A Lesson in Mastering Loss Elizabeth Bishop’s poem “One Art” is about loss. In it she mentions many of the small losses in life that we may experience but she is clearly talking about losing a love. Who she is speaking to in this poem is unclear but there is evidence to show that she and she alone is her own audience for this poem. She expresses denial, anger, blame, regret, humor and in the end she exclaims “Write it!”, which looks to be directed from the speaker to herself, either way it can be construed as acceptance. In the poem she goes through increasingly bigger losses that she quickly dismisses in a sarcastic manner until she reaches the loss of her lover.
In both poems phonetic spellings are used to emphasize the point the poet is trying to make. By using the kind of dialect they speak instead of the proper written language they are trying to show why people think of them differently. In a way they are ridiculing these people because they obviously know how to write properly and are merely using the phonetic spelling to help prove and accentuate the point they are trying to make. However, the phonetic spellings also help make the poems more personal because we can relate to the poet more and what he is trying to prove. It also means that the poem seems more conversational and less organized.
However, each line's first word starts with a capital letter which signifies how the father is "Lost between sentences…"; the droughts between each thought is symbolized by each line structured as a completely new sentence, even if the sentence before or after connects in meaning. We see lines fall into one another and connect in meaning consistently throughout the poem. This style of writing builds anticipation and grabs the readers intellect. For example, lines 5-7 leaves the reader asking themselves "beg her for what?" and then "promised to never what?".
Such techniques include personification, metaphors, epigraphs, sibilance, dramatic irony, imagery, simile and symbolism. At first you might think, “what the... I am not even going to bother with this one”, but give it a chance because I promise you, your life will suddenly feel a lot more pleasant once you dig deep and understand T.S. Eliots genius exhibition of dramatic monologue. A common element that is within his many poems is alienation, loneliness and shallowness and these can be found within the cryptic mastermind lines, verses and stanzas.
To begin, Poe litters his poems with useful poetic devices that help the reader understand the theme and make it an interesting poem. He uses repetition in the last line of every stanza whether it be nothing more or nevermore. This repetition of these specific words at the end of every stanza stresses to the reader that the speaker’s life is bleak and has nothing more to offer and he will nevermore be happy. He also uses alliteration to stress the importance of the words in the case of “whispered word, “Lenore?””(Poe 28). This gives the reader the idea that the speaker is amazed and can’t believe what he is seeing as he thinks a raven is his lost love, Lenore.
However the highly-contrived rhyme and the somewhat stilted syntax to which it leads (as in the penultimate stanza) make the narrator's mode of address seem somewhat unnatural: the reader does not (as one does with "The Man He Killed") have a clear and immediate sense of the narrator's character. Stanza 1 Knowing that soldiers are "light in their loving" i.e. inconstant, the narrator acknowledges how foolish she and her friends have been to choose such men as husbands, even without the additional hardship of losing them to uncertain battle in a distant country. Note the internal rhyme: "sad ... mad", "choosing ... loosing". This will recur in every stanza.
1-2) suggests a family, deepening the sadness as it becomes clear that it is more than one person’s life being disrupted. Although identity is thematically at the centre of the poem, there is a definite reluctance to use the personal pronoun as a fixed indicator to pronounce the idea of self-existent subjectivity. “We came from our own country” (l. 1) implies that the speaker’s family have a personal attachment with the place, mirroring the fact the place they used to live was more than just a home, taking an emotive effect on the reader causing them to sympathise with the speaker. The alliteration “fell through the fields” (l. 2) stresses the rush of them moving destination, there well-loved home is now merely a memory of the past. “our mother singing / our father’s name to the turn of the wheels” (ll.
However, each line's first word starts with a capital letter which signifies how the father is "Lost between sentences…"; the droughts between each thought is symbolized by each line structured as a completely new sentence, even if the sentence before or after connects in meaning. We see lines fall into one another and connect in meaning consistently throughout the poem. This style of writing builds anticipation and grabs the readers intellect. For example, lines 5-7 leaves the reader asking themselves "beg her for what?" and then "promised to never what?".
He concludes his monologue by stating that if the examples given illustrate the situation then there is half of him as well. He asks the reader to return the next day with a more opened mind. The author’s tone is quite accusatory and bitter and at the same time sad which evokes sympathy in the reader. The reader feels sorry for the author for all the hardships his skin colour has probably caused him. The author uses numerous stylistic devices.
II. The Usage of Euphemisms Euphemisms are commonly used in the English language. Given different motives for different individuals' application of euphemism, we can find people use euphemisms in areas concerning aging and death, different functions of the human body, diseases, crime and punishment, work(occupations of low social standing and unemployment), the language of government, and the game of war. Aging and Death Mankind's desire to forget the process of aging is the source of lots of "kind words" that have made the stages and roles of life seem more bearable. Since everyone longs for both eternal life and eternal youth, we attempt to preserve our looks and our