Experiencing Poetry Graphic Organizer Characteristic Selected Poem Title: Initial Response: What does this poem seem to be about? This poem is about a person who says they do not love thee, but they really do. I Do Not Love Thee Words: Were the words in this poem difficult or easy to understand? The words in this poem whe easy to understand. Was there any word or phrase that was powerful to you?
Compare how language is used to express an opinion of love in sonnet 116 and another poem (Quickdraw) Shakespeare’s ‘Sonnet 116’ and Carol Ann Duffy’s poem ‘Quickdraw’ both talk about the relationship between two people, however they talk about them in very contrasting ways. Sonnet 116 and Quickdraw are written in different forms. Shakespeare’s poem is written in sonnet form with three quatrains and a rhyming couplet. This regular pattern shows that this is what love should be like and is normal. The use of iambic pentameter also stresses key ideas and words whilst the poem can still flow.
1. Why might Sonnet 18 by Francesco Petrarcha be interpreted as a poem about defeat as much as a poem about love? Use specific examples from the text in your response. Answer: In Sonnet 18, the speaker wants to describe the beauty of his love, but can’t find the words to do so. The speaker says “Then in mid-utterance the lay was lost” when he tries to think of the words to describe his love’s beauty.
The poem is made up of three stanzas of different lengths. He also writes in short sentences and no punctuation. This makes it easier to see the non-standard
Reasons For Women Writing Poetry During colonial times, many men believed that women wrote poetry as a medium to vent their frustrations about the world. However, in reality most women wrote poems to keep themselves entertained, such as playing an educational game today, to keep track of their private opinions and desires about the world, similarly to a diary, and to express their faith and trust in God. Thus, poetry served not as a method for explicitly expressing discontent, but as a way to confide their private thoughts, both good and bad. Just as how many people in modern times play music or games to keep themselves busy, women wrote poetry to stimulate their brains and be entertained. As such, poetry served as a tool women used to occupy their free and private times with, such as when Anne Bradstreet wrote poems professing her love for God and her husband when her husband, Simon Bradstreet, was away.
Brill is not medicated to help her suppress her feelings and is a single elderly lady. In both stories escaping their own sense of self is something I also see. In both stories there is a lot of imagination built in to both main characters. The continuous change in Miss Brill’s short story was not that dynamic but I feel as if it was more changing than “the yellow wall paper. The scene in the yellow wall paper seemed to be confined to one room where Miss Brill short story moved from scene to scene.
Also, the lines placement plays an important role in their meaning. These lines are one after the other, but there is a break between them, they are in different stanzas. The woman’s implied death has taken place in this break, showing once again the contrast between life and after life. Although this poem is very short, we are able to gather much from the diction Wordsworth uses in his writing. The first stanza of this poem is about the speaker’s love and affection towards the woman.
Analyzing “Introduction to Poetry” “Introduction to Poetry” by Billy Collins is a poem that seeks to teach a reader to listen to a poem for all its beauty and not to tear it apart. Poetry is a beautiful form of art that is not always easily understood by most concrete thinkers. Like a painting with different textures and colors and details, poetry is an expression of art that is set to a rhythm. It is created to illicit memories or feelings or images that not all people share. In the first stanza Collins writes: I ask them to take a poem and hold it up to the light like a color slide Here we see that his poem is written in first person about them (being the student) and what he wants them to do with a poem.
The first describes the mirror itself, sitting on the wall and looking at the room which is pink. It also compares itself to "the eye of the little god", which would probably mean that it sees everything in an honest way. The second part describes the mirror as a lake, and the woman that reflects herself in it, growing more and more agitated with how she looks. My theory is that the colour pink represents the woman's youth, and when darkness and separation is mentioned in the second part of the poem, it represents her aging and disconnection from other people. The poem doesn't really have a rhythm, and is very free-flowing in the way that you can keep reading without having to notice rhymes or a distinct rhythm.
She rejects the gifts conventionally associated with Valentine’s Day, such as ‘red-rose’, ‘satin cloth’, ‘cute card’, ‘kissogram’ but by bringing a Copernican revolution with the option of ‘Onion’ as a gift which we find in the second line as “I give you an onion”. The poem commences with a negative note “not a red rose” to slash the traditional offering of rose or satin cloth on Valentine’s Day. This is indeed to portray the idea that love is not to be taken as a bed of roses always, but to accept the thorns we find underneath the roses. Love has joyful and sorrowful nature. Carol gives the image of onion to love.