Does the poem rhyme? The poem does rhyme. I Do Not Love Thee Meaning: What is the poem saying about life or love? It is saying that love is complicated. Do you agree or disagree with this message?
For ATP, in the first couplet, the speaker is angry at his friend; in the second, at his foe. This difference immediately makes the simple poem less simple. As we continue on reading the couplets are beautifully rhyme, meter and show the importance of the purpose which is tolerance and forgiveness. In TMVTL rhyme is not respect and it too sentimental. The central idea is there but not coherent.
This can be seen in the poem ‘Music’ where in particular, Owen’s use of pathetic fallacy reveals to us the narrators true feelings. Therefore we are able to see that one’s emotional state of mind is projected onto his perception of his surroundings rendering music, which is an entirely subjective and state-dependent phenomenon. Accordingly, we can see this through the metaphor, “Drunk their mellow sorrows to the slake”, that alcohol is like music as it is also very state-dependent. The assonance of long and soft sounds in “mellow sorrows” may be suggesting that these soothe his pain, however could also prolong his pain as well. Owen conveys the idea that by using music and alcohol to relieve your pain is an outdated method, which we can see through the archaic diction “slake”.
Isla McCole Quick draw, Carol Ann Duffy Quick draw by Carol Ann Duffy is a poem highlighting a difficult conversation between supposedly two lovers. The themes are clearly the break down of love, and the way she is trying to hold onto something that’s slipping away; so the gradualness of loss. The poem throughout is an extended metaphor, and the continuation of similes illustrates her constant comparison of her situation to that of an old wild western showdown. The similarities between the two are the tense and pressured atmospheres, the uncertainty of how it will end, and the realisation of the person who knows they are going to end up losing. “Like guns slung from the pockets on my hips”, a simile from the first stanza, becomes a metaphor in the third “In the old last chance saloon”.
Rapture documents ‘The trajectory of a love affair from its giddy beginnings, with poems of almost prelapsarian sensuality, to deep love and then its sorrowful end.’ Often, the poems are full of tumultuous, complex feelings but “free of particularity, of identifying characteristics about the lover” thus Duffy implies these feelings to be universal. They are mixed feelings of despair, grief, vulnerability and hope in the poem ‘Over’. Its one worded title, which is almost ambiguous as it’s not clear whether the over-ness refers to the end of the relationship or the overcoming of the sadness of a broken heart, is brutal and void of emotion so suggestive of the restraining in of grief over ‘the death of love’; perhaps as an attempt to remain controlled and a coping mechanism to ‘endure this hour’. In the poem the reference to the ‘dark hour’ with its religious connotations (perhaps a reflection of Duffy’s on catholic upbringing) is symbolic of how it feels like the end of the world to her because her love affair is ‘over’ and the fact that she has just woken up suggests that she has come to a realization- the ‘touchable dream’ which is at the start of book in ‘You’ now unreachable and the ‘spell’ broken; perhaps the end of the relationship was inevitable, too magical, idealistic and dreamy to last it runs ‘out of time’. Time and its effect on love is a widely explored theme in Duffy’s poem, in ‘Hour’ ‘a single hour… makes love rich’ it seems they is never enough whilst in ‘Over’ the memory of their love becomes only but a blush because time is passing.
In the first stanza it describes her in denial, the second, exemplifying her sadness and regret of the whole situation and the third, where she faces her feelings and copes with them. Another very famous sonnet poet is Sir Edmund Spenser.
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.
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. The content, aim and the theme help to reinforce the writer’s intentions and message of the poem. Through the four quatrains, iambic tetrameter poem, it shows a society that is portrayed as being devastated and grim. Using the basic rhyme scheme of abab, it shows how the people and the places are infected and affected. The rhyme is able to give a flow to the events, making it on-going showing how the society keeps on worsening day by day.
New pparagraph: The first quatrain in the second stanza follows an ABBA rhyming scheme. The first line of the stanza begs for some truth and the fourth explains the lies of the world, adding strength to the statement. The remainder of the poem follows a CDDCC rhyming pattern. The second part of this stanza has a different rhyme scheme from the first which is coherent with the shift in adjectives and added darkness of the words. The poem shifts from beauty in the first stanza, to words of positivity and hope for humanity in the first part of the second stanza, and finally to the complete loss of this hope and the revelation of the depressing truth about our society and humanity in general.
The lines “We think…we wish…we forget…then, we arrive…we turn away…we look [for a connection to what is now lost]…we miss” show how mislead ideas can cause people to yearn for what they think will bring satisfaction. What they once had somehow gets lost in translation and they find themselves regretfully yearning not for what could be but for what was. The author uses the Middle Eastern immigrants’ story to outline the all too familiar sequence of emotions that come with unfulfilled expectations. This combination of repetition and allegory make this poem accessible to many different people. It transcends the surface story to touch on a basic human