Lovely bride!” bring the story into the present tense and the use of short sentences make the words more powerful. Also the phrase “She hurried at his words…” gives the reader a sense of time- by using a mixture of dialogue and the author saying that someone has spoken gives the poem more depth, showing that some points are more relevant than others. Keats did this as to point the reader at the points which create the story. The phrase “’Hark! ‘tis an elfin-storm from faery land…” has a bit of ambiguity about it.
Poems can make you laugh, cry, think or be silent as we ponder the words that are written. What Makes poetry works better than a short story is the repetitive or the shortened way word are written or placed together to form a rhythm or a song. When a poet uses a rhyme as his theme is can be catchy or funny and makes us enjoy reading it. When it is worded as a song we can easily remember it since everyone loves to sing even when most of us cannot hold a tune but we can hold a rhythm. A poet relies on his feeling to convey the current situations that they are in.
Response to “Counting the Mad” When reading the contemporary american poetry anthology I found myself becoming almost lost in one specific poet. Donald Justice, or more specifically, one of his poems,“Counting the Mad” was a poem that was both the most enjoyable work for me to read and at the same time, the most difficult for me to understand, at first. For myself this poem could be compared to a type of riddle due to its ever apparent ambiguity. At the same time, I believe that this poem takes a satirical perspective of mankind. Justice utilizes the sound similar to that of a nursery rhyme to engage his readers.
Image is the literary vision that is perceived from reading a poem. The picture is being portrayed to you through its words. These literary images trigger our imagination so we may see what the author is trying to create. In the first stanza of the poem it reads, “Amazing grace! How sweet the sound, That saved a wretch like me!
“Crossing The Swamp” by Mary Oliver When it comes to reading poetry, the works of Mary Oliver have always intrigued me. Her literal style of diction inspires vast articles of imagery engulfing the reader in many different rhetorical devices and adjectives; Regardless, in my paper I intend on establishing the majority of these techniques, along with their effect on the readers perception of what the author, Mary Oliver, in the way only she could have meant for them to be expressed. We will discuss the effects of diction usage and how it relates to the imagery portrayed in the poem. Oliver begins her first sentence with an allusion to "The nugget"; "The endless wet thick cosmos, the center of everything-the nugget." this reference to the swamp actually serves as a metaphor of the author's character's life being portrayed in the poem.
The persuasion used in this poem is very aggressive with clear intentions. However this poem is not just about raw passion and persuasion, but also about time. As he tries to persuade this lady he consistently refers back to time throughout the poem. The man compliments and also tries to scare the lady with his word choices in the first stanza and second stanza. The poem follows a common setup called a lyrical.
A commonly overlooked, yet highly influential variable in both literature and everyday life is the concept of an assumption. Even though assumption seem almost like an instinct, Sir Thomas Wyatt’s They Flee From Me explores the notion of human assumption to demonstrate the influence and power this concept has on both love and everyday life. The first and second stanzas of They Flee From Me immediately presents the reader with somewhat of an interpretative quandary. Words such as “tame” and “wild” are utilized to describe the subject of Wyatt’s poem—a character simply referred to as “They”. Because of these specific terms, the reader questions exactly who or what the poem is actually referring to.
Although Robert Frost appeals to the common man, he gives a deeper meaning in most of his poems. In the poem there are many sound devices such as a rhyme scheme, consonance, and alliteration. In line one, Frost says “world will.” The repeating of the W sound gives alliteration. He also gives another example at the end of line four when he ends it with “favor fire.” In line six, Frost shows consonance by saying, “think I know enough” with the repeating sound of the consonant N. Along with his poetic devices, he also has a rhyme scheme which appeals to the reader and makes it easy to read and connect to the narrator. Frost’s poem centralizes around the metaphors of fire and ice.
English Poetry Essay Choose a poem which appealed to you because it was striking – show which techniques the poet has used to capture your interest and engage your feelings “To His Coy Mistress” is a piece of metaphysical poetry written by Andrew Marvell. This poem, like most metaphysical poetry, makes use of original images and has a very profound meaning behind it. “To His Coy Mistress” is particularly striking because of the deeper themes that it deals with, such as mortality and the idea of “carpe diem”, as well as the unique imagery used throughout and the interesting structure and progression of the poem. The use of the image “vegetable love” is very effective in capturing the reader’s interest. “Vegetable” is not usually the
A point that stands out in the poem ‘Pretty’ is the connection Makkai made with the famous song by Doris Day called Que Sera Sera. Makkai incorporated the lyrics from the song into her poem where the context of both relate; “Will I be pretty? Will I be rich?” The inclusion of these has an effect on the poem; the readers feel more involved when they figure out the connection using the background information they have, making it more engaging - leaving them eager to read on. Repetition is also one of the main literary devices Makkai used in her poem. The word “pretty” and the phrase “Will I be pretty?” are repeated many times throughout the poem; “You will be pretty intelligent, pretty creative, pretty amazing.