The writers of “Valentine and “My last duchess” have very contrasting and different ways of explaining their feelings on love. The structure of the first poem “Valentine” is simply not present. It has a very irregular structure, which symbolises the idea of an unconventional relationship and the opposite of what some may believe to be love. All the stanzas in this poem are different lengths, which means that she is simply speaking as she feels. There is no rhyme pattern that could mean that there is no flow or ease in this relationship.
At the Border, 1979 This poem presents two very different types of relationships: the relationship between a parent and child, and the relationship between an individual and the land. The poem does not use a lot of 'poetic' language but much of the language has many connotations. For example, the word "border" could be a border between life and death, youth and age, innocence and experience. The date of the title fixes this poem in a particular time and place. There are very few adjectives and these are mostly unexciting: "last" and "different".
At first the poem doesn’t seem to have any of the traditional flow and rhymes at the end of the lines, but he does show internal rhyming within the lines. Stafford is a poet who does not follow traditional formatting within is work. The title of the poem is “Ask Me,” any reader may think “Ask Me what?” But the title speaks for itself as you read on. His poem at first is a little unclean on what is really being asked and to whom. The first line says “Some time when the river is ice ask me mistakes I have made” (Stafford).
I will be giving my own ideal argument on the way the theme relates with my reading literary experience and personal insight. In the short eight lined poem, “Nothing Gold Can Stay,” written by Robert Frost, he starts out by painting a picture theme of spring by using symbols of green and gold.“Nature’s first green is gold.” (Clugston, 2010). Here the point is to take in the beauty and feeling of nature and beautiful spring. According to Clugston, (2010) the color green is nature symbolizing birth-new beginning and gold in relation with perfection. For those that have experienced all four seasons and when Spring comes it can be related to a new birth of life.
As in the rest of the poem, is simple and the point, suggesting the sincerity of the speaker’s emotions. Both “The night is starry and the stars are blue and shiver in the distance” and “Love is so short, forgetting is so long” explain the literal. In the other side, “My heart looks for her” and “My voice tried to find the wind to touch her hearing” are figurative. This poem’s form is informal because it does not have alliteration, although it has rhythm in some stanzas. It is like the speaker’s journal, and this is one day of his journal.
Stories have themes, plots, and character development with them. To where poems have rhyme and, rhythm and, lyrics. Poems express how a person feels to where a story does not also poems have meanings as well. Short stories are made up of the writer’s imagination. Stories have middle, end, and beginning poem does not consist of any of those things.
For example: “What is happening? Slow down, slow down, take a few deep breaths …”, there are no complicated or hard to read words in it but he still manages to show the emotions that should be involved in reading a poem. Shakespeare, on the other hand, is easily distinguished from other poets because he didn’t write in modern English, instead he wrote in old English. “I have seen roses damasked, red and white, But no such roses see I in her cheeks”. Although the language used in both poems may differ from one another both successfully express their intentions with the poem.
Therefore the harvest signifies life itself, and the harvest is founded on the fertility of the land. In the poem the narrator was waiting for the amaranths to bloom. This is also based on the fertility of the land. Next, in the poem the author brings upon many points relating to nature that can be perceived as fertility. These things are, “All Nature seems at work”, it says things such as birds and bees, and also states that “a dream of Spring” which spring is the season of new life.
For instance a stanzas definition “In poetry a stanza is a grouped set of lines within a poem…”. In a prose stanzas are not used instead periods are put in at the end to start another line. Poetry is different in these ways but have similarities with prose. A similarity between the two is that they both have is they are both forms of literature and they both compliment each other. One way they compliment each other is that a poem can become a story and a story can become a screenplay.
Open form used to be called free verse (describes poetry that organizes its lines without meter). Symbol is a visible object or action that suggests some further meaning in addition to itself. Conventional symbols are also part of the language of poetry. Questions 1. What, specifically, does the speaker fear when he thinks about his death?