Perfect Dress by Marisa de los Santos In reading this poem Santos speaks of finding the ‘perfect dress.’ The poem is about the longing women feel to fix every imperfection. Santos also speaks about dress itself and the importance of the name. In the last stanza, Santos admits to the desire to not only feel beautiful, but to have others notice it as well. In the first stanza of the poem it says, “…..a blue confession in smudged, erasable ink: ‘I can’t stop hoping I’ll wake up, suddenly beautiful.” Things written in ink are not typically erasable. I interpret this to mean that as much as we women would like to erase the thoughts from our heads, it is something that stays with us not only in childhood, but through adulthood as well.
By separating lines and starting new stanzas during mid-flow, she is able to portray a hesitance in the person’s voice. By writing in sonnet form, Shakespeare was also able to use regular external rhyme. This makes the poem feel as one and allows ideas to be linked throughout the poem. The use of para-rhyme can also be seen in Sonnet 116; ‘Love…Remove’. This gives a jarring effect, causing the words to stand out to the reader.
Sylvia Plath was a poet and author who deeply and thoughtfully engaged with the period in which she lived, which was rapidly evolving and developing. This is clear in her poems “Morning Song” and “The Applicant” as well as her novel, The Bell Jar. Plath passionately challenged many social expectations, such as the expectations placed upon females as well as pressures on men – the expectations of “the perfect life”. She also challenged consumerism. Because of the way that she engaged with and challenged the changing reality of her period, her contribution to the literary world is valued most highly.
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?
I could visualize that the person he is talking about is the most beautiful individual ever. I could see this by the way he compared her to “…night of cloudless climes and starry skies.” I could also sense feel as I read the poem. He described her cheek and brow, “so soft, so calm, yet eloquent,…” Figurative Language: What poetic devices were used in this poem? What did these poetic devices do for the poem? Did these devices help create imagery or communicate the author's feelings?
In the poem ‘Maude Clare’ Rossetti has used the theme of empowered women and relationships. Throughout the poem there is a clear love triangle between Thomas, Nell and Maude Clare. It is obvious to the reader that Maude Clare is important to the poem as her name is the title. This may already symbolise that she is the protagonist in the poem to which Rossetti has based her poem. The readers begin to see the importance of Maude Clare as her name frequently appears throughout the poem.
Poets through the ages have been esteemed as possessing the ability to perceive the ordinary in extraordinary and innovative ways. Poetry captures the essences of human emotion and experience and imbues them with further significance by the literary techniques that typify poetry as the language of art. In her poetry, Gwen Harwood explores many thematic concerns that resonate with her readers regardless of their contexts. The universality of concepts such as memory, inspiration, childhood education and the cyclical, yet final nature of death are transformed by Harwood’s poetry to create fresh perceptions of the continuity of experience and provide permanence to these transient elements of humanity through language. The poetic techniques employed by Harwood effectively communicate distinctive aspects of her themes while allowing them to remain universal.
All throughout the poem, the speaker addresses this woman in a kind of mini-drama in which only one voice is heard. (Browning uses much the same technique in "My Last Duchess"). In "The Flea," however, the woman responds through her actions if not through her words, thereby making the poem even more dramatic. Some poems actually contain dialogue between two or more characters, thus making them even more dramatic in the literal sense of the word. Some of the poems in the final third of Edmund SpenserAmoretti sonnet sequence display this feature.
Now we all know I LOVE to cause an online riot and my eyes literally light up at the word debate! I’m currently interested in the different opinions about the “Chick Lit” genre or more formerly known as Women’s Literature. We’ve probably all stumbled across the odd romance and maybe even a Mill’s and Boon novel, but with many women of all ages now taking an interest in female literature, can we call this genre real literature? Chick Lit is basically written for women by women and what really separates the genre from typical women’s fiction is that there is the humorous element throughout the storyline. Many novels in this genre tackle personal issues such as dating, relationships, weight issues, life issues and many more.
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