In the beginning, when Achilles is the hero, there is a very angry and harsh, almost scary, tone when reading the poem. Now, with words like soft, pity, touched, and gently, the whole mood has changed to this sad, lonely and sort of soft feeling. The last thing I noticed about words having similar meaning is the words: together, one, universal, and they. These selected lines from the poem are the two completely different men coming together and mourning, surely out of understanding of what the other is feeling. These words throughout this passage just solidify that even
The first verse of the poem states that he is two times a fool, a fool for loving, and a fool for admitting it, “I am two fools, I know, for loving, and for saying so in whining poetry.” (Donne, Lines 1-3) Donne follows to say that he would still not be wise, even if “she” (Donne, Line 5) returned his love. Donne releases his emotions by
The poem starts in an iambic tetrameter and continues this way for the first four lines. However, the fifth line does not fit this pattern. This break in tetrameter could be linked to the fact that this line is the first in which the speaker addresses his own actions. ‘I listened with heart fit to break’. The phrase ‘heart fit to break’ links to the iambic tetrameter breaking as the speaker’s heart is breaking, and so does the pattern.
Both Shakespeare and Carol Ann Duffy have structural differences in their texts to show the emotional change in the characters of Othello and Miss Havisham. In Othello Shakespeare shifts from blank verse to prose to show his breakdown in emotion. In Act 1 Scene 3 Othello speaks in unrhymed iambic pentameter which shows that it is written in blank verse however in Act 4 Scene 1 Othello starts to speak in prose and from the context of his speech we could infer that he is angry. This change in from verse to prose suggests that he cannot control his emotions very well and it is easy to see what he is feeling. Shakespeare tends to write in blank verse when the character is calm and then switches to prose when there is a spin of emotion.
The narrator explains in the first line that he “may cease to be” and rushes to include he is afraid to die “before [his] pen has glean’d [his] teeming brain”. It almost seems as though Keats was unable to fit his ideas neatly into spaced lines, with punctuation marks because he is afraid to lose valuable time while he is still living. In Longfellow’s poem, however, pauses, punctuation and composition of multiple sentences produce a relaxed tone and overall feel of the poem. The poem is filled with caesuras that decrease the entire speed of the poem. “Half of my life is gone,” the comma allows for a pause and a deep breath to continue on to say “and I have let the years slip from me”.
[10 points] The poem, however, deviates from the standard structure of the Shakespearean sonnet in the following ways. For one, slant rhyme occurs in lines three and five. The poet also chooses to break the rules of the form by changing the meter in lines three and five. Lines three and five have eleven syllables instead of ten causing them to have five and a half feet. At the end of
Part 4 commences with a break from the Mariner’s story, the wedding guest has interjected as he “fear(s) thee ancient Mariner!” which is unsurprising considering the previous part recounted solely the story of the Ancient Mariner. When the wedding guest says ‘I fear thee’, ‘I fear thy’, the repetition has been used by Coleridge to covey the wedding’s guest alarm as the repetition creates tension. Similarly when the wedding guest describes the Mariner ‘thou art long, and lank and brown’ by the use of a triplet this too adds to the on going tension. The metaphor ‘brown, as the ribb’d sea-sand’ describes how the Mariner has become so weather beaten it makes him look rather delirious. It also links to nature, this helps the reader to create a clearer image of the Mariner as for so long has be been at sea with deprived of social norms he has almost become part of nature.
In order to emphasise Larkin’s outlooks onto time and it’s passing, one can highlight the similarities and differences between Larkin and Abse’s poetry. In ‘Love Songs In Age’, Larkin illustrates the view that time and it’s passing merely leads to many disappointments. The enjambment he uses amongst all three stanzas, “and stood/relearning” in the first and second and “more/the glare” between the second and third; this implies the suggestion that love cannot stop the passing of time and the instances that happen within it, for example the death of the woman’s husband. During the first stanza, Larkin uses imagery to create a memoir of the music sheets that the woman has found, “one marked in circles”, “and coloured”, suggesting that the joy of life, love and happiness isn’t appreciated until age shows what one has missed during their youth. We can then imply from this suggestion that Larkin feels time is only appreciated during the older years of one’s life.
The poem was 4 lines in 1 stanza and the rhyme scheme was ABAB. The syllables were in a stable structure, always keeping close the 10-12 syllables each line. Meaning: What is the poem saying about life or love? Do you agree or disagree with this message? Explain.
Like many of Armitage's darker poems this also has a hint of macabre, his use of juxtaposition doesn't lessen the impact but makes it stand out as all the more terrible. If we look closer we see that the third stanza starts with a direct question to the onlooker, 'so when will you come?' which I read as a desperate plea for help, hence the comparison between shaking crumbs and fighting for life. The repetition of 'trying' and use of end-rhyme in the fourth stanza add further emphasis to this sense of impending doom and anxiety. The heat of the fires behind him are 'bullying' him towards his death, 'driving' him, although he is not yet ready to surrender.