For a deep analysis alliteration take a big part in this poem, each of them is (“/ike”, “/ap”, “ick”), (“supercilious”, “shanties”, sides”), (“horrid”, hooting”). Now is the tone, for the tone in the poem I LIKE TO SEE IT LAP THE MILES is best to describe it as “playful”. Why so? It is because I fell that the writer, Emily Dickinson, uses a words that easy enough to follow which it is not stiff and not so serious. The playful tones also cover up some phrase like in the “lap the miles” and “lick the valley up”, the verbs seems to be fresh and energetic.
In his poem “Blackberry Picking”, Seamus Heaney compares the act of picking berries to life. Like the berries in the poem, everything sweet in life will eventually turn sour. He accomplishes this comparison through a number of poetic devices including personification, allusion, and the poetic turn. One of the major poetic devices used by Heaney is personification. An example of personification in this poem is “flesh was sweet”.
I didn’t start to realize this poem was fate until I re-read the ending of the poem over and over. Moore achieves this final meaning of the poem through the use of metaphor and imagery. Imagery is seen throughout the whole poem. One example of imagery is on line 7 and 8. The poem states, “The mixture whirling your legs, wings, stinger, churning you into such delicious death.” These lines really bring a darker image into the poem.
The personas skin is described as a ‘Nazi Lampshade’ with the contrast between these terms insinuating more of a sinister glow, and in turn, a sinister opinion on her own suffering. The constant references to Nazism that are apparent in this poem create a direct relationship between her own suffering and that of the Jewish people. This exaggeration of her own misery only adds to the melodrama that runs throughout ‘Lady Lazarus’, and is a technique she uses in many of her other works in ‘Ariel’. Also in this poem, the persona dramatises her triumphant return from death, describing herself as a performer. With references to her ‘theatrical Comeback in broad day’, Plath creates a more artistic and pretentious tone in the poem, with phonological allusions to Broadway and physical rebirth.
The narrator is clearly miserable with her life and considers suicide to be the only solution. Killing herself would relieve the pain she feels on a daily basis. “Daddy” is another poem that demonstrates Plath’s common death by suicide theme. In the poem, she writes that “At twenty I tried to die / And get back, back, back to you. / I thought even the bones would do (Plath 58-60)”.
It is important to note the frequent use of punctuation such as full stops; commas, colons and semi colons draw attention to a sense of reflection in the poem. In this case, punctuation also adds to the relatively slow rhythm of the poem. The theme reflected most prominently in “The Soldier,” patriotism, is seen throughout the poem. When referring to the foreign field in which he will be buried (should he die), is described with “…there’s some corner of a foreign field that is forever England. There shall be in that rich earth a richer dust concealed”.
Emily Dickinson and the use of death as symbolism One of the best ways to portray a feeling or expression is by using symbolism, which most poetry does a good job of, however, there are few better than poetry by Emily Dickinson. The poems written by her are abstract enough where she could be talking about death and she is really talking about how she barely left her home town of Amherst, Massachusetts. She also uses symbolism to show the internal struggle of some things, such as losing your mind, symbolizing the felling of emptiness and loneness. “Because of I could not stop Death” is one poem that has the feeling that she is not saying what she means. The overall theme in the poem of death is actually another form of symbolism.
Discuss ways in which Hardy presents personal relationships. Refer to the poetic methods and their effects in The Darkling Thrush and In Tenebris I. Hardy presents his personal relationships as doubtful, contradictory, self-piteous, hesitant and slightly hopeful despite the hopelessness in ‘The Darkling Thrush’ and ‘In Tenebris I’, however, all of these negative remarks are honest and humble and not pretentious making his works very truthful. His works are powerfully conveyed through the use of figurative language as well as evocative language. Hardy took a leap by making himself the subject of his own poem in ‘In Tenebris I’ by the use of ‘my’, ‘me’ and ‘I’ and it is further evident that he made himself his subject through the third person narration in ‘him’ and ‘his’, after receiving criticism particularly on his novel ‘Jude the Obscure’. His views on society was quite controversial as his views were different from theirs especially in forms of religion and moral ethics, and viewing the problem as a 21st century observer, Hardy’s views and thoughts were much advanced from those in his era, thoughts that were much better suited today, and this caused him much disapproval, not only among society but also his then wife Emma which very much puts him in a dark place.
This structure enables the poet to retell the story and within each new stanza Wordsworth adds more information with regards to the disappearance in a simple, communicative manner. This enables him to create a story-like form which is easy to understand. The sound pattern follows the traditional abab rhythm associated with Literary Ballard’s and is present throughout with no deviation. Within the Literary Ballard Sibilant alliteration is used creating soft gentle sounds ‘the sweetest thing that ever grew’…‘the sweet face of Lucy Gray’. The repetition of these sounds creates a mournful pattern of melancholy and sadness surrounding the disappearance as the reader if forced to acknowledge Lucy’s sweet and innocence and that she did not deserve her fate like many other children who disappear under similar, mysterious circumstances.
Ode on a grecian urn is a poem by John Keats that uses many sound devices to help drive the point of his poem. A few examples of alliteration are "Thou foster-child of silence and slow time, Sylvan historian, who canst thus express" which when in reference to the urn shows us that this object is timeless and still. As he continues with this thought "A flowery tale more sweetly than our rhyme" it really ties together that this urn, although silent and still, will share a story greater than any poetry. Another example of this is "Of marble men and maidens overwrought" which is in the last stanza of the poem. It portrays that the images on the urn lack warmth and feel cold, which he later refers to as "Cold Pastoral!"