The words were somewhat difficult to understand since this was written in the 1800s. The phrase “when thou art gone, I hate the sound (though those who speak be dear) Which breaks the lingering echo of the tone Thy voice of music leaves upon my ear.” Images: Did the poet create strong images? What could you see, hear, smell, taste, or feel? The poet created strong images of the bright, blue sky and the quiet stars. There was solitude that she created with her words that was very powerful.
Oates places beautiful Marilyn Monroe against the background of a used bookstore to accent how foreign the girl-poets take her to be. In the first two paragraphs of Three Girls, Oates describes the Strand Used Bookstore as dark, dingy, unorganized, and unrefined (77). Whereas, later on in the story, Oates describes Marilyn Monroe as the leading lady, attractive, and charming, even though she is dressed in men’s clothing with her blond hair in a braid (78). Even when the girl-poets describe Marilyn Monroe as “more resembling them, then she resembled her Hollywood image,” she seems to be out of place in the Strand (79). The girl-poets wonder, to themselves of course, why the Marilyn Monroe would be browsing through used books, when she could be walking through the Waldorf-Astoria (80).
“Annabel Lee” was written in 1849. It speaks about the death of a young woman and was originally addressed to his wife Virginia. This poem is one of Edgar Allan Poe’s most popular writing on the basis that Annabel is pure love and beauty. The poem's stanzas have an irregular length and structure. There are a total of six stanzas in this poem where there are six lines and three have eight lines.
The diction the Diction and structure 1 HOLT, RINEHART AND WINSTON Analyzing a Poem writer uses leaves the perpetrators nameless. Furthermore, Parker structures her subjects according to importance. She writes about a rose first, then a bird, and finally a deserted girl. Each time the idea of feeling toward the subject is more tragic Effect of devices on theme and more meaningful. The diction and structure used in “Solace” connect the theme in that without them, the poem would not have the impact that it sends out to the reader.
In all three of Louise Glück’s poems, Gretel In Darkness, Mock Orange and A Myth of Devotion (see poems below), she is taking a traditional story and twisting it into a new tale. Gretel in Darkness published in 1971, Mock Orange published in 1985 and A Myth of Devotion published in 2006 are all about the myth of devotion itself. Attachment, loyalty and commitment are addressed as distortions of truth in these poems, with a voice that is mocking and cynical. In Gretel In Darkness, we hear the screech of a witch burning in the flames. In the Grimm’s fairytale, the witch’s death is a triumph because the children she has killed or tried to kill, like Hansel and Gretel, return home alive.
Eric Peuterbaugh English 19 September 2012 William Carlos Williams William’s “To Waken An Old Lady” In this poem the speaker is attempting to portray the life of a woman. More specifically, the poem is speaking of the later years and eventual death of an old lady. The title of this poem is a metaphor for the afterlife of an old lady. Her death leads to her awakening. The speaker uses, “a flight of small cheeping birds,” as a metaphor for old age (2-3).
The juxtaposition of the tempo and the actual context of the poem serve to create a strange tone and some black humor in the poem. Her setting and clothing are described. Her one bed-sitting room and "grey-serge" outfit suggest to us that she is a poor woman and she is forced to live in somewhat uncomfortable situations. This helps to develop the stories character and to also ease us into the story. The story of Miss Gee changes somewhat in the seventh quatrain as we enter the dreams of the character Miss Edith Gee.
The piece had its première at the Berkshires Music Festival in 1919, and was well received. It, along with the Piano Trio of 1921 and the Rhapsody for cello and piano of 1923, represent the peak of her compositional career, though afterwards Clarke wrote hardly any more music. Clarke gives us an incipit on the first page of the sonata, a quote from La Nuit de mai (1835) by the French poet Alfred de Musset: | | | |Poète, prends ton luth; le vin de la jeunesse
Daniel Mayugba Mrs. Kelly English III H Period 5 25 January, 2012 Poetry Explication “There is a Solitude of Space” by Emily Dickinson is a lyrical octet poem in written with a rhyme scheme of abcbdbeb. The poem discusses the different forms of solitude that one may find. The theme of the poem is the immortality of the soul and how the solitude that it offers is greater than any of that found on earth. The speaker opens this poem talking about solitude and mentions places where one might find it. Dickinson gives a gentle, soft sound to the poem through her use of alliteration in the sound of “s” seen in words such as solitude, space, and sea.
“The Keys Of Morning” is a very mysterious and allegorical poem. In this poem every other line rhymes. In the first stanza there is alliteration: “Little Louisa lonely sat”. This sentence emphasises the words little and lonely so that it is obvious that Louisa is little and lonely. The first stanza is about how Louisa while doing school work looks out the window and sees death watching her in the sunshine.