In the poem “Glasgow 5th March 1971” by Edwin Morgan the poet has created very vivid images by using metaphors and unusual word orders. To summarise what happens in the poem, a man and his girlfriend are pushed through a glass window of a shop in Glasgow by two youths looking to steal items from the shop. The poem is written in an impersonal way. The poet does not give his own opinions on the situation described, therefore the reader can draw their own conclusions. The title of the poem gives the effect of a newspaper headline which is also impersonal, leaving the pictures in the readers mind very chilling and sinister, although most of the images are created by metaphors.
The poem 'Glasgow Fifth of March 1971', writen by Edwin Morgan, is an instamatic poem which describes a very violent incident. The writer manages to make us feel as if we are watching this incident as it is happening. The writer uses word choice, imagery and symbolism to create an upsetting atmosphere for the readers. This poem is split up into three couples instead of stanzas; a young, romantic couple, two youths, and two drivers. The young couple are the victims, who are pushed through a shop window by the two youths, while the drivers, who are used as symbolism in the poem, 'keep their eyes on the road'.
Poem Review: Week 4 Assignment Jenni Janssen ENG 125: Introduction to Literature Alex Vuilleumier January 16, 2012 Poem Review: Week Four Assignment The most enticing poems use rhythm, rhyme, symbolism, which help many readers enjoy them. These three literary elements of a poem make it easier to personalize and help the reader to visualize the picture that is being “painted”. A poem written in first person narration, which also contained persona, rhythm, rhyme and symbolism, is “My Papa’s Waltz”. This poem was written by Theodore Roethke in 1942. “My Papa’s Waltz” was composed about a young boy and his father and written in a very rhythmic form.
The first two pages that Steinbeck has written, transports you to the place where you are first introduced to George and Lennie. It creates a clear image in your mind of the surrounding countryside and its beauty. The opening pages of all books and plays need to engage the reader almost immediately if the reader is to continue. So does this vivid description and the emergence of two unidentified men ensure your want to read further and understand why they are there? By looking more in depth at this opening to the novella we should see how Steinbeck succeeds in engaging the reader.
In “We Real Cool,” Gwendolyn Brooks utilizes a series of internal rhymes in her fairly short and simple poem. The rhyming structure consists of: AA BB CC DD, however, she decides to end each line with “We” rather than the rhymes’ end words. This breaks up the flow of the poem and places more emphasis on each “We” as the line break causes a run-on pause. Instead of “We real cool./ We left school./” the writer fragments the natural flow of each phrase by writing the lines as “We real cool. We/ Left school.” I assume by setting up the poem’s structure in this way, the writer intended to isolate each “We,” allowing the pronoun to resonate a little longer in the reader’s mind or speech.
The story is also told in a chronological order that starts at the beginning of the summer where Jane is somewhat “ill” to where it progresses to the end where Jane finally losses her mind. The major differences that we see from the beginning to the end of the story is Jane’s slow slip into this illness and how the love and romantic gesture she believed to be from her husband john turned into somewhat resentment towards him because of how its designed to control her. In this story the climax is for sure when Jane losses it the night before she is to be checked out and when john comes to collect her he finds that she has ripped the yellow wallpaper that she has complained about the whole summer ripped from the
Overreaching Don’t Pay (pg 186) Huck cannot stand the frauds anymore when he sees Mary-Jane crying over the slaves sold and have their families separated, so he tells Mary-Jane the truth about the frauds and devises a plan to jail the king and his duke, which Huck feels proud of because even “Tom Sawyer couldn’t ’a’ done it no neater himself” (195). XXIX. I Light Out in the Storm (pg195) The day Mary-Jane went to town was the same day that the real Harvey and William return. The townspeople along with Dr. Robinson and lawyer Levi Bell inspects the frauds and almost immediately reveals their fraud identities. XXX.
This leaves no option for a third opinion. Using the word “Some say” (1) instead of I say shows that how the world will end is not an opinion of the speaker but a belief of the groups he is speaking about. At this point in the poem images are drawn of the world ending in fire, a meteor hitting the world and it blowing up. There are also images of the world ending in ice, another ice age. The world could also be a metaphor for something deeper, for instance human
Poem May 12, 2014. ENG125: Introduction to Literature Instructor: Heather Auger “My Papa’s Waltz” was the poem narrative Theodore Roethke made very interesting. This reading was fascinating poem. It really allowed the reader to engage with the emotion and interpretation. There will be several elements I will identify with and show how the literacy works.
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?