Claude Monet, the founder of nineteenth century French impressionism, shows his love of the plein-air (outdoor) approach to landscape painting in his oil on canvas painting, Vetheuil in Summer (1879). At first glance, the painting simply features houses reflecting vibrantly on the river, with the bright rays of the sun shining down on them. The painting is divided into a lower part and upper part by a riverbank, forming a bilateral symmetrical balance. It is like a snap shot of the small community it portrays, Vetheuil, in France. By stepping closer, the texture that is created the by short, thick brushstrokes of paint can be observed.
As in the rest of the poem, is simple and the point, suggesting the sincerity of the speaker’s emotions. Both “The night is starry and the stars are blue and shiver in the distance” and “Love is so short, forgetting is so long” explain the literal. In the other side, “My heart looks for her” and “My voice tried to find the wind to touch her hearing” are figurative. This poem’s form is informal because it does not have alliteration, although it has rhythm in some stanzas. It is like the speaker’s journal, and this is one day of his journal.
There was solitude that she created with her words that was very powerful. 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? She rhymed throughout the poem, her rhyme scheme being ABAB.
Train’s “Drops of Jupiter” is a bitter song about the loss of a loved one could stand alone as a poem. It contains a poetic format, and includes poetic devices such as personification, simile, alliteration, rime, and
Poetry Extended Response Question 2 Poetry often appears simple but subtly suggests and implies complex ideas. With reference to at least two poems, discuss the ways in which poetry achieves this. The poems Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein (1974) and The Lamb by William Blake (1789) at first glance, would appear straightforward and simple in nature, seen only to describe the sidewalk and a lamb respectively. However a deeper analysis reveals the more complex ideas of the power of imagination and childhood innocence implied in each text. Where the Sidewalk Ends uses poetic conventions such as metaphors, alliteration and visual imagery to effectively convey its meaning to readers.
The narrator explains in the first line that he “may cease to be” and rushes to include he is afraid to die “before [his] pen has glean’d [his] teeming brain”. It almost seems as though Keats was unable to fit his ideas neatly into spaced lines, with punctuation marks because he is afraid to lose valuable time while he is still living. In Longfellow’s poem, however, pauses, punctuation and composition of multiple sentences produce a relaxed tone and overall feel of the poem. The poem is filled with caesuras that decrease the entire speed of the poem. “Half of my life is gone,” the comma allows for a pause and a deep breath to continue on to say “and I have let the years slip from me”.
Similar to how the pauses after each “We” created a resonating pause, the same can be said of the poem’s end. The writer leaves the reader with a harsh and startling attribute of the subject, which allows the sad line to echo in the reader’s mind. When read aloud, the last line sounds as if it is a premature ending to the poem, which mimics the premature ending to the lives of the young men in the gang. When reading through an anthology
Due to this poem being free verse, the use of imagery is less than most other poems, however the poet still creates a scene in your mind through imagery, but also with the use of figurative language. An example of this is in the phrase ‘whole world wide apart’ where Wells uses exaggeration to imply that the two characters are very far from each other, possibly not a world apart, however fate will allow them to overcome this so they can be together. Through the eleventh and twelfth lines of the poem, Wells concludes the story that she is telling by clearly painting out a picture through the words she has used. Another technique used in the poem is a caesura, which is shown in the phrase “the Broadway cable car – and this is
Browning also uses the form of the poem to create an captivating narrative. The poem is a dramatic monologue, which is written as a last speech before the death of the patriot. The dramatic monologue is a first person narrative so gives you the point of view of the narrator and Browning. As Browning uses a first person narrative, he can leave you with ambiguities and leave the reader asking question. For example, ‘Nought man could do, have I left undone:’ this leaves the reader asking what has he done?