Singh Song is a first-person love song by a young man about his wife. He manages his father's shop but keeps sneaking upstairs to see her instead. He paints a colourful picture of their love and lives, challenging stereotypical ideas about Indian culture. Form and structure As it says in the title, this poem is a song - it has a strong lyrical voice, and depends on rhyme and rhythm, as well as repetition to create a sense of a refrain or chorus. The structure does not stay the same throughout, but cycles through a number of different stanza patterns, finishing in four two-line stanzas that follow a conversation between the narrator and his bride.
The word minstrel means a medieval singer or musician, especially one who sang or recited lyric or heroic poetry. The persona, who is the minstrel talks about himself in the poem and tends to show what he has to grow through everyday and the circumstances under which he is living. The poem opens up with the first person and a metaphor “the road unravels as I go/ walking into the sun, the anaemic”. The use of first person at the beginning of the poem tends to incorporate and appeal to the reader to understand what the minstrel is trying to say and explain. It creates an image as if he is directly talking to the reader.
Response to “Boy at the Window” Heather Jordan ENG 125 Instructor Angela DiGualco December 17, 2012 Response to “Boy at the Window” The poem, “The Boy at the Window” is a very emotional poem. Most poems are written to be emotional, dramatic, and responses to actual life. The author of the poem, Richard Wilbur states that, “in order to write the poem, he first had to pay attention to something that was right there in front of him, allow himself to be drawn deeply into it, and then evoke (call forth) feelings and implications from it. Therefore, it is more accurate to say that poetry is an evocative response to ordinary life experience (Clugston, 2010).” This poem is about compassion; compassion for a young boy who has compassion for a snowman. In this poem, and most, there are examples of figurative language.
Monica Morgan Professor Broeckel English 241 October 12, 2009 Leslie Marmon Silko’s “Ceremony”: The Tale of Two Literary Styles “Ceremony” is a tale of a young man’s struggle with coming to terms with himself and the present state of his Indian people. Being of bi-racial descent and the struggle between beliefs in old and new traditions are the root problems that manifest themselves within the protagonist’s graphic mental and physical illnesses. Leslie Marmon Silko prepares us for a harmonious resolution within self and tradition by weaving poetry and prose together. Throughout the story the free verse poetry either sets up the following prose or completes or explains it, showing that two completely different styles can co-exist, or indeed depend upon each other to complete
He took refuge in writing poetry; his mother tried to bolster his creative side by enrolling him in Harlem's 127th Street Ensemble, which was the site of Tupac's acting debut, as Travis in the play A Raisin in the Sun. It was here that the acting "bug" bit him. "I remember thinking, 'This is the best shit in the world!'" he
Kaitlin Villaverde Mrs. Bradford English 11 30 September 2014 Poetry Explication Mending Wall This poem is about a soaring wall which parts one thing from another leaving the on of the neighbors inside wondering about the possibilities of freedom if the wall was to be absent yet, and the benefits there of. “And on that day we meet to walk the line”(13).The wall is ironic because, even though it separates the speaker from his neighbor, it also brings them together every year. “And set the wall between us once again” (14). This quote reflects the feeling of how are protagonists is sighing in frustration from having this division between him and his neighbor. As stated,there is an ironic twist at hand.
The caged bird\'s song represents the sustaining hope of achieving this society. CONNOTATION: Alliteration - Repetition of constant sounds at the beginning of words. But the bird that talks down his narrow cage can seldom see through his bars of rage... this stanza Maya uses alliteration of seldom and see to make the poem more affective. Seldom and see both have the repeated "S" sound. Repetition of vowel sounds in non-rhyming words.
The sound devices used in this poem are assonance, alliteration and rhyme. This poem ‘Magpies’ uses rhyme with the ABAB structure in the first two stanzas, but in the third the structure is ABABCC. Rhyme in this poem carries the reader along and helps them to connect with the rhythm. Another example of a sound device used in this poem is assonance. This is used in stanza three, line three: ‘of grace and praise – nor man nor bird’/ stanza four, line five: ‘For each is born with such a throat’/ stanza two, line four: ‘what clashing beaks, what greedy eyes!’ This has an effect that slows down the speed of the poem giving an emphasis on certain words.
Auden's collection, On This Island, earlier published as "Look, Stranger!" culminate his style and content, including love poems, comic songs, political odes and intense verse, among the poems were "O What Is That Sound" and "1st September 1939". To fully understand Auden's views we should delve deeper into his poetry, in "O What Is That Sound" Auden has used a simple AbAb rhyming structure to create a strong resemblance of marching, with the structure of the poem resembling a nursery rhyme, which could be a weakly linked to the child like dependency we have on our state. Using two speakers, the first, consoling and calm, the second childlike and seeking comfort, Auden has created a conversation between two characters illustrating betrayal, in which the first speaker is afraid the soldiers are after him and the second speaker constantly reassures the first speaker it is no such thing, until the last moment in which the soldiers are breaking down the gate to his home, "were the vows you swore deceiving, deceiving? ", put into context, it could be further analysed as the state betraying the "common man".
Terrance Hewitt Poetry Explanation Morehouse College English 103 11:00 am Friday November 16, 2012 In the book of poems, Life On Mars, Tracy K. Smith uses many different literary elements in each stanza of her poems to keep the reader inquiring. Using them causes the reader to stay engaged throughout the entire book and wonder how each poem is related to one another. My favorite poem in this book is “Solstice”. In this poem, Smith uses symbolism as well as makes several allusion which give the poem a much deeper meaning. “They’re gassing geese outside of JFK.” This is the first line of the poem.