Essays on Rhyme Scheme

"Lady Lazarus," a poem written in tercets, seems to face two realities: her own, and her perceived connection to the the Jews who had to face the worst types of torments imaginable. We may never know the full extent of what Jews and other minorities had to face during this time, but this dimly toned poem certainly tries to show an almost telepathic glimpse into their pain. The first tercet looks to be based on autobiographical fact. "I have done it again./

One year in every ten/I manage it--" (all quotes are directly from Lady Lazarus, Plath).

Here, the tone is immediately ominous. The poet has done something. This is rarely a good thing. ...

‘Richard Cory’ by Edwin Arlington Robinson is a simple poem about Cory which conveys the idea that money cannot buy happiness. It also throws light on misleading outward appearances of people which can easily make us draw wrong conclusions about situations. The poem relates the story of Richard Cory, who was a very wealthy man. He lived the life of a king: rich, elegant, and graceful. Whenever Cory passed by pavement dwellers, he appeared to be godly to those poor people who had seen nothing more than misery in their lives. They could not even earn their daily bread ...

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Matriculation Number Study Programme The Great Vowel Shift in the English Language is one of the most important events in the evolution of modern English phonetics and pronunciation. It occurred towards the end of the Middle Ages and carried on into the English Renaissance, culminating in the seventeenth century when vowel usage was more or less consolidated. The event was likely caused due to a complex combination of socio-economic factors as well as cultural and technological change, but its effects are of more immediate concern. The Great Vowel Shift is responsible for creating many of the rules of written ...

Modernism in literature is said to have its roots in the late 19th century after World War I that took place from 1914 to 1919. Modernism in literary work is a shift from values, religion and tradition to isolation, identity crisis, fragmentation and relative truth. Modernism was catalyzed by World War I, as it led to mistrust in the ability of existing institutions to solve societal problems and maintain order in society. It also changed people’s perception of the world and society. World War I therefore influenced how writers wrote not just in terms of content of their ...

Comparison of W.H. Auden and John Dryden One of the differences in the stylistic choices of the two poets is the use of rhyme. In his elegy, John Dryden employs a rhyme scheme after every two sentences throughout the poem.

Thus Nisus fell upon the slippery place, While his young friend perform'd and won the race. O early ripe! to thy abundant store What could advancing age have added more?. (Dryden) As seen in the first six lines of the poem, every two sentences maintain the same rhyme scheme. John Dryden employs an intricate and deliberate choice of words ...

When World War I broke, earlier poets wrote poems celebrating the outbreak of the First World War. These poems reflected an over-optimistic, sentimental and unrealistic attitude to war that mirrored the attitude of the British people, who assumed that the war was chivalrous and heroic. Rupert Brooke's “The Soldier” is an example of such early World War I poetry, in which Brooke uses strong figurative language and symbols to romanticize and sentimentalize the horrors of war. By 1915, both the British people and poets began to realize how horrific and terrible the war really was, and poems thereafter ...

1. Maurice Sendak’s “Where the Wild Things Are” is one of the most-loved picture books of all time. It also won such accolades as the Caldecott Medal and the Boston Globe-Horn Book Award, but it is also on the New York Public Library’s list of “One Hundred Titles for Reading and Sharing.”

Of all the elements of design that Giorgis lists in her discussion of picture book design, line is the one that stands out most vividly. When Max is sent to bed without supper, even when his room becomes a jungle, the closely packed group ...

Poems are used in order to express the feelings of the poet towards the issues they write about. They are used to bring forth the meanings of things that happen in society as well as nature. Emotions are drawn from poems because of the way in which a poet chooses to present their thoughts and the same can be said about the poems Wild Geese by Mary Oliver and Dover Beach by Matthew Arnold. The two poems share a lot of similarities and differences too with regard to the language used and the meaning derived from them. There is also something ...

Literature

Imagery: Both poems employ imagery as a way of relaying their messages. In the poem ‘My papa’s waltz’, the poem is descriptive of a kind of dance performed by a father and his son. A kind of bedtime ‘run around the house’. The dance is symbolic of the relationship between the father and other members of his family. The dance, while the boy enjoys it, is not an amusing matter to his father. The father, apparently under the influence of whisky, is desperate for his son to go to sleep. The dance ensuing represents a respectful relationship where the boy, despite ...

