.
I Do Not Love Thee Figurative Language: What poetic devices were used in this poem? The poetic device is rhyme. What did these poetic devices do for the poem? It made the poem rhyme. Did these devices help create imagery or communicate the author's feelings?
Paris is often thought of as the city of love and romance. However James Fenton opens his poem with the sentence “Don't talk to me of love.” By starting with a morose tone and a negative imperative it not only shows the narrator is getting over a broken relationship, but it also shows the reader that the narrator finds it a difficult subject to talk about. Fenton then goes on to say “I've had an earful / And I get tearful.” Rather than both words of the rhyming pair coming at the end of lines, “tearful” is in the middle of the second line. The rhymes actually seem to give a lighter atmosphere to the first stanza, even though Fenton is feeling down. He describes himself as “one of your talking wounded,” which of course is a play on the phrase “walking wounded” used to describe people who have only slight injuries.
The tone, however, is also understanding because at the end of the poem the author suggest that over time, children learn that they’re parents can’t be perfect, and sometimes they only know how to express their love through actions instead of words, touch, or emotions II. Poem #2: Free Verse Poem/Romantic Love (Write-Like Models – Love Without Love, The Taxi) TASK: Write a write-like poem using “The Taxi” or “Love Without Love” as your model. This poem should be about a reflection on the nature of romantic love. What does love mean to you? Your poem can be in free-verse.
The reality however is that upon closer examination, Robert Frosts true intentions couldn't be further from the aforementioned. In writing this poem, Frost wanted provide a commentary on human nature and, to show that people typically waste time thinking about what are ultimately unimportant decisions. . Firstly, the name of the poem,”The Road Not Taken”, places emphasis on the road that the narrator doesn't travel on, and the structure is as follows: four five line stanzas with the rhyme structure, ABAAB. The setting is a “yellow wood”(1) and there is mention of leaves on the ground in third stanza, so it is assumed that it is the fall and in a metaphorical sense close to the end of the man's life.
Browning uses a number of different narrative techniques to tell the story in Porphyria’s Lover. The poem is written in first person, in past tense, from the perspective of our narrator who is unnamed but as the title suggests is ‘Porphyria’s Lover’. This means that the telling of events is not completely reliable and can be assumed to be biased. Browning begins the poem by depicting a dark, miserable night through the use of pathetic fallacy and personification, ‘the sullen wind was soon awake.’ He does this to then represent Porphyria as this almost holy being that can ‘shut the cold out.’ This sudden change in atmosphere gives the reader an idea of the narrator’s feelings towards his lover, and the effect she has on him. She is also represented as the active one in the relationship which shows how he is not able to take her for himself or say that he wants her, ‘when no voice replied, she put my arm about her waist.’ This represents him as very passive and quite pathetic which is reinforced through the narrator’s first line of speech, ‘I listened heart fit to break.’ This suggests that he is waiting for someone, maybe even longing.
The title itself lends a hand into how Hardy thought the poem ought to be read; Neutral Tones, should be read just as the title states, the emotions and events presented are not to be in clear support of any opposing side. Furthermore, the tone used in the narrators voice, as well as the colours presented should also remain indifferent. However, as much as Hardy attempts to present a neutral telling of the story through images and colour, as well as through the tone of the narrator, he is ultimately doomed when explaining love in a neutral tone. His emotions and true feelings can eventually be discovered due to the expression revealed in certain words. At the start of the poem Hardly tries to depict an unemotional scene, the narrator refers to the pond where their conversation takes place, “We stood by a pond that winter day,” (Hardy 1).