Poets use repetition in a very powerful and different ways to create a rhythm, or emphasize their feelings and ideas. That is how they draw a person’s attention to a certain idea. The literary device anaphora is “the deliberate repetition of a word or phrase at the beginning of several successive verses, clauses, or paragraphs” (Dictionary). In poetry, this method and other forms of repetition can be extremely useful in delivering the full meaning of a poem. Different cultures have all engaged and written great poetry using the idea of repetition, but each culture uses it to show a different meaning or purpose in the speech.
He describes his life assuming the reader shares a similar life. He assures them that he does not only know happiness, that he too knows dark patches and goes on the list the “evil” deeds he commits. Despite these deeds he is still well loved and known, and is simply playing his role. He informs the reader that he knows them and gives them great thought. The speaker wonders what could be a greater sight than that which he is seeing, surely not even the gods themselves.
“Tradition, Honor, Discipline, Excellence,” is the schools motto. Keating wants his students to expand their minds, and step out of the conformity, to truly appreciate life more. He wants his students to find a passion in life and embrace it. He wants them to see life in a different way. He does many different lessons that are very simple, but are very effective and each student listens to his words and absorbs them in a different way, each one takes away a new piece of knowledge on how to become more human.
In a brief haiku form he found the perfect vehicle to express his poetic ideals. The poems he wrote have inspired and captivated readers and poets throughout the world with their elegance, insight, and simple brilliance. The diary opens with a prologue that announces Basho’s yearning to travel and reminds the reader that life is a journey. The introduction ends, with a haiku that expresses his feeling about his departure. Matsuo Basho places an obvious emphasis on the transience of life within this journal, the recounting of expedition and ethos spanning a feat of fifteen hundred miles, expressed in the form of a poetic memoir.
His growing interest in individuality eventually expands into literature where he expresses his stances on the subjects. Even his style can be drawn to the idea of secluding himself, but he wants others to read his works as he did and make their own conclusions about them. Essentially he creates a cycle in which all life is centered upon, romantic literature. The life of William Blake, his inquisitive nature, and the substance of the poem “The Tyger” all influence his poetry. The influences in Blake’s life are all rooted around his childhood, which he used to focus on his thoughts about religion and family.
Robert Gray’s “Late Ferry” is a poem about an imaginative life journey and how sensitive human life is to the environment surrounding it. Gray employs a persona in his poem to add insight. Through the persona, Gray articulates his life beliefs, and as such, the persona acts as a catalyst for his thoughts throughout the poem. By using “I” in the first stanza, Gray breaks the fourth wall, not wasting time to pull audiences in, and giving them a sense of involvement in this poem. Being an imagist, Gray is no stranger to using imagery in his works, and this is no exception.
How are life lessons given in poetry? Many different ideas are explored in poetry as love, war, life and death and even advice. Advice is given through many poems and sometimes implicitly. Some famous poems are the best examples of this theme. As a very good example, I chose “if” by Rudyard Kipling, a less known poem called “Poem at Thirty-Nine” by Alice Walker and my last poem is “Once upon a time” by Gabriel Okara.
War Poetry Introduction A poet is generally a man who feels something and tries to express his ideas and emotions about this thing in a way far better than that of the ordinary man. And the more effect of the subject, the better the poem. So when t comes to war we find that the poets express themselves in the most eloquent way. War, just hearing this word makes one think of many clashing ideas about it. Every single person on this earth has a clear idea about war and some of us already have a personal experience with the tragedies and suffering of war In this simple thesis we will talk about war poetry and its major poet, Wilfred Owen.
‘If is a celebrated piece of poetry which has a lesson of value for almost every reader. Analysis of If by Rudyard Kipling is something that can be perceived as a set of virtues laid down by the poet which are conducive for the development of a good human being. If summary is something very person specific as different readers gather different things from this poem. This analysis of If by Kipling is a decoded version of what the poet wants to convey through his didactic words. In the first stanza he shows his readers the ideal way to act during times of acute crisis.
A Journey of Self Discovery Each of us at some point in our lives realize that we must discover who we are, and where we fit in. Poetry has been a way of expressing that journey of self discovery for many. Two works that are great examples of this journey of self discovery are the poem “Self-Dependence” by Matthew Arnold and the nonfiction text “A Vision Beyond Time and Place” by N. Scott Momaday. In the selections, the authors show that a theme can be presented in different ways while using similar elements, including imagery, meter, rhyme, and diction. Both works revolve around the similar topic of “self discovery”, however, Arnold’s work focuses on self discovery by looking within oneself, while Momaday’s work focuses on self discovery by searching the universe.