Compare how language is used to express an opinion of love in sonnet 116 and another poem (Quickdraw) Shakespeare’s ‘Sonnet 116’ and Carol Ann Duffy’s poem ‘Quickdraw’ both talk about the relationship between two people, however they talk about them in very contrasting ways. Sonnet 116 and Quickdraw are written in different forms. Shakespeare’s poem is written in sonnet form with three quatrains and a rhyming couplet. This regular pattern shows that this is what love should be like and is normal. The use of iambic pentameter also stresses key ideas and words whilst the poem can still flow.
The Aeneid, written by Virgil, is a prime representation of epic poetry and it encompasses all epic themes. In his attempt to continue the Aeneid, Maffeo Vegio looks to use Virgilian style and tone to tell story Aeneas' story after Aeneas kills Turnus. Although he touches upon some Virgilian techniques, he would be viewed through Virgil's eyes as a sub-par epic poet. Vegio does not capture the Aeneid accurately, partly because he does not stay faithful to the epic dactylic hexameter, and he arouses a different attitude toward the story as perceived by the reader than Virgil does. Some of the Virgilian techniques that Vegio attempts to imitate include the use of epithets, similes and metaphors, role of the gods, symbolism, and various others.
Some of his famous work consists of Majors and Minors, Lyrics of Love and Laughter, and The Uncalled. He also wrote “The Paradox” in the late 19th century/early 20th century. Paul Laurence Dunbar uses metaphors, personification, rhyme and rhythm, paradox, and antithesis to compare and contrast to symbolize the viewpoint from the eyes of war, in “The Paradox”. “The Paradox” can be interpreted into a poem written in the personified eyes of war. A literary element that is commonly used in poetry, is personification, giving a non-living things human characteristics.
However, instead of literally expressing themes of love, both poets seem to explore the effects of love, and the consequences it can have. Firstly, both poems express the emotion of pain, but in different ways, with Nettles looking at how our pain can also be shared by those we love, whereas Quickdraw looks at how love, sometime maybe unrequited or incomplete, can cause us pain. We can see this theme in Nettles through the semantic field of war, shown with Army vocabulary, including words such as ‘spears’, regiments’ and ‘recruits’, used to describe the ‘bed’ of nettles that cause pain to the persona’s child. This use of vocabulary enables the reader to associate the pain and destruction of war with the situation of the poem, taking the pain felt by the persona to the extreme and amplifying the effect it has on the persona. This enables it to have a much greater impact, and helps the poems transition into the consequences of this pain, such as the anger it causes.
In “The Tyger’,” written by Blake in 1794 as part of his Songs of Experience collection, Blake’s does not give readers a blatantly judgement of the magnificent tiger, instead Blake imposes a series of questions as the single dramatic gesture of the poem to urge readers to consider the implications of a creator making such a creature. Imploring a string of questions allows readers to consider for themselves what Blake may have been alluding to in this poem, that is, what creator could make such a fearsome and beautiful creature as the tiger, and why? Blake writes, “Tyger Tyger, burning bright/ in the forests of the night,” (line 1-2) in these opening two lines, Blake endows the tiger with extraordinary aesthetic features (burning bright), as well as an unknown, and innately dark origin (being of the night, in the forest). From establishing the awe-striking nature of the tiger as well as the darkness inside such a magnificent creature, Blake asks the tiger what immortal being could have possible conceived to create the tiger. It is from this line that Blake continues to question why the tiger’s creator could have allowed himself to birth such a destructive and seductive creature.
It is a general reference to humanity as a whole. Even looking at the very beginning of this poem, this can be easily inferred from the line "For every atom belonging to me as well belongs to you" (Whitman). Whitman switches back and forth from his own personal feelings and tangible experiences to generalized, philosophical statements about this "self" and humanity. As Yong-lan notes, this microcosm-macrocosm outlook is necessary to establish the feeling of relation with others, and more importantly, the ability for the reader to relate to what Whitman is saying (Yong-lan). In Whitman's lines "Battles, the horrors of fratricidal war, the fever of doubtful news, the fitful events; these come me to days and nights and go from me again, But they are not the me “myself", he pulls common feelings and events together for the reader to relate to (Whitman).
He compares the agony that he hears to a song. Dante continues this metaphor as he talks about the sounds of weeping upset him. This imagery makes the reader hear the agony coming from the sinners and affects them emotionally. In stanza 9, Dante also uses the literary device of repetition. He starts off line 25 with “And now the notes of anguish…” then in like 26 he also says “and now I find myself…” Dante also rhymes the word sound and pound in line 27.
The poem “Upon the Burning of our House,” by Anne Bradstreet, was in many ways one of the most devout showings of Puritanism. Bradstreet makes many allusions to the bible, as well as to God himself. The poem proves that all in the world is temporary in the eyes of God, but only as a test for our faith in him. Bradstreet uses both allusion, and inverted syntax to show just how temporary mundane items are. These two literary devices are also used to create the dramatic setting of the poem and form the ideas of Puritan values.
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.
Poetry and drama have a few key features that emphasize their per formative nature. One is the use of rhyme, rhythm, meter, alliteration, and other types of sound symbolism. For example, in Gwendolyn Brooks' "We real cool", the poet uses a strong rhyme scheme, a consistent meter, and an almost sing-song tone to demonstrate the lack of education of the narrator and his or her youthfulness. It also emphasizes the last line "We die soon.". Another is in "unity of action".