Robert Frost’s “The Road Not Taken” is frequently used as a way to justify the freedom and uniqueness that comes from going down a path that most do not take. It is held up as an example of the way in which taking one’s own path results in positive, beneficial changes in one’s life, and in the way one sees the world. However, while this poem does seem to describe an individual progressing on his or her own path, the poem’s meaning goes far deeper than that. A surface reading reveals the meaning as one about individuality, ...

A Critical Analysis of the Poem "What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why" by Edna St. Vincent Millay A sonnet refers to Italian poetic form invented by Giacomo Da Lentini. Sonnet derives from the Italian word sonetto meaning a little song or sound (Miller 1). Two kinds of sonnet exist; the Italian sonnet and Shakespearean sonnets. Italian sonnet has a fundamental break between the last six lines, sestet, and the first eight lines, octave. It has a typical rhyme scheme abbabba cdecde. Edna St. Vincent Millay’s “What lips my lips have kissed” is an example of an ...

John Keats’ poem Ode to Psyche can only be understood in the context of its allusion to the Greek myth of Psyche. This poem is as much an ode to Psyche as it is an entreaty that Psyche forgive the speaker for his praise of her. Rather than praising the subject, Psyche, as is customary in an ode, Keats in this poem stretches the form of an ode to include an emblematic wink at the camera, so to speak. The poem not only addresses a high praise of Psyche, but in doing some becomes self-referential in its praise and allusion. ...

In “Do Not Go Gentle into That Good Night,” it becomes almost impossible to separate Dylan Thomas, the poet who has written this poem, from the speaker of this poem, who is urging father to struggle fiercely with death. In other words, Thomas is used the speaker of this poem to say things he was probably not able to say to his own ageing father, whose health was declining and death was impending. The fact that the speaker has several autobiographical elements cannot be denied, which makes him the poet’s alter ego, but he is still not quite ...

The Poem “A Forsaken Garden” captures the audience not for its simplicity, but for its complexity and the authors deep, and rich reflective thoughts. The poem “A Forsaken Garden” is a story of an unnamed persona wondering over the existence of the long forgotten garden found right by the sea. The persona is awed by the neglect of the garden and thinks through the possibility of life for the very garden. In his imagination, he sees two young lovers who might have stood in the blooming garden wowed by the beauty of the sea as they confirmed their love for ...

Essay :

Contrasting Treatment of Time The two poems, “Piano” by D.H.Lawrence and “To my Coy Mistress” by Andrew Marvell may appear to depict the flow of time, but while the first one turns the spotlight on the power of the past, the second one stresses on the importance of the present. It is also remarkable how each of the two poets uses language in his own style to produce a very distinct effect, making the poems dissimilar in many ways. Both the poets have drawn vivid portraits with words. A song takes Lawrence back to his past, and makes ...

Introduction

Sylvia Plath is one of the most admired and dynamic poet of the 20th Century. She was mostly known for her book the Bell jar which was a collection of poems. Her poetry represented a self loathing and disturbing stance that could probably have been prompted by the tough life she had led as a child and under the care of her authoritarian father. According to Biography.com (n.p), her poetry was “highly acclaimed” due to its “confessional style,” linking her to other confessional poets like Anne Sexton and Robert Lowell. This paper should present facts about Sylvia Plath’s early life, career ...

Blow, Blow, Thou Winter Wind

Blow, blow, thou winter wind Thou art not s o unkind as man's ingratitude; Thy tooth is not so keen, Because thou art not seen, Although thy breath be rude. High-ho! Sing, high-ho! Unto the green holly: Most friendship is feigning, most loving mere folly: Then high-ho, the holly! This life is most jolly. Freeze, freeze thou bitter sky, That does not bite so nigh As benefits forgot: Though thou the waters warp, Thy sting is not so sharp As a friend remembered not. 2 High-ho! Sing, high-ho! Unto the green holly: Most friendship is feigning, most loving ...

