Comparison between Belfast Confetti and The Right Word Belfast Confetti and The Right Word are both poems with the central theme being Conflict and its effects. Belfast Confetti is a poem written by Ciaran Carson, who was an Irish poet, his poem being focused around the conflict between opposing religions in Belfast, and the riots, kidnapping, murders and bombings that came with it. The poem's form is immediately striking. Instead of neat, compact stanzas, the lines are over-long and the stanzas stretched. On closer inspection, you can see there are two stanzas, the first with five lines, the second with four.
This reinforce the persona’s tiredness and frustration over the job. Line 27 to 29 clearly states in simple language “For I have had too much/ Of apple-picking: I am overtired/ Of the great harvest I myself desired.” It show persona’s dissatisfaction and weariness, he used to think his life is all about the “great harvest” but now questioning his decision. Hyperbole is used in the next line “thousand thousand” to show the persona’s achievements and responsibilities in life, which again emphasises the weariness that he feel. He then lists the procedures of apple picking “to touch, cherish in hand, lift down, and not let fall.” This emphasis the amount of work and care taken into picking these
The poem is told by an omniscient narrator and consists of twenty four lines; the first stanza contains sixteen lines and the second is an octet. Furthermore, the poem is made up of twelve rhyming couplets, although the majority of the couplets contain near (slant) rhyme: “sun”(1) and “ripen”(2), “sweet”(5) and “it”(6), “for”(7) and “hunger”(8). The outliers are the second couplet of the first stanza, the first and last couplets of the second stanza which all end in a full rhyme. Overall, the poem is written in iambic pentameter, with slight variations. Line fifteen begins, “Like a…”, and since “a” is an article and therefore unstressed, the first foot is a trochee.
The poem is written in three stanzas which are all quatrains with a rhyme scheme of A-B-C-B, which is a regular rhyme scheme. The lines are written in different lengths which could depict the growing distance between the man and the rest of the people, which was the difficulty to bridge the gap. The first and third stanzas are very similar. In the first stanza the narrator speaks followed by the drowning man. This happens again in the third stanza, when the narrator speaks in the second line.
He is also referring to his poetry that it killed the cow because it was so sad. These are both an example of a hyperbole (overstatement) that is a figure of speech in which exaggeration is used in the service of truth. All the verses in this poem have a rhythm, which is any wavelike recurrence of motion or sound. The rhythm is eight beats per line. The second verse as well as second speaker of the poem slings right back at the attack on his work by obliging that for people like him alcohol is the best medicine.
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.
John Milton's major work of Paradise Lost consists of twelve books all written in blank verse. Many aspects of this work help characterize it as an epic poem besides its lengthy narrative form. One classical epic convention Milton utilizes includes the fact that Milton retells a story in which the reader or listener already knows about. A second epic convention Milton uses in Paradise Lost includes the invocation of a muse in which Milton requests divine help in composing his work. A third characteristic of epics that Paradise Lost has includes the notion of in media res which means beginning the story in the middle.
Type of Work and Year of Publication "The Tiger," originally called "The Tyger," is a lyric poem focusing on the nature of God and his creations. It was published in 1794 in a collection entitled Songs of Experience. Modern anthologies often print "The Tiger" alongside an earlier Blake poem, "The Lamb," published in 1789 in a collection entitled Songs of Innocence. Meter The poem is in trochaic tetrameter with catalexis at the end of each line. Here is an explanation of these technical terms: Tetrameter Line: a poetry line usually with eight syllables.
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.
They lived in the most tranquil manners, until when Eve was convinced to eat a fruit from the tree of knowledge. When God discovered, he condemned the pair of disobedience to Him, and expelled them from the sacred paradise. This poem tells a fairy tale of their lives in the garden, of a time when corruption, war, and desires did not exist. The poet accurately recreated this unreal scene into art in the form of a poem. The second poem I chose is Happiness, by Stephen Dunn.