This is used in stanza three, line three: ‘of grace and praise – nor man nor bird’/ stanza four, line five: ‘For each is born with such a throat’/ stanza two, line four: ‘what clashing beaks, what greedy eyes!’ This has an effect that slows down the speed of the poem giving an emphasis on certain words. It also helps to draw the reader into the poem. Another example of a sound device in this poem is alliteration. This is used in stanza two, line one: ‘They look like certain gentlemen’/ stanza three, line two: ‘throws back his head in such a song’/ stanza two, line four: ‘what clashing beaks, what greedy eyes’. This has an effect on the poem of the repeated letter or sound dragging out, making the poem sound more dramatic.
In "A Barred Owl", the speaker uses words like "domesticate" when discussing terror, to bring the happenings of the poem closer to the reader's idea of home. Wilbur's writing is much more grotesque and uncut than Collins', in that his diction emphasizes phrases like, "eaten raw" (12), and "her darkened room" (2). In contrast, the diction in "The History Teacher" is centered around innocence and hope, creating a sense of security in the history teacher's lies. "took place in a garden" (11), and "white picket fences" (18), emphasize the speaker's sense of homely-ness and hope in
The speaker begins to express his awe and amazement that occurs when he sees the flock of birds in lines 14-24. He describes this flock as “a cloud of dots like iron filings which a magnet underneath the paper undulates” (lines 16-18). This is a simile to death, something that is too strong for even the human spirit. This “cloud” is darkened in spots. This color imagery is another way to symbolize death in which the poet at this time fears.
As a saying goes, “Before someone loves you, you must understand and love yourself.” The poem is just like an access to your mind and helps you know more about your mind. In this poem, the poet used some techniques. For example, in the second line, a little promontory means not only the capes, but also represents the branchlets where the spider shinned on. The poet further used metaphor in third line. He regarded the brancklets as an unmeasured world for the spider, and the spider needed to explore it by itself.
There is a shift in language as the poet removes the phrase 'my son' with the less personal article 'the boy'. Plosive alliteration is used on line 6 and the white and tender skin mentioned relates to innocence and purity. There is a suggestion that two people are involved with the other person being a partner or mum. There is a very regular rhythm to the poem and there is a sense of pain and that can't be completely taken away from the son. Metaphor is used to emphasise his devastation and up until this point, the nettles have been presented like they are an army themselves.
Poppies were also associated with sleep (opium being a poppy derivate) and McCrae, being a doctor, would have been conscious of this: the idea of sleeping under the poppies is revived in the last lines. * “We are the dead.”: the poem turns, surprisingly, to the dead, who are given voice by the poet. This is a powerful and emotive turn, a direct address of the living by the fallen. * “In the sky, the larks”: these birds, traditional poetic symbols of natural beauty and freedom, contrast strongly with the world below. As often, nature provides an idealized backdrop to the war that provides a contrast with man’s immoral
The Simpsons pointed out how comical some of Poe’s supposedly deep, gloomy lines are if they were read individually of the rhythm. Other things The Simpsons paradox differed from Poe’s “The Raven” was by using visual effects that didn’t agree with the original text to create irony and physical humor. When the narrator said, “Then, me thought, the air grew denser, perfumed from an unseen censer,” the unseen censer hit Homer’s head, and we hear Homer’s classic line “D’oh!” Here, The Simpsons paradox transformed the poem by allowing us to see an “unseen” object in a scene that is normal of the physical humor that Homer is usually involved in. They mock Poe’s diction, by using Homer’s well-known physical humor to make a scene in “The Raven” that is supposed to be emotional and touching seem hilarious. The Simpsons paradox used all of the members of the Simpsons family during the sequence of the
The poet continues to paint a bleak portrait of the present which “rott[s] with rotting grape” yet is “sweet with the fumes” (4, 5). The repetition of the word “rot” highlights the theme of decay. The interesting choice to mention the sweetness of the fumes uncovers a contradiction where putrefaction is actually “sweet”. Moreover, “fermented potato-peel” (6) “puzzle” (6) the man, the “motes of time” (3), and the reader equally because it is “turned out and left in this grass-patch” (9). The puzzlement arises from intentionally turning out a fermented potato peel and leaving it in a grass patch, in a place of green nature, in a place of “green shadows of elm, and ginkgo and lime” (12) trees.
I will discuss the textual absences in the poem showing their importance and supporting my evidence using analysis from Jane Dowson and Alice Entwistle. I will argue that Mew uses simplistic language to disguise traumatic events, using instead obscure colour symbols and ellipsis to reveal how disturbed the speaker is. ‘The Farmer’s Bride’ is written in the form of the dramatic monologue with a farmer expressing grief and disappointment in his loveless marriage. The rhyming scheme is unpredictable with different length stanzas throughout. Yet there is a strong use of rhyming within the poem and a
Reading the poems of both Wordsworth and Coleridge, one immediately notes a difference in the common surroundings presented by Wordsworth and the bizarre creations of Coleridge. Thus they develop their individual attitudes towards life. I will look at differences and similarities concerning people's relationship to nature in poems by Coleridge and Wordsworth such as: "The Ancient Mariner", "Kubla Khan", "The Nightingale," "Lucy", "Tintern Abbey," "There was a boy", " Old Beggar", "I Wandered Lonely as a Cloud" and "Frost at Midnight". In "The Ancient Mariner," Coleridge demonstrates how violating nature and her subjects brings doom to the infracted. In this poem, the poet emphasises the vengeful, dark side of the land and the sea.