In the 1923 modern Italian sonnet, “What lips my lips have kissed, and where, and why” Edna St. Vincent Millay narrates how numerous loves in her life ultimately came to an end and how miserable she felt because of those losses. Millay depicts the explicit meaning of sonnet by using many of different aspects of its form, such as its mood, structure, turns, and particularly the powerful metaphor. This sonnet is centered on two major themes, namely change and loss. The season imagery used by Millay makes the theme of change most apparent. Although most of the sonnet revolves ...

Seamus Heaney’s “Mid-Term Break”

Seamus Heaney’s poem, “Mid-Term Break,” dramatizes the conflict of denial and acceptance, as the speaker, a boy, returns from school for the funeral of his younger brother. The reader witnesses the literal events as the boy waits at school, returns home to the mourning family, and sees the body of his little brother in the coffin. While the events in the poem seem ordinary and there is little question of what happened, Heaney had good reason to tell this story as a poem and not in prose. A clue to this reason for poetry versus prose comes from literary ...

Elizabeth Barrett Browning’s “Sonnet 43” alternately knows as “How May I Love Thee” is a declaration of her feelings for her husband to be, who was courting her at the time; Robert Browning. It is part of the series of sonnets she wrote for him “Songs from the Portuguese”, a title which she deliberately made to mislead by letting people think that the poem were written by a Portuguese person and she only translated them. Later however, it was established that she herself had been the author of the series and the reference to the Portuguese in the title was in ...

Outline: Comparison of Romantic Poetry:

I. Introduction 1. Romantic concerns in poetry 2. Choice of poems and poets 3. Thesis statement: Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poem “Music” and Lord Byron’s poem “She Walks in Beauty” are very different in form and atmosphere, but they have much in common in the areas where they fall into the category of Romantic poetry, including poetic devices and concerns or issues of Romantic poets.

II. Shelley’s “Music” 1. Basic structure of the poem 2. Other poetic devices 3. Subject of the poem 4. Concerns ...

Do Not Go Gently into that Good Night by Dylan Thomas

Legal Alien by Pat Mora W. H. Auden explained poetry as “ a language which tells us, through a more or less emotional reaction, something that cannot be said.” “The Times They are a Changin'” by Bob Dylan, “Do Not Go Gently into that Good Night” by Dylan Thomas and “Legal Alien” by Pat Mora are all speaking of changing worlds, however the emotional context is far different. In “The Times They are a Changin'” Bob Dylan is telling parents to get out of the way in world where “Your old road is rapidly agin’.” . Conversely, Dylan Thomas is begging his father not ...

What do a Victorian poet laureate and an American poetess from the heart of conservative Massachusetts have in common? They both have written poems that obsess about death. In the case of Alfred, Lord Tennyson, it was the death of his best friend, Arthur Henry Hallam that triggered a giant poetic eulogy that took nearly two decades to write. In the case of Emily Dickinson's, on the other hand, it was one of her many poetic works that brings out her rather morbid attraction towards death. Though the works of these two writers may seem different at first sight, they are ...

I chose to look at Philip Larkin’s Ambulances. My initial response to the poem was to be soberly reminded of my own fate but in an uneasy way, like the uneasiness of juxtaposition between the common image presented alongside its unusual interpretation since ambulances are usually seen as symbols of care and rescue, rather than death.

Worksheet 1

1. Title: What image, sound, or theme does the title convey? ‘Ambulances’ is a short, commonly used word which lures the reader into feeling like the poem could be quite simple and inoffensive. 2. Dramatic Situation: Who is the Speaker, the “ ...

1. The Short Story and Poem: A Comparison of Literary Forms.

Often, poetry is seen as being a narrative and indeed, in its most traditional form, narrative poetry is best seen as the epic poems such as Beowulf and Gilgamesh (Clugston, 2010, 11.1). The narrative poem tells a story through a number of narrative traits including plot, setting, characters and imagery – much like a short story. One major comparison between the two forms is their ability to tell a story in a short space. For example, in John Keats’ La Bella Dame Sans Merci, the reader is told of a knight who falls in love with a beautiful woman who turns out to be harpy-like in her actions ...