A drive in the country A drive in the country is poem written by Peter Skrzynecki. This poem relates to inner journey but significantly relates to physical journey as it is a poem that involves different types of obstacles and movement to new places. The poet has used descriptive language, visual imagery and many more techniques to make his poem more effective. This poem is about the poet’s experiences and they affected him. The poet is suggesting that the natural world has so much more to offer than the one he is currently enduring.
In the literary work I have studied, "A Long Way Gone: the author uses many symbols to support his main theme on oppression like the moon, the cassettes', and dreams. The author uses three ways to show his account of the events, he uses present, past and his dreams which he switches over from time to time to support his story. The moon is included in every part of the book. The author first remembers how his grandmother told him “We must strive to be like the moon.” (Beah 16) and this gives him safety. In the book when Ishmael is outside during the night he feels safe as he watches the moon.
I Do Not Love Thee Figurative Language: What poetic devices were used in this poem? The poetic device is rhyme. What did these poetic devices do for the poem? It made the poem rhyme. Did these devices help create imagery or communicate the author's feelings?
... The most dominant aspect of the story that reveals the them is the dream of going to the moon. Miss Johnson makes the idea of going to the moon so realistic to her students, as she lays out two adjoining lengths of newsprint which reveal the students lunar landscape. ... However, Apollo I the space shuttle the class has been following that sparks such an interest to them, never made it to the moon, as the crew dies in a preflight test.
Compare how poets use language to present feelings in “The Manhunt” and one other poem (Nettles) In ‘Manhunt’, Simon Armitage uses rhyme to reflect the togetherness of a relationship. He says “After the first phase, after passionate nights and intimate days.” As the poem goes on, the reader can start to recognise that the un-rhymed cuplets show how fragmented their relationship has become. In ‘Nettles’ Vernon Scannell uses elements of nature, the nettles, to portray his keen anger towards the pain his son is going through. At the beginning of the poem, Scannell uses soft ‘s’ sounds to emphasise the soothing of his injured son who has fallen in a nettle bed. The child is presented using emotive language.
In Wild Oats It explains that a person, over the course of time, comes to realise that his greatest desires of love, are unattainable, and second best things will have to suffice. The central purpose of this poem is to show that love is one of these great desires and despite flashes of promise it contains scarcely anything that is more than fragmentary. Larkin reveals this through tone and diction. Both poets seem to focus a lot on the physical side of love where lust and desire are involved however Abse makes it sound more sensual and even spiritual when he speaks of Eros in his poem. Larkin portrays this sense of objectification in his poem with regards to woman as he describes a woman as a ‘bosomy English rose’ and then follows on to call her ‘beautiful’ throughout the poem portraying the sexual lust involved with love.
Edgar Allen Poe demonstrates in his written works of “Lenore”, “Annabel Lee”, and “To Helen” an element that seemingly attempts to give the reader exceptional emotional sadness. Poe does this by telling the poem in a point of view where a man tells the story of the death or remembrance of a young love or woman. He also puts a sense of gloom in each of his poems. This allows for the reader to create a mental image if the setting, without him having to directly point it out. As well, the gloominess of his poetry could also be due to his longing effect of sadness that he attempts to express.
Poetry and drama have a few key features that emphasize their per formative nature. One is the use of rhyme, rhythm, meter, alliteration, and other types of sound symbolism. For example, in Gwendolyn Brooks' "We real cool", the poet uses a strong rhyme scheme, a consistent meter, and an almost sing-song tone to demonstrate the lack of education of the narrator and his or her youthfulness. It also emphasizes the last line "We die soon.". Another is in "unity of action".
“Boy at the Window” is the kind of poem that takes place on such days. Loneliness also leads to pity. Pity is the shameless result of such loneliness. In “Boy at the Window”, by Richard Wilbur, the author evaluates the poem through allusion, metaphor, speaker, tone, smile, end rhyme, imagery, and personification. Allusions are references to factors of a culture such as literature and history- that writers expect their readers to recognize.
Commentary: “Astronauts” by Robert Hayden Already evident from the first word of the poem, the title, the poem is about “Astronauts”. Robert Hayden, the poet, explores several philosophical issues that pertain to moon exploration. The single-worded title “Astronauts” seems bold and unique at first sight, but simultaneously draws attention to the absence of identity of both the moon, and those who explore the moon, in the first 5 lines whereupon the poet portrays the “faceless” astronauts as lacking personality and detail with their “mirrormasks reflecting the general glare and shadow of the moonscape”. The imagery, voice, structure and language are effective literary devices that the poet uses in order to convey his opinion on what space exploration actually entails, and further expands to question the interests of humanity. The striking imagery throughout the poem is one of the elements that contributes the poems’ effect on the reader’s mentality towards space exploration.