To Waken an Old Lady is a poem that was authored by William Carlos Williams. The poem essentially focuses on the aspect of old age. Therefore, the writer utilizes numerous bookish tools so as to construct the poem. In my experience of reading the poem I got attracted to the manner in which the author presented the poem the use of literary devices actually affected my experience. The use aspects of content, language and form were of greatest significance in the entire poem.
There have been many translations since. Malouf takes a very small, very personal part of Book 24 of the Iliad and retells the story, exploring the choices faced by Priam, Achilles, Somax and others and examines human experience and human nature in extreme situations. The text follows the great English tradition of narrative storytelling – to examine human behaviour. The story of Troy is not as important as looking at what the story tells us about human experience. In this sense, Malouf continues an ancient tradition of narrative.
Let me count the ways.” (Line 1 Sonnet 43) The use of first person, authenticates that both poems are written for a personal response, this however cannot be seen in ‘Romeo and Juliet’ apart from when the characters speak. The use of alliteration in ‘Sonnet 43’, confirms that the poem was written for Browning’s lover. The repetition of “I love thee...” Shows it’s a personal poem for her true love. However, ‘Valentine’ could be interpreted as an open poem to allow the readers to understand the experiences Duffy has faced. The use of “...we are, for as long as we are.” (Line 16 and 17) Shows that Duffy is inviting her readers into the poem to help reflect upon how she feels.
The message of a poem can be given in many ways and the poet must consider all elements and focus on their chosen technique to convey it. Longfellow’s poem is listed on many websites as Native American poetry (which it will be used as such in this paper) but further searching revealed that it is enjoyed by many English speaking cultures. The poem is a lyric which means that is songlike, does not tell a story, but relates and describes feelings (Russell, 2009, p. 172). Longfellow’s poem also utilizes an end rhyme that changes every two lines which is aided by keeping each line between seven and nine syllables. The poem is an analogy and does not directly say what it means but leaves it up to the reader to figure it out for themselves.
Lets dig deeper into those little things that make her one of the most profound poets in American Literature. Emotion is used very often in Nikki Giovanni's poems. Three poems stood out the most in terms of emotions. They were "Blacksburg under siege: 21 August 2006"(1), "I am the Ocean"(55), and "We are Virginia"(107). The first and last poems evoked sad but happy emotions towards the end of the poem.
By looking more in depth at this opening to the novella we should see how Steinbeck succeeds in engaging the reader. In the first line of the novella, the author writes that the place is set ‘A few miles south of Soledad’. This is an interesting and clever choice of location since ‘Soledad’ is Spanish for the word loneliness and this is one of the major themes running throughout the whole novella. However if the reader does not understand this translation in the first line of the book, a key point may be missed. It was written during the ‘Great American
The New Colossus Emma Lazarus’s poem “The New Colossus” is about the huge welcome that the immigrants coming to America saw as their boat came in to Ellis Island. The Statue of Liberty is being compared to the giant statue of Helios at Rhodes in Greece. Unlike the giant statue in Greece that was build to show the conquering of their country, in America the Statue is a symbol of freedom and a new life for thousands of people who came to America to start a new life. “The New Colossus” starts out stern and telling. The poem begins by telling us what the giant statue is not, then shifts and becomes caring and softer.
Imagery was used to place an idea in someone’s head about what was going on in the poem. It was very important that this was used because there were not written documents of these writings and they had to be passed down orally. Actions had to be emphasized allot for the listener to better comprehend what he was hearing and process it to remember and repeat. “They have seen my strength for themselves,/Have watched me rise from the darkness of war,/Dripping with my enemies blood;”(pg.24 lines 151-153)Beowulfs strength is expressed to its fullest extent, for the reader to know how powerful he really is. These literary devices show how powerful the heroes and enemies in the Angelo-Saxon religion actually are.
The poems in this section have to do with “Ars Poetica.” This means The Art of Poetry in Latin. The poets of this collection of poems are actually using poetry to answer the questions of what poetry is, how it should be written, and how it should be read. There is one poem specifically that I felt agreed with my views of poetry and that is Billy Collins’ “Introduction of Poetry.” In this poem, I feel like he is trying to say that people try too hard and over-analyze poems. They sometimes try to force a meaning into a poem because they think that there has to be a reason that poem was written and it has to have some kind of deeper meaning of an issue going on in the world. I think that the end of the poem really points this out with the words “torture of confession out of it” and “they begin beating it with a hose to find out what it really means.” I think that Collins is trying to tell people that they should just read poetry and enjoy it.
She also effectively utilizes literary techniques such as rhythm, alliteration, and imaging that contribute to the overall theme. The speaker of this poem associates himself with a group that he refers to as we. The poem is written in first person, presenting only one character’s point of view. The title is ironic. "We Real Cool" is contradicting the last line, "We Die soon."